More women to be recruited for overseas work

Published:Monday | January 8, 2018 | 12:00 AM
File Labour Minister Shahine Robinson gets a hug from Donald Thomas, a 22-year veteran of the farm work programme. The first group of 300 seasonal farm workers left for Canada last week to take up employment opportunities under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme. They will be employed in greenhouse crop production, food processing, tobacco planting, vegetable farming and fruit tree cultivation.