Five months after the heavy duty knife turbine at the Uitvlugt Estate developed significant technical problems which delayed the start for the second crop at that estate, the probe into the incident is still to be completed.
Speaking to Stabroek News yesterday, the Guyana Sugar Corpora-tion’s (GuySuCo) Corpo-rate Communica-tions Manager Audreyanna Thomas said that as of Friday, the investigation was at the disciplinary hearing stage.
The August 11th, 2018 incident saw a turbine-fuelled sugar cane shredder speed out of control, bursting the belt and ejecting the shredder blades. While it has been suggested that the results of a preliminary assessment of the incident indicated that someone might have purposely tampered with the speed control of the belt, GuySuCo has said that it was being viewed as an “engineering matter.” Nonetheless, an investigation was initiated which was expected to be conducted over a three-week period.
