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Coffee workers in Jamaica are well paid by local standards |
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Our employees are far better off than their counterparts in most other countries, says Gordon Langford
Gordon Langford
The Guardian, Wednesday April 23 2008
I take exception to the article by Robert Booth ('Black gold' coffee leaves a bitter taste for some, March 22). The slant of his report is that the people who work in the coffee industry in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica are poor and unhappy. I have a coffee farm in the Blue Mountains, as well as an interest in a processing factory and exporting company. We employ some 150 people on the farm and in the factory, and they are treated just like other workers in the coffee industry in Jamaica.
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