On top of this chaos, which has caused one prison in the Midlands to be on lockdown for some months now, some prisoners have been physically and mentally collapsing as a result of caning these nasty concoctions, created in China by spraying rancid research chemicals on bits of grubby foliage.
I was walking by a restaurant and saw an old man lying on the sidewalk, clearly recently collapsed, with his cane by his side.
The designer, Wolfgang Joop, was inspired by Portuguese gardens and created an abstract version of a collapsing greenhouse as a backdrop to his mad mix of vivid prints and candy cane stripes.
Sugar cane fields replaced collapsed buildings.
Dr Ujvari and her team are still monitoring the Australian goanna population after it collapsed in 2005 when the cane toads reached their study site.
"They started caning this guy, telling him they didn't respect him; they caned this guy until he collapsed," said Officer Jackson, who graduated from the program but had not yet been deployed.
Many of the coffee and sugar cane plantations around here have collapsed, done in by the forces of globalization.
With the aid of a solicitous driver and a borrowed cane, she hobbled across the sidewalk to the door and collapsed into the wheelchair that waiting for her.
The grandfather-of-five said he was preparing for work on a cane farm in Queensland, Australia, when the drawbar of a crop sprayer collapsed on his leg, leaving him trapped underneath.
Here in Léogâne, buildings are scattered amid sugar cane fields and banana trees, but it is easier to count the structures still standing than those that have collapsed.
