Remaining LBI estate operations to cease

Sugar workers’ unions GAWU and NAACIE yesterday announced that the remaining operations at the LBI estate will be shuttered, with implications for some 800 employees, as part of what GuySuCo says is the overdue integration of the East Demerara Estates that began five years ago.

In a joint statement issued yesterday, the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) and the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) expressed surprise at the decision of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) to have operations of the field workshop, mill dock, field lab, stores and administrative offices based at the LBI merged with similar operations at Enmore Estate this year.

The unions said the decision was communicated at a meeting on Tuesday between