Bajans not buying local

ONE MEMBER of the Barbados Manufacturers’ Association (BMA) is on the verge of laying off 12 of its employees because Barbadians are not buying locally produced products.
This was disclosed yesterday by BMA executive director Bobbi McKay during a brief Press conference at the association’s offices on Harbour Road.
According to McKay, her preaching over the years to Barbadians to support locally made products had been falling on deaf ears, and an email she got yesterday morning from one member of the association was what “broke the camel’s back”.
Declining to go into details, McKay would only tell the WEEKEND NATION that the business affected was a medium-sized clothing company. (MM)
 
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