How Trade Liberalization Affects a Sugar Dependent Community in Jamaica

Donovan Stanberry is Campus Registrar of the Univeristy of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. In 2004, he was appointed Jamaica's Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Land and Environment, from where he was transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands in April 2006, as Permanent Secretary. When the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries was merged with the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce in March 2016, Mr. Stanberry remained Permanent Secretary of the merged Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, until April 2019. During his long career in the civil service, Donovan Stanberry represented the Government of Jamaica at many international forums in the areas of water policy and management, environment, agriculture, MSME development, industry and commerce. He has played a major and sometimes pioneering role in the formulation of policies and legislation in the subject areas under his various ministries’ portfolio. In recognition of his outstanding public service, Dr. Stanberry, also  a Justice of the Peace, was conferred with the Order of Distinction (Commander Class) in 2018, by the Government of Jamaica.

• 1 Theoretical Framework.- 2 The Origins and Development of a Plantation Economy.- 3 the Sugar Industry Post-Independence.- 4 The Avalanche of Trade Liberalization Since the 1990s.- 5 The Response.- 6 Conditions of the Industry and the Monymusk Sugar Dependent Area (SDA) before JCS.- 7 The Impact.- 8 Policy Implications.