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Former Monymusk Sugar Factory worker, Kamone Campbell, believes she has been “tossed a lifeline” with the launch of an agricultural project designed to create sustainable employment and a better way of life for former factory employees.
She is among a group of 15 persons who are to benefit under the agricultural component of the Government’s socio economic programme for former employees of the factory, which seeks to facilitate alternative employment for the displaced workers and their dependents following the closure of the facility in 2018.
The project is a collaborative one...

Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Floyd Green (right), congratulates Solomon Anderson, a beneficiary of the agricultural component of the Government’s Socio Economic Programme for Former Employees of the Monymusk Sugar Factory, with a lease for lands, at the launch of the project in Hermitage, Clarendon on February 20.

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries on Thursday (February 20) launched the agricultural component of a socio-economic programme designed to assist former sugar workers of the Clarendon-based Monymusk Sugar Factory. The project, a collaborative effort with the Ministry, the Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA), the National Irrigation Commission Limited, the Agro-Investment Corporation and the HEART Trust/NTSA, was launched in keeping with the Government’s plans to provide them with an alternative means of livelihood. Addressing the launch of the project...