Seventy percent of works for the reopening of the Rose Hall Sugar Estate have been completed, inclusive of major changes in the factory as management and staff gear up for the second crop of this year.
Reopening of this estate and two others had been a major manifesto promise of the PPP/C Government.
Estate Manager, Vijay Goberdhan, in an exclusive interview yesterday with the Sunday Stabroek, said that when they retook control of the estate, the factory and building were in an extremely dilapidated state mainly because the factory was shut down hastily and the equipment and infrastructure were not maintained or preserved. “There was a lot of deterioration on the roof and structure (and) due to that, rainfall water soaked a lot of the equipment and it deteriorated by rusting”, he said.