Nowadays sugar mostly comes from sugar beet, a root vegetable like a swede. However when this sugar cutter was in use sugar would have come from sugar cane, grown in the West Indies.

The Cane Cutter project first emerged nearly 10 years ... research and input from knowledgeable individuals. “Lots of our history is not understood. We are descendants of colonialism.

It is a matter of public cause being espoused by the petitioner," the court said on Nov 13 while hearing a litigation seeking protection of the sugar cane cutters' voting rights. The two-member ...