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Grand Bahama Price Control Inspections Conducted
Aug 26, 2016 - 10:14:46 AM

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PRICE COMMISSION INSPECTION: Shown from left while inspecting one of the stores are: Mr. Bowe; Ms. Duncombe; Dewitt Farrington, assistant manager of Cost Right; and Ms. Curtis. (BIS PHOTO/Vandyke Hepburn)

Grand Bahama, The Bahamas - Members of the Price Control Commission visited eight stores in Grand Bahama on Tuesday, August 23 and Wednesday, August 24, and discovered six of them were in breach of selling Breadbasket Items over the maximum selling price.
      
Commission Chairman, E.J. Bowe, noted that the stores were in Freeport, Lucaya and Eight Mile Rock and the over-pricing ranged from one penny to $2.95. The items were: tomato paste, $0.34; sugar, $1.58; corned beef, $0.14; mayonnaise, $1.82; rice, $0.13; flour, $2.69; and cooking oil, $3.95.
     
Participating in the inspection were Mr. Bowe; Colin Wright, Price Control Commission Board Member; Emmitt Higgins, Officer in Charge for Grand Bahama; Beverly Curtis, Price Inspector and Kathier Duncombe, Price Inspector.

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Checking The Price of Sugar. (BIS PHOTO/Vandyke Hepburn)



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Removing Items. (BIS PHOTO/Vandyke Hepburn)



           

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