Wales sugar workers picket presidential ministry for severance pay

Wales Estate cane cutters picketed the Ministry of the Presidency yesterday, claiming that they are being denied their severance payments, while being strong-armed by GuySuCo to take up positions at the Uitvlugt Estate. However, the Agriculture Ministry, in a statement last evening, denied that any worker was owed severance payments. “The Ministry of Agriculture wishes to make it clear that GuySuCo has advised that ALL workers who had been declared redundant had accepted severance following the merging of the Wales and Uitvlugt operations and have been paid their severance IN FULL,” it said, while charging that the protest was “politically instigated.” The workers journeyed to the city in an effort to get President David Granger or Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo to intervene and they vowed to continue protesting until their voices are heard.