The AFC reiterates its call for a competent and professional board of directors to be appointed for the Guyana Sugar Corporation. The AFC believes that the brightest and best persons available should be appointed and the skills-set should include but not limited to business experience, accounting and finance, engineering, agronomy and human resources management. The AFC believes that there is a sufficient number of qualified persons in Guyana from which a competent and independent Board can be appointed.
We also do not believe that, though highly skilled and competent, Mr Komal Chand should accept the President’s offer to sit on the Board of Directors. We support a union representative on the Board, but that representative must be decided by the union in its own deliberate judgment.
We believe that Mr Komal Chand who is a highly respected trade unionist untainted by the corruption swirling around him in the PPP should remain at the helm of GAWU’s negotiating team at all times. A seat on the board will only compromise him and subject him to collective responsibility which can fetter him in expressing his independent and professional views.
We also support Mr. Chand’s call for the Government to account for all monies collected from the EU for the sugar industry. We have made this call sometime now when we were questioning the need for the constant bailouts the Government wanted for GuySuCo in recent years. The AFC also wants full disclosure on the Skeldon factory including all amounts expended to date together with the loans and repayment plans.
The AFC believes that the sugar industry can have a bright future but it has to be unshackled from the PPP’s compulsive interference, its cronyism and nepotism, and “jobs-for-the-boys-and-girls” mentality which Dr Jagan rightfully used to rail against. The deadwood in the directorship and management must also forthwith be pruned.
June 27, 2014
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