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3/19/06

MiamiHerald.com/AP: Sugar producers lobby for euros by Jan Sliva

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Sugar producers lobby for euros by Jan Sliva

BRUSSELS, Belgium - Officials from three Caribbean islands called on the European Union on Wednesday to increase its compensation for losses from EU subsidy cuts in the region's sugar industry. Government officials from St. Kitts and Nevis, Guyana and Jamaica met European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and asked for more yearly aid in 2007-2012 to help Caribbean sugar producers cope with the EU's 36 percent cut in sugar subsidies imposed in January.

The EU has earmarked 40 million ($47 million) in aid for 2006, an amount St. Kitts Prime Minister Denzil Douglas called ``paltry.''

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