Farmers suffer at hands of thieves
Date: Thu 30-Sep-1993
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Publication: Daily Nation
THREE PLANTATIONS and two farmers are the latest victims of the crop thieves
plaguing local agriculture.
According to the police, carrots valued at $200 were stolen from Buttals
Plantation, St. George; while Richard Armstrong, of Edgecumbe Plantation, St.
Philip, reported that plantains valued at $500 had been stolen from the
plantation.
Meanwhile, Maureen Reid, of Hopewell, Christ Church, lost 100 chickens valued at
$900 to thieves on September 26. One hundred and forty-five dollars in potatoes
were stolen from Society Plantation and Michael Hutchinson, of Hill View, St.
Philip, reported $825 worth of cabbage stolen from his lands.
Police are investigating the incidences.