PPP/C in new set of sugar promises

-despite failures over last five years

The PPP/C 2025 manifesto has promised more investments to keep the sugar industry alive, albeit failing to live up to the 2020 manifesto promise of reopening all shuttered sugar estates and turning the industry around.

“Efforts to restore the sugar industry to viability, after years of decay by APNU+AFC, and to modernise and diversify its operations are already underway, with mechanization advancing at several estates, a packaging plant at Albion nearing completion, and ethanol feasibility studies ongoing,” the 2025 Manifesto states.

“Over the next five years, we will: Ensure the sugar industry remains open and sugar workers remain employed. Con-tinue to convert our fields for strategic mechanisation. Modernise our factories, and invest in value-added production such as packaged refined, and specialty sugars. Position GuySuCo [Guyana Sugar Corporation] as a hub for rural economic development. Convert land into high-yielding, high value productive activity, including through coinvestment options,” it added.