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Jun 28, 2009 Letters
Dear Editor,
On 16th June, 1948, five sugar workers paid the ultimate price by losing their lives, whilst protesting for better working conditions on the sugar estates, being governed by their colonial masters.
As the nation in unison joins hearts and hands in commemoration of the Enmore Martyrs’ Day, much improvement is still needed in respect to the working conditions on these sugar estates. The numerous picketing exercises being staged in the recent past give much credence for this line of thought.
Presently sugar workers are complaining bitterly about poor wages and insignificant benefits. The sugar industry is also deeply entangled with many problems, both towering and unprecedented.
Today, 43 years has gone by, the colonial masters in their quest of appeasing our desire for self governance had granted to us our independence. It is now felt, that in a realistic world, the sugar industry should be a genuine reflection of the sacrifices made by the Enmore Martyrs.
Today the struggle still continues in respect to the said problems that the Enmore Martyrs had fought and died for.
Oh yes! Sixty one years have also passed and some of the said problems are still with us today.
This probably will bring us back to the golden days when Swamp Dogg burst on the international scene with his hit ‘Samstone’, singing lustily “Jesus Christ died for nothing I suppose”.
Ronald Alexander Drakes
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