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Beekeeping can get economy buzzing - by Katrina King
March 24, 2019
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Katrina King
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March 24, 2019
Article by
Katrina King
Katrina King
March 24, 2019
Beekeeping has been identified by Government as a sector to generate wealth and create employment opportunities for the youth, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Indar Weir said The Minister’s reports came while delivering the opening address at the Beekeeping Forum hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Barbados Apiculture Association at Gall Hill
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those figures of 40000lbs and $20000 ate 100% wrong!
The lbs/hive and $$/lb are W-A-Y off. Would be extremely lucky to get $20/lb
These people can talk a good game. I haven’t heard the minister outline anything in the budget for this initiative. So where suddenly has this talk come from?
I’m not meaning to sound gloomy here, but it’s reality. We just came out of a budget presentation. I’m asking where in the budget was this facilitated? Did the minister only recognize these things after the budget was prepared and presented? I’m becoming more surprised by Indar’s utterances.
Greengiant
u are being a a.. again
why should behive be budgeted for?
why must government finance everything?
government is making $5000 available for viable companies startups. Isnt that enough for a project like this?
sometimes take off your political hat and think before you comment.
iMPOSSIBLE!! 40 000 pounds of honey for the selling price of $20 000 per pound.
IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, he fa real, wanna ministers never seize to amaze me, where as i think that each parish should have at least 4 man made hives to help with pollination of plants, here is no way honey can fetch that amount of money per pound, even for last year in the USA honey didnt even retail for no more than $8.00 per pound,one gallon of honey is about 12 pounds, and a gallon of natural honey here in the USA is $52.00, some of you shouldnt be in politics at all, just come and talk nuff arm hole,
Too many Bees in Barbados already.
Right now, they stinging everybody.
We got to get rid of them at the polls next time for sure.
WAS THE MINISTER TALKING BOUT WHITE SNOW, SNOW FLAKES, POWDER, maybe HARRY TURNOVER CARSON CODAGON OR CARL HARPER CAN HELP ME OUT ON THIS
roger
how yo know it the minister and not the reporter/publisher that giving the wrong figures?
Greengiant wrote: “I’m not meaning to sound gloomy here….”
You are the architect of doom and gloom in every room, Greengiant.
There is not a single post where you do not express negativity and despair. As a matter of fact, the only government that can lead us all to the Promise Land is the crumbling UPP, according to the Gospel of Greengiant.
It does not seem that you can find anything in that masterpiece of a Budget to criticize since it has put more money in your purse by adjusting the income tax bands, so you are pouncing on Indar to talk about and cost a beehive initiative during his Budget speech that is not of his Ministry’s doing.
And by the way, what a woeful “first response” to the Budget on VOB by the new UPP candidate for St. George North, Ambrose Grosvenor. Lynette Eastmond should have sent you, instead. He was only outdone by the unprepared DLP leader, Verla Depeiza.
So far this BLP administration has embarked on several initiatives to spur entrepreneurship among persons so motivated, by providing $5,000 Trust Loans and financing for rural development projects. You seem to be expecting the Minister of Agriculture to don boots, gloves and face mask to make this beekeeping initiative a project within his Ministry.
No wonder Breadfruit advise you to “think before you comment”, and I concur with him.
BREADFRUIT, I would hate to think that journalism in barbados so poor, that them wont check before running such a print, and seeing that the minister havent came to make a retraction then it must be so
Roger
I saw it on the news last night
The minister said 40lbs and $20
The minister would have needed firing if he had used the figures that were printed here on BT.
you were very foolish to think a minister would have given those false figures in the first place.