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?