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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby paid_influencer » April 28th, 2022, 9:00 pm

Wendell Mottley needs more recognition too, imo.

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby RedVEVO » April 30th, 2022, 4:58 pm

Today peeps buying cooking oil in haste since there seems to be a shortage .

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby hover11 » April 30th, 2022, 5:02 pm

NFM slips into the red with $783m loss

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/04/30/nfm-sl ... s.facebook

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby 88sins » April 30th, 2022, 5:29 pm

hover11 wrote:NFM slips into the red with $783m loss

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/04/30/nfm-sl ... s.facebook


And with that and the increasing cost of wheat and corn looming in the near future, we can reasonably expect an increase in NFM products in the future.

The people voted for this. Let them have it.

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby Cantmis » April 30th, 2022, 5:32 pm

Oil going up every week !

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby wing » April 30th, 2022, 6:06 pm

88sins wrote:
hover11 wrote:NFM slips into the red with $783m loss

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/04/30/nfm-sl ... s.facebook


And with that and the increasing cost of wheat and corn looming in the near future, we can reasonably expect an increase in NFM products in the future.

The people voted for this. Let them have it.
How did we vote for increase in global wheat and oil prices? I'd suggest that the subsidy removed from the fuel can be applied to basic essentials.

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby timelapse » April 30th, 2022, 6:27 pm

wing wrote:
88sins wrote:
hover11 wrote:NFM slips into the red with $783m loss

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/04/30/nfm-sl ... s.facebook


And with that and the increasing cost of wheat and corn looming in the near future, we can reasonably expect an increase in NFM products in the future.

The people voted for this. Let them have it.
How did we vote for increase in global wheat and oil prices? I'd suggest that the subsidy removed from the fuel can be applied to basic essentials.
It won't.We taking off fuel subsidy and not seeing where it going

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby zoom rader » April 30th, 2022, 9:16 pm

wing wrote:
88sins wrote:
hover11 wrote:NFM slips into the red with $783m loss

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/04/30/nfm-sl ... s.facebook


And with that and the increasing cost of wheat and corn looming in the near future, we can reasonably expect an increase in NFM products in the future.

The people voted for this. Let them have it.
How did we vote for increase in global wheat and oil prices? I'd suggest that the subsidy removed from the fuel can be applied to basic essentials.
If the fvcking red government had put focus on food security in place, the impact would not have been this worst.

Red government failed at food security.

Yet still idiots like you come with this bullshitt to defend this arse of a government.

Simple Guyana don't complain about food security, they have rice, sugar and ample vegetables.

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby Redress10 » April 30th, 2022, 9:27 pm

wing wrote:
88sins wrote:
hover11 wrote:NFM slips into the red with $783m loss

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/04/30/nfm-sl ... s.facebook


And with that and the increasing cost of wheat and corn looming in the near future, we can reasonably expect an increase in NFM products in the future.

The people voted for this. Let them have it.
How did we vote for increase in global wheat and oil prices? I'd suggest that the subsidy removed from the fuel can be applied to basic essentials.


The country has been running successive budget deficits for years now. Any money saved from decreasing subsidies should be used to decrease those deficits and not funneled into other wasteful subsidies.

Gov't needs to focus on food security policies and not subsidising food consumption. That only going to result in artificial demand for goods.

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby daring dragoon » May 1st, 2022, 6:37 am

to late to do anything now. one half population go survive on fry chicken, orange/grape soda and watermelon and the other half on saheena, paratha and channa and aloo and red solo. so once we have money for cooking oil, chicken, colored sugar water,flout and aloo we in TT happy.

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby teems1 » May 1st, 2022, 6:55 am

Redress10 wrote:
wing wrote:
88sins wrote:
hover11 wrote:NFM slips into the red with $783m loss

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/04/30/nfm-sl ... s.facebook


And with that and the increasing cost of wheat and corn looming in the near future, we can reasonably expect an increase in NFM products in the future.

The people voted for this. Let them have it.
How did we vote for increase in global wheat and oil prices? I'd suggest that the subsidy removed from the fuel can be applied to basic essentials.


The country has been running successive budget deficits for years now. Any money saved from decreasing subsidies should be used to decrease those deficits and not funneled into other wasteful subsidies.

Gov't needs to focus on food security policies and not subsidising food consumption. That only going to result in artificial demand for goods.
Food security policies run at a massive loss in nearly every country but they keep it due to necessity.

Take a look at Clarkson's Farm on Amazon and you'll see how UK subsidies wo

It's far cheaper to import staples from the US, China or India than grow locally due to the economies of scale.

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby 88sins » May 1st, 2022, 7:04 am

wing wrote:How did we vote for increase in global wheat and oil prices? I'd suggest that the subsidy removed from the fuel can be applied to basic essentials.


How did you vote for this? Ok, I'll spell it out for you.

When you vote for incompetents that have absolutely no medium to long term plan for the development of the agricultural sector to achieve at least some small semblance of food security, people who see no problem with an entire nation being heavily dependent on imported raw materials for food production, and they get your vote because of their hair texture or because they gave you a ditty to sing and a red/yellow/green/white jersey, that's how you voted for that.

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby shake d livin wake d dead » May 1st, 2022, 7:43 am

Govt putting more focus on growing weed S opposed to Food production. Why not encourage people to grow more food as opposed to planting all this weed? Can you eat the weed for breakfast? Ferris wheel only pushing that agenda because he stands to gain the most. Ohhhh well supporters blind as usual....cuz 420 ftw

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby zoom rader » May 1st, 2022, 8:37 am

shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Govt putting more focus on growing weed S opposed to Food production. Why not encourage people to grow more food as opposed to planting all this weed? Can you eat the weed for breakfast? Ferris wheel only pushing that agenda because he stands to gain the most. Ohhhh well supporters blind as usual....cuz 420 ftw
Gone are rice, sheep, goat , sugar and dairy production.

Weed must sell to make 1% rich

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby matix » May 1st, 2022, 8:40 am

zoom rader wrote:
shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Govt putting more focus on growing weed S opposed to Food production. Why not encourage people to grow more food as opposed to planting all this weed? Can you eat the weed for breakfast? Ferris wheel only pushing that agenda because he stands to gain the most. Ohhhh well supporters blind as usual....cuz 420 ftw
Gone are rice, sheep, goat , sugar and dairy production.

Weed must sell to make 1% rich


Citrus, cocoa, coffee, coconut

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby hover11 » May 1st, 2022, 8:44 am

Who cares about agriculture? When we could buy all our food from other countries UNTIL a war breaks out and those same countries keep that food for themselves

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby 88sins » May 1st, 2022, 9:32 am

hover11 wrote:Who cares about agriculture? When we could buy all our food from other countries UNTIL a war breaks out and those same countries keep that food for themselves



Don't even need a war for us here to start feeling the squeeze.
One drought, a plague of pests, a widespread bout of a disease affecting a major producer, that is all it'd take.

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby pugboy » May 1st, 2022, 10:02 am

and keep young quamie occupied on the block retailing

of course until man from the next street decide to take him out

zoom rader wrote:
Weed must sell to make 1% rich

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby MaxPower » May 1st, 2022, 11:25 am

When you Trinis going to realize that the problem here is the Trinidadian culture?

Stop blaming the Govt for everything. Yes they have a part to play, but so do the citizens.

Even under a prefect Govt, they will ketch their royal ass to implement change because of the mentality of the citizens.

You Trinis need to fix yourselves.

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby hover11 » May 1st, 2022, 1:01 pm

MaxPower wrote:When you Trinis going to realize that the problem here is the Trinidadian culture?

Stop blaming the Govt for everything. Yes they have a part to play, but so do the citizens.

Even under a prefect Govt, they will ketch their royal ass to implement change because of the mentality of the citizens.

You Trinis need to fix yourselves.
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As always well said Max

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby timelapse » May 1st, 2022, 3:25 pm

They don't need to get involved in the weed industry.Just legalize it and leave it there.
Focus on food crops.

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby daring dragoon » May 1st, 2022, 6:14 pm

zoom rader wrote:
wing wrote:
88sins wrote:
hover11 wrote:NFM slips into the red with $783m loss

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/04/30/nfm-sl ... s.facebook


And with that and the increasing cost of wheat and corn looming in the near future, we can reasonably expect an increase in NFM products in the future.

The people voted for this. Let them have it.
How did we vote for increase in global wheat and oil prices? I'd suggest that the subsidy removed from the fuel can be applied to basic essentials.
If the fvcking red government had put focus on food security in place, the impact would not have been this worst.

Red government failed at food security.

Yet still idiots like you come with this bullshitt to defend this arse of a government.

Simple Guyana don't complain about food security, they have rice, sugar and ample vegetables.


guyana growing acres of grapes and strawberry mow. We in TT cant even grow bananas or short term crops without bandits thieving the people crops of wasa flood water destroying everything.

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby Redress10 » May 2nd, 2022, 1:37 am

teems1 wrote:
Redress10 wrote:
wing wrote:
88sins wrote:
hover11 wrote:NFM slips into the red with $783m loss

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/04/30/nfm-sl ... s.facebook


And with that and the increasing cost of wheat and corn looming in the near future, we can reasonably expect an increase in NFM products in the future.

The people voted for this. Let them have it.
How did we vote for increase in global wheat and oil prices? I'd suggest that the subsidy removed from the fuel can be applied to basic essentials.


The country has been running successive budget deficits for years now. Any money saved from decreasing subsidies should be used to decrease those deficits and not funneled into other wasteful subsidies.

Gov't needs to focus on food security policies and not subsidising food consumption. That only going to result in artificial demand for goods.
Food security policies run at a massive loss in nearly every country but they keep it due to necessity.

Take a look at Clarkson's Farm on Amazon and you'll see how UK subsidies wo

It's far cheaper to import staples from the US, China or India than grow locally due to the economies of scale.



There is a difference between subsidising production and subsidising consumption. Gov't can subsidise production which may result in increased production and even exports. But the latter just encourages wastage. Similar to the fuel subsidy. The money saved from subsidy will just be spent on another form of consumption such as fSt food, cigarettes and alcohol. I'm sure you don't want your tax dollars spending on ppl bad habits.

Economies of scale could also exists here with partnerships with Guyana, Suriname etc. Agriculture is land intensive and those countries have plenty land but little people so their land is available for agricultural use.

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby RedVEVO » May 2nd, 2022, 1:41 am

hover11 wrote:
MaxPower wrote:When you Trinis going to realize that the problem here is the Trinidadian culture?

Stop blaming the Govt for everything. Yes they have a part to play, but so do the citizens.

Even under a prefect Govt, they will ketch their royal ass to implement change because of the mentality of the citizens.

You Trinis need to fix yourselves.
X3000

As always well said Max


X3001

It's easier to open a bar than grow ochre and bodie .

Then some peeps like gun running.

T&T need some "other set immigrants" to come into T&T and grow food crops .

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby De Dragon » May 4th, 2022, 3:50 pm

zoom rader wrote:
wing wrote:
88sins wrote:
hover11 wrote:NFM slips into the red with $783m loss

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/04/30/nfm-sl ... s.facebook


And with that and the increasing cost of wheat and corn looming in the near future, we can reasonably expect an increase in NFM products in the future.

The people voted for this. Let them have it.
How did we vote for increase in global wheat and oil prices? I'd suggest that the subsidy removed from the fuel can be applied to basic essentials.
If the fvcking red government had put focus on food security in place, the impact would not have been this worst.

Red government failed at food security.

Yet still idiots like you come with this bullshitt to defend this arse of a government.

Simple Guyana don't complain about food security, they have rice, sugar and ample vegetables.

Careful eh! It have some sensitive fellers in this forum :|

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby bluefete » May 4th, 2022, 4:29 pm

zoom rader wrote:
shake d livin wake d dead wrote:Govt putting more focus on growing weed S opposed to Food production. Why not encourage people to grow more food as opposed to planting all this weed? Can you eat the weed for breakfast? Ferris wheel only pushing that agenda because he stands to gain the most. Ohhhh well supporters blind as usual....cuz 420 ftw
Gone are rice, sheep, goat , sugar and dairy production.

Weed must sell to make 1% rich


Ferris Bueller's family have the dibs on the marijuana industry.

Don't forget they were the first to set up commercial business before the law was changed.

https://tt.loopnews.com/content/busines ... l-business

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby timelapse » May 4th, 2022, 4:49 pm

I miss the whole thing.How does one get a license to sell ?

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby pugboy » May 4th, 2022, 4:50 pm

increased weed demand with the legalization is also what contributing to escalating gang warfare
every tom dick and harry feel they could run a block dealership and stepping on they neighbour toes

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby daring dragoon » May 4th, 2022, 6:55 pm

the blackman done smoking weed and ketchin he ass, making children all over the place while he and the black woman high, doing all kinda sheit while high now he want them to smoke more and remain dependent on the pnm and they food card to make more pikney to vote pnm.
when that man dead the earth go refuse he body for destroying the lives for thousands for votes. hell to be too good for he.

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Re: Food prices in Trinidad and Tobago

Postby hover11 » May 5th, 2022, 5:54 am

CENTRAL BANK CONCERNED ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT AND HIGH PRICES.

TRINIDAD and Tobago will, this year, participate in the world's slight rebound from the covid19 pandemic – as now dampened by fallout from Russia's invasion of the Ukraine – said the Central Bank's Annual Economic Survey 2021.

"TT’s short-term outlook is expected to improve in 2022," the report said.

With the reopening of the economy, growth is expected in TT's energy and non-energy sectors.

However, the report had concerns about jobs and high prices, especially in the building sector and for foodstuffs.

Higher freight prices and global shortages for raw materials drove up prices in the construction materials especially steel and lumber.

https://newsday.co.tt/2022/05/05/centra ... ng-prices/

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