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Last week, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley and Minister of Energy and Business Kerrie Symmonds signed a Social Compact with the Private Sector Association and representatives from the Trade Union Movement.

The Social Compact will reduce prices on 47 items that will remain in place for the next six months. 

In addition to an expected overall price reduction on items governed by the Social Compact, Value Added Tax (VAT) is off several items, and duty is no longer on some citrus produce. 

There will also be an overall reduction in the prices of some chicken products. However, this does not include specialised items, such as chicken breasts, legs, thighs, or nuggets.

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Speaking at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, Prime Minister Mottley, in highlighting the efforts of all involved, thanked the farmers while envisioning an increase in agricultural output for domestic use and export. 

“I look forward to continuing working with you because I believe we can see significant expansion in agriculture production in this country not just for domestic purposes but through agro-processing and for export purposes,” the Prime Minister stated.

Head of the Private Sector Association, Trisha Tannis, remarked that the Private Sector was “very much committed to ensuring that the prices, as much as we have the control over those, will remain at their lowest level.”

Mrs. Tannis noted, however, that the Association would not be able to control the pricing of goods by “every minimart and every shop”; thus, the public needs “to be made aware of that context.”

General Secretary of the Barbados Workers Union, Toni Moore, stated: “The value of partnership is most often seen in times of hardship.”

“We will do whatever we can find possible to do during these times to help our neighbour,” Moore stated.

Source: Barbados Government Information Service/ SLT

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EUGENE, Oregon: National triple jump champion Shanieka Ricketts has described her performance at the World Athletics Championships on Tuesday night as “redemption.”

The 30-year-old Ricketts had a consistent series of jumps to claim the silver medal in the women’s triple jump, rebounding after a fourth-place finish at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

“It means the world to me,” she responded when asked about her performance.

“It means redemption because in Tokyo I was gutted,” she said. “I finished in fourth and it’s better to finish in eighth place than to finish fourth, so to come back a year after and to redeem myself shows me that I am a champion and it shows me that sometimes you have a bad season but it doesn’t dictate who you are as a person or an athlete.”

World record holder Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela romped to her third world title with a leap of 15.47m for a margin of .58 over Ricketts, who took the silver medal with an effort of 14.89m. Tori Franklin took bronze with a season’s best effort of 14.72m.

Ricketts’ 14.89m, which came on her first attempt for a season’s best, was briefly the world lead until the Venezuelan leapt to 15.47m.

It secured her a second successive world silver behind Rojas after her runner-up finish in Doha.

Ricketts, who was the last athlete to jump farther than Rojas in a competition when she claimed the 2019 Diamond League title, had a consistent series, with three of her jumps measured at 14.80m or beyond.

“It was an incredible competition,” said Ricketts. “I wanted to start big so they could chase me because you know it’s a game. So I was hoping to improve during the rounds but it didn’t happen because of different factors including the wind and stuff like that.

“But I am so grateful to hold on to the second spot and to finish my second World Championships in the second place and to give Jamaica a silver medal.”

Ricketts further stated she was inspired after seeing Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce winning her fifth world title in the 100m on Monday and leading a Jamaican sweep of the medals.

“After the hiccups last night with Hansle we were in a rot and then to see the girls go 1-2-3 it motivated me to come out here tonight and to get a silver medal added to the tally,” said Ricketts, who will now head to the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England from July 28 to August 8.

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