Mottley’s Ministries Seek Strategies To Protect Citizens From Rising Costs

• Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has tasked the ministries of her government to work with the major players in their sectors to develop strategies to protect citizens from rising prices. She explained that the increasing costs being faced by her people were “unsustainable and unacceptable”. 
• Considering what happened in the United Kingdom with the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Rishi Sunak), Mottley said that this is not a problem that is unique to the Caribbean. On May 26, Sunak unveiled a package of measures to try to ease a cost-of-living crisis for the British public, with government support amounting to £37Bn (US$46.61Bn). This support to vulnerable households is equal to one and a half per cent of the United Kingdom’s GDP.

(Source: Our Today