EFFORTS will continue today to halt strike action at Portvale Sugar Factory that has so far crippled the sugar industry.
Just after 11:40 last night, Chief Labour Officer Vincent Burnett emerged from a meeting held with officials from the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU) and the Barbados Agricultural Management Company (BAMC) at the Labour Department in Warrens, St Michael indicating that talks would resume today at 2:30 p.m.
That meeting was held under the auspices of Burnett and acting Deputy Chief Labour Officer Victor Felix.
It brought the BWU delegation, led by general secretary Sir Roy Trotman and including deputy general secretary Toni Moore and Orlando “Gabby” Scott, and the BAMC, headed by general manager Leslie Parris, attorney and former chief labour officer Mitch Codrington, to the bargaining table after two days of strike action at the lone working sugar factory brought the season to a grinding halt and threatened to cripple the sector.
