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How time killed quest to cushion local millers from tax-free sugar

40 tonnes of relief food from Kuwait was brought in by Kuwait Airforce plane at JKIA. The foods include rice, sugar, cooking oil, salt, milk and dates. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

Time has killed a bid to cushion the struggling sugar industry from the onslaught by importers shipping duty-free sugar in the country.

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