Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo said on Thursday that government is ready to transform the sugar industry but said consensus is needed on the new direction.
In his address on the occasion of the 68th anniversary of the Enmore Martyrs at the monument site at Enmore, Nagamootoo said that the transformation would be in the form of diversifying plantation lands and opening up new opportunities for wealth creation and sustainable livelihoods in the sugar belt.
He said too that the new board at GuySuCo must intensify consultations with workers and related organisations. The government has come under intense scrutiny over its plans for the industry since its surprise announcement in January that sugar will no