Higher pre-election grocery purchases seen

“I thought that it would have been madness this year again so I shop through. What I didn’t buy was what I didn’t see and de elections come, when I hear is Donald win I went and buy more stuff because I thought would have been more madness,” says housewife, Ronessa Bernard.

Her account mirrored the experience of several businesses that Stabroek News spoke with about the  climate just before the November 28 General and Regional Elections and in the run-up to the Christmas Season.

And although post-election street protests are largely away from Georgetown’s central business district, major suppliers of