sugar

The European Union (EU) has released the remaining of its GY$348.5B grant to Guyana for sugar sector reform at a time when the government is moving to privatise the industry and the world-market price for the commodity has tumbled. This…

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) will begin its second crop mid-July, and is appealing to residents and businesses in sugar dependent communities, to assist the Corporation in its mobilisation programme to increase harvesters’…

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) today (Friday, April 21, 2017) announced that its Head Office locations at Ogle Estate, East Coast, Demerara and Camp Street, Georgetown will be operational from the La Bonne Intention (LBI)…

Statement from Former Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy Closure of sugar inevitably will increase poverty in Guyana. Although President Granger had emphatically stated in 2015 that sugar is too big to fail and closure is not…

Following reports of the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s intention to sell the Skeldon Sugar Estate, one of the major unions representing sugar workers has expressed its disapproval. The Guyana Agriculture and General Workers Union (GAWU)…

All must appreciate that it is not business as usual for Guyana’s sugar industry.  And frankly speaking, to resist adjustments for its betterment is to say that you desire to see the demise of this industry. With that said,…