Bartica, Byderabo: What’s “Best”?
Because I appreciate all the elements of the national issue that is the fate and future of this country’s sugar industry; and because I do have a connection with Sugar Union GAWU- however distant- I make bold to offer a few simple but pointed and fundamental comments on a challenge that is bound to be “nationally sensitive”.
What are the “elements” to which I refer above? Well our sugar is steeped in history. It is the cause for the “arrival” of the fore parents of most of us. Our sugar helped to make Britain Great as it ensured it retained its British Guiana colony.
Manipulation by the owner coloniser also resulted in division between the Africans and the later Indian contracted immigrants who worked the European owned and managed industry. Sugar later- and forever- also became steeped in politics. Descendants of the “Indians“ embraced Cheddi Jagan’s PPP to the point where independent observers could be excused for having the view that that political party behaves as if it is a sole landlord of local Indo-territory and minds.