Word Count: 451KWD: 2.22 BateyesYou Probably Know What Or More Specifically Where Is; But What About Bateyes? Most People Havent Got A Clue What That Word Means. Actually, The Three Words Have One Meaning. So Let Us Elaborate Further. Is A Country In The Caribbean, More Specifically, A Country In One Of The Islands Of The Caribbean, The . Is The Two-thirds Of The Tropical Heaven . What About Bateyes? Well, Bateyes Is Derived From The Word Batey, Which Means A Company Town Where Sugar Workers Reside. A Company Town Is A Town Or A Urbanized Area Wherein All The Structures (real Estates, Buildings, Utilities, Hospitals, Businesses), Whether Commercial Or Residential, Are Owned By A Single Company. Bateyes Are Mostly Found In And .The Basic Corporation Of A Sugar Manufacturing Company Is Called Ingenio In The . A Single Ingenio Is Made Up Of One Main Administrative Office, A Sugar Processing Plant, The Settlement That Surrounds The Office And Processing Plant, Sugar Fields And Various Production Equipments And Machineries. All Of The Above Mentioned Is Collectively Called A Batey. To Summarize, Bateyes Are Company Towns Where Sugar Workers Reside. Most, If Not All, Of The Bateyes Are Situated Near Sugarcane Fields. The Sizes Of Bateyes Vary, Depending On The Size Of The Sugar Company. For More Than Seventy Years, Male Haitians Immigrate To Work On Bateyes Each Year During Harvest Season. These Immigrants From Who Want To Work On Bateyes Are Called Congoses (or Un , Term For One Individual), Which Is A Mocking Expression The Same As Hick Or Chump. These People Who Want To Work On Bateyes Are Accommodated In Five On A Small Room That Has No Bedding. These People Experience Long And Hard Work On These Bateyes. In The Old Times, Government Leaders Of The Country Pay The Haitian Leaders To Recruit Large Number Of Haitians To Work In The Bateyes. Today, Individual Ingenios And Colonos Hire People Called Buscones. Buscones Are Headhunters That Collect A Percentage Of The Earnings Of The Congoses. The Sugar Industry Used To Be A Profitable Industry In The . However, Due To Low Wages And The Ever Present Lack Of Education, Workers Of The Bateyes Get Poor Health Services. Today The Government Of The Is Slowly Transforming These Bateyes Into New Kinds Of Community. A Good Example Of This Is The Los Alcarizos In The City Capital . The Los Alcarizos Was Once A Batey, Now It Has Grown Into A Totally Different Kind Of Community.
