The Rose Hall Sugar Estate yesterday hired 113 persons and the process will continue today with a total of around 200 to be taken on.
The recruitment is part of the promised reopening of the estate and Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) officials at the location said that they are looking to rehire at least 880 workers by the end of 2021.
Chief Executive Officer of GuySuCo, Sasenarine Singh, yesterday pointed out that since taking office, the government had ordered that three of the four shuttered sugar estates be reopened. He added that an International Labour Organization (ILO) socio-economic study which was done in collaboration with GAWU revealed that in Canje and environs, “the socio economic implosion was brutal, brutal in the fact that suicides went up, alcoholism went up and all sorts of social illness went up. I have seen evidence to show that the poverty rate went up in this local economy.”
