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 Using outdated equipment and sugar largely cut by hand in the searing heat, workers make up a substantial number of voters.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.