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- ORDER OF SAINT LUCIA
- Lessons from Trinidad Carnival
- How serious has the forty day strike impacted on t...
- Engaging Canada
- Carifta Games Preparation
- 1000 Words
- UWP Statement
- SLPWO on Abuse of Women
- Obama’s address has sparked confidence and hope
- Highway terrorists getting away with murder?
- Do Saint Lucian Women Love to be Beaten by their Men?
- 1000 Words
- “Workshop on “Change Management”
- Were the actions taken by the SEC against Stanford...
- The Commonwealth Summit:
- Jeannine Compton Rambally...Re-inventing Parliament
- Family Fun for 30th Independence!
- Been there, done that!
- Stop the Decay
- NO Musical Awards ! WHY?
- Chavez accomplishes his wish, but can his dream be...
- While Obama redefines American foreign policy, is ...
- The Truth about Tourism and the Real Economic Threat
- Our Country needs a better leader and North East C...
- High-tech Society
- Damn and (don’t) Blast the “Air Con”
- 1000 Words
- Prognosis of the economic downturn
- Lennox Laurencin officially retires
- Independence and us
- National Day Of Prayer And/or Fasting
- Local Optimist Club to Sponsor Oratorical Contest ...
- As Obama launches his stimulus plan how can car ma...
- 30 Years of Independence – Nothing to Rejoice About
- Were CLICO’S Problems Political or Mismanagement?
- The True Spirit of St. Lucia
- St Lucians In New York Gear Up for Independence
- Southern Career Exposition
- New Voices
- Political Lynching” says SLP
- Oh You False Prophets!
- Ms Brafit Says Thanks
- Meet The Hon. Gordon “Butch” Stewart OJ, CD
- Man Or Eunuch Of The Year? …
- ISLAM - Between Rejection and Extremism
- CRC: Call for written memoranda/papers
- Congrats to the Chastanet clan
- SLASPA Begins New Weekly Column “Portfolio
- Accountability and Transparency
- SLP condemns return of Bousquet to Ministry of For...
- Parades and Charades
- Nothing but a farce
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Firstly, Martinique is not a French Colony, it is an overseas French department and has been for the last 70 years. Martiniquans are French with the same rights as Parisians.Indeed, Martinique is as much a part of France as the French Alps.
However, this strike action is a result of severe abuses and liberties taken by the private in particular the food distribution sector, where basic food items are 30 percent more expensive than in France. Basic wages are 30 percent less. A bag of flour purchased in France is 160 percent cheaper than in Martinique. After Hurricane Dean food distributors have been employing unfair practices by increasing prices at will, with no reaction from the administration. And it got to breaking point where the people could not take no more. Gasoline prices also escape price control and that is why gas stations have been closed down.
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