Dear Editor,
The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) in response to the article in yesterday’s Stabroek News titled ‘John Dow tipped to be GuySuCo Chairman’, would like to clarify the following point in the article, ‘the LBI Estate is one of the four estates that has been put under the SPU for divestment and it is unclear why GuySuCo still claims the property’.
The Vesting Order excluded the 250 acres of La Bonne Intention Estate (LBI) compound as shown in the ‘Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (Transfer of Property) Order No. 45 of 2017 – December 30, 2017’; it remains the property of and operating Head Office of GuySuCo. It is important to note that this omission is intentional, as the areas are reserved for GuySuCo’s Corporate Head Office and its Technical Services, these include: Agriculture Services, Agriculture Research Centre, Factory Operations, Information Services Department, Materials Management Department; Corporate Services – Chief Executive Secretariat, Finance and Marketing, Legal Secretariat; Human Resources, such as Industrial Relations, Training and Development and Communications.
The LBI compound is also the Corporate Head Office for several Agencies of the Ministry of Agriculture and it should be noted that the Government has no intention to divest the LBI compound.
Yours faithfully,
Audreyanna Thomas
Corporate Communications
Manager
Communications Department
Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc.
(GuySuCo)
Head Office
La Bonne Intention Estate, LBI,
East Coast, Demerara
