The Government is once again assuring sugar workers that their best interests are being considered prior to a definitive decision to wrap up operations at Skeldon, Enmore and Blairmont estates.
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The future of the sugar industry and its anxious workers came under the spotlight in the House on Tuesday as the Opposition lamented the administration’s plan to shed weight at the expense of sugar workers

The Government has sought to assure retrenched sugar workers that once the supplemental paper is approved, they will be paid shortly. However, opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo says the sum being sought does not cover all former sugar workers. More from Handel Duncan.

The Alliance for change is expressing concern over the fate of thousands of retrenched sugar workers. AFC leader Raphael Trotman says the party will continue to engage the sugar workers while noting that the Government had to make tough decisions so that other sectors of the economy do not collapse.…