Tag: GuySuCo
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High-priority areas in focus to alleviate flooding in 2024- Agri Minister
The Ministry of Agriculture has announced that for 2024, desilting and dredging of critical and high priority areas will continue in an effort to reduce the ... -
“Out of Crop” support approved for Guysuco
More than 5600 Sugar workers received government’s $250,000 grant amounting to some $1.3 Billion. On Thursday, as the government sought the approval of the National Assembly ... -
Govt’s 2nd supplementary budget for 2021 raises questions
As the government is requesting the approval of the National Assembly for some $26 billion in two supplementary financial papers, Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon said he ... -
GAWU welcomes Govt’s decision to give $250,000 to severed sugar workers
The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) has welcomed an announcement made by Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo that sugar workers fired in 2016- 2017 will ... -
Redundant sugar workers found it hard finding new jobs -ILO report
Sugar workers who were laid off by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) following the closure of several estates in 2017, found a hard time finding new ... -
Spotting for high, middle and low income housing lots commence in Region 5
Minister Rodrigues and PS Andre Ally (inset) discuss prospects for land development at location in Region 5 The current demand for housing in Region 5 may ... -
Sugar workers to receive one-off payment as Jagdeo intervenes in wage dispute
Sugar workers will be receiving a one-off payment equivalent to five (5) percent of six months of their earnings in 2019 from the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) as ... -
Albion, Blairmont sugar workers protest stalled wage negotiation
Sugar workers are again protesting the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc’s (GuySuCo) seeming disinterest in resuming wage negotiations with the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU). The wage negotiations ... -
Sugar workers picket GuySuCo over wage increase
Sugar workers picket GuySuCo over wage increase Sugar workers at the Blairmont and Albion Estates on Monday morning mounted picketing exercises outside of the administrative offices ... -
$22B allocation could see major transformation in the agri sector
The allocation of some $22 billion to the agricultural sector would see major transformation within the agriculture sectors says Minister Zulfikar Mustapha. The Minister told the National ...
