One would need to be a complete idiot in this day and age and particularly, this country – to believe that ANY form of price control could do anything but provide short term false hopes and serve to convince those who want straws to hold on to, that ‘something was being done’…
I, for one, have given up any hope that wise decisions will be taken to deal with this situation. There are too many cases where it seems that the idiotic route has been the position of choice for our governments.
The ONLY avenue through which FAIR (not necessarily low) prices will be arrived for Bajans is with the existence of COMPETING entities, which have no vested interest in COLLUDING with the existing oligarchy.
Only the CREDIT UNION MOVEMENT currently meets all the conditions to fill that role – or they did until the same government rushed a stupid bit of legislation through parliament last week (aided by the blind mice who currently sit on top of the Credit Union movement -retarding its potential)
If you were a pessimist like me, you would wonder if the big boys who brag about giving instructions to our government did not (like I do) identify this threat to their power and issue appropriate instructions…!?
Fortunately for our politicians, Bajans are so ‘smart’ that through all this, our main concerns are that Rhianna should dress like a church girl so that they could feel good about her international success.
No wonder we have Greenland, the Hilton-Veco Prison, Operation free flow of funds and dozens of other examples of wasted resources..
.. a fool and his money are soon parted..
