Wales residents say will be badly hit by sugar estate closure

Tensions were rising in the community of Wales, West Bank Demerara yesterday as information about the sugar estate there being closed at the end of this year began to circulate.

When Stabroek News visited the area yesterday afternoon, many of the workers said they would be “badly affected” because the estate was their “backbone”, noting that the entire West Bank depends on the estate for survival.

They were worried that they would be out of a job and were