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17 Grenadians on charters with regional agricultural workers bound for Canada

This story was posted 8 months ago
4 June 2020
in Agriculture/Fisheries, Business
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by Linda Straker

  • 17 seasonal agriculture workers departed today on chartered flight 
  • No inbound passengers landed
  • The 17 worked on farms previously and were selected by Canadian farm management to return

 17 Grenadian farm workers who were scheduled to depart the island in early March, left today, 4 June 2020, after the Canadian Government in collaboration with the management of various agricultural farms, arranged for a chartered flight to make a trip to the region.

There were no inbound passengers on the flight which received special permission to land at the Maurice Bishop International Airport (MBIA) under the Emergency Powers regulations.

“The flight did not only pick up workers in Grenada, but also [in] St Vincent and St Lucia,” said Labour Minister, Peter David, who explained that the workers are not first-timers, but persons who have worked on the farms previously and were selected to return.

“The persons who left the island are workers who already worked on the farms and are now returning because they were selected by the management of the farms,” he said. The 17 are from different communities throughout Grenada.

The workers are scheduled to return to the island at the end of the contracted period. While some return in December 2020, others will return in January 2021.

The closure of Grenada’s borders and shutdown of the airport to commercial passenger traffic on 25 March as part of efforts to prevent the spread of Covid-19 had delayed their departure. A similar scenario existed in other countries in the region which provide agriculture workers to Canadian farms.

In early April, a press release from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Liaison Service (ECLS) in Toronto, Canada said that “regional and international commercial travel suspensions in the Caribbean, continue to pose serious challenges for travel to Canada, despite the recent approval of travel exemptions to Canada for Seasonal Agriculture workers.”

The ECLS further stated that “all workers will be required to self-isolate for 14 days, upon arrival in Canada. Arrangements are being made by Canadian authorities, in collaboration with employers, to facilitate worker self-isolation.”

In 2020, more than 100 persons are expected to leave Grenada to work on farms in Canada.

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  1. Deloris Guadeloupe says:
    8 months ago

    I hope some of the farm workers will learn as much and one day they too will start farming on the island. We must stopped our dependency on fresh food and vegetables from other countries. Grenada is lush futile island and we must use it to our advantage. It is time the barrell generatoin realize what we have. Laziness must end.

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  2. Asker Jones says:
    8 months ago

    Countries of descendants of slaves leaders now participate in the same slavery
    Call it agriculture exchange. Very disgusting as a black man this practice must stop

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  3. Anthony Fraser says:
    8 months ago

    Well done to our grenadian agriculture farm workers on their venture to Canada to work , learn and earn in the agriculture industry, which reminds me of days gone by when many of our grenadian folks also went to work in the Trinidad sugarcane field , that being said i sincerely hope that our grenadian government seriously take note of how much the Canadian and some of our Caribbean neighbours government and Farmers pays high importance to their agriculture industry unlike those who currently govern Grenada Carricacou and Peiti Martinique.

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  4. Anderson Farray says:
    8 months ago

    Story end , wire bend.

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