Canje sugar workers yesterday afternoon were told by Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo that if the PPP/C is re-elected in 2020 to office the workers will benefit from the budget by way of a monthly payment until they are re-employed.
Jagdeo who held bottom house meetings in Canefield and Reliance, East Canje Berbice stressed, that if the PPP/C is re-elected to govern the country, the 4000 sugar workers who were recently retrenched will receive support from the budget in addition to their severance pay. “When we take back office, I am making a pledge on behalf of the PPP that every single person who has been terminated that outside of their severance they will get support from the budget until we can find places for them, they will get monthly payments”.
Additionally he noted, that the opposition will meet in January with the affected sugar workers to strategize on the way forward.
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