HGP Nightly News – After another year of missed expectations at GuySuCo, APNU MP Vinceroy Jordan is calling out President Irfaan Ali’s latest warning of “sweeping changes” in 2026 as something Guyanese have already heard and never actually seen. In a statement issued this week, Jordan said the President issued similar warnings in 2024 and 2025, yet despite missed targets and ongoing inefficiencies, no meaningful accountability followed inside the corporation.
To Jordan, that record makes the new warning feel less like a turning point and more like familiar political theatre.Jordan argued that GuySuCo’s continued underperformance is not unexpected, pointing to the fact that billions of dollars in public funds have been pumped into the industry while core problems persist. He listed weak field management, factory inefficiencies, labour shortages, and poor leadership as issues that remain unresolved.
He said repeated revisions of production targets, followed by further failures to meet them, reflect deeper policy and oversight breakdowns rather than surprises, and he maintained that sugar workers and taxpayers are the ones left absorbing the fallout. He then widened his critique beyond sugar, saying the same cycle shows up across government: tough talk, then unclear outcomes.
Jordan pointed to past presidential warnings tied to chronic blackouts and management problems at Guyana Power and Light (GPL), and he referenced assurances of accountability related to the driver’s licence fraud scandal involving police ranks, saying those promises also failed to produce transparent results.
He further mentioned hydropower commitments that were expected to significantly reduce electricity costs but remain unfulfilled years later.Jordan’s central claim is that leadership should be judged by results, not warnings about what might happen next year.
He questioned why earlier threats did not produce consequences when targets were missed in consecutive years, and he argued that accountability should begin at the top of the agriculture sector. In that context, he criticised what he described as the continued absence of the Minister of Agriculture from meaningful responsibility for GuySuCo’s performance.
Jordan concluded that Guyanese deserve honesty, transparency, and action, not another round of warnings that, in his view, push accountability into the future while the same problems remain in place today.
