For now, the beach belongs to racehorses from the nearby Barbados Turf Club ... a king and queen of the cane are crowned, ...

A Jamaican sugar cane cutter testified Thursday that the number of rows he cut determined how many hours his employer would mark down on his time card. "Sometimes we would work eight hours and ...

By extending loans and paying workers in advance for often unrealistic harvest quotas, contractors effectively trap sugar-cane cutters in cycles of bonded labor. Women bear the brunt of this cruel ...

Image Barbados’s economy was once dominated by sugar and much of the countryside is still devoted to sugar cane: six-foot tall ... running for the best fish cutter (sandwich) on the island ...

A group of more than 1,000 former sugar cane cutters took a 16-year-old battle against one of the nation's largest sugar producers to federal court Thursday, suing Osceola Farms Co. to recover ...

Sugar commissioner Shekhar Gaikwad has asked sugar mills to recover money from cane cutters and transporters if they charge farmers to harvest and transport the produce to mills. As per rule ...

Q. What happened to the lawsuit filed by sugar cane cutters who accused U.S. Sugar of cheating them on their paychecks? A. This week, the 4th District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach took back ...

Near British Guiana’s capital of Georgetown last week, East Indian terrorists attacked sugar-cane cutters with acid bombs and rifles. In the capital, city officials decided against holding the ...

To address the long-pending issues of bias and exploitation, women sugar cane cutters have pledged to join hands for getting equal pay, social security as well as recognition. They aim to address ...

Sugar cane cutters seeking back pay from five South Florida sugar growers will have to take their case to trial, the 4th District Court of Appeals has ruled. In a ruling issued on Wednesday and ...

Six jurors had been asked to decide if the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida routinely cheated cane cutters of their pay. They ruled against the workers after two hours of deliberations.

Importantly, in 2019, news reports had highlighted the high proportion of hysterectomies among women sugar cane cutters in Maharashtra. As a result, sugar cane cutters in Maharashtra were part of the ...