Stray catchers in the East Canje Berbice have been traversing the cross streets in the area and impounding the farmers’ animals.
PPP/C Regional Councillor, Zamal Hussain, last Thursday raised the issue at Region Six’s statutory meeting. He charged that stray catchers are hunting through the “internal streets” in the Canje Area to pound farmers’ cattle, while in the town of New Amsterdam, cattle are being left to roam.
“Places like New Amsterdam, which is a town, so many cattle marching the entire night and day and not a single stray catcher is being seen in this area”, the councillor was quoted as saying. He added, “These people are sugar workers who were severed (from their jobs) and they are trying to make (a) living by minding a few sheep and the other animals”.
