Chiding the former APNU+AFC administration for the closure of sugar estates during its term in office, Member of Parliament (MP) Seepaul Narine yesterday reassured that the new PPP/C-led government will be reopening them.
Narine, making his maiden speech before the National Assembly and his contribution to the 2020 budget debate, argued that the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) coalition “purposefully sought to demolish and destroy” the sugar industry.
According to him, there could be no other reasonable explanation for the coalition’s attitude to the industry and the tens of thousands who depended on its operations.
