President Ali recommits to rebuilding the sugar industry

DPI, Guyana, Wednesday, August 12, 2020

His Excellency, Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, has recommitted to be rebuilding the sugar industry. 

In 2017, the APNU+AFC Coalition Government announced the closure of several sugar estates across the country, leaving thousands of those employed without a job or source of income. Without alternative measures in place, many of the sugar workers struggled to provide for their families. 

On Tuesday evening, as President Dr. Ali joined with the residents and members of the ISKCON Guyana Crane Temple to celebrate Krishna Janmashtami, he pledged the PPP/C Government’s commitment to ensuring the livelihoods of the sugar workers are rebuilt. 

“The upliftment of those families and the rebuilding of the sugar industry is as strong as it was when we promised. I assure you that we will work assiduously, at not only securing these lives and livelihood for them; we will work hard at creating new opportunities on advancing new opportunities to full the promises we would have made in our manifesto,” the Head of State remarked. 

The sustainable management of the sugar industry has always been a priority for the PPP/C administration. Moreover, the PPP/C has stood in solidary with its workers when several estates were shut without warning. 

In his Inauguration address, the President vowed to “raise up the [sugar] industry and to help it, and its workers resume the once proud place in our economy.”