Demonstrators picket National Assembly Building

Posted: Monday, January 19, 2015. 9:04 pm CST.

Demonstrators in Belmopan

Monday, January 19, 2015. BMG: While the House of Representatives was meeting today inside the National Assembly building, outside, a handful of people were holding a protest.

About five dozen caneros and their supporters marched around the National Assembly Building carrying placards and pieces of sugar cane.

Audrey Matura Shepherd

They also carried placards and banners denouncing the way government handled the whole sugar impasse.

At a general membership meeting on Sunday, the members of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association voted to authorized the BSCFA to proceed with signing the commercial agreement with BSI/ASR, which, as was announced by the Deputy Prime Minister was done this morning.

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