The closure of the Enmore and Rose Hall estates, previously slated to occur by the end of this year, is not likely until 2018, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon.
Harmon announced last Thursday at a post-Cabinet press briefing that the Special Purpose Unit (SPU), which was set up to spearhead the divestment and privatisation of certain GuySuCo assets, still has work to do, so the process “may very well go into 2018.”
“You can’t bring something to an end and you don’t have something to take it up,” Harmon said, while assuring that workers will be paid severance where necessary, since the administration will not see workers put on the breadline without some recourse.
“Workers will be paid