18 March 2022 10:33 am Views - 200
The incessant price hikes of commodities, including medicines, were phenomenal. Petrol price hikes resulting in the increase of all transport costs was another. Seeing people, both young and old, queuing for hours to buy a cylinder of gas, kerosene and other essentials is so disheartening. But this is what our future is going to be at least for the next several months. The PHI has warned people of rotten frozen food being sold. We cannot blame the sellers since they too are faced with the same problem as the rest of us – the unavailability of fuel to have their generators running.
The list is endless and a salary hike is extremely unlikely.
Two years ago, we were living with great anxiety when the pandemic was declared. The fear we all experienced in different forms and the feeling of death looming around us is all forgotten. We certainly are a very resilient nation with a no care attitude. Or is it that we have just given up hope because of our ‘no matter what happens attitude?’ Then that is what makes our island a Paradise.
The divine intervention we were hoping for to get rid of the pandemic should now be directed towards a huge financial windfall to the nation as well as all of us.