Sugar workers in day 8 of strike at Albion

Bicycles and wooden planks used to block the entrance to the factory

Hundreds of cane harvesters continued strike action yesterday at the Albion Estate on the Corentyne—blocking the road leading to the entrance of the factory—over low payments being instituted for ‘over-run’ canes.

Over- run canes are canes that have been left back from the previous crop and which were not cut. Those canes would have lost their sugar content and can be deemed spoiled.

Efforts made to contact Seepaul Narine or Komal Chand of the