Dear Editor,

The prices for food items continue to rise each day  and the average citizen is finding it very hard to cope with this situation. Today you can only buy half  the amount of items that you used to buy one year ago, even as government removed the Value Added Tax (VAT) from a number of basic food items. The prices are still sky rocketing and Guyanese are now merely existing. People who live in the rural areas are being forced to pay extremely high prices for basic food items and when questions are asked  consumers are told that the prices have increased in Georgetown and so they would have to pay more. More often the prices are 30 to 40 percent more than the Georgetown price. …..