If the first social compact between the government and the distribution and manufacturing sectors did not result in savings in the pockets of some consumers, it was because they were not the target audience.Chairman of the Barbados Private Sector Association Trisha Tannis made this clear as she insisted that the compact was developed to assist the more vulnerable in society.“The compact is an attempt to give some relief on what we have worked together to determine is the core basket of goods that is consumed by those in the more vulnerable economic class. It attempts to do so by limiting and severely reducing the mark-up on those 47 items.“It does not include your favorite brand of ice cream; it does not include your favorite brand of caviar; it does not include any of those items,” she stated.“I want to say thank you to all the Barbadians who understood what this compact did for them. If it did nothing for some, then they were not the audience of this initiative. But for those persons [who] on the eve of the expiration of the first compact were asking for the compact not to be discontinued, those are the persons this compact was designed to benefit,” she later added.
