JAS blames greed for price gouging of produce

"You cannot be selling a head a lettuce for $1,000. I see 12 ackee pods with the seeds in them for $247 in supermarket. I'm buying a pound a yam for $350. I see one avocado pear, hardly bigger than mi fist, $350. This is not caused by any drought, you know. This is caused now by greed. And I'm making an appeal to say, do not kill the goose that lay the golden egg. And the goose represents our people. They have to eat, they support your businesses. You must stop it," he decried.  

 

Mr. Fulton called for the Consumer Affairs Commission to conduct a survey and to take action to protect consumers. "But I'm not seeing them in the street at all," he lamented.