The Editor
The Anguillian

Dear Sir:

COST OF LIVING
TOO HIGH

Anguilla is still perhaps in its embryonic stages of development, but I find it is a very expensive island to live in. The salaries and wages being paid in the public and private sectors cannot measure up to the increased cost of basic food items and various services. The latest increase in telephone and other telecommunications services only add to the growing hardship confronting the people of the island. There is a need to increase the take home pay of workers, but at the same time one wonders how this could be possible when the economy is in shambles.

Government needs to examine the cost of living on the island to see what can be done to help relieve the situation. If we who are working have it so hard to mange of our shopping budget for example, how about the unemployed and others with no income or form of support?
I have lived outside the island in places where price control measures were successfully introduced and dare anyone put up the cost of any commodity outside the fixed price. It calls for political will and a real interest in consumers for politicians to take such a stand.
The fact is that if prices were lowered in Anguilla, shoppers would save themselves the trouble of travelling to St. Martin/St. Maarten; more money would be in circulation in Anguilla and businessmen would do better with quicker turnover of stock on their shelves.

Adrian Rogers
(St. Maarten)

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