Sugar union GAWU yesterday reaffirmed its position that GuySuCo had kept it and sugar workers in the dark about plans to grow rice on the Wales estate and it called for the feasibility study to be made public to determine if the corporation was being “penny-wise and pound-foolish.”
In a statement, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) said that the rice venture that the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) is undertaking is “worrying” since it comes at a time when world market prices for the grain are uneconomical.
The venture is part of the
