Wales workers meet PM over stalled severance pay

Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo yesterday met with a delegation of Wales Estate sugar workers over their concerns regarding the payment of their severance package.

The estate’s cane farming operation will close at the end of the year as part of the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) restructuring and 99 workers had opted for severance. GuySuCo has not paid the severance as the sugar unions, GAWU and NAACIE secured an