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Article by Sheria Brathwaite A mechanical harvester in the field at Drax Hall, St George, as the 2021 sugar harvest gets underway. (Picture by Lennox Devonish) Social Share Sugar cane harvesting got off to a slow start yesterday on the first day of reaping. No canes were cut on any of the Government-run plantations and only four private planters – H&G Farms, Drax Hall Plantation, Edgecumbe Plantation and Foursquare – started the process. By 2:30 p.m., these planters delivered a total of 225 tonnes of sugar cane to Portvale sugar factory in Blowers, St James. The DAILY NATION visited two of the locations where cane was being harvested. ....
A WEALTHY Dorset MP has seen his family business included on a government list of “rogue employers” who failed to pay the national minimum wage. Richard Drax, Conservative member for South Dorset, is director of the Morden Estates Company, which runs the Charborough Estate. The business was found to have underpaid 43 workers by a total of £2,761. The MP has said the “technical infringement” concerned “beaters” – people who drive game birds out of their cover at shooting events. He said they traditionally took part for enjoyment but had been paid a “modest sum”. The breach landed the Morden Estates Company on a list of 139 businesses included in a government press release, headed “Rogue employers named and shamed for failing to pay minimum wage”. ....
Noted for his Downton Abbey lifestyle, Richard Drax was gifted the Drax Hall plantation by his father who died in July 2017. He told the Observer three weeks ago that he had not added it to the register because it was still in probate. Under the âmiscellaneousâ section of the register, the new entry refers to Drax Hall only as a âbusiness propertyâ and suggests it is still in probate. In the new register released last week, Drax has added other assets we had identified as previously missing. These include agricultural land in North Yorkshire that he now admits he inherited on 8 April 2019. The guidelines say he should have registered the property within 28 days. He does not say whether this includes both Swaledale estates, the Ellerton Abbey farming estate of 2,200 acres and the Copperthwaite Allotment, a grouse moor of 520 acres. ....