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Aliyah Wiltishra: “The cost of living has gone up in the market. I used to buy Natura milk

a few months ago for $500 and $540, I’m now paying $760 and $800 for it. Greens all gone up

now, I’m buying two tomatoes for a $100 or sometimes one tomatoes for $100. Even boulanger gone up high, before I used to buy 3 boulanger for $200, now I’m getting the same 3 boulanger at $300. Everything costing more money. I could have save before but now I can’t save anything. The government should try to do something about this. They can create more jobs for us.”

Bridget Pestano

Bridget Pestano, 71, a pensioner: “The cost of living is very high and it is affecting me bad right now because I don’t have money to cook a pot of food and my grandchildren are at school without a snack. Beef, chicken, everything gone up in the market. Right now a pound of beef is $800, past few months ago, it was sold for $500 a pound. Greens all gone up. This really hard for poor people. A pound of cabbage now is $500, before it was $260… and is about ten of us living together in a house, including my great grands and grandchildren and the rising cost of living is really hard for us. I try to do my side hustle to sell things because I have rent and water bill to pay. Sometimes I am able to pay half of the rent and a family member would have to help me in paying the other half. The government should look into the rising cost of living and help poor people because it is really hard on people. They can even put on a little more money on my old age pension.

Jamecia Campbell

Jamecia Campbell, 25, a single parent: “Everything gone real sky high in the market. I can’t even afford it when I go in the shop because a $1,000 can’t do anything, anymore. Sometimes I have my last $500 and that even can’t do anything when I go in the shop. Chicken price now is $600 a pound while before it was $360 a pound and beef now is sold for $800 a pound and before it was $500 a pound. Sometimes me and a whole set of people would be living in a house and we can see our way with the cost of items in the shops being so high. Somedays, I can’t afford to send my children to school because I can’t put anything in their lunch kits. I don’t know what I suppose to do, seeing that the cost of living is so high. The government should at least look into this and drop the prices on food items a little….beverages and everything else gone up in the market. I can’t say I’m going to do a lil hustle. I’m a single parent of two children and I have to support them…even

Rachel Edward

Rachel Edward: “The cost of living is very high to my knowing. It has been affecting me a lot because it is hard to get the money to buy the items from the shop and when I get the money, it’s not enough because only two items I could have afforded to buy with the money I had. The next thing is that you are working yes but the money can’t compensate you in paying the bills and so on. The cost of living is really tough on me. For instance, now I’m paying $680 for a pack of Thunderbolt flour and before the pack cost $500. Even the bora price gone up. I’m now buying $200 bora for 1 small parcel, before I bundle of bora was for $200. Even eggplant gone up. I don’t know what the government should do to control the cost of living because nothing really can’t be done to the farmers who are planting the greens but the government could try looking into how the groceries are sold in the market.”

Latoya Harris

Latoya Harris: “The rising cost of living is affecting us greatly because we can’t save anything and sometimes you are accustom paying one price. For example, butter - a few months ago I used to pay $2,500 for a 4-pound tub, currently it is sold for $5,000 and change. Then there is potatoes, back in the days a pound of potatoes cost $80, now a pound cost $200. So, you have to cut back on certain items. If you’re accustom buying 10 pounds of potatoes before, you have to buy 5 pounds of potatoes now. I think the government should put a market in place, where certain items are sold at a standard price because if you go to the market, one vendor will have something for $2,000 and another will have something for $4,000. This price fluctuation is causing a drain and strain on consumers also. So, if the government put a price control system in place or they can do a market, they can probably help citizens better.”

Kwesi Nurse

Kwesi Nurse, 44, an electrician: “The cost of living has gone up a lot. Everything in the country gone up two times than before. One day the cost of material have one price and the other day, it has another. For example, before a cable cost $16,000 and $17,000, now that same cable cost $30,000 and something and $40,000 and something. I would eventually end up charging my customer more on their work because all building materials gone up. I don’t know how people are coping with the rising cost of living because for me it is high. The government should cut prices on a lots of items because people will find it hard in coping with the high price in the market in the future.”