Jordan Blasts President Ali’s “Empty Threats,” Says GuySuCo Failure Is a National Scandal

Opposition Member of Parliament Vinceroy Jordan has delivered a scathing rebuke of President Irfaan Ali and Minister of Agriculture Zulficar Mustapha, accusing the Government of political deception, serial mismanagement, and a deliberate avoidance of accountability as the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) once again fails the nation.

Responding to President Ali’s recent warning that “sweeping changes” would be made at GuySuCo in 2026 if production targets are not met, Jordan dismissed the statement as a familiar tactic designed to deflect responsibility rather than deliver results.

“President Irfaan Ali’s latest statements suggesting that sweeping changes will occur at GuySuCo in 2026 if production targets are not met amount to nothing more than political bluff and recycled rhetoric that Guyanese have heard before—without consequence, without accountability, and without results,” Jordan wrote.

He reminded the country that identical threats were issued in 2024 and again in 2025, when the President declared that “heads would roll” if GuySuCo continued to underperform. Despite missed targets, inefficient estates, and billions of dollars poured into the industry, Jordan said nothing changed.

“The same executives remained, the same mismanagement persisted, and workers and taxpayers paid the price,” he stated.

According to Jordan, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) parliamentarian, GuySuCo is not an isolated failure but part of a broader pattern of government paralysis masked by tough talk. He pointed to the ongoing collapse of service delivery at Guyana Power and Light (GPL), where repeated promises of accountability over blackouts and mismanagement produced no decisive action, even as costs rose and businesses and households suffered.

Jordan also highlighted the unresolved driver’s licence fraud scandal involving police ranks, noting that despite assurances of swift dismissals, the public has seen “no comprehensive list of dismissals, no transparent outcomes, and no reassurance that the system has been cleaned up.”

“This silence reinforces the perception that the President’s tough talk was merely performative,” he said.

He further cited the stalled hydropower project as the clearest symbol of what he described as the administration’s culture of over-promise and under-delivery. Promised as a solution that would slash electricity costs by as much as 50 percent, the project remains unfinished years later.

“Electricity costs remain high, and citizens are left wondering whether this, too, was just another headline promise with no delivery plan,” Jordan wrote.

Jordan argued that leadership cannot be measured by press conferences or threats issued years into the future.

“Leadership is not measured by press statements and threats; it is measured by outcomes,” he said, adding that Guyanese are no longer interested in what might happen in 2026. “They are demanding answers about why nothing happened in 2024 and 2025 when the President made the very same promises.”

In a pointed rebuke, Jordan suggested that President Ali should begin his promised reforms by addressing the performance and conduct of his own Agriculture Minister.

“Perhaps the President needs to read the riot act to his absent Minister of Agriculture, who is more focused on wealth accumulation than service to the people of Guyana,” he said. “That might be a good place to set the example of changes in 2026.”

“Entirely Predictable”: Jordan Pins 2025 GUYSUCO Failure on Agriculture Minister

In a separate statement, Jordan accused Minister Zulficar Mustapha and the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) of full responsibility for GuySuCo’s failure to meet its 2025 sugar production target, describing the outcome as foreseeable and avoidable.

“The failure of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) to meet its 2025 sugar production target is not surprising—it is disappointing, costly, and entirely predictable,” Jordan said. “What is shocking, however, is the continued refusal of the Minister of Agriculture to accept responsibility for this ongoing national embarrassment.”

Jordan noted that GuySuCo has revised its production targets every year since taking office in 2020—sometimes revising already revised figures—and still failed to deliver. He said repeated warnings from the Opposition, both in Parliament and publicly, were ignored.

“Those warnings were ignored, dismissed, and arrogantly brushed aside by the Minister, who instead chose propaganda over planning and excuses over execution,” he stated.

Rejecting any suggestion that external factors were to blame, Jordan said the 2025 production shortfall was “not an act of God,” but the direct result of poor policy choices, weak oversight, and a refusal to reform a failing model. He pointed to slow estate rehabilitation, inadequate mechanisation, labour shortages, factory inefficiencies, demoralised workers, and near-total absence of management accountability.

“The Minister of Agriculture has consistently overpromised and under-delivered, offering rosy projections to the Guyanese people while the reality on the ground tells a very different story,” Jordan said.

He warned that the Government can no longer justify pouring billions of dollars into GuySuCo while offering no credible recovery strategy.

“This Government cannot continue to treat the sugar industry as a bottomless pit for public funds,” Jordan said, stressing that sugar workers, their families, and the wider economy deserve leadership grounded in competence and honesty.

Jordan ended with a blunt message to the administration: “The time for excuses is over. Accountability is long overdue.”