the ppp prolific history of burning young canes and sabotaging state assets is coming back to bite it in the ass. and look where? right in berbice where they started. life is a motherclucker ain’t it?
A strike in …Berbice … spread from Skeldon to Albion to protest the immediate dismissal of a worker who slapped the Skeldon Estate Manager 🙂
Head of Human Resources, Jairam Pitam said that as of 6 AM Tuesday field and factory workers downed tools. “The people in Albion are in solidarity with those at Skeldon,” he told Demerara Waves Online News.
At Skeldon, workers have burnt several hectares of un-ripened cane that can yield about 130 tons of sugar valued US$54,000 [abt 11.2 million Guyana $$]. He explained that some of the sucrose content of the burnt cane could be saved if the workers resume duty immediately.
those who fail history wont necessarily get a chance to repeat it. they may very well be exterminated by their own jumbies.
“When the PPP sensed that the strike call was likely to be ineffective, it introduced into the sugar belt a large number of thugs who began threatening, assaulting and otherwise intimidating peaceful workers who wanted to exercise their legal right to work. Moreover, the families of those workers wore subjected to intimidation; their homes wore stoned; and in some instances attempts to burn the homes of these workers were made. Additionally, malicious burning of young sugar-canes, the property of the people of Guyana, became frequent; and canes belonging to small peasant farmers and cooperative societies were wantonly destroyed by arson, thus bringing severe hardships and even financial ruin to many poor hard-working farmers. Other acts of sabotage were attempted against sugar factories, machinery, vehicles, and other property owned by the people of Guyana. The leadership of the PPP and union added fuel to this dangerous situation by wild incitements to violence. The situation, if allowed to remain unchecked, was in danger of degenerating into complete lawlessness.” – the virgin islands daily news, october 31 1977!!
don’t let the facts get in your way
run tell dat
i said it dot com
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