The prime minister said that many lives
have been touched so far from the Sugar Workers Restoration Fund (SWRF), which
was designed to provide gratuitous payments to the former sugar workers. “Imagine
how many families have been touched,” said the prime minister. “One policy
decision directly impacted 2003 in contrast to the pay-out in 2005 when a mere
968 persons received sums. Two thousand and three versus 968. You do the math
and you will see who has done more and who has touched more households and more
families.” In March 2015, the government recieved a $16 million grant from the
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela under the PetroCaribe Agreement to pay former
sugar workers. More…
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