Sandra Marsden said sugar prices have soared after a combination of too little rain in India -- one of the world's big producers -- and too much rain in Brazil -- led to a drastic reduction in the world's supply of sugar. Every time there's an increase in the price of sugar you can't be raising the price of your products," he said. "You just continue to eat some of the increases until you can't afford to eat them any more or until somebody else's prices go up. About 1.3 million tonnes annually, or about $800 million worth. It's produced in four provinces from either imported raw sugar-cane sugar, or from domestically grown sugar beets. Manitoba's last sugar-beet refinery closed in 1997.
A good starting point is the Musee du Rhum at the Saint James Distillery (596-69-30-02) in Ste. Marie on the wilder east coast. The museum explores rum's history using everything from an ancient sugar cane press to 1920s advertising posters. The rum industry grew out of the lucrative sugar cane plantations begun by French colonists in the 17th century and grew profitable on the backs of slaves. From this emerged the island's Creole culture and a reputation of quality rum that is now the pride of the island. The Route du Rhum also leads visitors to scenic corners and interesting sites. Just to the north of Ste. Marie is the Musee du Pere Labat, a restored sugar plantation where inventor and Dominican monk Pere Labat modernized distilling between 1693 and 1705. Farther north, near the Poi...
For many Canadians, a trip to a tropical locale for a week is a time for relaxation - without much thought given to what is just beyond the beautiful Five-Star resort. Munn also saw first-hand what he described as a "slum village" where people are working on sugar cane fields in the blistering heat.
The butterfly shaped island is laid out like a split personality. Basse Terre, the west wing, evokes a lost world with its volcano and mountains covered with rainforest. Grande Terre, the flatter east wing, is sunny sugar cane country with the main tourist beaches along its south coast. The Route de la Traversee across Basse Terre gives easy access to rainforest hiking trails. Loudly buzzing crickets sound scary along the trails, but Guadeloupe has no dangerous snakes or other beasts, its tourist promoters emphasize. (Guadeloupe's rather scant wildlife is on display at Parc des Mamelles zoo, farther west.) Accommodation ranges from large hotels concentrated at Le Gosier to smaller-scale cottage units (called "bungalows") and hotels. Smaller attractive places near Deshaies in Basse Terr...
A study examines accounting in a sugar refinery from 1900 to 1920 in two arenas of operation. The geography of accounting enabled the workers at Chelsea to have their working experience sequestered by the company. Accounting routinized their work at the refinery, enabling their labor to become monitored, empty of meaning, and, at times, overwhelming. The ideology of accounting provided the company with an instrument of evasion to silence the voice of labor and an instrument of self-deception designed to justify and insulate the authoritarian hierarchy of the company and the power of its Australian general manager, Edward Knox. Accounting became an ideology that sought to legitimate the exploitation of the workforce and the generous return to shareholders.
... after the establishment of its own sugar cane plantations and several mills on the northern rive...
On the sprawling sugar cane farms of far North Queensland where I grew up, and where a frosty summer pav in the fridge is as Australian as a melanoma, the crushing (harvesting) dominates life's cycle, starting in mid-winter and ending late November as the summer holidays loom. Then he'd deliver a literal high-speed standing ovation, standing in the "stirrups" and performing a hand-clapping, sky-punching display of exuberance which had us believing this cane carting business must be more fun than tying fire crackers to cane toads. Around November, with the swelling mulberry-coloured clouds muttering of the wet season's return, the madness would end. Dad would crown his last bin with a broken tree bough and leave it and a six-pack of Cairns Draught for the semi-trailer drivers. The soot w...
IF it ain't broke, don't fix it -- or, at least, limit your tinkering to an amount that won't mess up a smoothly running machine. Among CBS's new dramas is Viva Laughlin, a much-anticipated U.S. version of the weird but wonderful Brit series Viva Blackpool, which mixed dark drama with offbeat musical numbers. Lloyd Owen and Madchen Amick star in the CBS version, with high-profile stars Hugh Jackman (one of the show's producers) and Melanie Griffith cast in prominent guest roles. The storyline revolves around a man's dream of opening a casino in a small Nevada community and the various obstacles and rivalries he encounters. CBS's other new dramas are Cane, which stars Jimmy Smits as the head of a powerful south-Florida family that trades in sugar cane and rum (Hector Elizondo, Nestor Car...
Understanding of international competitiveness has primarily been pursued in terms of economic variables and market conditions. The roles of the government, the socio-cultural-political context in international business, and their effects on competitiveness have largely been ignored. This study involves an investigation into the circumstances of international competitiveness and how it is pursued by firms from different sugar producing and marketing nations. It employs a qualitative method of comparative analysis between Australia, Brazil, and the European Union. This paper highlights the variations of the theme of international competitiveness reflected through different strategies chosen by the three dominant sugar economies
... The export of raw sugar takes place from the cane producing countries while that of white sugar (ref...
Sandy Trudel, Brandon's economic development officer, said it's tough to say exactly how many migrants have chosen to stay permanently since 1999 but claimed "95 per cent" of the 250 Salvadoran emigres working at Maple Leaf right now intend to remain. The effect on our diversity is dramatic. They've become part of our social fabric," said Trudel, who also notes the migrants are driving a housing boom that has seen 1,850 new units added to Brandon since 1999. "It's a tough job, so newcomers don't always want to stay," she said, standing in her shopping-mall store decked out with racks of dried chili peppers, corn husks for steamed tamales and sweets made out of cane sugar.
As a result, groceries and farmers' markets that normally stock fresh, plump bulbs of made-in-Manitoba garlic at this time of year have been forced to offer inferior Chinese garlic that might have had some flavour before it was shipped 10,000 kilometres. You haven't tasted my garlic," she proudly proclaimed. "I was selling some for $3 each last week. I wish I'd bought a big basket of the stuff, which had purple skin and was attached to still-edible stems as sweet as sugar cane. But there would have been no point, as garlic is only great when it's fresh, and even a serious bulb monster can only go through so much of the stuff before it loses its pungent lustre.
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