Dear Editor,
Overseas-based Guyanese Dr Rajendra Singh is the new Chairman of the Guyana Sugar Corporation Board of Directors and he travels to Guyana on a monthly basis or whenever he visits at the expense of the cash-strapped corporation to perform his duties.
This is not good for business. How can we sit back and allow an industry which is not performing at its best to have a chairman who is not living in Guyana? Only a few months ago government allotted $4 billion to GuySuCo because the corporation was cash-strapped. The government of the day isn’t doing a thing for the common man and woman working in the industry, but they are willing to spend money on a man who is not living in Guyana for him to come here every month, for lodging and I guess money for internet and telephone bills for him to make daily contact with the board members and the subject ministry.
How long will this man remain as GuySuCo‘s chairman? When will the PPP/C government realise that our economy does not provide for us to live like North American countries?
I would like to quote Minister Ramsammy: “There are many competent persons who can serve on the board of GuySuCo and as chairman. However Singh has been a member of the board for several years.” So the Minister is saying to us it doesn’t matter how much it costs or where one lives, once that person is with us we will spend our last copper to fly them in every month and forget about the other competent persons who are living here all because these persons have not been with the corporation for several years?
I urge Minister Ramsammy to revisit his decision with the President and let him know that GuySuCo is broke, and there are competent people living in Guyana. Let him know there are cane-cutters who are in need of the same money being spent on Mr Singh and they are not living abroad; they are living right here in Guyana.
Yours faithfully,
Dolston Hutson
