Documents pertaining to the Guyana Sugar Cor-poration’s (GuySuCo) US$200 million Skeldon sugar modernisation programme which began in 2005 are still not available to the public.
Stabroek News was told by multiple library staff at Parliament that only the Design and Supply of the Co-Generation Plant under the Skeldon Sugar Modernisation Project (SSMP) made its way to the National Assembly to be deliberated on. The reason given was that this component of the SSMP was being done through a government concessional loan agreement between the finance ministry and the Import-Export Bank of China in January 2005.
Stabroek News attempted to locate prior contracts between the Government of Guyana and the Skeldon contractor, China National Technology Import and the Export Corporation (CNTIC) but only the