Support Barbadian products

As Barbados looks for ways to further increase its exports, there's a suggestion that improving marketing and other support for local products, could help to achieve that goal.
It comes from chief executive officer, of the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation, Anthony Sobers. He was speaking during a recording of CBC’s public affairs programme, "The People's Business". President of the Barbados Manufacturers Association Peter Miller says there're examples of locally produced goods, that just need a platform from which they can be launched. Last year Barbados' exports grew from 329 million to 421 million dollars, an increase of just over 90 million dollars. Source: CBC News

Well, 100% bajan is all fine and good, but lets get realistic. We have been weened on foreign products for donkey years, and all a sudden they want us to go cold turkey. Foreign products were touted as superior and cheaper, so how you now expect bajan manufacturers to ever believe that markets overseas would consider even wiping their crack with our products? Dem trick we good... popular products which we would call part of we bajan culture like Maggie Cubes and Ovaltine, dem owners so far from Barbados man yuh would swear we had bird flu down hey. But there are some great bajan products, like PHD Juices, Robert's MelloKreem and Bico IceCream etc dat no other product can touch... or it used to be like that anyway. Now certain tings tasting a bit funny, like dem getting watered down. But aahz a bajan company start doing good, you cuh bet dem gine get buy up by Trinidad... we does sell out EVERYTHING for short term benefits, only for other more business minded people to suck on the long term grapes. We selling out Land, Banks, Insurance, Internet... even most of our prostitutes now coming from down the islands. Just now there won't be anything bajan to even export... not even language.. soon yuh gine hear how that treasured expletive "ra&&#ole" really derived from the Greek word Razzolie, meaning a place where the sun don't shine. You feel if Jay-Z didn't say Rihanna was talented that we would be listening to her music? No boh, she would be working at TriMart looking at me stink when i bring a full trolly to she cashier at 9:58pm, and singing at Kareoke for free chicking wings and a coke.

*After reading this post, 83 police will go to the supermarket and buy canned Coconut Water imported from Jamaica... you hear that, COCONUT WATER imported to Barbados!!! After belching hard, dem gine go and run de bajans who selling FRESH coconut water off the roads... SICK!