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Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Under the State of Public Emergency, food price increases in supermarkets are regulated and only allowed when related to costs and not to inflate margins.
The CCA also has legislation prohibiting cartel and collusive behaviour as well as ‘price gouging’, the latter referring to sellers unfairly hiking the costs of goods in response to high demand.
The statement, whilst some may say, comes a little bit too late, is timely as gender-based violence (GBV) continues to haunt the country. A week hardly passes without reports of a wife, a girlfriend or boyfriend being killed by their intimate partners. Just recently, a high-ranking officer stationed at Glen Valley Barracks reportedly murdered his wife and has so far managed to evade arrest. It is also alleged that another soldier murdered his...