PERMIT ME to address james Paul, it has been a long time that Government has been paying no attention to the cries of farmers who have been suffering substantial loss because of crop theft and ravenous and rampaging monkeys that destroy crops. Every person in Barbados knowsby now that if you are in time to chase a monkeythat is about to damage your crop it will runaway only to return, and at times with others,and not only to steal but also to destroy thewhole crop if possible.
And yet, some people in high places are saying “do not harm the monkeys.” Am I and people like me must take it that the monkey is morebeneficial to the country than the farmersand what they produce? But who in authorityreally cares? The monkey is no threat to their monthly wages. No threat to their comfortableliving. So they can afford to be complacent andeven indifferent to the pain of farmers.
But why are they ranting virtually every dayabout agriculture and yet supporting the monkey’s crop destruction? Are they embodiments of contradiction? They have almost wiped out sugar production. Do they intend to do the same with the farmers and their food production?
I read a letter in the DAILY NATION of March 28, written by Grenville Phillips and I am prompted to ask Paul if his farmers group makers any significant political contributions with a view to really being heard by the powers that be.
– HORACE GREEN