Winfresh suspends purchase of bananas from Dominica

Tuesday, January 06, 2015 | 2:29 PM    

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) – Winfresh (UK) Ltd, the fruit importer and distributor, has suspended the purchase of bananas from Dominican farmers because of the quality of the fruit being shipped from the island, the President of the National Fair Trade Organization (NFTA), Charles Watty has said.

Watty said that over the past few weeks, Winfresh has been concerned about the quality of the fruit and the fact that Dominica does not have a proper management of the Black Sigatoka, a leaf-spot disease of banana plants caused by the ascomycete fungus Mycosphaerella fijiensis.

“As a result of that you have uneven ripening of the fruits. So as a result of that during the course of December, Winfresh has suspended all the core farmers of Dominica …and as a result you only find yourself shipping just about roughly two pallets of bananas.

“But we have been working with the officials from Winfresh on the ground in Dominica to get these farmers reinstated at the earliest possible opportunity,” he said.

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ZURICH (AP) — FIFA says a Jamaican national football team player and a team official are suspended for 30 days during an investigation into a doping case stemming from a World Cup qualifier.The Jamaican Football Federation announced last month that an unidentified player tested positive for a banned substance at a June 11 qualifier in Honduras.FIFA says the player declined to have his backup sample analyzed.FIFA says it won’t identify the player or official until the case is proven. They have until Monday to request a full disciplinary hearing from FIFA.FIFA says the Jamaican delegation must submit evidence by an August 19 deadline.Jamaica lost 2-0 in Honduras and is last in the six-team CONCACAF group led by the United States. The top three qualify directly to play in Brazil.Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/jamaicaobserverFollow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamaicaObserver

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