Even as government announced last week that it had approved temporary licences to 12 unnamed persons to import chicken in an effort to ease a protracted shortage and stabilize prices on the local market, Head of the Caribbean Poultry Association (CPA) Dr Desmond Ali, has issued a call to Caricom countries to guard against the importation of “old meat” from the United States.
An announcement last week by Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon that Cabinet had approved the granting of temporary licences for the importation of up to eight million pounds of chicken has