Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha on Wednesday disclosed that the government has injected $9 billion into the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) to resuscitate the Rose Hall Estate, which was closed by the former APNU+AFC government.
He made this disclosure to the Parliamentary Committee of Supply following several questions posed by Shadow Minister of Agriculture Vinceroy Jordan on the $2b budgetary allocation for GuySuCo to facilitate capital projects.
Mustapha declared “They caused it! They closed the estate! They caused it to rot. They caused the deterioration of the estate. They caused thousands of lives and families to be broken up in this country, and they dare to come and ask this question. $9b – they cost the people of this country, they cost the taxpayers of this country $9b to be spent to rehabilitate and bring back Rose Hall Estate into production”.
