President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) Komal Chand is urging the government to reconsider its decision to divest the Skeldon estate as he is confident that the co-generation plant at the facility is viable.
Chand’s optimism about the plant’s success was renewed after reading a report from Jamaica’s The Gleaner newspaper about a United States-based entity injecting some US$38 million to transform a sugar factory in Jamaica into a co-generation facility.
The report, reprinted in Tuesday’s edition of the Stabroek News, said: “The operators of the Hampden Estate have announced a deal with a United States-based entity to inject some US$38 million or J$4.9 billion to transform the Long Pond sugar factory into
