Jagdeo blames Skeldon sugar project’s failings on Booker Tate’s ‘incompetence’

Former president Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday maintained that the “incompetence” of UK-based sugar management firm Booker Tate was responsible for the disastrous execution of the Skeldon Sugar Modernisation Project (SSMP), including the US$110M factory that is still unable to produce at an adequate rate.

“There is a deal of incompetence. There is a good deal,” Jagdeo told a news conference yesterday at Freedom House, where he also