Dear Editor,
KINDLY allow me to reply to the self-anointed ‘sugar czar’ Mr Anthony Vieira’s letter in the Kaieteur News dated March 20, 2025, captioned, ‘Debunking Yusuf’s Lies’ in which he attempted to misinform the public claiming that my letter captioned, “The PPP/C achieved mission impossible when they embarked on the resurrection of the Rose Hall Estate” contained therein “fabrications…numerous misrepresentations and outright lies.”
This man who is an abject failure in everything he has attempted to do has not provided an iota of evidence to refute the many facts I presented in my letter.
He should know he cannot simply argue his case by resorting to sweeping generalisations and ad hominem fallacies.

In his response, he guilefully ignored the facts presented in my letter and instead questioned the production cost of a pound of sugar and the payment of $1.8 billion in wages and salaries to the RHE workers.
He again misrepresented the facts. In addressing his first question, the writer should once again read the penultimate paragraph in my letter.

Secondly, the monies paid to these workers were earned and not simply handed out to them, and the monies allocated to GuySuCo were not utilised to pay wages and salaries but for rehabilitation and capitalisation purposes.
This is ‘fabricated drivel, misrepresentations and lies’ from a man who never gets his facts straight and whom many letter writers and even GuySuCo have confuted these many false claims and misrepresentation, yet he doggedly persists to embrace his own pessimism and failures.

He is so accustomed and obsessed with failure that he sees nothing else. The glass is not always half-empty. He is angry that GuySuCo is on an upward progressive trajectory.
Mr Vieira, in his letters, is never happy about anything-he is not happy about the direction of GuySuCo, he is not happy about the direction of the government, he is not happy with the Opposition, and I bet he is not happy with himself.
Sugar is here to stay and neither all the naysayers nor all the gloom-driven people like Vieira can stop the current positive trajectory of the sugar industry. It is no secret that Vieira hates everyone who does not agree with his hare-brained schemes.

Lastly, I would be grateful if Vieira can educate the public about his ‘sterling’ contributions to GuySuCo, apart from the use of the ‘bull plough’ for tillage and the production of tilapia to bring GuySuCo to viability.
I wonder if he could answer why he never invested in tilapia and shrimp production on his estates instead of closing them or is it that his grandiose ideas and investment schemes cannot work when his monies are at stake?
Yours sincerely,
Haseef Yusuf