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Nov 23, 2014 News
A Berbice sugar estate manager has again found himself in trouble.
The latest incident has prompted increased calls for his removal from the Skeldon Estate.
According to angry sugar workers, the manager, Dave Kumar, is now being accused of accosting a female bar owner and hurling abuses at businessmen during a drunken rage on Friday night.
This latest incident would follow that of two others which resulted in union officials and sugar workers at Skeldon accusing management of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) of protecting him.
According to eyewitnesses, on Friday evening a money-changer and a bank official were with others socializing at Rita’s Shop, Number 78 Village.
Kumar, who was clearly inebriated, reportedly came in and became incensed when he saw the bar owner hanging out with the group.
Using a series of expletives, he reportedly went over to the money-changer and accosted him.
He was warned to behave. “The people dem tell he that he is a big man, a manager of an estate and he should not behave like that. However, he said that he owns the Skeldon Estate and was sent to Skeldon Estate to take over by President Donald Ramotar.”
The altercation moved outside the bar where Kumar was badly beaten.
According to eyewitnesses, Kumar refused to make a report to police as he feared the possible media reports.
Last Sunday, the manager was arrested by a police patrol on the Corriverton Public Road after he was caught urinating in the centre of the thoroughfare.
According to a reliable source, Kumar and some other senior Managers were at the Grill Night Spot at Corriverton and got into some altercations. The man left the night club, boarded the estate vehicle PPP 6414 along with the Agriculture Manager and proceeded to drive along the road.
He stopped a few doors from the Republic Bank at Corriverton and started to urinate in the middle of the road.
When he was rebuked he became abusive. At the same time a police patrol was passing and stopped and enquired of the men what was going on. Mr. Kumar continued to urinate and threatened to urinate on the cops.
The cops proceeded to arrest him and his colleague. The key for the vehicle was removed and they were taken to the Springlands Police Station where they were booked.
In September, Kumar sparked a massive strike after a slapping incident with a sugar worker. He reportedly dismissed the employee, Stephen Daniels, but angry workers took strike actions, claiming Kumar was drunk, and forcing a shutdown of Skeldon estate, and the power supply there from the co-generation plant. The shutdown of the plant saw countrywide blackouts.
GuySuCo has refused to reinstate the worker and the matter has gone to arbitration.
With almost US$200M spent to build and expand the Skeldon Sugar Estate, government has been banking on that facility to turn the fortunes of the industry around, in face of falling production.
More and more there has been increasing reports that all is not well at that flagship estate.
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This sort of behavior only will increase once encouraged If confronted with such a situation best way to deal with it is to crush it instantly.