On Monday, we told you about Mayan King Banana Farm had to open a soup kitchen to keep hundreds of workers and their families fed. That's after the Irish multinational fruit distributor, Fyffes, decided to cut off Belize's largest banana farms for it's connection to John Zabaneh, who still facing the drug kingpin designation from the US Government.

That's a deathblow for this company which can hire anywhere upwards of 1,200 to 2,000 workers, and which comprises approximately 25% of the country's banana industry. The company was already struggling to stay afloat after being devastated by the drought.

To appreciate why the sudden embargo from Fyffes affects Mayan King, you first need to understand how Belize's banana's are sold. The Banana Growers Association has an exclusive contract with Fyffes which means that all the banana exports - from all the Belizean farms - are sold to them and exported to Europe. So, because Fyffes refuses to do business with Maya King, that farm has nowhere to sell its product. It was already losing millions of dollars, and now, all their bananas that have been harvested, and all the bananas growing on the company's farms, will go to waste.

The investment is being flushed down the drain, but worse than that is the loss of jobs that 600-800 workers. They are the breadwinners of their families, and today, we got an opportunity to meet a few hundred of them. Our news team only just arrived back in Belize City, and we'll have the full story for you in tomorrow's newscast. Tonight, however, we have a short excerpt of that coverage for you. Here's what the workers had to say:

The company's entire workforce and all their families, which number over a thousand, will go to Independence Village in South Stann Creek to protest tomorrow.