Thirty-eight-year-old Mahendra Persaud has been working with the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) for the past 23 years and while it is a job that comes with benefits, he does not wish to have his children work as cane-harvesters.
“It is a stiff piece of work,” was how he described harvesting cane, something he has been doing for the past six years.
He has to be out on the Bath Settlement Public Road at 5 am every day to get the
