Time for Change… Gas Gone Up! Chicken Gone Up! Fish Gone Up!

Time for change indeed.

Gas gone up!

Chicken gone up!

Fish gone up!

Only NINE MORE DAYS to go to mark the first 100 days of the new DLP government.

Wunna seh wunna want change… so tek um!

Bajan Free Press

http://www.nationnews.com/story/356208504471061.php

Watson backs hike in fish price

Published on: 4/22/08.

Former president of the Barbados National Union of Fisherfolk Organisations Angela Watson sees nothing wrong with yesterday’s decision by fishing boat owners to increase the price of flying fish.

The owners operating at the Bridgetown Fisheries Complex on Princess Alice Highway made the bold decision to increase their price to vendors from $25 per one hundred flying fish, to $40. Their decision was made after last week’s hike in diesel prices.

Detrimental move

The decision was met with much resistance, as vendors refused to pay more than $30 per hundred, saying if they paid the increase it would seriously affect their sales to the public and local processing companies, and would be a detrimental move due to the current high cost of living.

According to Watson, contrary to popular belief, fishermen do not make a lot of money.

“The fishermen can sit down and come together and decide we are going to be selling the fish at $40 per hundred, and not go below that,” Watson told the media yesterday.

“We have always thought that was a reasonable price. When you think about all the input, it is about the actual cost per (fishing) trip now that the diesel prices are up,” she concluded. (BA)