Light at the end of the tunnel for flooded – out Mocha farmers: Victim hints at likely compensation request

Mocha Co operative Society Chairman Raeburn Jones

After more than a year and a half of frustration attended by various forms of protest and appeals to authority designed to bring their plight to the attention of the authorities, the members of the Mocha/Arcadia Multi-Purpose Agricultural Cooperative Society whose Market Days have established a reputation as one of the best of its kind across the country, may have been offered some light at the end of a lengthy and testing tunnel.

The lands that lie contiguous to the residential community have, over time, been a source of income for those who farm it and a supplier of fresh vegetables and poultry not just the community itself but for whomsoever chooses to make their way to the Cooperative’s bustling Sunday Market.