Dear Editor,
Let’s stop sugar-coating it: the current CEO (one of the PP boys) of GuySuCo is a disaster, and everyone paying attention knows it. The latest Stabroek News article just confirms what we’ve been seeing for months — GuySuCo is collapsing under this man’s watch, and it’s not by accident. It’s because of negligence, incompetence, and shameless political favoritism. This industry was set to produce just over 35,000 tonnes of sugar for it’s first crop which should have ended weeks ago and to date has only produced a meagre 15,000.
Editor, my people have informed me that during a meeting held with the Minister of Agriculture, Chairman of the Board, CEO and other “top ranking Guysuco officials” it was decided to keep the crop running until another 10,000 tonnes is produced. What nonsense is this? To cost tax payers more money Mr. Editor? Maybe it is prime time that the Finance man of Guysuco provide this nation with real figures (not lies as the entire corporation and those outside knows how well he lies) of just how much extending this crop will cost the corporation.
Editor, instead of fixing broken-down factories or investing in the tools and people that make sugar, this CEO is busy buying brand-new vehicles — not for operations, but as a reward for the PPP boys whom he thinks has shown loyalty. A complete joke, one in which he will soon realize. Explain to the people of this nation why the Head of Human Resource needed a new vehicle or even so why the Head of Finance needed one as well. Is this a corporation strapped for cash? This is an outright slap in the face to every field worker, factory hand, and taxpayer who still dares to hope the sugar industry can recover. It’s theft, dressed up as “administration.”
While machines fall apart and production grinds to a halt, he’s globe-trotting to every unnecessary meeting — meetings that could easily be done on Zoom. But of course, why save time and money when you can burn both for photo ops and ego boosts?
Let’s talk about his so-called leadership: arrogant, dismissive, and clueless. He surrounds himself with yes-men — including his old pal from the Private Sector Commission, rehired not because he’s capable, but because he wears the right party colours. Meanwhile, qualified professionals with actual vision are pushed aside. GuySuCo is being run like a PPP boys’ club, not a national industry.
This isn’t mismanagement anymore — it’s sabotage.
I have an interesting suggestion to the Head of State. Why not hire someone who is not affiliated to the party? Why not hire someone with the actual knowledge? I have no horse in this race but I can say without any conviction the last time Guysuco made sense was under the watch of Dr. Harold Davis. Maybe it is time tha the Government of Guyana engage him.
Yours truly,
Emily Joseph
