Date Posted: June 03, 2008.

In justifying the sanctioning of an immediate increase in the cost of cooking gas on Nevis, the island's Authority cited data on the cost of the product within OECS countries, including Anguilla. As of June 1st 2008 a 100 pound cylinder in Nevis will move from $140 to $160 and the 20 pound cylinder will move from $30 to $35. The subsidised cost is notably much lower than what consumers in Anguilla currently pay for the product.

As shown above, Anguilla stands out as the most expensive island within the group, doing so even more pronouncedly when compared with its closest neighbours, St. Kitts & Nevis, Antigua and Montserrat. The cost of the domestic gas in Anguilla easily doubles that in Antigua for example.

"In Anguilla the 100 pound cylinder goes for $220. In Antigua $108, in Dominica $215, in Grenada $216.55, in Montserrat $145 in St, Kitts and Nevis $140, St. Lucia $210, St. Vincent and the Grenadines $ 173.50 there suggest to us that the only other OECS country that sells a 100 pound cylinder of LPG or cooking gas for less than St. Kitts and Nevis is Antigua where it is retailed at $108."

"The 20 pound Cylinder in Anguilla sells for $59, in Antigua $ 20.95 in Dominica $44.10, in Grenada $43.81, in Montserrat $ 29 in St. Kitts and Nevis $30 in St. Lucia $33 and in St. Vincent and the Grenadines $37. Again it shows that most of these countries pay more for the 20 pound cylinder than the consumers in St., Kitts and Nevis," said Minister of Trade on Nevis Hon. Hensley Daniel.
 

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