As It Happens8:36Jamaican government investigates why farm workers were sent home The Canadian and Jamaican governments are investigating allegations that an Ontario farm sent a group of Jamaican ...

But against that backdrop, Hussan said the Jamaican farmworkers’ letter is “incredibly courageous”. A migrant worker loads trays of onions at a farm in Manitoba, Canada in 2020 [File ...

A group of Jamaican farm workers in Ontario, Canada, who say their location was not one of those visited by a fact-finding delegation which investigated conditions on farms there in 2022 ...

JAMAICAN farm workers in Canada have been pulled from four farms since the start of this year because of what have been deemed unacceptable conditions. According to chief liaison officer at the ...

The 103-year-old grew up in Jamaica. "My trade was a printer," McHugh ... He worked at an onion farm in Upstate New York. "My contribution to America," McHugh said. "Because America at that ...

(Douglas Hook / Hartford Courant) Clive Brown gets ready to drive to the farm in Enfield from the land in Somers where the tobacco leaves are being gathered. The Jamaican field hands come to ...

Jamaican migrant farm workers in Niagara Region wrote an open letter to Jamaica's Ministry of Labour requesting more support in the face of what they call "systematic slavery," days before a ...

This spring, Foster's farm is raising some 14,000 callaloo plants ... Foster hadn't even heard of callalloo until the Jamaican workers started singing its praises. At first he was doubtful because ...