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Originally posted by D2:
when will they begin planting all the sugar cane to meet this new plant capacity? Why waste time with sugar when the market for bio fuel is demanding as much as can be supplied?

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Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

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Originally posted by D2:
when will they begin planting all the sugar cane to meet this new plant capacity? Why waste time with sugar when the market for bio fuel is demanding as much as can be supplied?

You have great ideas. Why don't you send your resume' to the gov't of Guyana? You could bring the investment that the economy needs.

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If I come there I would more be planting tomatoes ( dried tomatoes are 10 a pound) or building high end fiber glass boats, or modular energy efficient houses than messing around with sugar cane!

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Originally posted by Prince Juno:

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If I come there I would more be planting tomatoes ( dried tomatoes are 10 a pound) or building high end fiber glass boats, or modular energy efficient houses than messing around with sugar cane!

That is a big "IF"! You should worry about your retirement. You are useless for Guyana now. guyana need young blood.

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DALY: Published in the Guyana Chronicle September 2, 2008.

Dear Editor:

As of January 1, 2009, all preferential agreements between African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP) and the European Union will be something of the past. Thus, Guyana’s sugar industry is expected to lose millions under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).

However, behind this dark cloud lingers a silver lining and that silver lining is expected to be the Skeldon Modernization Factory. Indeed, this project is set to have enormous developmental and economic potential for Guyana.

This new sugar factory will have the capacity to produce 8,400 tonnes cane per day, that is, the factory will be able to crush approximately 350 tonnes of cane per hour. Also, not forgetting the factory will produce roughly 120 tonnes of refined sugar for Caribbean markets, and at present only Trinidad and Tobago are the producers of refined sugar in the Caribbean and can cater for only 50,000 tonnes.

Not only will the factory be used to produce sugar but for energy purposes too, which will supply most of the Berbice community. The Cogeneration Project will generate baggasse-based electricity for internal use in the factory and for Berbice, but the excess will be transferred to the national grid.

Amidst the seemingly gloomy sugar crisis facing Guyana, the Skeldon Modernization Plant has a great potential of assisting the much needed sugar industry.


Elizabeth Daly

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Originally posted by TK:

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DALY: Published in the Guyana Chronicle September 2, 2008.

Dear Editor:

As of January 1, 2009, all preferential agreements between African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP) and the European Union will be something of the past. Thus, Guyana’s sugar industry is expected to lose millions under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).

However, behind this dark cloud lingers a silver lining and that silver lining is expected to be the Skeldon Modernization Factory. Indeed, this project is set to have enormous developmental and economic potential for Guyana.

This new sugar factory will have the capacity to produce 8,400 tonnes cane per day, that is, the factory will be able to crush approximately 350 tonnes of cane per hour. Also, not forgetting the factory will produce roughly 120 tonnes of refined sugar for Caribbean markets, and at present only Trinidad and Tobago are the producers of refined sugar in the Caribbean and can cater for only 50,000 tonnes.

Not only will the factory be used to produce sugar but for energy purposes too, which will supply most of the Berbice community. The Cogeneration Project will generate baggasse-based electricity for internal use in the factory and for Berbice, but the excess will be transferred to the national grid.

Amidst the seemingly gloomy sugar crisis facing Guyana, the Skeldon Modernization Plant has a great potential of assisting the much needed sugar industry.


Elizabeth Daly

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Originally posted by TK:
BlackB,

Them bais at Freedom House finally woke up! EPA finally hit them!

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Originally posted by D2:

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Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

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Originally posted by D2:
when will they begin planting all the sugar cane to meet this new plant capacity? Why waste time with sugar when the market for bio fuel is demanding as much as can be supplied?

You have great ideas. Why don't you send your resume' to the gov't of Guyana? You could bring the investment that the economy needs.

If I come there I would more be planting tomatoes ( dried tomatoes are 10 a pound) or building high end fiber glass boats, or modular energy efficient houses than messing around with sugar cane!

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Originally posted by TK:
BlackB,

Them bais at Freedom House finally woke up! EPA finally hit them!

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Originally posted by Prince Juno:

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If I come there I would more be planting tomatoes ( dried tomatoes are 10 a pound) or building high end fiber glass boats, or modular energy efficient houses than messing around with sugar cane!

That is a big "IF"! You should worry about your retirement. You are useless for Guyana now. guyana need young blood.

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Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:
Profits are critical in any industry for the purpose of expanding and staying competitive. If the new Skeldon sugar factory can show a substantial profit, keep a large numbers of Guyanese at work, and stay competitive then it is worth the investment.

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Adanna: From the inception President Jagdeo and the Government of Guyana was calling for a review of the EPA. So I suggest you do some reading.

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Originally posted by TK:

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Adanna: From the inception President Jagdeo and the Government of Guyana was calling for a review of the EPA. So I suggest you do some reading.

And yet you guys gambled US$200 mill in a sugar factory knowing the traditional Lome Convention will contradicts WTO laws. I know people who wrote about this in the mid-1990s. Did Jagdeo realized it then? Next question, why Jagdeo thinks the EPA must be re-assessed? I have my reasons why I think it is not good for development, but Jagdeo has failed to tell the country why. Why Mr. President? WHy? How does your recent/sudden displeasure with the EPA square with your IMF-driven economic policy since you were MOF, Mr. President? Speak to us!

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BlackB: TK, this is painful to read .... Adanna would appreciate it if you used some tender care. Be gentle to my hoe. Don't wear her out before JoKer has had his turn. Big Grin

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Originally posted by TK:

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BlackB: TK, this is painful to read .... Adanna would appreciate it if you used some tender care. Be gentle to my hoe. Don't wear her out before JoKer has had his turn. Big Grin

Bai, be nice to Adanna... the gurl has indirect contacts to senior PPP people at UG .

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Originally posted by TK:
BlackB, that can't find this kind of information in Mirror, Thunder and West on Trial. If that's all they're reading then they shooting themselves in the feel and making bad decisions for the country.

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Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

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Originally posted by D2:

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Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

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Originally posted by D2:
when will they begin planting all the sugar cane to meet this new plant capacity? Why waste time with sugar when the market for bio fuel is demanding as much as can be supplied?

You have great ideas. Why don't you send your resume' to the gov't of Guyana? You could bring the investment that the economy needs.

If I come there I would more be planting tomatoes ( dried tomatoes are 10 a pound) or building high end fiber glass boats, or modular energy efficient houses than messing around with sugar cane!

I think we are depending too much on gov't to create new economic projects forgetting that the private sector should be at the forefront.

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Originally posted by D2:

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Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

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Originally posted by D2:

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Originally posted by Billy Ram Balgobin:

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Originally posted by D2:
when will they begin planting all the sugar cane to meet this new plant capacity? Why waste time with sugar when the market for bio fuel is demanding as much as can be supplied?

You have great ideas. Why don't you send your resume' to the gov't of Guyana? You could bring the investment that the economy needs.

If I come there I would more be planting tomatoes ( dried tomatoes are 10 a pound) or building high end fiber glass boats, or modular energy efficient houses than messing around with sugar cane!

I think we are depending too much on gov't to create new economic projects forgetting that the private sector should be at the forefront.

Most people at home do not have cash. If the government is out there constantly with the begging bowl, what do you think the would be the status of the financial solvency of our our poor?

Creating a business needs seed capital. These people cannot boot strap themselves when they are in a state pf perpetual need. That is why I hoped that the effort to fund a micro lending institution was a great thing.

Unfortunately, it is not functioning as it did in Bangladesh, and India and Shi Lanka. Why? I can proffer a suggestion. The same centralized disease that afflicts every thing else.