Parvatan, GuySuCo silent over disputed sugar workers pay figures

Since the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) questioned the veracity of wage and salary figures for sugar workers contained in the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) report into GuySuCo, the state corporation and the CoI have remained silent.

Head of the union Komal Chand had stated last week that “We would like to have some evidence of these numbers and some explanation because these numbers are very high and if indeed… the average worker could earn this sum of money then there would be no problems to have workers within the industry. There might be problems to reject and select.”

Chand had made the statements during the union’s year-end press briefing on