SASCHA WIL­SON

There were harsh re­ac­tions yes­ter­day from peo­ple in San Fer­nan­do to Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Colm Im­bert’s an­nounce­ment dur­ing the Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion that fu­el prices would be in­creased with im­me­di­ate ef­fect. Many feared the hike in fu­el will cause a rip­ple ef­fect and lead to price in­creas­es for nu­mer­ous goods and ser­vices.

Raj Ramkissoon

That’s too ridicu­lous, we was not ex­pect­ing it. On­ly this evening we were talk­ing about that, a friend and I, and we know they have to de­bate it. I was not ex­pect­ing it so quick­ly. We knew it was com­ing but not this fast. My God that is ter­ri­ble. With the in­crease in gas prices, every­thing is go­ing to go up.

Bran­don Lewis

Mad­ness, lev­el mad­ness, noth­ing but mad­ness. This Gov­ern­ment is id­iot. They do­ing s#@t and more s#@t, right through, so just now we can’t buy car again, we will have to walk and trav­el and ride bike.

Glo­ria Pe­ters, re­tiree, San Fer­nan­do

With the gas in­crease, every­thing else will go up be­cause trans­porta­tion for items to dif­fer­ent gro­ceries, or what­ev­er. All the taxi fares, every­thing is go­ing to go up. I don’t know how peo­ple are go­ing to sur­vive. Those who have jobs will man­age but what about those who are un­em­ployed? Crime might in­crease, peo­ple want things and they don’t have jobs or mon­ey so they will do some steal­ing.

Elvin Bathole­mew, taxi dri­ver

I think (this will af­fect me) re­al bad, prob­lems. The taxi dri­vers might have to raise their prices again so it is kind of hard on the poor man. Some­thing have to hap­pen be­cause we un­der re­al, re­al pres­sure right now. Peo­ple will start to cry be­cause the price (taxi fare) will be too much, and then wear and tear for ve­hi­cles and stuff like that.

Sayad Mo­hammed, busi­ness­man, Cou­va

It is ridicu­lous to be pay­ing these sort of prices in this econ­o­my with the salaries that peo­ple are get­ting, is too much. We need to take a stand, this coun­try need to ral­ly, we are the peo­ple of the coun­try and the prices are too much for us.

Rainire Re­my

We have to abide by it, we have to do what we have to do. It hard all over the place. Gas prices did not raise here alone, it raise all over the world.

Dwayne Kan­hai, busi­ness­man, Mara­bel­la

I have two ve­hi­cles on the road and I do sales and what hap­pen it (fu­el price in­crease) go­ing to raise the price of the prod­ucts that I (sell) whole­sale to gro­ceries. So gas alone go­ing up will af­fect not on­ly taxi peo­ple, that af­fect­ing every­body be­cause it re­al­ly hard on the cit­i­zens of this coun­try right now for the poor and al­so the rich will end up poor be­cause of this sit­u­a­tion. So every­body will end up to be in one whole dis­as­ter right now in this coun­try and it re­al­ly sad.