Punishment not stopping the crime

THE EDITOR: Since price controls were removed in 1993 basic foods became a target. The price of flour and chicken were fluctuating and still is. When Miss Hulsie Bhaggan was making a plea for the stabilisation of basic food prices her former political leader was postulating a different mentality, while the UNC was in opposition.

Upon the entry of the rising sun into the corridors of power the supermarkets were allowed to open on Sunday and since these businessmen were political investors, they used these and other concessions to make a killing on consumers to the point where the line between a supermarket/grocery and a shop is very blurred!

Another thing to consider is that wage increase is used by the employers to urge their merchant friends to increase food prices. That has been the norm since the oil boom years of the mid 1970s! The rise of crime has its basis in the mind of man which is continually wicked and no amount of punishment by itself can cause offenders to turn from their destructive ways.

That chosen path is used as an excuse when it is felt that capitalism is exploiting the poor and disadvantaged who are over-worked and underpaid. These hapless souls are not in line for proper health and educational needs and allow themselves to become so misguided that some form of intervention must take place.

JEFFERY M JOSEPH
Fyzabad