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GOB Won't Fix Sugar Roads If Farmers Aren’t Serious About The Cane Season
posted (November 27, 2013)

And when they meet on Monday, the cane farmers are sure to bring up the issue of sugar roads.  Those roads which are used for cane delivery took a beating with the month of rains. The Ministry of works would have to do major work on them before the crop season starts. But the PM says Government won’t fix the roads, if they won’t be used – he explained the position:

Prime Minister Dean Barrow
"I would need to be sure that there is going to be a crop. I am perfectly willing and happy to fix the sugar roads, but if there is not going to be a crop, then that isn't an immediate priority. I would have to look at other areas where people in fact can't get out of their villages and spend the money there." 

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