CABINET NOTES: Two Investors representing a firm that exports chicken parts will establish a chicken meat plant in Antigua.
The export of chicken feet is a lucrative business; export to China is contemplated.
The investors will construct a factory building in which hundreds of thousands of broilers will be reared and butchered for local consumption; and, chicken feet, which are not consumed locally in large quantities, will be exported.
The investors already have a market for the chicken feet, and Antigua and Barbuda is a great market for chicken meat since millions of dollars’ worth of chicken meat are imported every year.
The plant will require freezers and chillers that will occupy more than 3,000 square feet of space.
The building is expected to start in 3 months, then another 3 months will be required for the purchase of all the equipment.
The chicks will require several months’ feeding and nurturing before the start of production.
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Snap election????
Broilers take 6-7 weeks to mature. Why is it taking several MONTHS of feeding before production?
Hope these investors know what they are doing, Broilers in Antigua tend to be dificult to rear due to the excess heat.
Give me a job!
something other than a hotel
Hope there is not a plan to kill local poultry farmers busineses in Antigua
Mmmmmm
I know for sure they can’t SABOTAGE this like how the present party like to SABOTAGE GOVERNMENT when they’re not in power.
WAITING TO SEE MORE FOOD PRODUCTION FACILITIES COME ON STREAM.
@ Sikes, I know, I’m still in shock!!!
We better not get too excited though, because Gaston 🥸 might be building some sort of hotel complex for the chickens dem …. 🤣🤣🤣
More than likely just talk. These clowns just never stop with the empty promises. Nothing ever materializes but they keep on hammering away knowing the Labourites will swallow anything. Just like chickens.
Where is the farmers egg box making machine? We were told of its capabilities. Now they’re bringing in foreigners? Has to be a finders fee thing.
What ever happened to the Chinese hydroponic greenhouse project that was promised to produce vast quantities of fresh vegetables?
Can we open an Obeah Factory in Antigua? As we already know, there will be no shortage of customers local and foreign for the products and rituals.
It comes with far less environmental hazards than the production of chicken.
Man oh man antigua a turn into a test plant? Smh let me what this in other islands as well if not I don’t trust this
Why can’t local Antiguans be empowered to own any business? Must we be just maids and janitors? The government should be assisting locals with loans to set up the plant. If foreign expertise is needed to get it going, then bring them in for a time. What does Gaston think Antiguans are good for, just to vote for him?
Well said @ Think about It. Gaston Browne has kept many Antiguans in “bondage” to the tourism sector for some time now.
I’ve never followed any politicians advice in regards to business and work practices; I’d be broke as hell by now.
These guys make a ton of money, but will NEVER reveal to the masses how to do the same, but only show them how to earn minimum wages in the hospitality sector.
Awful set ah people dem.
Those of us with two brain cells will start our own businesses and then pursue have half-a-dozen other passive revenue streams as well.
NOT EASY, BUT EFFECTIVE FOR SURE.
Antiguans weakness in general is that they pay too much time to what these politicians say to them, and then lose way ìn their own pursuits and goals in life.
Who are those so called investors? They do not have names?I am tired of hearing about investors are coming and not one damn thing to show.What has become of that man from Dubai.He got our title deed for lands he paid nothing for at Morris Bay in Old Road.Where is the hotel? A way CALLALOO CAY Garne?
I for sure won’t eat no chicken that white capitalist come to Antigua under corrupt politicians to invest in chicken, no health check capabilities are here for when them drive 10 times the chemicals to grow them fast and give us more cancer, I bet this loser of an investor couldn’t make it in america investing in a full health facility for such feat and meet inspection. Be careful black people we are treated as guinea pig to experiment on.
@Brixtonian that’s a good one!!
Well, it seems our feathered friends have finally flown the coop and are now clucking their way to the bank! Who knew that chickens had such a knack for international trade and frozen assets?
While the rest of us have been frying, grilling, and baking these birds, they’ve been conspiring to take over our economy one chicken foot at a time. We’ve been so distracted by their deliciousness that we didn’t notice their covert operation to infiltrate our markets.
And to think, all this time we were simply enjoying a good chicken dinner while they were hatching a plan for global chicken foot domination! It’s only a matter of time before they come for our beaches, claiming them as prime nesting grounds.
So, let’s raise a drumstick (or is it a wing?) to our new poultry overlords, for they’ve truly shown us that if you can’t beat ’em, you might as well export their feet. Cluck on, Antigua and Barbuda, cluck on!
Look at this bull….. like this is the first of its kind.
A local business man by the name of Osborn had this same chicken meat factory going on.
no mention of it back then, because he is local. No big money to cut in the blood sucking ticks of this nation.
the supermarket kept on importing and he could not get the chickens off fast enough to keep up production and the few employee’s hired.
This time around i am sure they will tell importers to cut their orders by 50%, its coming.
Check my facts call Osborn.268 770 8523.
let him send a pic to this news room and show the public what the government didn’t care about, because it was a local and not an investor with millions.
This island is sick, anyways too much serian chicken and chips selling in this island…. Antiguans, my Caribbean brother and sister, get into your kitchen and cook. Please go to the gym and live a healthy lifestyle.
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