Re-elected Chairman of the Upper Corentyne Chamber of Commerce Hemchand Jaichand says that the range of business-related issues facing the community poses the new executive with “a number of exacting challenges” not least of which is the need to provide responses to questions that continue to arise in relation to the future of the Skeldon sugar estate.
“It is not something that we can brush aside. The reality is that we are talking about 2,500 households, 250 businesses and about 150 other service providers,” all of which, he said, look to Skeldon either for direct support in terms of employment or the economic spinoffs that derive for the patronage of the Skeldon estate employees.
Jaichand told Stabroek Business that the uncertainties surrounding Skeldon had
