Severed Wales sugar workers having hard time finding employment

Gordon Thomas

Henry Hinds, a process foreman at the Wales estate, received severance payments three months ago and failing to secure another job, has decided to invest the money in fixing his car to work taxi.

He was among 90 plus workers to receive their severance benefits in February, after the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) served them one month’s notice of its intention to close the estate.

In January 2016, after the APNU+AFC coalition government announced