The perception seems to be that sugar is dead in most Caricom countries and dying in the rest. As a result public concern is muted or non-existent when the European Union, as it has been accustomed to do in recent years, gets set to inflict further damage on this industry.

Sadly, it is probably half-forgotten how brutally the EU behaved in bringing the Sugar Protocol to a premature end with consequential colossal loss of revenue for Caricom sugar industries. This unilateral ending of a well-tried, mutually beneficial, development-trade treaty…..