GuySuCo hamstrung by skills shortages

Focus on the fields: Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud on a 2007 Enmore Estate visit.

Erratic rainfall patterns and shortage of capital pose perpetual threats to efforts to restore the sugar industry to a condition of viability, but the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) Board of Directors has also identified its skills’ shortage as an equally formidable hurdle to be crossed in the quest to salvage the industry.

The company’s 2009-2018 Strategic Blueprint seeks, in part, to assess “the present state of the sugar industry” and its analysis