Gov’t begins payout of $250,000 grants to laid off sugar workers

By Sharda Bacchus On In Guyana News |
Some of the severed sugar workers from the Enmore Estate stand with Senior Minister with responsibility for Finance Dr Ashni Singh and Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha after receiving their cheques. (Ministry of Agriculture photo)
Some of the severed sugar workers from the Enmore Estate stand with Senior Minister with responsibility for Finance Dr Ashni Singh and Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha after receiving their cheques. (Ministry of Agriculture photo)

Government yesterday began the payout of promised $250,000 one-off grants to close to 2,500 sugar workers who were laid off when the former APNU+AFC administration closed the Enmore and Wales estates.

The distribution of the grants is a fulfillment to a promise made in October by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo to sugar workers who had been laid off from the Enmore, Wales, Skeldon and Rose Hall Estates under the former government.