Smarting under rising prices

THE EDITOR: We the people of Trinidad and Tobago are quiet people. We watch prices in the grocery rising and we say nothing. I bought baby wipes in a particular grocery in Tunapuna for $28.99 this year. Recently I went back in May and the  price is now $33.95. Many grocery items keep rising and we grumble inside and say nothing. Do you know if we protest for at least two weeks and leave the bread, milk, rice, sugar and other stuff on the shelves then we could be heard? Little packs of milk which last you a week $20 (one usage a day only). How can the poor man live?

In America $1.00 for $1.00 once you work there, $100.00 would last me four weeks. Do you notice we have to keep returning to the grocery weekly after buying grocery? How does the man who makes $8 an hour survive and care for a family? Ecclesiastes Minister, could you do something?

ELLEN REID
Champs Fleurs