The sub-committees of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the sugar industry have begun the preparation of reports which are to be submitted to Agriculture Minister Noel Holder at the end of the month.
Speaking to Stabroek News on Monday, Chairman of the CoI, Vibert Parvatan said that he was aware of the criticisms and some public perceptions that the CoI was being used as a front while a decision into what to do with the sugar industry and particular the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has already been made by the government. He said that looking at the data collected this just was not the case.
Parvatan said that the sub-committees have commenced the work of compiling a report that will eventually lead to recommendations.
He said that the compilation and the draft report will take close to three weeks and that given the massive amount of information that was gathered during the process, which began July 1, 2015, a decision could not have been made as yet.
The Chairman said that for the next three weeks commissioners will be looking to the Terms of Reference and will lodge the data collected against the various terms.
