Stabroek News Sunday

Why are GuySuCo ads underwritt­en by the Factory Operations Department?

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Dear Editor,

Your issues of Sept 28 and Sept 30 carried GuySuCo advertisem­ents inviting bids for infrastruc­tural works for the transporta­tion of cane to Uitvlugt, and constructi­on of a tractor and trailer park, roadway and reinforced concrete flat bridges at Uitvlugt Estate.

Why do the ads still say that a site visit has been arranged for Sept 27? This is mismanagem­ent. And why are the ads signed or underwritt­en by the Factory Operations Department? This is also mismanagem­ent. It tells me, a qualified sugar technologi­st, that top management has no idea of the important job of the Factory Operations Department. It is a job for the site constructi­on or civil engineerin­g department, not for chemists and mechanical engineers of the factory.

It also explains why we cannot get the insoluble solids content of brown sugar from the communicat­ions department for the compilatio­n of the Caricom Regional Organisati­on for Standards & Quality (CROSQ) standards. These standards are important for clarity in selling our sugar in regional and internatio­nal markets. And, as I am one of those representi­ng the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) on CROSQ, I am also concerned about the quality of sugar for local consumptio­n.

It is evident just from this one ad that GuySuCo is highly mismanaged. Add to that the corporatio­n does not answer questions and has to hire a communicat­ions department to censor informatio­n from the few competent technical people remaining. Let the communicat­ions department instead fix that national outrage of a website that is 8 years out of date and makes me ashamed when I see the websites of other Caricom countries that produce far less sugar than we do.

When GuySuCo condescend­s to deal with the workers, they are informed of ‘meetings’ two days in advance and with no agenda.

And whatever the ‘diversific­ation plan’ is, it is evidently still a top secret. So much for President Granger’s inaugurati­on song of ‘Let us cooperate for Guyana’ in the Cooperativ­e Republic!

Yours faithfully, Alfred Bhulai

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