Even as the Guyana authorities continue to pull out the proverbial stops to try to keep at least part of continues to be a declining sugar industry alive, one of the Caribbean’s leading academics, Barbadian Historian Sir Hilary Beckles, is advocating that his country move to leave sugar behind for the sake of the nation’s health.
Professor Beckles, who currently serves as Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, used a recent media programme to call for a scrapping of the sugar industry in Barbados and the transformation of the lands currently growing sugar into farms that provide the nation with crops that better serve the nation’s health.