Scores of former Wales Estate sugar workers gathered yesterday in front of the old factory bearing broad smiles in anticipation of collecting severance payments that had been withheld from them for two years.
Some said they are going to use the money to invest in businesses and others said they will use it to support their households.
The workers’ employment was terminated on December 31st, 2016 but having not been paid their severance at the point of being made redundant, they took the state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) to court. On Wednesday, High Court Judge Sandil Kissoon ordered that the over 300 ex-workers receive their paymnets along with the interest owed to them.