Cane cutter at work in the fields. In 2003 I had the opportunity of photographing the burning and harvesting of the sugar cane on the then Government owned Caymanas Estate. Using outdated equipment and sugar largely cut by hand in the searing heat, workers make up a substantial number of voters. So successive Jamaican governments have made every effort to keep the industry going. Today, the island economy relies mostly on agriculture and tourism industries. The sugar industry is the oldest continually operating industry in Jamaica, generating the third largest foreign exchange for the island.
A woman clears straw from the sugar leafs and prepares a field for more planting of sugar cane. The typical life cycle of a sugar cane plant is three years. In 2003 I had the opportunity of photographing the burning and harvesting of the sugar cane on the then Government owned Caymanas Estate. Using outdated equipment and sugar largely cut by hand in the searing heat, workers make up a substantial number of voters. So successive Jamaican governments have made every effort to keep the industry going. Today, the island economy relies mostly on agriculture and tourism industries. The sugar industry is the oldest continually operating industry in Jamaica, generating the third largest foreign exchange for the island.
Cane cutter at work in the fields. In 2003 I had the opportunity of photographing the burning and harvesting of the sugar cane on the then Government owned Caymanas Estate. Using outdated equipment and sugar largely cut by hand in the searing heat, workers make up a substantial number of voters. So successive Jamaican governments have made every effort to keep the industry going. Today, the island economy relies mostly on agriculture and tourism industries. The sugar industry is the oldest continually operating industry in Jamaica, generating the third largest foreign exchange for the island.
Sugarcane cutter at work in the fields using a cane machete with a wide, blunt-tipped blade perfect for hacking corn stalks and sugarcane. In 2003 I had the opportunity of photographing the burning and harvesting of the sugarcane on the Caymanas Estate. Using outdated equipment and sugar largely cut by hand in the searing heat, workers make up a substantial number of voters. So successive Jamaican governments have made every effort to keep the industry going. Today, the island economy relies mostly on agriculture and tourism industries. The sugar industry is the oldest continually operating industry in Jamaica, generating the third largest foreign exchange for the island.
Sugar cane cutter at work in the fields. In 2003 I had the opportunity of photographing the burning and harvesting of the sugar cane on the then Government owned Caymanas Estate. Using outdated equipment and sugar largely cut by hand in the searing heat, workers make up a substantial number of voters. So successive Jamaican governments have made every effort to keep the industry going. Today, the island economy relies mostly on agriculture and tourism industries. The sugar industry is the oldest continually operating industry in Jamaica, generating the third largest foreign exchange for the island.
Portrait of a sugar cane cutter at work in the fields. In 2003 I had the opportunity of photographing the burning and harvesting of the sugar cane on the then Government owned Caymanas Estate. Using outdated equipment and sugar largely cut by hand in the searing heat, workers make up a substantial number of voters. So successive Jamaican governments have made every effort to keep the industry going. Today, the island economy relies mostly on agriculture and tourism industries. The sugar industry is the oldest continually operating industry in Jamaica, generating the third largest foreign exchange for the island.
Young people out and about on ‘Freedom day’. July 19 2021.
Young people on Brighton’s North laine on the so called ‘Freedom Day’ when most Covid-19 restrictions have been lifted by the government in the UK. With the majority of young people still not vaccinated, despite rapidly rising Covid cases and deaths and with hospital and ICU and admissions above the point when restrictions were first introduced in April 2020.
Southend-on-sea May Bank Holiday Monday.
With limits on parking during the end of May Bank Holiday Monday, an officer gives bikers the move on signal with arm stretched-out, at Southend-on-sea. With a loosening of social distancing measures by the UK government during the Coronavirus outbreak, people flocked to the Essex seaside resort, as temperatures reached 25c.