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Haynesley Benn, Counsul General to Canada
James Paul, CEO, Barbados Agricultural Society

News items in the last couple of weeks gave pause to the BU household to reflect on the state of agriculture in Barbados. If there is one industry that tells a sorry tale of mismanagement, lack of vision, a dearth of leadership – you get the idea – it is agriculture. The news that Barbados will produce about 7,000 tonnes of sugar in 2016 demands an explanation from government and in particular the minister of agriculture David Estwick who although known for making ‘noise’ has been very quiet on the abysmal performance of the sugar industry. If one is to judge from the statement that was issued by Chairman of the Barbados Sugar Industry Limited (BSIL) Patrick Bethel, government must take much of the blame because of the late payment of the 2015 incentive payments totalling 15 million dollars. According to Bethell this is money used historically by the independent sugar farmers to prep for the season to come by servicing equipment, dropping manure among other tasks.

Then there was the perennial cry from CEO of the Barbados Agriculture Society (BAS) and a few others that the scourge of praedial larceny  continues to decimate the industry making it difficult for farmers to be profitable. There was a great expectation for the agriculture industry when Haynesley Benn and James Paul were elected to parliament on the same side. Both came with a rich agriculture background and resume. Benn tried his best before he was posted to a cushy diplomatic  Consul General job in Canada, duty free perks and all! Surprisingly Paul was not given the opportunity to succeed Benn and in 2011 had to stave an attempt to oust his as the CEO of the BAS – James Paul M.P. Fired from the BAS. The obvious question is why between Benn and Paul they have been unable to flesh out and champion a plan for agriculture. Why all the long talk and little progress in the industry for the eight years they have gained the government. Has there been any significant output by the agriculture industry to place a dent in food imports? Has there been any significant two initiatives local agriculture can defend as progress in the industry?

One is forced to ask Paul what has Agrofest achieved since inception. Is it correct the exhibition has been running since 2005? How can the BAS claim that Agrofest is a success and while there is thumping of chests there is no serious commitment to agriculture by the government. There has been no significant improvement on the island to dissuade  the thieves. There has been no shift in local taste from foreign to local. The 2016 Draft Estimates show no significant increase in budget allocation. Where is the leadership to highlight questionable pesticides. Are Barbadians happy with Monsanto products being sold and used in Barbados?

BU will listen to the Estimates debate to get a sense of whether agriculture will be prioritized.

Seriously 7,000 tonnes in 2016?

And what is the status of the $250 million Cane Industry Restructuring Project (CHIRP)?

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112 responses to “Service Economy and the State of Agriculture”

  1. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    LOL @ Colonel B
    some day we may see this gifted land, which overlooks the west coast, turned into a Hilary Beckles park.
    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    Well that is the only way we will get a Bajan name on it….
    otherwise it will be Nelson Mandela #2
    Bolt #2, Obama #1 or some other foreigner….

    Beckles knows of no other Bajan who deserve to have anything named after them…

  2. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    But have you noticed while the farmers , and Barbados in general are shouting Drought! and El Nino! and are unable to grow crops, people in Barbados, who PM Ralph Gonzalves has referred to in his St Vincent as Noble Farmers, are growing crops in Barbados which are towering above the sugar canes.

  3. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Bushy

    I am too old to spend time in de crowbar hotel, I want to live and see it before I die and leave it.

  4. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    And another thing, these Noble Farmers appear not to have a bother with Praedial Larceny. I wonder why. Perhaps they can pass on a few tips to the cabbage and beans farmers.

  5. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Sunshine Sunny Shine March 11, 2016 at 9:10 AM #
    I recall the time when the district agricultural extension officer used to visit the small farmers in his district on a weekly basis, offering advice, and recommendations.

  6. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Colonel Buggy

    Are you serious`? Are you saying there was a time when agriculture was promoted by the ministry and supported by visits? How much did that do towards promoting the production of industry for agriculture products? Visits to advise on how to do, how to protect is all good in its own right but does not solve one shite. Our problem is that the food we import is primarily value added products. They were produced in thousands of acres of land and sent to a food manufacturer to be converted to the delicacies we love so much to import for our eating enjoyment. As David said, the jackasses are comfortable importing as oppose to manufacturing. I will go a little further by saying that importing helps the merchant to make huge profits and the government is content on keeping taxes at a certain rate to get theirs. This is the perfect little set up that allows these crooked merchants to have the excuses they need to keep their markups high. Why the ass should we be importing broccoli or Trinidadian cornflakes or even Kellogs. Can we not seek to grow and develop our own. Are we not tired of having broccoli that turns brown after few days because no one knows how long it took before it reached our fridges. The ministry of agriculture’s pompersetting shites is all posers. The government is only interested in where it can get a deal. Agriculture is dead in Barbados. The pychology has worked.

  7. David Avatar
    David

    Then there is Caricom arrangement that we should be leveraging. It should be a captive market with respective Caricom countries specializing based on resources and know how. This would be Caricom at work in a practical way.

  8. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    David March 12, 2016 at 5:22 AM
    This would be Caricom at work in a practical way.

    Have you factored in Barbados Ambassadors to Caricom not at work in any practical way? What has Kellman done in this position, as well as his successor Bobby. Sweet FA.

  9. TheGazer Avatar
    TheGazer

    Let’s put two facts on the table
    (1) Tourism is a fickle industry. If one a*hole does something stupid, the number of tourists will decrease as different embassies post warnings to citizens of their countries. So our ‘sea resources’ can be considered as unreliable.

    (2) We weren’t blessed with and abundance of minerals (land)\resources. Therefore, agriculture must play an integral role in the economy of Barbados. We can sit and debate what crops we should plant, but any national policy that does not have agriculture as an integral part is folly.

    It seems as if we have a trickster/ fraudster policy, but eventually the “simple simons” will wisen up and that ‘stream of revenue’ will dry up. That policy is for self enrichment and is not a national policy.

    The only thing that Bajans can count on….. is the land……. AGRICULTURE

    B & D? Barbados is going nowhere until political parties act in the interest of the nation and not themselves.

    Groundhod day alert.

  10. TheGazer Avatar
    TheGazer

    Groundhod day=Groundhog day .. repeating the same senseless BS. year after year

  11. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Colonel Buggy March 11, 2016 at 11:46 PM #

    They also established the 4-H clubs and mentored youth organisations over the island,giving them young pigs,rabbits,chicken,goats,sheep and plant material….the golden days…ah well.

  12. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    What ever became of our local Guavas? As Mr Barrow quite rightly said, ” The Colonel from the Confederate South has taken over the hearts and minds of our people.”
    So true, Bajans have now developed a taste for strawberries. Not very long ago , only high end supermarkets carried this product. The popular,as in those widely used by ordinary people , supermarkets are now stocking them. Very soon from now we will see them on the streets outselling Ackees.
    Yes, fellow Barbadians , keep the USA agriculture going.
    http://i.imgur.com/WM4ttk0.jpg?1

  13. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Colonel buggy

    Do you know that strawberries can grow in tropical conditions in a controlled environment? Do you know that thyme many thought could not withstand temperate conditions strive very well in winter conditions? That is because the over and away people put it to test. What do we test and experiment with in Barbados? There is nothing wrong with having a taste for fruits grown outside our regions. Its the same with persons living abroad. They have a taste for our tropical fruits as well. It is called, what you have grown accustomed to that allows you to have an appetite for what you are not accustomed too. All Barbados has to do is moved towards control farming. It makes a whole lot of sense and it accounts for the safety of the food and quality of the food. Establishing structures for control farming might be costly, but it will be profitable as the control environment would attract big name hotels, big name restaurants, even the cruise ship industry, who would instantly recognize an established standard. You cannot go wrong with organic farming because that is what control farming will mount up too.

  14. ac Avatar
    ac

    Our export value in agriculture would be greatly recognized if people are trained in those specialty areas an area regulated to education,,The minister of agriculture has been assigned to pass laws that are beneficial to the agriculture but without the necessary apparatus to mold reshape and define,,,the initiatives become stalled and useless

  15. Cut the Commercials Avatar
    Cut the Commercials

    ac

    Our export value in agriculture would be greatly recognized if people in Barbados were not to damn LAZY.

  16. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    @the intelligent AC not the one who is a cunt

    The ministry of agriculture has many over and away university graduates. There is a number of specialist people occupying various positions at that ministry. What more training you think is necessary that would get them to produce something of substance recognisable by effort and hard works?The first part of their training has not produced the fruits of their labouring to prove that this ministry is on top of what is needed to push Barbados agriculture through the roof of things.

  17. ac Avatar
    ac

    Yuh tink so ! agriculture is not having a degree the degree or depth lies in the area pf specification gone are the days when a farmer use a shovel and throw seeds in the ground the area/s of specification are in the sciences and marketing and it consist of continual education

  18. ac Avatar
    ac

    For years sugar cane has been given a death certificate yet it is inconceivable that small island nations still hold on to a colonial mindset that sugar is king alarming as it might seem the politics of duration to keep sugar alive is costly to both govt and taxpayers.

  19. LOOK Avatar
    LOOK

    https://youtu.be/c5BL4RNFr58

  20. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    @the intelligent AC not the one who is a cunt

    Let me rephrase my first sentence. The ministry of agriculture has many persons from Barbados who have been trained from over and away.
    You said the area of expertise is in the sciences and marketing and that agriculture is not about a degree. What than is the purpose of the ministry of agriculture. What is the mandate? What is the vision?

  21. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    @ David
    The UWI top brass has issued a statement in todays Sunday Sun on plans for the donated land at Dukes , St Thomas.

  22. David Avatar
    David

    @Colonel Buggy

    Saw the report, this is good news.

    According to the report the Agribusiness Park will include Black Belly Sheep meat and leather curing facility., sea island cotton company, a chocolate academy and a sweet potato fries company.

    Let us see how the UWI manage praedial larceny.

    Does the US still own the patent on black belly sheep?

  23. ac Avatar
    ac

    Good question mostly driven by an extened or new an retool version of older policies. There seems to be a stranglehold by farmers in an effort to not do away with the old model of sugar production and politicians because of a lack of political will prefer to stay the course.
    Firstly the mandate needs to be change which should usher in new reform in agriculture

  24. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    David March 13, 2016 at 5:37 PM #

    Good,except for chocolate,these were on the cards for over 20 years.

  25. millertheanunnaki Avatar
    millertheanunnaki

    @ Vincent Haynes March 13, 2016 at 6:31 PM
    “Good,except for chocolate,these were on the cards for over 20 years.”
    You are a man with a real farming background.”

    Can you explain to us what is a “chocolate academy”?
    Maybe the Agribusiness Park should be called the Carmeta Fraser Park with the Vincent Layne Wing dedicated to the slaughtering and processing of the black belly sheep.

    So Vincent, what is going to happen to the BADMC and its related statutory bodies?

  26. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    millertheanunnaki March 13, 2016 at 7:13 PM #

    The answer is blowing in the winds.

    A lot of NGO sweat over the last 40 years was incurred in offering a direction to govt. for Ag. with loads of papers…..ah gone sleep….age…..ah ain big guts an young like BT.

  27. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Perhaps the UWI will encourage land owners in the Scotland District, to reintroduce the growing of chocolate/ cocoa which for many years grew ‘wild’ in the damp, chalky and sandy soil of St Thomas-St Joseph-St Andrew.

  28. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Sunshine Sunny Shine March 13, 2016 at 4:13 PM #

    Let me rephrase my first sentence. The ministry of agriculture has many persons from Barbados who have been trained from over and away.
    ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
    Are you surprised? Tonight we heard the Attorney General on CBC News listing a whole host of countries that come to his assistance when he calls on them to conduct training in Barbados.
    This is in spite of the fact , that we send our people out on long courses to some of the finest universities and training establishments, in the Caribbean, Canada, the United States ,the United Kingdom and many other places.
    We send policemen to Bramshill and Hendon Police Colleges, alongside of men from the various police constabularies in the UK and the Commonwealth. Some of our police officers attend FBI courses. And in the military, we regularly send out officers to Sandhurst Military Academy in the UK, West Point in the USA, and the Royal Military College of Canada. Yet still when a problem arises, or when training is required ,both in Government and in the Private Sector, we resort to bringing in people from overseas. Seems that we have very little confidence in our own people .
    Once, while in the services, I had an engineering problem. which I thought was beyond my scope, so I asked my superior to link me up with the expert advisors, who sat in an office across the channel. ” Expert advice ?”he queried, ” We have sent you on many courses pertaining to this discipline. YOU ARE THE EXPERT!!!. Get on with it.”

  29. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Colonel Buggy

    In all fairness, a number of academic achievers are working in many environments and departments that are frustrating. They are frustrated by the system and the deliberate attempts by those who influences it the most. I am sure that many of the scientists in the ministry of agriculture would utter differently, mainly, that they work is ignored, shelved or subject to malicious bias base on who you are and who you are loyal too. This could be the dilemma that the ministry faces. However, there still is no real forthcoming effort on their part that pioneers the push for growing our own food even when there was no economic or DLP madness. Even the cry for the ministry to step up to the plate in an effort to reduce the high import bill has not produced much. What could the real problem of this ministry be beside lacking in real impetus?

  30. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Colonel Buggy March 13, 2016 at 9:46 PM #

    Years ago I spent some time with the USDA(Equiv to our MoA) in upstate NYC and what struck me was that the majority of the extension officer were farmers in their own right,they would share the latest varieties or techniques with confidence to fellow farmers as they had first hand knowledge as opposed to text book/internet knowledge.

  31. balance Avatar
    balance

    “Even the cry for the ministry to step up to the plate in an effort to reduce the high import bill has not produced much”
    step up the plate in what way? And what will they grow to reduce the high import food bill? rice, flour hardly any cane around now? I await your answer.

  32. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    balance March 15, 2016 at 5:07 AM #

    We can grow all types of vegetables even the northern types using green house technology,ground provisions to be rotated with cane,breadfruit,breadnut,fruit,etc.

    Rice if needs be can be had from our caricom partner Guyana and Flour can be made from breadfruit,cassava or corn better than wheat flour.

  33. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Vincent Haynes

    We can experiment with trying to grow rice here. Our population is not that big and so flooding a few acres of land under controlled conditions should not be problem. All it needs is just a little effort.

  34. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Sunshine Sunny Shine March 15, 2016 at 12:43 PM #

    I agree with you that with todays technology we can try it again possibly using the aquaponics medium.

    We did experiment with it here before my time,I think during the war years when our people were using big grain rice i.e. sweet potatoe as it was called then.

  35. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Balance

    Why the heck should I answer you? It is obvious from your cynicism that you feel nothing can be done to reduce the food import bill. So indicating to you the many times I have uttered the words – experiment with crops not commonly grown in Barbados in the control environment, would not mean one thing to you? Telling you that the same way we can import mix vegetables in the frozen packages and cans, or telling you that we could flood a few fields and grow rice might only come with some shite talk about costs to produce, and manufacturing will be too high. So I am not going to answer your question if you do not want a serious answer. If there is no effort or try, then how would we know what we can grow or do that will help cut down the stupid dependency for over and away foods?

  36. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    Sunshine Sunny Shine March 15, 2016 at 12:43 PM
    A Guyanese now living in St Joseph where there is an ample amount of stream water has successfully grown a small quantity of rice there. A Bajan on his return to Barbados from Panama, planted some rice in Chimborazzo, but the location and soil structure was not conducive to growing rice to maturity.

  37. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Colonel Buggy

    You only fail if you have not tried. The fact that rice grew in Barbados means that it can grow on a larger scale. Regardless if the soil was not conducive in that other location or not, you can create a controlled environment, bring the right soil and plant 2 or 3 acres. This can happen in any location as long as the land is available and easily accessible. Shite, we got people building airports on sea water, creating manmade islands, producing robotics that thinks. You are telling me that for the sake of helping us with food we cannot spend to create the right environment? Spend to bring in the right soil? Spend to construct the infrastructure for planting some rice? We got some thieving bitches willing to plunge we in debt for 40 years on an overpriced piece of unknown technology for garbage energy. Crooked bitches willing to spend 7 million on a celebration in the midst of numerous problems, and taxing the shit out of bajans without anything to show where the money is going. Why we cannot spend a similar sum to start constructing structures to produce food under control conditions. All you need is a start and follow through. You know when I contemplate my island, the government of Barbados does find all the right reasons to commit to shite that everyone else can see that is wrong, and a whole lot of shite reasons articulated to sound right so as not do what is right and just by the people.

  38. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    We have adequate soil all over Barbados to grow in abundance, yams, sweet potatoes, white/irish/english potatoes ,corn cassava ,etc etc, and we are not doing it. Forget the government, do you think that there is a single farmer out there who is willing to turn his land into paddy fields to grow rice, when in the end with labour and milling costs , Hill and Massy will still be selling imported rice far cheaper.

  39. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Colonel Buggy March 16, 2016 at 5:58 PM #

    Neccesity is the mother of invention……in the absence of imported foods,due to the blockage during WW2,John Saint was placed in charge of Ag. production in Bim and did an admirable job as evinced with the invention of big grain rice.

    I posit that aquaponics could produce a cheaper rice,failing which lets create something from breadfruit/nut,cassava,yam,s/potatoe,eddoes,tanya,callaloo,plantain,buffoe,bannanas,etc,etc

  40. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Colonel Buggy ”do you think that there is a single farmer out there who is willing to turn his land into paddy fields to grow rice, when in the end with labour and milling costs , Hill and Massy will still be selling imported rice far cheaper.”

    Is this not the reason why we do not manufacture food in a big way`? Is it not thinking like this that have us importing everything from over and away?We have no real establish food industry because people say it is easier to import than to produce it. These are the same thoughts that bring us right back where we started and that is nothing. Well Colonel Buggy, if all the countries producing food that is exported all around the world use to think like Barbadians, they too would be in the same shitety position like Barbados. We can find the best excuses to say why we can’t and when the shit hit the fan find all the reasons to say after why we must. I am of the belief that nothing beats a failure than a try.

    SO LET US DO TO THE WHAT IF THINGSIEBOBBSIE PAPA BUGGY:

    So what if, just what if each farmer in Barbados decided to turn 1 acre into paddy fields for rice under control conditions. We got 20 farms turning out 1 acre for rice resulting 20 acres of rice being planted in the controlled environment. Imagine if those same 20 farmers decided to procure the necessary milling equipment to get those rice mill for sale. Imagine if the farmers employ a number of persons to work in their operations. Imagine if the rice produced is sold on Barbadians retail shelves and all Barbadians are buying the local produce rice. We would produce x amount of tonnes of rice, create employment for a few, reduce the amount of rice imported (if bajans can pull away from Uncle Benn and Indian Girl), and have a rice manufacturing industry started in Barbados.

    You want to tell me that all we are going to do all the time is to say we can’t. Then it makes no sense talking about the high import bill when we like it so.

  41. Peltdownman Avatar
    Peltdownman

    I have read the above with interest, especially contributions from Vincent and SSS. We can, of course, grow many things in Barbados thanks to modern technology. However, a former Prime Minister decided that land should fetch its highest economic value, and that is as real estate. So all land owners went out of agriculture in the forlorn hope that it would eventually fetch a high price as housing or golf courses. You only have to drive through the countryside now to see the results of this flawed policy. The land can’t be sold for real estate, because there is no demand at the prices being asked, and yet there is nothing to encourage owners to return to agriculture. So we grow bush and burn it every dry season, and import everything. Food importers have more than their fair share of political influence, and the top end of the Ministry of Agriculture is loaded with tired and lazy civil servants who, frankly, can’t be bothered. As with industry, there simply is no policy. Neither the Ministry of Agriculture nor the Ministry of Industry are interested in formulating a policy, other than to support free trade agreements that encourage importation without getting anything in return. The Minister of Industry recently remarked that local producers are “intellectually lazy” when it comes to seeking opportunities arising out of free trade agreements. I would suggest that he look inwards to his own Ministry if he wants to find “intellectual laziness”.

  42. Vincent Haynes Avatar
    Vincent Haynes

    Peltdownman March 17, 2016 at 7:42 AM #

    In your post you have grabbed the essence of the situation,in Bim from its inception it was merchant vs planter with the planter enjoying the ascendancy for centuries,since the early 1900’s the table was turned and one saw the merchants power increasing and today they are force to be reckoned with.

    A merchant simply buys and sells at a profit,the majority of goods sold in Bim are imported and this is facilitated by the granting of licenses by govt. departments,who in turn extract revenue.

    Farming is not in the interest of any of the two parties or the merchants.

  43. David Avatar
    David

    Good comment Vincent. It is always about ‘follow the money’.

  44. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Vincent Haynes

    We import a lot of cereal grain (oak flakes, mornflakes etc). The wheat for this is produced primarily in temperate countries. Do you know that Brazil and other tropical countries are growing wheat successfully? I agree with you that we should embark on making something out of the foods we grow here.

    Peltdownman

    I am convinced that we are happy importing rather than manufacturing. All the talk about import bill and growing food are all smoke screens of discussion that is not intended bear any fruit. We are just not interested in developing agriculture so nothing wrong with taking out 68 million and putting where the politicians believe it can be best ‘UTILIZED.’

  45. Colonel Buggy Avatar
    Colonel Buggy

    The once agricultural lands in Barbados is more profitable to those who at times masquerade as farmers,as Real Estate,moreso than Agricultural Estates , and especially, now that Mr Barrow’s Cane Blade wish is just one or two crop seasons away. Mr Barrow wishes for diversified agriculture has turned out as diversifed concrete culture.

  46. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    Vincent, David, Colonel Buggy and Peltdownman

    Columbus made his discoveries and it became profitable to the Spanish armada and for Spain. You have made the connection and discovery that does not place agriculture as a sector worth the effort. Ok, now we must put the interest in those who may have land to start planting. We have to tell those who are planting to establish a network of support for each other. We have to tell the focus must be on producing good quality. We have to tell them lobby government for assistance with setting structures for greenhouse control. We have to entice the general public to support the new farming initiative by buying products and playing their part towards a farming lottery to assist farmers with establishing standards and good farming practices. Shite are we just going to sit back and except the inevitable.

  47. David Avatar
    David

    @SSS

    The bottomline is this, and you know it, unless there is a groundswell of demand from the people and or some extraordinary leadership from the top, there will be no hope for local agriculture. We have the next generation already condition to the taste of ‘imports’.

  48. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    @ David
    “….unless there is a groundswell of demand from the people and or some extraordinary leadership from the top, there will be no hope for local agriculture….”
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    There is another potential game-changer……

    WW3
    ….but coming as it will, ‘like a thief in the night’, it will not allow time to change for those who are not prepared ….

    The parable of the wise and foolish virgins is a ‘must-read’ if you really want to understand how it will go down….

  49. Sunshine Sunny Shine Avatar
    Sunshine Sunny Shine

    David

    Yes, I do understand. I just do not understand how an island as educated as Barbados could be so foolish concerning its food needs. I have never seen so much suffering as the suffering I saw when I was there for crop over. Many bajans just look stress and strained. Yet, most seem contented with their circumstances and the way government continues to treat them. Do bajans no longer have anything they believe is worthy of fighting for? We can change our food situation if we just commit to it. To hell with the useless politicians. What will it take, starvation, more poverty, what?

  50. David Avatar
    David

    Bajans have not had to fight for anything since Independence, not even that because it was handed to us.

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