The Alliance For Change (AFC) yesterday urged the rejection of two companies involved in troubled projects here from being selected to manage the new Skeldon sugar factory after raising questions about their experience and whether there was any tender for the project.
AFC Presidential Candidate, Khemraj Ramjattan at the party’s weekly media briefing identified China National Technology Import and Export Corp (CNTIC) – the company that built the problem-plagued Skeldon sugar factory – and Surendra Engineering – the company that built the Enmore sugar packaging plant as the two companies that are being evaluated by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) to take over the management of the Skeldon factory. “I am of the view that they should be ruled out completely because they would not have satisfied the requirements of having expertise and experience in sugar factory management,” Ramjattan said noting that they were civil engineering firms.
Further, he raised the question of whether there was any tender for the project. “There is no record that any
