GUYANA SUGAR CORPORATION

The Guyana Sugar Corporation is the largest employer in Guyana and the Caribbean. It has in its employ approximately seventeen thousand persons, and continually strives for excellence through the empowerment of its employees... In 1976, the government of Guyana nationalised and merged the sugar estates operated by Booker Sugar Estates Limited and Jessels Holdings to form the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc., also known as GuySuCo. The main business of GuySuCo currently, is the cultivation of sugar cane and the production of sugar. Sugar…... Guyana's sugar industry was founded in 1658, before the settlement of the provinces of Demerara and Berbice, when, under the rule of the Dutch West Indian Company, four plantations were established on the Pomeroon River in Essequibo. The provinces of Demerara and Berbice were settled later. The early sugar plantations…

Also known as: Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc