Rose Hall Estate workers yesterday afternoon stood with a feeling of dismay and frustration at the estate’s pay office as they awaited their weekly salary and for them the washing and parking of harvesters (seen in photo) signalled the end of cane growing there.
The salaries paid out yesterday were expected to be among the last workers will receive from the estate. Workers told Stabroek News that watching the machines being washed and parked in the Rose Hall estate compound made it clear that the estate closure will become a reality in the near future. The workers explained that at the end of this week, the second crop was completed at the estate. They noted that it was after the completion of the second crop that the machines were washed and parked in the compound.
One operator, of Reliance Village, East Canje, said, “See them park it deh? It coming to an end. Abie got to see wah to do now.”
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