Cabinet agrees sugar bailout

From right are GAWU International Secretary Aslim Singh, President of FITUG, Carvil Duncan, Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection Simona Broomes, Minister of Social Protection, Volda Lawrence, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo and TUC General Secretary, Lincoln Lewis.A section of the gathering

Cabinet has made a decision to bail out the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) with a first tranche of $3.8B, sources say, and will be proceeding with the Commission of Inquiry into the industry as well as a forensic audit of the corporation.

News of the bailout was delivered yesterday at the annual Enmore Martyrs commemoration event at Enmore by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo though he did not identify a figure.

Nagamootoo stated that President David Granger was not in attendance at the commemoration yesterday because