Cobra posted:Folks, if Barbados is seeking labor for its agricultural sector from Guyanese, it's because that's where the work is mosty needed.
It is where they cannot find people to work. Barbados has 10% unemployment so there are no shortage of workers but Bajans don't plan to work for pennies when they think that better jobs are available.
Now imagine a Bajan who wants a service job at the interview saying that he was cutting cane for 3 years and now wants a service sector job. He will be laughed out of the room. Just like an American seeking a job at a bank, who disclosed that he is currently picking tomatoes and plucking chickens.
I know that you PPP supporters want to feel good about yourselves. Need to feel that "black man lazy" and Indians are "saving" Barbados. Sugar in Barbados is almost dead and only semi slaves want to work there.
Of course you can discuss amongst your PPP selves why Guyanese in 2008 preferred to cut cane in Barbados instead of Guyana.
And understand this. The worst insult that a Bajan can hurl is to call some one "cane cutter" given that this was traditionally a sure fire way to perpetual poverty.