While government has pledged to generate new employment opportunities at Enmore, East Coast Demerara, sugar production at the East Demerara Estate (EDE) is over at this point, a source close to the government told Stabroek News yesterday.
Plans are for the facility to be converted into an agro-industrial area and lands are being set aside for housing and other purposes. The PPP/C had promised in its manifesto to reopen the EDE and will have to make an announcement at some point.
“The current way everything is being moved I cannot foresee sugar being produced there,” the source yesterday told Stabroek News when asked about the future of the estate.
