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January 2020
 

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 29 Jan 2020    nicola.wint   

Hon Audley Shaw (left), Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, listens attentively as Joseph Carr, former sugar cane worker explains challenges he is having at a meeting with former sugar cane workers and stakeholders in Golden Grove, St. Thomas on January 24. Minister Shaw disclosed at the meeting that Government would be providing $200-million in assistance to former workers to include land, land preparation, seeds and fertilizer for the cultivation of alternative crops.

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