Massa Day Not Done! Lomé and the Trinidadian Sugar Industry 1975-2005

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 Co...

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Autor principal: Lovell Francis
Formato: Artículo científico
Publicado: Universidad del Norte 2013
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Acceso en línea:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=85528619002
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=co/co-015&d=85528619002oai
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topic Historia
Lomé Sugar Protocols
intervention price
Commonwea lth Sugar Agreement
African
Caribbean and Pacific nations
sugar quotas
spellingShingle Historia
Lomé Sugar Protocols
intervention price
Commonwea lth Sugar Agreement
African
Caribbean and Pacific nations
sugar quotas
Lovell Francis
Massa Day Not Done! Lomé and the Trinidadian Sugar Industry 1975-2005
topic_facet Historia
Lomé Sugar Protocols
intervention price
Commonwea lth Sugar Agreement
African
Caribbean and Pacific nations
sugar quotas
description 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 nations 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 nations first Prime Minister intoned that independence meant the ending o f Massas 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.
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title Massa Day Not Done! Lomé and the Trinidadian Sugar Industry 1975-2005
title_short Massa Day Not Done! Lomé and the Trinidadian Sugar Industry 1975-2005
title_full Massa Day Not Done! Lomé and the Trinidadian Sugar Industry 1975-2005
title_fullStr Massa Day Not Done! Lomé and the Trinidadian Sugar Industry 1975-2005
title_full_unstemmed Massa Day Not Done! Lomé and the Trinidadian Sugar Industry 1975-2005
title_sort massa day not done! lomé and the trinidadian sugar industry 1975-2005
publisher Universidad del Norte
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