VERY FEW SWEETS are flowing from the local sugar industry but more trouble could be brewing for the beleaguered sector.
Monthly paid workers employed by Barbados Agricultural Management Company (BAMC) and who are members of the Sugar Industries Staff Association (SISA), yesterday put the state agency on notice that they wanted urgent action on a number of their complaints or the ailing industry could be faced with even more troubles.
Scores of workers, who range from farm and factory managers to supervisors and chemists, packed their headquarters at SISA House, Black Rock, St Michael, to hear recently-elected SISA president Edwin O’Neal report on their concerns.
Insisting that employees should not be blamed for the poor state of the sector, he acknowledged that many of them were fearful about the future of their jobs.
Please read the full story in today’s Daily Nation, or in the eNATION edition.
