caribny posted:kp posted:1. Bajans don't know agriculture. 2. Without the Guyanese Indians their economy is in decline. 3. It takes Bajans to appreciate Guyanese.4. Now there will be brain and labour DRAIN in Guyana. So Caribj can go to his Promised Land of Barbados and get a JOB because Granja after one and half year is only KILLING JOBS.
Agriculture plays a minimal role in the Barbados economy. Only 3% of GDP and only 10% of the labor force. Barbados has total exports of US$1/2 billion with sugar accounting for less than 10%. And the economy is service oriented with tourism and financial services being the largest sectors, and with off shore business services also being important.
These are the sectors that Bajans gravitate to. Cutting cane is seen as reminiscent of the bad old days when Barbados was much poorer than Guyana.
In fact the reason why sugar is kept alive is ironically because of its tourism. Remove sugar cane and Barbados becomes a dry scrubby island like Antigua, without that islands marina vistas, as their beaches are more ordinary looking.
Sugar is loss making and makes scant direct contribution.
So yes Bajans want migrant workers doing jobs that no one else wants to do, and at low pay, just like how Americans like migrant workers from El Salvador and Guatemala.
I guess the landlords also missed packing 10 Guyanese into a home where one Bajan family would live, and then collecting double the rent that they would from a Bajan family.