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By Elizabeth Morgan I am moving from looking at the region’s merchandise exports into looking at trade in services starting with tourism which is the principal service export. As COVID-19 has shown, several countries in the region are…
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By Elizabeth Morgan Over the last three (3) weeks, I have looked at the status of our traditional exports, mainly agricultural commodities which have been exported from Jamaica and other Commonwealth Caribbean countries since the…
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I’m a strong man, a proud man, an I’m free … I will live and die a banana man. (Song of the Banana Man by Evan Jones) By Elizabeth Morgan I recently listened to a reading of Evan Jones’ poem “Song of the Banana Man” by George…
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By Elizabeth Morgan Last week, I wrote about our primary traditional export, sugar, the production and export of which have declined significantly in the region. When I did geography at high school in the 1970s, the Caribbean was known…
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By Elizabeth Morgan Last year, at this time, against the background of the commemoration of Emancipation Day across the region, I looked at the state of the sugar industry in my article titled, “CARICOM Sugar: a limping industry.” …
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