Government had premeditated to dispose of the sugar industry long before it made public that consultations would be held to save it and this information is evidence and testimony that nothing it says about the state of sugar should be trusted, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo says.
Making an over one-hour address, at an event to remember the Enmore Martyrs, at Enmore, East Coast Demerara yesterday, Jagdeo flayed the APNU+AFC government for its attitude towards the sugar industry here.
He focused his appeal to workers of the Enmore Sugar Estate, one of the estates proposed to be closed, telling them that a decision to leave them without work was made long before proposed consultations and a parliamentary white paper presented. He told them to be aware that this year would be the