The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) views President David Granger’s recent announcement of lands to retrenched sugar workers as an “empty promise,” General Secretary of the union Seepaul Narine says.
“This is an empty promise. Since the [Wales] estate was closed in 2016, he had said that they would give sugar workers land. He had all the time in his government to give them land and that has not been forthcoming and here again it is elections time and he is saying that his heart is with the sugar workers,” Narine said in reaction to the Granger’s announcement.
At a recent APNU+AFC campaign rally in Region Three, the president announced that should the coalition government be re-elected, it will ensure former sugar workers have access to farming lands.
