Wales closure protest intensifies

Rose Hall protesters

Determined to show their displeasure at the planned closing of the Wales Sugar Estate, workers and residents participated in another protest march in the community yesterday evening and solidarity strikes were held at the Berbice estates.

Bearing banners and chanting: “Don’t close Wales estate” the residents who turned out in their numbers, marched from Vriesland, two villages away to tassa drumming that two men played from the back of a pickup.

At intervals, Bob Marley’s music was blasting loudly and residents chimed in to the