Dear Editor,
Some years ago, I visited the little island of Antigua. What amazed me very much, was the presentation of food items on shelves, especially ground provisions, which were properly cleaned and placed in plastic bags.
In the town of Linden, quite recently, I bought three pounds of eddoes and sweet potato, only to discover after removing the skin, mud, roots, rotten areas and the protruding leaves from the head that I had only one pound left. The sweet potato had many wormholes hidden under the quantity of mud, and I thought for a moment that I had mistakenly purchased worms instead of sweet potato. I do not blame hucksters who purchase bulk provisions and cannot check each item, but the farmers who are the producers of food.
I’m a Lindener, and I took my eddo before peeling it to the Bureau of Standards for its staff to recognize my complaint was true and correct.
I wish the National Bureau of Standards, the Linden Chamber of Commerce and Linden’s Mayor and Councillors would be able to bring an end to that situation in order that all of us can enjoy value for our money.
If tourism is one of Linden’s focuses, let’s start now.
Yours faithfully,
B Winslow Parris
