
Government’s reverses it decision to close the Wales Sugar Estate.
Scores of workers employed at the Wales Sugar Estate, West Bank Demerara (WBD) converged in front of the Parliament Buildings, Georgetown on Thursday, January 21, in a peaceful picketing exercise to protest against the move by the government to close the estate.
Loud shouts from irate sugar workers armed with placards reading “No to the closure of the Wales Estate”, “Workers Unite, Fight Unemployment”, “GAWU says CoI opposed closure” and more could be heard and seen from a distance near the Stabroek Market Square as Parliamentarians from the Opposition Party, PPP/C joined the workers in support of the picketing exercise.
Many of the protesters contended that with the closure of the Wales Estate they would not be able to provide for their families or even seek alternative employment elsewhere.
A majority of the workers stated that sugar cultivation and cane harvesting are the only jobs they have been doing for most of their lives and they are not qualified to seek employment elsewhere.
