Two Blairmont sugar workers still in pain after explosion, accident

Two workers from the Blairmont Sugar Estate are experiencing excruciating stomach  and back pain after they were injured separately on the job during last month.

The two men, Zahir Yacoob, 41, of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, a factory worker whose description is “cleaning vessel and bagging sugar” and Shahabudeen Hack, 40 a cane-harvester of Cotton Tree are both unable to work.

Yacoob, who did that job for over 18 years, told Stabroek News that on