WHEN THE ISLAND should be gearing up to start the annual sugar harvest in a few weeks, the body that encompasses the largest number of growers has served notice they have no money to reap canes.
Chairman of Barbados Sugar Industry Limited (BSIL) and veteran farmer, Patrick Bethell, yesterday explained that private growers were owed so much from last year’s harvest and other programmes from previous years they have nothing left to prepare equipment or pay wages.
In fact, the situation is so dire that H & G Limited, which operates Andrews, Fisherpond, Easy Hall and Blackman’s plantations, amounting to more than 1 000 acres, has just served lay-off notices to its more than 20 workers. (RRM)
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