Mars posted:. For example, fruit juices are imported from T&T and Barbados. With all the fruit that can be grown locally, we are importing juices.
Raised this fact during the PPP era and the PPP frauds like Druggie screamed that Guyana cannot do anything without Amaila. I wonder where is the hydrodam in Barbados?
Guyana doesn't even supply these countries with fruit concentrate. They buy from Brazil, Colombia and elsewhere. We prefer to scream and cry about sugar as it provides better scope for a "black man a kill ahbe" rant.
Guysuco could lease lands to farmers to increase our non traditional food exports, and help them to find export markets. We can get a piece of that lucrative soap market alongside Dominica from the cruise industry, as I am sure that that island cannot fully supply.
But no. Sugar even as it drains Guyana of the scarce resources that it has.