Guyana has been in the sugar industry for centuries and has exported high and low level managers and technicians to many countries around the world, yet in a letter last week, Mr. Tony Vieira, who is fairly knowledgeable about the industry, concluded, ‘I am stating now that the local management team of GuySuCo is not up to the task to turn GuySuCo around. NICIL is also not up to the task and are confusing the situation because they themselves don’t know what they are doing! … Robert Persaud in 2007 removed the Booker Tate management team, placed there by Desmond Hoyte, and contributed most to the collapse we now see going on in the industry. In 2004 the industry with Booker Tate managing it, produced 235,000 tonnes of sugar, it was the last time we produced anywhere close to 200,000 tonnes.’ … Well it is my opinion that they are not made to be aware of it, because we don’t make them answerable to us, if we were holding them to account, they would be forced to remember the lessons of the past’(‘GuySuCo needs international management …’ SN: 28/12/2019).
