Sweet JA

Photo by skibler - it's sugar cane water

I’ve been looking into the sugar industry in Jamaica because thousands of workers are about to get redundancy payments.

I came across this article and it confuses me.

I have posted before about the IMF’s relationship with Jamaica and how disastrous it has been - see this post here.

Photo by choheisel

If the IMF were making these recommendations to get rid of JA’s sugar industry in 2006, and that this is being implemented now, well – this does not bode well for a new way of doing business in terms of putting conditions onto future loans.  Losing the sugar industry is creating unemployment and perhaps greater food insecurity in Jamaica?   See what happened in Haiti.

How about tackling the rich countries and the subsidies they offer their farmers rather than saying that the sugar fields of Jamaica should go?  But it’s probably too late now – I wonder if the loss of sugar is that bad a thing anyway – given its’ history  – see this great photo here.