Sugar White Paper envisages land for workers, cane farmers – Harmon

The White Paper for the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) that the APNU+AFC government plans to debate in parliament would entail the issuing of land to workers and cane farmers.

At a post-cabinet press briefing on Thursday, Minister of State, Joseph Harmon told the media that the sugar workers and farmers would be invited to undertake agro-based activities on the land.

He said that is one of three plans that have been highlighted in the White Paper with the other two being divesting “some of [GuySuCo’s] facilities” and amalgamating some estates and factories. He said the land would