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[sugar] industry was producing 216,352 metric tonnes; it moved from 216,352 to 92,256 metric tonnes in 2019…. the former AFC leader went to the parliament boasted that they were turning around the industry and that sugar will prosper. In 2019, production fell to 14,000 metric tonnes,” Minister Mustapha said.

According to the minster, some 1,500 sugar workers have since been rehired and the Rose Hall sugar estate that was shut down will soon be reopened.

“I want to inform the APNU+AFC later on this year Rose Hall, one of the estates that they closed and after they tried to suffer that area, will be reopened and smoke will be coming out of that chimney,” He affirmed.