MEMBER?OF?PARLIAMENT?Cynthia Forde celebrated her 62nd birthday yesterday in a different style. Instead of eating cake and blowing out candles, she was in the field picking cotton.
Dressed in long sleeve shirt, gloves, straw hat and her signature sunglasses, Forde and a small group including her constituency secretary Wendy Taylor along with Wade Herbert, Judah Bowen and Wilhemina Grannum, went to Spring Hall Plantation, St Lucy, where they picked 30 pounds of cotton between 7 a.m and 2 p.m.
Forde told the SUNDAY?SUN she decided to take on the task after hearing the Ministry of Agriculture advertisement for people to pick the crop at the various plantations and the benefits to Barbados including earning foreign exchange.
Forde called on church and community groups and even unemployed people to hit the cotton fields. “This is honourable work. I?can now go and celebrate my birthday,” she said with a smile.
