Price hike due to greed

THE EDITOR: Recently the St James and St Ann’s Taxi services raised their fares to $3 a steep increase of 50 percent. One of the ridiculous reasons given by a representative of the taxi drivers was that the Prime Minister and his ministers got an increase and thus they too were deserving.

Now we have the supermarket association telling us the grocery items will have a hike in prices due to the war in Iraq. Do these people think that we are stupid, the cause of these increases in both instances is greed.  The  taxi drivers have not given one operational cost increase on their part to justify their price hike and so too the supermarket association would have us believe that our goods are under some form of war tax.

It is time that the Consumer Affairs Minister Camille Robinson Regis set up a regulatory body to which all taxi drivers and supermarkets must submit a credible case for increases before they are able to increase their prices.

Hop to it Mrs Regis.

MC DONALD JAMES
Couva