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LONDON.- Dominican Republic’s first sugar shipment sent to the United Kingdom under the new trade regime with Europe arrived at a British port last week, when Dominican ambassador Aníbal de Castro went to see the ship unload at the mill of the company Tate & Lyle, which will import 30,000 tons this year.
"This is only the start of a new stage of Dominican penetration into the European market, with this shipment Dominican sugar will be available for British and worldwide consumers, through the sugar conglomerate’s extensive distribution network," Castro said.
Tate & Lyle operations director Simon Gibbons received the first 19,000 ton shipment with enthusiasm, and praised the Dominican product’s high quality.
In that regard, Ian Bacon, the company’s executive director stated his continued interest in working with Dominican producers, whose tradition and experience surpass even the 130 years since the British refinery was established.
Also in the delegation were David Jessop and Chris Bennett, of the London-based Caribbean-Briton Businesses Council.
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A pity, though, that the traditional growers in DR, The Colonos, can not participate, having been forced out of business by the predatory rulers of the Dominican sugar industry, and had to watch 400 years of patrimonial pride go away so the transplants could prosper even more.
I suppose they must but wait and hope for a global shortage of organic tomatoes so they, too, can receive a windfall.
The Golden rule wins again.
Likewise Tate and Lyle almost assuredly pay for the sugar into a USA bank account of one of the sugar barons ..it is a tragedy but a fact . It would be wonderful if industries were owned by Dominicans and this issue was discussed in an article regarding investments in India ...in that country the hotels and the exporting companies are owned by Indian companies .
one way is for the government to establish a super company or companies where Dominicans and Dominican residents buy shares in this company and this company takes a large or majority stake in key industries in the country such as sugar and tourism .The company could be managed by an experienced manager from anywhere in the world.The important thing is that the income and profits from dominican labour should stay here.At present we are lucky that most of the banks are Dominican banks but we need to invest more in these big companies that can generate large income rather than be a country of small shop keepers.