Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Paul Bhim has said that the sugar corporation is aware that the head of the Torani Canal is progressively becoming shallower because the banks of the canal are eroding and sliding into the water, but that the “situation does not pose any immediate threat to the area.”
On a recent visit to the location workers who operate the corporation’s five-gate sluice had expressed concern about the situation, which they said could pose a great risk to the sugar cane plants and the crops of farmers in Region Six,