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This Mottley government has been in office for two terms or about five years. One area of focus for the BU Intelligentsia through the years has been our inability to address food security concerns.

We continue to hear sweet nothings from the mouth of Minister of Agriculture Indar Weir, however, statistics posted on the Central Bank of Barbados website shows there has been no material expansion in the agricultural sector.

Relevant Link: https://www.centralbank.org.bb/news/trade-in-goods-barbados

Many held a high hope that the Covid 19 pandemic would have triggered an unprecedented increase in agriculture and food production in Barbados. Five years is time enough for the man on the street to be able to touch and feel positive change in food production AND behavioural change in the population.

The content of the short video posted is eerily similar to what is unfolding in Barbados and other tourism dependent countries Caribbean.

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46 responses to “Why worry, be happy – Chefette and KFC mock food always available”

  1. Terence M Blackett Avatar
    Terence M Blackett

    @DAVID

    Good morning, my dear brotha’…

    The “GRAPHIC” on this piece is truly #XRated and should have a #PGRating for those under age – (truly, if a picture paints a 1000 words)…

  2. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    The lifeblood of a country is its culture. We refused to be forthright in our approach to agriculture and successive generations saw no future in the colonial model that we continued to promote.
    As @ Pacha has consistently and persistently stated , there can be no real progress in agriculture without a modern, progressive land use policy.
    As for fast foods , they have grown and this is also a result of cultural penetration.
    Our indigenous culinary skills were ignored and we saw no place for them in the billion dollar tourism industry. We collectively failed to connect the dots. Although in the last fifteen or so years there has been some symbiosis, it might very well be the same refrain: too little and too late.
    The protection and development of one’s culture starts in the classroom.
    If a country’s cultural and educational management are stagnant , there is little hope of truly progressive socio economic development.
    We suggest that this is known by all and sundry but for reasons best known to ourselves , we ignore these simple yet glaring truths and find time to defend our collective failures.

  3. Tim Ward Avatar
    Tim Ward

    the removal of the kitchen garden from most back yards was the start of the downhill trend to feed yourself ,during C- 19 i notice lots of land in st john was put back into food production

  4. Terence M Blackett Avatar
    Terence M Blackett

    At the turn of the century, roughly 14% of farmers were “BLACK” – today that number has shrunk to less than 2%..

    In the US, for example, in 1920 there were about a “MILLION” Black farmers – today, that number stands around less than 46,000 and they own about 0.52% of the farmland – compared to Caucasian ownership which is about 95% – giving Black farmers an annual return of about $40K against the others of some $190K…

    SEE: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2019/2017Census_Farm_Producers.pdf

    Numbers hardly lie (unless “COOKED”) but the disproportionality that has always existed between Black farmer & their counterparts remain a notable “EVIL”…

    This reaches beyond those who produce our food – at the heart of the issue is “LAND OWNERSHIP” – where “BASTERDS” like #BritishMP Richard Drax still own some of the most productive and arable land at “DRAX HALL”…

    Richard Drax’s 17th-century ancestors James & William sailed to Barbados in the late 1620s, where they cleared lush land in the centre of the island and experimented with growing & processing sugar…

    The Drax Clan devised a commercial sugar plantation model, worked by slave labor “STOLEN” from Africa, which became an immensely lucrative and copied model right across the West Indies & all the Americas…

    With James’s wealth in 1650, he built the plantation house Drax Hall that still stands today and in which he lived, according to eyewitnesses, “LIKE A PRINCE”. His brother William took their methods to Jamaica where the former plantation area is also still known as Drax Hall…

    In 2020, Richard Drax paid a paltry Bds$59,375 (£22,200) in annual land tax. Until 2008 the plantations covered some 880 acres, but Drax sold more than 200 acres, some for housing development. Barbadian authorities value the plantation and buildings at Bds$12.5m (£4.7m)…

    This disparity is endemic across every island in the Caribbean leaving most small farmers unable to compete fairly or on a level playing field. Moreover, with “DIRTY BASTERDS” like “BILL GATES” (#OfHell) pushing agricultural biotech; “GENETICALLY MODIFIED” seeds, synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides & fungicides, petroleum-fuelled machinery & artificial irrigation – the cost differential is no longer feasible for most with a hectare or more of land…

    We gotta’ grow more food (for those with the area-space) but GOVs need to incentivize its people with more than just “CHEAP TALK” & meaningless platitudes – for until “HEALTH REFORM” dictates the need to grow more of what we eat – our healthcare will be in the hands of those who do not have our best interests at heart (but merely their bottom lines)!!!

  5. Terence M Blackett Avatar
    Terence M Blackett

    Some other CARIB* islands are putting BIM in the shade…

  6. David Avatar
    David

    The decrease in back gardens correlates with the rise of heights and terraces. Our middle income families do their damnest to emulate American society. What is our identity as a people anyway.

  7. David Avatar
    David

    @TB

    Why should we be worried about aroused sensibilities with minors in particular and at the same time we are eating ourselves to the grave and in the process adding to a burgeoning health bill?

    What are our national imperatives anyway.

  8. David Avatar
    David

    Unfortunately it has become fashionable 7 days a week including Sunday to order online/ telephone Chefette, KFC and other types of fast food. The delivery fee is no problem.

  9. John Avatar
    John

  10. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    @ David,
    Under the Arthur regime we witnessed an influx of Guyanese who were prepared to work the soil and generate an income.

    During this period one must ask what prevented Barbadians from doing like wise.

    On their departure there was a near collapse of agricultural production in Barbados.

    I have spoken many times on this subject matter. I have gone on record to urge the government to pass a law which obliges all landowners to loan out a minimum of 65% of their land to agricultural production.

    Who would work the land? It certainly would not be the lazy Bajans. Here is a clear and a legitimate reason why we should encourage migrant workers to fill this void. Not only should they work the land. They should be given governance to sell the produce of their labour.

    There are some exceptions. Simple Simon and Triple D (Dearest Darling Donna) have always been strong advocates for the production of kitchen gardens. I have always witnessed more women working the land than their male counterparts.

    The combined efforts of incompetent governments and your average Bajan have got us in this cul-de-sac.

  11. Frank Avatar
    Frank

    Burger King’s omission is noteworthy?

  12. BeautifulBeige Avatar
    BeautifulBeige

    Because farming has always been associated with slavery and since Errol Barrow said that NOT ONE MORE BAJAN should work in a canefield or something to that extent there has been a mass exodus to the “UNEEVERSITY” and what has that achieved for Bajans? Is that feeding us? Is that going to feed us when times get tougher?

    No, but PRIDE AND INDUSTRY you know that motto? Well let me tell you. The good book warns us that PRIDE comes before a fall and we are FALLIN’.

    Time to seek the ancient paths.

    I have been preaching to you all before the Honourable Ms. Mottley was voted or installed in 2018 but no one wanted to hear me. But there is something interesting about time. It is the GREAT equalizer and TEACHER.

    Time y’all WAKE UP.

  13. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    @ David,
    In the past, I have discussed the merits and the history of the famed concept of the allotment garden. An idea devised here in the UK.

    I’m sure quaker John would be interested.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TNZJUnW2TZs

    Yes Burger King has been omitted. How about food retailers such as Massey whose stores sell 65% processed junk food.

  14. David Avatar
    David

    Guyanese like immigrant labour everywhere have a more diligent attitude to work which resident labour ignores. A good example are the Mexicans in Texas for example.

  15. David Avatar
    David

    Having a kitchen garden is good but it does not address the macro situation which must be addressed to move the needle

  16. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    In France the government subsidises her agricultural history.

    A country as great as France is not going to allow for the importation of inferior agricultural produce from countries that believe in the mass production of agriculture where standards are below that of France’s.

    They also want to protect their local economy.

    The IMF will have the final say on whether our agriculture industry remains viable.

  17. David Avatar
    David

    Is it practical to compare what happens in France to Barbados? Let us have reasonable discussion.

  18. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    Miller, in another post, said that Barbados imports proccessed coconut water from Thailand! Go figure.

    The country also imports inferior, tasteless sweet potato’s from the ghastly America.

  19. John A Avatar
    John A

    @ David

    As you know i have brought the post covid agricultural development, or lack of it in our case, up on several occassions. As far as i can see we have done little to nothing in terms of expanding our food supply. Every time the rain falls i still am forced to eat imported lettuce and tomatoes.

    Remember the talk by this govermment post covid about ” a major greenhouse project coming soon.” Ask Enuf when soon is in political terms.

  20. David Avatar
    David

    @John A

    It seems from reports there is a disease at large affecting the sweet potato production along with the fact we lack the local expertise in sufficient numbers to plant ‘slip’.

  21. John Avatar
    John

    TLSN on January 5, 2024 at 2:25 PM said:
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    @ David,
    In the past, I have discussed the merits and the history of the famed concept of the allotment garden. An idea devised here in the UK.

    I’m sure quaker John would be interested.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Believe it or not we had allotments here for a loooooooong time.

    In fact, many plantations still have fields called “Allotment”.

    eg, Springvale, Hopefield Dukes, Vaucluse, Grove (St. Philip) and Ridgway I have come across so far.

    Sometimes there is a field called “Tenant”.

    eg Walkes Spring, Lamberts, Bakers, Alleynedale, Plumtree, Andrews/Fisher Pond, Mount Wilton, Nicholas Abbey, Blackman, Easy Halland Malvern.

    Another popular field name was “Tenantry”.

    Tom Adams I believe passed the Tenantries Freehold Purchase Act which allowed plantation tenants to purchase land cheaply.

    The Rent Book was a standard document kept by tenants and plantations.

    The rent was usually very small.

    Agricultural tenants who paid no Land Tax, got to own their own “piece of de Rock” and became a part of the tax base.

    Their cost of living increased so they had to find jobs, abandoning their agricultural endeavours.

    The lady who worked with my mother after retirement from Wotton plantation where she had worked as a labourer since the 1930’s, got two house lots which she previously farmed with her son.

    It was funny, the Uncle from whom she paid rent needed to get my mother to sign agreeing to sell Kingsland in 1992 so he bent over backwards to accommodate the lady who he detested because she worked with my mother!!!

    The two of them never let on they knew the game

    She died at 99, a week or so short of her century. She was about the same age as my mother so they probably knew one another from girlhood.

    I have not passed there recently so don’t know if her son still farms, but that family clearly has the option of developing the land if that is their decision.

    Should make a pretty penny if they decide to develop.

    Many labourers who rented their land at peppercorn rates for farming with no tax liability bought their lots from Kingsland under the Freehold Tenantries Act.

    You can go in Lower Birneys, or Dash Valley, or South District, or Vauxhall, or Briar Hall or Silver Hill or Water Street and see how many farms, allotments, Tenantries are still in operation.

    I can really only think of the lady’s son in Silver Hill where you will probably find agriculture still going on.

  22. John Avatar
    John

    Terence M Blackett on January 5, 2024 at 9:32 AM said:
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    At the turn of the century, roughly 14% of farmers were “BLACK” – today that number has shrunk to less than 2%.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Now you know why!!!

    The process was ongoing for years but changed after the Freehold Tenantries Act.

    Check this thesis on Peasant Farmers in Barbados up to 1960.

    Up till then, some farmers who were renting bought their lands and either continued farming or not as they decided.

    If they were rich enough to purchase, they were rich enough to pay the taxes on the land which were small up to Independence.

    After Independence, the Free Hold Tenantries Act gave them a house lot cheap …… and Land Tax!!

    Town Planning then passed the adjoining agricultural land for development.

    Remember the cane blade speech.

    Foolish Bajans trusted EWB!!

    Politicians and their front men then bought the land freed up at agricultural prices and then Town Planning passed the adjoining agricultural land for development.

    They made a killing, converted the land to cash and blew it.

    EWB made a fortune in St. Peter at Golden Mile …. Heywoods. In fact there is a company called Golden Mile Resorts Limited in Grand Cayman!!

    He feasted at Mangrove Plantation.

    https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/100605114

    https://www.bing.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdam-oclc.bac-lac.gc.ca+%E2%80%BA+download&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&lq=0&pq=https%3A%2F%2Fdam-oclc.bac-lac.gc.ca+%E2%80%BA+download&sc=11-41&sk=&cvid=4F5A241E6BCD4CEAB17B2FFC71B9CD95&ghsh=0&ghacc=0&ghpl=

  23. John Avatar
    John

    … and then there was Paradise!/Four Seasons!

    Check Duffus.

  24. John Avatar
    John

    “Tenantries Freehold Purchase Act. An Act to provide a right for tenants of lots in certain tenantries to purchase the freehold in those lots; to alter section 16 of the Constitution to assure the constitutionality of that right; and to provide for matters related or incidental thereto. Jul 29, 2008”

  25. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @David “Our middle income families do their damnest to emulate American society.”

    Maybe I am not middle income enough but this evening I felt like eating something hot and tasty, so I made a soup. Sweet potato, yam, cassava, pumpkin, flavour pepper, onion, black belly lamb, carrot, celery, lentils.

    I bought the lentils, celery, carrot, and onion but the other things I grew myself, except for the lamb which was grown by a neighbour.

    Hot, cheap, tasty, filling, and I have enough left for tomorrow,

  26. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    We are not alone:

    https://www.cbc.ca/radio/cooking-skills-decline-1.7064348
    Loss of cooking skills has hurt our ability to adapt to rising food prices, experts say

    Food economist Mike von Massow, associate professor at the University of Guelph’s Food, Agricultural & Resource Economics, cited a decreased emphasis on cooking education in schools among factors that have contributed to a decline in skills.
    He said the decline in cooking skills has a number of origins. One of them is changes to school curriculum requirements. “When I was a high school student, every high school student was required to take two courses in basic cooking. That doesn’t happen now.”

  27. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    I went to a girl’s school, and back in the day we girls were required to learn domestic science, and needle work too.

    Those skills have served me well.

  28. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    We are not alone:

    “In the UK, there are a large number of individuals who lack basic food skills and education. People are unaware of where their food comes from and how it is produced, what constitutes a balanced diet, and are unable to prepare healthy food for themselves.For example, a 2005 survey by the British Heart Foundation found that 37% of children aged 8-14 did not know that cheese was made from milk, and that 36% could not identify the main ingredient in chips, with answers including oil, egg and apples.”
    Source: sustainweb.org

  29. John Avatar
    John

    Cuhdear Bajan on January 5, 2024 at 9:02 PM said:
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    @David “Our middle income families do their damnest to emulate American society.”

    +++++++++++++++++++

    Evahbody!!

    How different is the gun and drug culture here when compared with America.

    Thomas Sowell calls it the “Black sub-culture”

  30. David Avatar
    David

    @Simple

    Good for you, happy new year.

  31. David Avatar
    David

    @Simple

    The focus of academic curricula is all about STEM and related.

  32. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    You had to go spoil it, didn’t you? You had to pollute the blog!

  33. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Cuhdear Bajan,

    Nice to see you!

    I am happy to announce that though I have taken a step back from producing ALL my ground provisions for the last six months or so, I am still reaping herbs, figs, pomegranate, sorrel sweet potato, cassava and pigeon peas at present.

    I’m trying to organise myself to have just enough of everything at all times, reducing storage. Then I can rest some beds and use some pots, staggering my planting of a crop to have batches ripening a few weeks apart.

    I am finding it difficult to control the pests without harmful pesticides. Organic pest control is time consuming and difficult and solutions are a bit expensive. So, I am scaling down to just enough of each crop for my use. Less work!

    Also, I want to use ONLY rain water for most of my crops. I have found that water retards the growth too much for my liking, increasing work and wastage by extending the time one has to tend the crop before reaping. I can’t be wasting my rain water with excess crops.

    It’s a new year and I’m excited about getting organised to be almost self-sufficient again.

    With less work!

    I keep hearing that kitchen gardens can’t solve the problem. But if everybody grew a little something it would go a long way, I think. You don’t even need land or lots of space. A tub of lettuce in the backyard, a hanging basket of tomatoes in the verandah, a pot of carrots two pots of cabbage, pumpkin cucumber and spinach growing on the fence. Herbs in the kitchen window. Everybody with a dwarf fruit tree in the middle of the lawn. It definitely would supplement the commercial farming big time.

    When there was no local lettuce on the market, my dad produced a bunch for me out of his new can garden. No nasty US lettuce for me!

    The young people may not be able to cook, but my son loves cooking! I eating good.

    Don’t know what the hell is wrong with the “dah cyan work” crowd!

  34. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    Uh-oh! Insert commas as needed!

  35. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Just had the second serving of my soup. Have to do some shopping. I like to have my belly full of good food before I go to the supermarket. Less temptation that way. Also waiting to hear what the PM has to say to us in half an hour or so. Just in case it is bad news a belly full may make it easier to digest.

  36. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    I know that I have been absent for a while, but I was looking after the person I call “Happy Baby”

    I am glad to report that Happy Baby who is not yet 2, like me, eats all kinds of “ground food”, so the parents can mostly leave the expensive branded “baby food” on the shelves.

    I am a big believer in “eat cheap, eat sweet.”

  37. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @David “The focus of academic curricula is all about STEM”

    Don’t get me wrong David, STEM is important, but the scientist, technologists, engineers and mathematicians still need a good hot bowl of soup in order to power that brain work.

    We will ALWAYS need farmers and fishers and cooks, don’t mind the idiotic people who say otherwise.

    The reason I don’t do much fast food is that most of it reminds me of what I used to feed my cats, The same thing everyday. I am not a dumb cat. In my eating I love variety of tastes, textures, and smells. In addition I like pretty food.

  38. John Avatar
    John

    Donna on January 6, 2024 at 8:55 AM said:
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    You had to go spoil it, didn’t you? You had to pollute the blog!

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    What sort of schizophrenic logic is this?

    Charmaing Charmaine cussing CuhdDear Bajan aka Simple Simon in one breath for returning and polluting the blog and at the same time praising her for the ground provisions she is growing and seeking forgiveness from her for falling by the wayside.

    Glad to see you back Simple Simon, was dreading all those the COVID vaccinations had finally got you like so many others and you were a number in the excess deaths.

    Thank God.

    Was it Mrs. Rose your family purchased your land from in the 1930’s on which you are growing your ground provisions for you and “Happy Baby”?

    By moving in the 1930’s your family was truly independent after independence and unlike the numerous other farmers who the politicians suckered into buying a small piece of land.

    Your father moved at the right time like my grandfather.

    No doubt your father grew canes first on his small plot and benefitted from the high price sugar was fetching after WWII and the insatiable demand.

  39. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    A few thing to keep in mind
    John likes to act as a troll
    At times he makes posts that are filled with facts, posts peppered with untruths and posts to trigger individuals …

    Read with care.

  40. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    @John “Glad to see you back Simple Simon, was dreading all those the COVID vaccinations had finally got you like so many others and you were a number in the excess deaths.”

    My response: You may have to wait another 20 years or so for my funeral, In my family we live long, long. Took 4 Covid19 vaccines. Got Covid eventually anyhow like billions of other people. Was a little sick for less than a week. Good since then. Good now.

    @John “Was it Mrs. Rose your family purchased your land from in the 1930’s on which you are growing your ground provisions for you and “Happy Baby”?

    Nope. Was a black man or maybe a black woman in the early 50’s. But some other land purchase before 1937, and more up to and including the 21st century. But not thousands of acres like your family.

  41. Cuhdear Bajan Avatar
    Cuhdear Bajan

    Donna, you know that I know that you were not referring to me when you wrote about polluting the blog. I am not taking on John about that and I know that you a sensible person int taking on John either.

  42. John Avatar
    John

    My grandfather owned 1/2 an acre in 1937 when your father bought your land.

    You may find that the vendor who sold to your father may have previously bought from Mrs. Rose.

    Mrs. Rose bought 224 acres in 1921 looks like she was hoping to benefit from the price rise of WWI.

    My grandfather told me 1921 was disastrous for sugar and prices fell to their lowest levels ever.

    She hung on to it to up to 1934/5 when the extremely terrible economic times probably forced her to sell.

    In 1921 my grandfather did not own any land.

    He bought his first 1/2 acre in 1928 when he was 37.

    He then took a risk and bought 287 acres in January 1939, benefitted from the price rise of WWII, invested in technology and fed housed and clothed 100’s of Bajans who were less fortunate than himself and had something real to sell to him.

    It was certainly open to your father to take the same risk as my Grandfather.

    The difference was perhaps 20 years.

    My grandfather understood the economics of sugar having been around for a while, your father, being younger would never have known to take the risk till it was too late.

    If you look at the Panama money that bought Lascelles, Mount Prospect and Four Hills you will see that the money came after WWII was in full swing. They took the risk and invested in sugar in Barbados.

    Funnily enough, in 1946, the sugar factory where my grandfather worked closed down and he bought it because the war allowed him to make a more money.

    He sold all the equipment to Mount Prospect and with the proceeds paid off his mortgages on Adams Castle and Kingsland.

    Lascelles was I believe owned by DaCostas through foreclosure in the 30’s on Sandy Lane Estates Ltd. and was not in good shape. Don’t know what happened to Mount Prospect and Four Hills.

    The problem for the Panama money was while lots of Bajans who lived through WWI no doubt invested in what they believed was a tremendous opportunity, they were living in the past.

    They also did not have the experience my grandfather had in sugar.

  43. John Avatar
    John

    Cuhdear Bajan on January 6, 2024 at 12:54 PM said:
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    Donna, you know that I know that you were not referring to me when you wrote about polluting the blog. I am not taking on John about that and I know that you a sensible person int taking on John either.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    I am glad you cleared up the ambiguity!!

  44. John Avatar
    John

    My grandfather bought Adams Castle (287 acres) on 13 January 1939, a Friday for 13,000 pounds.

    The Panama Progressive Friendly Society bought Lascelles (196 acres) in 1943 for 12,000 pounds.

    Ditto Four Hills, 1943, 12,0000 pounds, 206 acres.

    Ditto Mount Prospect, 12,500 pounds, 227 acres.

    The Panama Friendly Society started life with 629 acres and 3 plantations with probably hundreds, maybe thousands of investors, mostly Barbadians who had made money in Panama.

    Four years earlier my grandfather as a sole proprietor started life with 287 acres and 1 plantation. All he had were his wife and seven children.

    In 1946 my grandfather bought Kingsland Factory on 7 acres.

    In 1948 he bought Husbands and Oxnards (400 acres) for 24,000 pounds.

    He thus had 694 acres and 3 plantations.

    The Panama Progressive Friendly Society never got off the ground.

    I worry about the COOP Energy and its 4,500 acres and probably thousands of potential investors.

  45. Miller Avatar
    Miller

    @ John on January 6, 2024 at 3:12 PM said:
    “I worry about the COOP Energy and its 4,500 acres and probably thousands of potential investors.”
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    We all know that our Sir Johnny Knox is smart enough to recognize when a pig is being bought in a poke and sold for a song of inevitable failure.

    The COOP is being used as the bogeyman to announce the total removal of the sugarcane industry from the fields and hills of the all-tourism Bajan landscape.

    A Big mistake that will be!

    Such a short-sighted decision even the great OSA (or his hero EWB) in hindsight would have backed away from.
    Don’t these modern-day Public Finance officials know anything about positive Externalities arising from agriculture especially in a 2×3 country so heavily dependent on imported processed foods?

    How can the sugar industry survive in Bim without some significant form of State subsidization even if only to keep other channels of agriculture (sweet potatoes and yams) alive and the local Rum Industry deserving of the Geographical Indicator (GI) called ‘Genuine Bajan Rum’?

    Barbados is Not a St. Kitts with a (very) small population and hills.

    The rural landscape of Barbados (including the network of roads) is quickly becoming a very ugly looking (and dangerous) place; all overrun with bush and vermin.

    Barbados was once described by the National Geographic Magazine as the well-maintained ‘English’ Garden of (Eden) in the Caribbean.

    Getting rid of the Sugar Cane fields would be like turning Barbados into ‘Paradise Lost’.

    Don’t the so-called developed countries (like the E U and the great USA) subsidize their agricultural/farming sectors of their own economies?

  46. John Avatar
    John

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