Agricultural powerhouse Suriname is offering land to Barbadians interested in farming, the Prime Minister said Sunday.
She told journalists that on her recent visit to Suriname, she signed an economic, technical and cooperation agreement with the Dutch-speaking CARICOM member state, which, in addition to other provisions, outlined the fact that the South American government is prepared to provide “significant tracts of land” for Barbadians to farm.
“We visited farms, acres, and all we can see is pineapples. We visited other farms and saw all kinds of fruits. And the truth is that the Caribbean shall, and should never starve, and should never be wanting for resources and commodities, with Suriname and Guyana as part of the other Caribbean countries. Our problem is that somebody has to make it happen, and somebody has to come to work every day to make it happen,” Mottley said.
On the sidelines of the signing of a loan with Inter-American Development Bank with IDB president Luis Alberto Moreno at her Bay Street office, she told reporters that Suriname exports over 38 000 tonnes of fish to the European Union but that Barbados cannot get a single ton exported, because the requisite sanitary measures and laboratory facilities are not in place to allow the markets to be certified export-ready.
But Mottley said Barbados should also be able to tap into the European market, since the island has one of the most mature fishing industries in the southern Caribbean.
“Rather than seek to create from scratch, I have agreed that we would simply seek to speak to CARICOM to certify the Caribbean Agriculture Health and Food Safety Agency as our national agency, and that once we do that with the appropriate labs, it would save us good sums of money,” Prime Minister Mottley said.
The regional food safety agency is based in Suriname.
What about the acres and acres of Barbados land in the hands of WHITE BAJANS???
These lands are over run with bush and the lands not over run with bush is manicured for Their horses to run on.
Why cant your Govt. seize these lands, cut them up, and offer them to BLACK BAJANS.
Why must BLACK BAJANS LEAVE their country of origin to go another man”s country to get a lil piece of Land to farm when the WHITE BAJANS have so much land laying idle??
One man Williams own about half of the land in Barbados. This cant be fair.
This is a STUPID IDEA. I hope BLACK BAJANS IGNORE IT.
I’ll be looking for strange behaviours from George Payne from now on, since Mia returned from her Suriname visit. I saw her doing some ritual and cultural dances with that country’s President and natives, so I wonder what little vial was included in her gifts as a good luck charm. I watching.LOL
….and since according to that JOHNNY above that elections will be in 3 years time… HAVE YOU NOTICED ANY STRANGE BEHAVIOR emanating from all ya HEADQUARTERS in George Street, since YOU and ME know that those TWO LOSERS CANNOT take the DLP INTO THE NEXT ELECTION.
….as man… WHO walked down the AISLE with YOU?..you had nuff mout when YOU ASKED who would walked down the aisle with a particular person now I can’t even hear a WHIMPER from you…you had NUFF mout when YOU said that you would KILL yourself if you were married to WINNIE as though someone would have put a gun to your head and said…’ YOU JOHNNY CROW,…MARRY WINNIE ‘…explain that STUPID statement…YA CROW.
SHOULD! SHOULD! SHOULD! A bad, bad, bad word. “Barbados should also be able to tap into the European market.”
“The South American government is prepared to provide “significant tracts of land” for Barbadians to farm.”
“the truth is that the Caribbean shall, and should never starve, and SHOULD never be wanting for resources and commodities, with Suriname and Guyana as part of the other Caribbean countries.”
Why not give a little hint to the farmers regarding how they SHOULD go about taking up the offer and what does the offer entails? And change SHOULD to WOULD
Another classic case of “OPTICS”.
CARSON C. CADOGAN :
Sound byte – No.1: Why must BLACK BAJANS LEAVE their country of origin to go another man”s country to get a lil piece of Land to farm when the WHITE BAJANS have so much land laying idle??
Sound byte – No.2 : This is a STUPID IDEA. I hope BLACK BAJANS IGNORE IT.
Ossie Moore : I agree C C , and I’ll bet you that most Barbadians know that it’s a stupid idea.
. . . also , Barbadians are not interested in any other industry except the ” BUMPER TOURISM INDUSTRY “. If cruise ships cannot dock on the farms in Suriname then Bajans will have no interest.
Going off on a tangent . . . take a look at Guyana the country that bajans used to laught at and despise. Guyana is now on the rebound the economy is doing great and even American Airlines have started routes to Guyana.
So all of the laughing at Guyana is now coming back to ” bite bajans in the a** .
Oh ! and by the way . . . Suriname is right next door to Guyana.
OSSIE MOORE
Speak the truth.
A lot of Guyana’s debts have been forgiven by creditors. Just like Haiti. That has not been done for Barbados.
Guyana offered Barbadians land to go into farming and only thee BIG man from Simpson Motors/SOL Oil Co. took up the Offer
Will Cow Williams take up this offer now
“”Will Cow Williams take up this offer now””
Lets hope that tragedy does not happen to the people of Suriname.
The problem is the taxes at the the port deal with first
@CCC and Ossie – both of you are correct. Now who would cut the branch them standing on CCC??? However, Ossie as u subliminally outlined black people like to work on plantations not own or run them. hahahahahaahaa. shoulda, coulda, woulda. Lets hope this isn’t another one of them pipe dreams.
“Rather than seek to create from scratch, I have agreed that we would simply seek to speak to CARICOM to certify the Caribbean Agriculture Health and Food Safety Agency as our national agency,
Please do not take/import any policies, advice or ideas from the FDA.
When Bajans take up farming in Suriname will they be guaranteed a market for their products,or will they have to compete with the abundance of local hawkers in the city markets and streets.
What do I need to do in order to make this work? Barbados is too high in taxes.