Chicken plentiful, eggs expensive

Chicken is available in abundance this holiday season but the price of eggs is once again very high and is expected to climb higher as the Christmas weekend fast approaches.

A visit yesterday to some of the popular supermarkets in the city and the markets revealed that there is no shortage of chicken this holiday season compared to previous years, when there was always a shortage of the poultry.

However there was not much explanation for why this is so. One meat vendor at the Bourda Market reasoned that