Beekeepers of Trinidad and Tobago United

The Government is being short sighted. You shelter an industry to allow it like a plan to grow with support. Then when it has grown up open it to the elements. Not ad-hoc open up to imported honey because it's a good thing to your political friends.

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I stand with Trinidad and Tobago beekeepers

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I support this ✊

its bin a long time coming

We do not support the importation of honey into Trinidad.

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In the best interest of myself and my colleagues. Our industry, our bees and our livelihoods depend on decisions being made in the best interest of our local beekeeping industry. Do right by the beekeeping fraternity.

The introduction of American Foul brood disease alone will destroy the beekeeping industry in Trinidad and Tobago as we know it today.

My take is i am a small beekepper and knowing how much i invested already. Now to think its all going to be a loss of investment. And now to learn of the amount of other family livelyhood this would also impact on. This goevernment really dont care of we the citizens

I disagree completely with this because this is people lively hood besides that there is a set of pathogens as well as pest that may come into this country.

I am in suooprt of retention of the prohibition on the impory if honey

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I disagree with the importation of honey untill the put proper testing facilities and trade laws in place

Importation of hunny can introduce unwanted disease which can cripple our local bee population

Importation of honey will decourage beekeepers from beekeeping and in turn that will damage our ecosystem and affect our farmers and food supply

Support local bee keeping industry

Some shortsightedness can cripple the bee population as there is more than meets the eye on opening up the sector for importation of honey. We won't want to have an epidemic ( american foul brood) entering the country , then to now be looking to see how to eradicate it. Let's treat it as how the ministry of health treated the covid 19 pandemic.

Before any removal of the prohibition on honey imports to Trinidad is lifted the government of Trinidad, appointed by the people to represent them in matters of public health, and economic prosperity should at a minimum engage with the populace it represents to obtain, collate, and study the affect that such a transition would have on the key stakeholders. Such matters of concern as health, development or lack thereof of the local honey industry, the present condition of said industry, the risks posed, economically, and otherwise, the traceability of imported honey, given the possibility that this jurisdiction may be used to circumvent trade restrictions, the ramifications to Trinidad and Tobago for facilitating the circumventing of said restrictions, the current mechanisms in place/or lack thereof to address the illegal importation, a cost benefit analysis, what is the net effect with Caricom, i.e. a trade deficit or surplus....these among many other concerns need to be heard, studied and sound policy put in place to ensure that there is structure and order provided for any possible changes and avoid a total collapse of the livelihood of thousands of consituents.