Focus on double standards, not doubles, Mr PM

THE EDITOR: Prime Minister Rowley appears to be displeased that bakeries and doubles vendors are refusing to drop the price of bread and doubles, despite the decrease in flour prices.

One wonders, is this the same PM Rowley who increased fuel prices six times in seven years, resulting in significant increases in the price of almost all consumer goods and services?

Furthermore, is this the same Rowley who wants to impose even more hardship on the citizens by implementing property tax and increasing electricity and water rates on the heels of a global pandemic?

Rowley’s implied logic seems to be that if the cost of flour goes down, the price of bread and doubles should also go down. Yet by applying this same logic, one must ask why when the price of oil dropped the price of fuel at the pumps did not also drop?

Perhaps the Prime Minister should redirect his focus away from doubles, which he considers to be “nothing special," and instead reflect on the double standards he is presenting to the nation, masquerading as good governance.

LEISHA S DHORAY

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