The Guyana Sugar Cor-poration (GuySuCo) will be playing catch up with production targets as workers trickle back to the Skeldon Estate following almost a week of striking.
As of yesterday, Skel-don managed to produce just over 190 tonnes of sugar for the week and will most likely miss its reported target of just under 1,800 tonnes.
GuySuCo’s Human Resources Director Jairam Petam told Stabroek News that the strikes will have cost the company over 1,500 tonnes of sugar. He noted that the one day strikes conducted by Albion and Rose Hall workers in solidarity with Skeldon meant that 500 tonnes of sugar was not produced by high production estates.
Petam said that the strike created additional pressure on good opportunity days and in essence wasted good days. Petam said that after Skeldon workers met with management on Sunday, following an altercation on Friday which saw dock worker Stephen Daniels dismissed, they were determined to strike. “Nothing would have