A number of workers of Wales Estate who were retained after the estate ceased cane cultivation and sugar processing at the end of 2016 are soon to be made redundant.
According to a press release from the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), the small workforce was being kept, among other things, to ensure that the Wales cultivation is in an ‘acceptable’ state as the estate was being transitioned to non-sugar crops. The union said that the fact that GuySuCo has decided to engage in further retrenchment at Wales serves to indicate that the planned other crops division has not being successful.
