Barbados: Ironic Sugar Shortage
Barbados
this, that, & whatever writes about an apparent raw sugar shortage in Barbados' supermarkets and notes the irony that the island “produces about 50,000 tonnes of the commodity a year.”
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this, that, & whatever writes about an apparent raw sugar shortage in Barbados' supermarkets and notes the irony that the island “produces about 50,000 tonnes of the commodity a year.”
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