The meeting between Prime Minister Dean Barrow and executives from ASR/BSI is set for Thursday - which is when the ASR executives will arrive in country. This is considered a last ditch effort to get the sugar crop season started hopefully in time for Christmas.
Experts tell us that is the best that can be hoped for right now because even if an agreement is reached on Thursday, it would still need revision to make it legally sound, and then both sides would sign off. The farmers claim they could start deliver three days after that, but sugar roads still have to be repaired after the recent rains over the last 3 weeks.
So, even if the Prime Minister is able to get ASR/BSI to come around at his Thursday meeting - it would still take another two weeks to start the crop season, bringing us to Christmas. We are told, that is currently the most optimistic timeline.
We'll keep following it closely.
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