Forty BSI workers may soon join unemployment line

It is the fifth day since the country’s only sugar mill cranked up again at Tower Hill and things are going back to normal in respect of cane deliveries. Last Sunday’s removal of the cane sampler ended a twelve day strike in the sugar belt but now there are some emerging problems and it relates to the future of some forty persons employed to operate the particular piece of equipment which was soundly rejected by the cane farmers because it tested quality and determined prices to be paid. Well now that the sampler will not be used, the operators on contract, are in limbo and according to one report, there is indication that they will not be absorbed in BSI’s workforce and stand to be terminated. While they may be casualties of the protest, one farmer Antanacio Gutierrez was killed in the horrific events on February second that crippled the industry and shocked the rest of the country.