Sugar no longer gets the coverage it once did. In years past when a development occurred that threatened the industry’s viability, there would have been extensive press and radio coverage, political comment, and a subsequent reaction from Europe and its diplomats. Today, tourism has taken King Sugar’s crown. The sentiment in much of the Caribbean is that sugar is either of much less economic significance, or is a dying industry. In Europe the view is similar: that the industry in the region can never be efficient, should have disappeared long ago,
