Agriculture minister pledges to restructure GuySuCo’s management

Promises to keep: Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha (at left) faces sugar workers during an outreach at Tain yesterday. The minister is the face of the new PPP/C administration’s efforts to deliver on big election promises to revive the ailing sugar industry, including reopening shuttered estates. (Bebi Oosman photo)

Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha has stated that management at the various GuySuCo estates will be restructured and that he intends to work towards the sugar industry reclaiming its place as one of the country’s major foreign exchange earners.

Mustapha made these remarks yesterday during several outreaches yesterday in Region Five, where he addressed sugar workers. “Very shortly we will be having a new board of directors for GuySuCo. We are looking at Guysuco to improve management and we want to form a partnership between workers and management and we want to diversity the activity in Guysuco so we can make it more profitable,” he said.   

At the outreach in Bath, West Coast Berbice, sugar workers complained of management issues at the estate, which prompted Mustapha to commit to a restructuring of the management team at the various estates.