Fairtrade fortnight enters second week
The community has to buy into the Isle of Man's Fairtrade Island status if it wants to keep it.
That's the view of Wendy Shimmin of the One World Centre, one of a panel of guests on Manx Radio's Perspective programme, to mark Fairtrade fortnight which is entering its second week today.
Having gained the accolade in 2008, the Island needs more corners of society involved, she says:
Phil Craine, also from the One World Centre, insists free trade is not necessarily the opposite of fairtrade due to the strict regulations in place globally:
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