Quote Originally Posted by jamaicarob View Post
...on the 25 min walk back thru the sugar cane fields, the father of our godaughter who lives near by started fires with his bic lighter to start burning the sugar cane, i asked him if this is legal, ya mon , no problem, in Canada we would be thrown in jail ,, L.O.L soon come
To harvest cane, it is necessary and common to set it on fire as a "pre-harvest" way to rid the cane of unwanted leaves and "trash" as it is called. Here is a link to the Yahoo Answers section:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...5143114AARvLcJ