Ramotar against foreign managers for Skeldon

Donald Ramotar

PPP/C presidential candidate Donald Ramotar says that he is not in favour of the Skeldon factory being completely managed by foreigners and said that such personnel should only be relied upon for technical advice.

Recently Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud said that GuySuCo does not have the competence to run the troubled US$200M factory and he urged the corporation to speed up consideration of proposals by Indian and Chinese companies to run it.

When questioned on Persaud’s statements yesterday, Ramotar, a long serving member of the GuySuCo board, indicated that he viewed the situation differently.  “I am not sure if his assessment is