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Hon. Godwin Hulse, Minister of Agriculture
"I will say this without apology to any of my Caribbean colleagues, ministers included. I have said time and time again, the only reason all of us who look like us are here is because the English brought us to the Caribbean to cut sugar cane and to be indentured servants. And if in 2019, we can't sell sugar into the Caribbean, what's the point of the CSME? So sugar to me is the premiere product. No ifs, buts or maybes. If we still have to sell it in Europe and bring it back into the Caribbean, we really winding the clock back. It's a matter of cost, its price and they are business men, so if you could get sugar cheaper out of somewhere else well why not. That's the bottom-line. It has nothing to do with nationalism and pride and all the rest of things that I am doubting. It is you could get sugar cheaper somewhere else - buy it and when you see the prices rise and then the sugar here is cheaper then you come back here. But you can't have that stop and go. If you even it out and maybe you realize you are paying a higher price, but as the prices go up in the world then you have an even supply and that is where we really want to go."