Massa Day Not Done! Lomé and the Trinidadian Sugar Industry 1975-2005
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| contents | Massa Day Not Done! Lomé and the Trinidadian Sugar Industry 1975-2005 Lovell Francis Historia African sugar quotas intervention price Lomé Sugar Protocols Commonwea lth Sugar Agreement This paper challenges the mantra repeated for decades in the wake of the signing of the Lomé Sugar Protocols by the African, Pacific and Caribbean group of nations (A.C.P.) of which Trinidad and Tobago was a member and the European Economic Community (E.E.C.) d uring 1975. The slant voiced by the Community and accepted by many within the Caribbean has for far too long suggested that the Sugar Protocols continued the seemingly altruistic economic relationship established between 1951 and 1974 by its direct predece ssor the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement (C.S.A.). However this is very much a misnomer as post 1975 the nation’s sugar industry, centred on the island of Trinidad, like its counterparts in the A.C.P., entered a paradigm fundamentally bereft of most of the ec onomic benefits of the C.S.A. and which instead worked overwhelmingly to the advantage of British refining companies like Tate and Lyle. This meant that though Dr Eric Williams, the nation’s first Prime Minister intoned that independence meant the ending o f “Massa’s” time in Trinidad and Tobago, where the sugar industry was concerned the economic subservience concomitant with a history of colonialism continued well into the twenty first century. 2013 artículo científico 1794-8886 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=85528619002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=855 Memorias. Revista Digital de Historia y Arqueología desde el Caribe application/pdf Universidad del Norte Memorias. Revista Digital de Historia y Arqueología desde el Caribe (Colombia) Num.19 |
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| spellingShingle | Massa Day Not Done! Lomé and the Trinidadian Sugar Industry 1975-2005 Lovell Francis Historia African sugar quotas intervention price Lomé Sugar Protocols Commonwea lth Sugar Agreement Massa Day Not Done! Lomé and the Trinidadian Sugar Industry 1975-2005 Lovell Francis Historia African sugar quotas intervention price Lomé Sugar Protocols Commonwea lth Sugar Agreement This paper challenges the mantra repeated for decades in the wake of the signing of the Lomé Sugar Protocols by the African, Pacific and Caribbean group of nations (A.C.P.) of which Trinidad and Tobago was a member and the European Economic Community (E.E.C.) d uring 1975. The slant voiced by the Community and accepted by many within the Caribbean has for far too long suggested that the Sugar Protocols continued the seemingly altruistic economic relationship established between 1951 and 1974 by its direct predece ssor the Commonwealth Sugar Agreement (C.S.A.). However this is very much a misnomer as post 1975 the nation’s sugar industry, centred on the island of Trinidad, like its counterparts in the A.C.P., entered a paradigm fundamentally bereft of most of the ec onomic benefits of the C.S.A. and which instead worked overwhelmingly to the advantage of British refining companies like Tate and Lyle. This meant that though Dr Eric Williams, the nation’s first Prime Minister intoned that independence meant the ending o f “Massa’s” time in Trinidad and Tobago, where the sugar industry was concerned the economic subservience concomitant with a history of colonialism continued well into the twenty first century. 2013 artículo científico 1794-8886 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=85528619002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=855 Memorias. Revista Digital de Historia y Arqueología desde el Caribe application/pdf Universidad del Norte Memorias. Revista Digital de Historia y Arqueología desde el Caribe (Colombia) Num.19 |
| title | Massa Day Not Done! Lomé and the Trinidadian Sugar Industry 1975-2005 |
| topic | Historia African sugar quotas intervention price Lomé Sugar Protocols Commonwea lth Sugar Agreement |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=85528619002 |