Fresh off the heels of a successful trade mission to the Republic of China (Taiwan) and given the crucial role bakers play in our daily sustenance, the Ministry of Commerce, Manufacturing, Business Development, Cooperatives and Consumer Affairs has initiated two broad-based meetings between members of the Bakers Association of Saint Lucia and Commerce Minister Emma Hippolyte alongside top-level technical officials.
The first meeting is scheduled for the Finance Administrative Centre in Pointe Seraphine on Tuesday 14th May, 2024 at 2:30 PM, whilst the second meeting is slated for the office of the Vieux Fort Town Council on Thursday 16th, May, 2024 at 10:00 AM.
These meetings are expected to facilitate open discussions of i) the challenges and opportunities within the baking sector, ii) the formalization and operational standardization of bakeries benefiting from the government subsidy programs, and iii) the support the Ministry can provide to ensure the growth and stability of this vital sector.
The aforementioned agenda items will allow for a more comprehensive perspective of the industry to better influence policy decisions and provide a stronger basis for action and targeted interventions.
Director of Commerce and Industry Mr. Esli Lafeuillée underscored the need for revitalization and modernization of the local baking industry. “We are eager to determine more creative, efficient and collaborative ways of doing business, whilst adhering to best practices,” he said. “For too long the baking industry has remained stagnated with very little room for expansion of the sector. There is so much untapped potential that is deserving of exploration. We desperately need to implement some of the innovative techniques observed during the recent trade mission to Taiwan.”
SOURCE: Ministry of Commerce
Expect Nothing from the meetings. It will just be a big show with no results
Are we going to be exporting breads? Believe me EMMA, St. Lucia have a profound diversity of bread baking, what is practically hampering the progressive part of it, is you POLITICIANS. Why hexarchies are often going to foreign country workshops who doesn’t have a direct role in its representation and coming back to say here are opportunities. Why a hexarchies will take tax payers money to go into an arena of workshop and come back and say here we can bake so many things rather than taking a few bakers to learn it directly? EMMA we have a lot of created mind on the ground here, you politicians are just depriving, 2 days workshop what happens thereafter, the people need cheaper source to produce anything to be competitive, cheese and bread cost about 3$ who will go and buy more expensive things when you have a poverish economy?
Look at those eyes.
Look at the Grim Reaper.
I guess for an increase in bread again , but have over 65 percent of the workforce earning wages as lo. w as 3 to 5 EC dollars an hour . The 2 political should bow their heads in shame as they only represent the interest of the oppressors and big businesses who fund political campaigns to win elections
I have confirmed that anything the government do to benefit the poor, UWP will go against it. Anonymous, why do all you hate Lucians so much? At least change this attitude.