The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) says it is standing by its contention that GuySuCo is without money to pay hundreds of workers their severance and needs approximately $5B.
GAWU had stated in a release last week that a meeting with the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) had revealed that there was no money to pay the remaining workers their severance nor was there any budgetary allocation in the 2018 budget for their payments.
However, Agriculture Minister Noel Holder had later said that the payments would start from January, but was unable to give a specific date, and also highlighted that budgetary allocations were made for the payments and money would also be obtained from “other avenues”.
Speaking to Stabroek News yesterday, President of the Union, Komal Chand said that ….
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