Daniel

I get the impression that you vex that nappy hair JC and crew have an opinion. Our proof is the monopolistic system that BS&T continues too have and that is what everyone can see! Proof enough!

All this conversation boiling down too is RACE,all blacks could do is talk, OPEN A SUPERMARKET you all have an oppertunity, u will get all d customers coming to patronise you.

We need to lift the debate because it is not only about race. It is about Barbadians who have become fat and immune over the years to high prices.

Barbadians were promised when Neal & Massy bought out BS&T Barbadians would benefit from lower prices. This because N&M would be now able to buy in greater quantities to the benefit of Barbados. What has become of this plan especially since T&T have been reporting a drop in food prices especially.

On an earlier thread, I asked about the taxes/duties/levies/fees merchants have to pay on goods imported into the Barbados.

When VAT was first introduced, it was said that prices would be lower as number of charges where eliminated.

Prices began rising from that day and every reason that could be imagined was given to justify the increases.

Now that some of the stated reasons are no longer applicable, the search for answers is on again.

We will hear that government charges are too high, port charges are too high,
wages are too high, every reason under the sun except the most important one;
sellers charge what buyers are willing to pay.

You all people continue to ignore, at your peril, the historical impact of these matters. You continue to thrash around in the dark seeking solutions and answers, (or merely talking) and you fail to recogize that we need to get the history right before we move forward.

We fail to understand that ‘every single problem’ we have in this society goes back to the very fateful period when Africa met Europe in the Caribbean——very significant.

Any how I have hope and I will keep plugging away with the message :
TEACH THE PEOPLE THEIR HISTORY .

TEACH US OUR HISTORY

Instead of teaching history, someone should evaluate the psychology of the Barbadian consumer who complains bitterly about high prices while repeatedly purchasing said high priced items.

Gen Lee & M , I reffer to my previous post. Barbadians are no differant than anyone else, anywhere else.
Gather the passionate few, and attack the problem. If you wait for someone else to do your job….it won’t get done.
When I decided that Barbados may be my future home, I began studying, growing vegies in containers.
Knowing the importance of this issue of food cost.I wanted to resolve the problem not only for myself ( for consumtion, and sales). But also to shair the oppertunity/knowlage with others there. There is a lot of info on the internet on this subject. Why don’t you all start looking into it, and shair the findings with each other ? compair the sucess you’re having with your low cost, good food. Grow tomatos in a bucket, potatos/yams in a plastic bag, get a pet chicken, ( rember , only the girls lay eggs, har…!)
Rather than piss on each others leggs, to mark the terratory of loud inaction ?
Everyone can do some little thing, any of which is more preferable than doing nothing more than bitch and cry like a bunch of little girls !

Anonymous // February 22, 2009 at 11:25 pm
= General Lee

THE D L P SUPPOSE TO BE A POOR MAN PARTY,WHAT HAPPEN TO THEM.

I am convinced that there is some sort of conspircy in Barbados against Black Consumers.

A short while ago I listened to the 4.30 VOB news where I had the great displeasure of being forced to listen to the Central Bank Govenor. I just hate hearing her, but because of her position in Society I have to listen.

She was crying once again about wages in Barbados. This is a woman who receive a large pay increase not so long ago from the Barbados Labour Party, she did not complain about that. She is of the opinion that workers should accept working short weeks or week on, week off.

Lord have mercy, not one word from her on the sky high prices which workers have to pay for everything in Barbados as a result of the heartless Merchants in Barbados. She did not appeal to the Merchants on the other hand to lower their prices. All she was interested in was lowering the living standards of workers in this country. She never mentioned that in order to help she would take a pay cut of her fat salary.

Only God can help Consumers, workers in this country. They will get no assistance from the Barbados Labour Party, The Barbados Private Sector, The Central Bank, and the DLP is not helping either.

A prison is burned and the man at the top gets to keep his job and is given a new prison.

Millions of dollars goes missing at a Central Bank and the person at the top is still employed.

In most jurisdictions of the World these people would have resigned as a matter of course.

Here no one in high places is held responsible for anything.

Only the little guy.

Yeah Carson, open up a minmart and give me my coke for $1.00, just like the old days!

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