Interviews and photos by Subhana Shiwmangal
Stabroek News recently spoke to residents on the West Bank of Demerara at Stanleytown, Wales and Good Intent about the rising cost of living and how it is affecting them. Their comments follow:
Wavan Chan
Wavan Chan: ‘ The cost of living gone up because for the past few months, I paid $4500 for a 5 gallon bottle of oil, now it is $12,000…before a big bag rice was about $5,600, now it is like $7,800. And every other else thing; every, every, everything gone up in the market because I’m getting a small bundle of bora now for $100…and that is hard for small people like me. I think the oil money that the Government is getting, they should do something for everyone because when the storm comes all of us have to take it. So the Government should not sit there, enjoy it and have we suffering. Whatever they can do to lower the rising cost of living, they should do…Another thing the Government should do is to look into the private sector because number one, some employers are not paying no NIS and it needs to be dealt with properly, go down deeper …because the private sector especially, robbing the workers, particularly the payments and the findings.’