With the initial twenty five-year contract between the Government of Guyana and Barama Company Limited due to expire on October 16, the absence of any clarity, up to this time, on the renewal or otherwise of the contract could send more than seven hundred Guyanese employed with the company on the breadline in a matter of weeks, General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has told the Stabroek Business.
Lewis, who visited the Barama Land of Canaan offices on Tuesday where he engaged both management and workers disclosed to this newspaper that with effect from yesterday, approximately seventy Guyanese employees were retrenched in what he described as “an apparent wind down towards eventual closure” of the company’s operations. “If what I see before me is a reflection of what will eventually play out I would say that we’re looking at a tragedy”, he said.
