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Barbados researching wholistic ways to deal with cotton-destroying pests: 'Pesticides alone not enough, ' say scientists

By Adapted from the GIS    Published April 3, 2007
Barbados has placed high hopes for future foreign exchange earnings on the export of its West Indian Sea Island Cotton and the development of the sector from merely being a primary supplier of raw mat...
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TT's Angostura intered in buying Jamaican sugar estate

By (Adapted from the Trinidad Guardian of February 8, 2007)    Published February 12, 2007
Angostura Ltd., one of Trinidad & Tobago’s largest public-traded companies, has expressed an interest in buying one of six sugar estates to be sold off by the Jamaican Government. Angostura...
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Not with a bang, but with a whimper: TT to shut down sugar cane industry

By (Adapted from the Trinidad Guardian of Monday, Jan. 24, 2007)    Published January 25, 2007
A decision to end sugar cane cultivation in Trinidad & Tobago was taken on Monday when Prime Minister Patrick Manning met with sugar cane farmers. According to the Trinidad Guardian, Agriculture M...
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The Farm labour programme comes under review this week in Barbados

By Patrick Hoyos (Adapted from a GIS report, Dec. 12, 2006 and e    Published December 21, 2006
The Canadian/Caribbean Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme will come under review this week as the Ministry of Labour and the Civil Service hosts its review programme at the Savannah Hotel. The me...
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The Farm labour programme comes under review this week in Barbados

By (Adapted from a GIS report of Dec. 12, 2006    Published December 20, 2006
The Canadian/Caribbean Seasonal Agricultural Workers Programme will come under review this week as the Ministry of Labour and the Civil Service hosts its review programme at the Savannah Hotel. The me...
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Over $18 million dollars lent to Jamaican farmers by the ADF since 2002

By (Adapted from the Jamaica Observer of Oct. 10, 2006)    Published December 19, 2006
Since 2002 over $23 million dollars in loan financing to farmers has been approved by the Agricultural Development Fund, with over $18 million disbursed to date, says Ferdinand Straughan, the ADF&rsqu...
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Jamaica wants to increase its production of West Indian Sea Island Cotton

By (Adapted from the Jamaica Observer of Oct. 17, 2006)    Published October 17, 2006
West Indian Sea Island Cotton is the most expensive cotton in the world. But the cotton, which is grown only in the Caribbean, and mainly in Barbados and Jamaica, meets only a small percentage of the ...
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Jamaica Producers Group accepts Dole's buyout offer

By (Adpated from Jamaican press reports, Oct. 3, 2006)    Published October 3, 2006
Jamaica Producers Group Limited (JPG) on Oct. 2 accepted an offer from Dole Food Company for the purchase of JPG's 65 per cent shareholdings in JP Fruit Distributors Limited (JPFD) at a price of $2.76...
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Cotton fields back home

By Patrick Hoyos    Published July 4, 2006
“When the world was on our radio, hard work was on our minds. We lived our day-to-day in plain dirt fashion, With ol' overalls and cotton balls all strapped across your back Man, it's hard to ma...
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Jamaica plans to spend over twice as much as Barbados to restructure its sugar industry

By Adapted from the Jamaica Observer    Published January 25, 2006
Jamaica, like Barbados, has announced plans to overhaul the country’s sugar cane industry over the next decade, but at a cost of US$672 million, which is two-and-a-half times the cost estimates ...
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