How the cost of living is hitting people (Part 6)

Interviews and photos by Bebi Oosman

Stabroek News on Thursday spoke to Berbicians generally about the rising cost of living and how it was affecting them. Their comments follow:

Michael Johnson, 74, – `The cost of living affecting me because things raise and I ain’t getting no additional income. Is the one income I did getting last year, I getting this year and the prices and everything triple’.

`The goods and services to my mind, the thing become a style and all these name brands, raising the prices. For example, five mangoes right now is for a $1,000, them ain’t got to water the mango tree, them ain’t got to give it more fertilizer nothing, let them justify why mango price gone up, let them justify that?