- 1 April, 2025
FOOD PRICE COMMITTEE IS ELECTION GIMMICK
THE Government is facing stinging criticisms of barefaced election gimmickry with the appointment of a Food Security and Food Prices Committee.
KFC’S CORPORATE GREED
The KFC example fits the textbook definition of “corporate greed” or what the respected Forbes magazine calls “greedflation.”
Prestige’s chairman heads 10 dominant corporations – including the pharmaceutical monopoly – most of which gobble up precious foreign exchange and do not add to the productive process.
CONCRETE SPITE IN CEMENT PRICE INCREASE
SPITEFULNESS from the Rowley Government is the reason local consumers are facing increasing cement prices.
As a monopoly, Trinidad Cement Ltd. (TCL) is jacking up its prices for the fourth time in two years.
MORE BUCKS FOR PROFIT-RICH STARBUCKS
THE local franchise holder for Starbucks made a stunning 75 per cent increased profit in its most recent fiscal year.
Seventy five per cent!
DOES MINISTER GONZALES KNOW ANYTHING?
DOES Public Utilities Minister Marvin Gonzales know anything under his watch?
PUBLIC SERVICE COLLAPSING
PEOPLE have not been able to get electronic birth certificates for the past few weeks because of a shortage of appropriate polymer paper.
The Ministry of the Attorney General and Legal Affairs has been telling applicants that there is a breakdown of relevant machines.
ROWLEY’S PROBLEM WITH DOUBLES PRICES
PRIME Minister Dr. Keith Rowley’s recent comments on alleged price-gouging do not match his track record n the rip-off of consumers by unscrupulous merchants.
MANUFACTURERS WOULD RELOCATE IF LIGHT RATES GO UP
WE would move our businesses abroad if electricity rates are jacked up to an unreasonable level!
That is the firm stand of Trinidad and Tobago’s manufacturers as they toughen their resolve against increased charges being proposed for Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (TTEC).
RICH FEASTING ON THE POOR
I HAD KFC the other day. n addition to higher costs and the absence of condiments, it appeared as though portion sizes were smaller than I remembered them to be.
LAWD! HOW POOR PEOPLE LIVING?!
THE cost of some food staples has doubled since 2016. Many more items have seen price increases of between 60 and 80 per cent over those years.
