The state-owned sugar company is facing a cash problem with salary payments for junior and senior workers postponed until next week.The delay yesterday prompted a number of junior staffers of Wales Factory, West Bank Demerara, to take protest actions after being told that they will be paid late. But union and other officials from the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) have since assured that the affected workers will be paid by Monday.NAACIE sugar workers protesting for their salaries at the Wales Sugar Estate,Cheap Basketball Jerseys For Sale, West Bank Demerara yesterday.A senior GuySuCo official explained that the Corporation has been feeling a cash squeeze after international banks that finance sugar crops pulled out from the Caribbean, leaving Guyana affected. With the estates across the country currently grinding,Jerseys China Wholesale, the situation has affected payments also.Coupled with this, is the fact that the sugar shipments to Europe’s Tate and Lyle, Guyana’s biggest customer, has been delayed, again affecting payments to GuySuCo.“We are currently collecting monies from our local customers also. We are looking for next week to pay the staff.”The GuySuCo official said that the Corporation was forced to make a decision and had spoken to salaried junior and senior staffers to bear up a few days. They had agreed. “We are surprised now to hear of this action but we want to assure them we are working hard to gather the cash.”Kenneth Joseph,NFL Jerseys Wholesale, Head of the National Association of Agricultural,Cheap Jerseys Online, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) whose members were the ones protesting yesterday, said he met with GuySuCo officials yesterday and that the assurance was given that they will be paid on Monday. NAACIE represents over 800 workers of GuySuCo, including clerical staffers, foremen and supervisors, lab technicians and boilers. More than 100 NAACIE members are affected at the Wales Estate.According to Joseph, workers of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Unions are also affected.Anthony Romain, a representative of NAACIE, who was with the handful of workers protesting at Wales yesterday, disclosed that the salaried workers are usually paid on the last Friday of every month.“We have some women who don’t have any monies to buy milk for their children.”“Our sugar target for this crop is over 10,000 tonnes. As of today,Cheap Jerseys From China, we are at 83% completed with just 1,500 more to go. We need our money.”GuySuCo has been facing tough times in recent years with sugar falling from the top position as being the biggest earner for the country. Staffing worries, coupled with adverse weather, and under-performance at the new Skeldon factory,China Jerseys, has seen production plunging to a 20-year low last year. Scores of workers have migrated away to other better paying jobs in the construction and gold sector.Government has been assisting GuySuCo with cash in recent years. Recently $1B was allocated for GuySuCo by the government in the national budget. It is part of this money- some $250M —that will be used to pay workers.