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Vol. 30, Issue 23 BROOKLYN EDITION June 7–13, 2019
Antiguan Mona V. Wyre Manigo receives proclamation from New York City Comptroller
Scott Stringer. Photo by Nelson A. King
By Nelson A. King
New York City Comptroller
Scott M. Stringer Tuesday
evening honored two Caribbean
entities in New York City
and a Caribbean personality
during his annual tribute to
Caribbean nationals in recognition
of Caribbean American
Heritage Month in June.
Stringer honored the Manhattan
based Carib News
newspaper, the Brooklynbased
Sesame Flyers International,
Inc., and Mona V. Wyre
Manigo, the Antiguan-born
president of the Harlem-based
Antigua and Barbuda Progressive
Society.
The elegant ceremony took
place at the auditorium in the
T-Building at the sprawling
NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings
Country, commonly known
as Kings Country Hospital, in
the heart of the Caribbean
community in Brooklyn.
“Today, we know that
immigrants make us stronger,
Continued on Page 12
By Bert Wilkinson
The four remaining Caribbean
Community countries,
which are still brave enough to
continue producing sugar are
demanding political and economic
protection from regional
governments saying tax free
imported sugar from outside
the bloc is undermining their
efforts to remain in the industry
.T
he umbrella Sugar Association
of the Caribbean (SAC)
which met recently in Belize
complained to anyone who
would listen that up to 70 percent
of all sugar consumed in
the 15-nation grouping comes
“from extra regional sources
duty free, displacing market
opportunity for more than
200,000 metric tonnes of Caribbean
sugar.” Only Guyana,
Belize, Jamaica and Barbados
are still in the business that
dates back to the trans Atlantic
slave era. Others like Trinidad
and St. Kitts have in the past
15 years dropped out of the
sector altogether, saying that
their product had become so
un-competitive that it no longer
made sense to continue operating
factories and maintaining
estates. It is simply cheaper to
import.
Continued on Page 18
Stringer honors Caribbean Americans
SUGAR
CARTEL
PROTEST
Caribbean sugar producers
rail against imported crystals
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