Sri Lanka bakery forced to cut staff after country’s latest electricity price hike

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    The latest 66 per cent electricity price increase announced on February 16, 2023, has pushed Sri Lankan bakery owners to the edge. Sanjula Peiris, the owner of a small family-owned bakery chain in the country’s capital Colombo, had to lay off staff and shrink their scales to lower operating costs. Analysts said the surge in power prices is likely to trigger further inflation in the crisis-stricken nation.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 73

  • @danbacharach7650
    @danbacharach7650 Рік тому +17

    This is unfortunate with the high prices of goods and electricity. It is worsened with the low demand of the baked goods due to affordability. We all hope for an economic recovery as this is not sustainable for the people of Sri Lanka.

    • @sachds3333
      @sachds3333 Рік тому +1

      Two company maintain the monopoly in wheat flour market . Prima company & serendib mills Pvt ltd . They have huge profits. Please find the owners of these two company

  • @dilyaTebya
    @dilyaTebya Рік тому +11

    Perhaps they might have to think of alternatives such as solar power, It will be expensive at the start but in the long run it might be better than what they are going through now.

    • @nightpaws27
      @nightpaws27 Рік тому

      the government dont agree for solar panels because they cant steal money from it

    • @sachds3333
      @sachds3333 Рік тому +2

      Two company maintain the monopoly in wheat flour market . Prima company & serendib mill Pvt ltd . They have huge profits. Please find the owners of these two company

  • @sophiaisabelle01
    @sophiaisabelle01 Рік тому +16

    This is unfortunate in so many ways. It's hard to make a living these days, with the pandemic still on the rise. May they be able to still provide for themselves somehow, with all the help they could potentially receive.

    • @sachds3333
      @sachds3333 Рік тому +1

      Two company maintain the monopoly in wheat flour market . Prima company & serendib mills Pvt ltd . They have huge profits. Please find the owners of these two company

    • @cheryleewilcox3332
      @cheryleewilcox3332 Рік тому

      What pandemic?

  • @michael5366
    @michael5366 Рік тому +1

    Every country makes their own electricity, yet uniformly no resident in any country can afford electricity and food, this is happening in Canada as well.

  • @ranilabeyasinghe
    @ranilabeyasinghe Рік тому +9

    The low income households are always the worst hit in any crisis. Country is a lost cause at this point.
    We need China's creditor assurance and support to get the funding from the IMF so we can improve the plight of our people.

    • @harrycallahan6623
      @harrycallahan6623 Рік тому

      China will extract its pound of flesh. You will become a vassal.

    • @emmapeel8163
      @emmapeel8163 Рік тому

      the same groups who got the nation into the mess are the ones who will save it ?? it's a scam to control the country. loans & guaranteed defaults = ownership

    • @ranilabeyasinghe
      @ranilabeyasinghe Рік тому

      @@iii___iii No use commenting if you don't have a viable solution. The only solution I see is the IMF bailout. And to get that bailout we need debt restructuring assurances from China.

    • @ranilabeyasinghe
      @ranilabeyasinghe Рік тому +1

      @@harrycallahan6623 We don't have a choice. India won't bail us out.

    • @ranilabeyasinghe
      @ranilabeyasinghe Рік тому

      @@emmapeel8163 We don't have any better alternatives. What we have in place now is better than what we had before in my opinion, but the issue is we need a national mandate from the people, which there isn't right now.

  • @minhductn
    @minhductn Рік тому +2

    So sad😭😭😭

  • @jarrodyuki7081
    @jarrodyuki7081 Рік тому

    Oops.

  • @reynaldolazaro2196
    @reynaldolazaro2196 Рік тому

    Philippines electricity rates are highest in Asia if not the world

  • @7_years_and_
    @7_years_and_ Рік тому

    Sad .people can't even afford very basic bread .then what might be the state of other business .🥴

  • @IsengBermanfaat
    @IsengBermanfaat Рік тому +1

    Brother sister in China please take over 99% of your bank at Indonesia, China Construction Bank Indonesia, please do corporate action. The price keep going down since China bought it 6 years ago, already discount 80% from the peak.

    • @noefvon
      @noefvon Рік тому

      Nyangkut bro?

    • @sachds3333
      @sachds3333 Рік тому +2

      Two company maintain the monopoly in wheat flour market . Prima company & serendib mill Pvt ltd . They have huge profits. Please find the owners of these two company

    • @pepelepew1227
      @pepelepew1227 Рік тому

      Japan Trust bank needs to return $400 million stolen money to Indonesia !! This has gone on for more than a decade and proving to be an embarassment. for Japan

  • @Ravennevarr
    @Ravennevarr Рік тому

    Hey more government works right?

  • @yashlande100
    @yashlande100 Рік тому +12

    Both pakistan and Sri Lanka enjoying Chinese debt trap🥳

    • @adis.g6569
      @adis.g6569 Рік тому

      keep being a dog to murica

    • @yokesimtan2459
      @yokesimtan2459 Рік тому +1

      💩💩💩👎👎

    • @sachds3333
      @sachds3333 Рік тому +1

      Two company maintain the monopoly in wheat flour market . Prima company & serendib mill Pvt ltd . They have huge profits. Please find the owners of these two company

    • @Golfin-s1u
      @Golfin-s1u Рік тому +1

      cia bot. us Is the Largest Creditor, Sri Lanka replaced the agent of the us and was Harvested by the us financial policy😀

  • @justinjade508
    @justinjade508 Рік тому

    I'm a srilankan and this is very true

  • @farahalam2580
    @farahalam2580 Рік тому +3

    Sad:(

  • @misterbig9025
    @misterbig9025 Рік тому

    Do they want to work abroad?

  • @yashlande100
    @yashlande100 Рік тому +14

    Chinese debt trap.

    • @harukrentz435
      @harukrentz435 Рік тому

      Your moms debt trap!

    • @torelloBank
      @torelloBank Рік тому +1

      really? google it before trolling or see it on youtube about the myth of it, but we know pajeet like you are too uneducated to understand macro economy

    • @yokesimtan2459
      @yokesimtan2459 Рік тому +1

      DEPT TRAP? Don't take loan from CHINA 💩💩💩👎👎👎

    • @qbq7414
      @qbq7414 Рік тому

      Lol

  • @promisekinate
    @promisekinate Рік тому +1

    *I'm so opportuned irrespective of the economic crisis and financial conditions I am still able to earn $33,500 returns from my initial $6,500 every 10days*

  • @beautyandthesimp
    @beautyandthesimp Рік тому +2

    Use solar panel

    • @ddw545
      @ddw545 Рік тому +3

      Solar panels are so expensive. Not everyone can afford it

    • @idktbh.2421
      @idktbh.2421 Рік тому

      Aren't they pricey to install?

    • @ddw545
      @ddw545 Рік тому

      @@idktbh.2421 They are. Someone I know installed solar with all the batteries and stuff it costed them over lkr 2.5m

    • @sachds3333
      @sachds3333 Рік тому

      Two company maintain the monopoly in wheat flour market . Prima company & serendib mill Pvt ltd . They have huge profits. Please find the owners of these two company

  • @uss811
    @uss811 Рік тому +8

    Not about electricy, it's about hygiene, too. They're still use their hands. 🤢

    • @jacqueline03_
      @jacqueline03_ Рік тому +17

      majority of bread is made w hands dude. it's not an issue considering they often wash their hands

    • @forever5745
      @forever5745 Рік тому +8

      Most part of India ,sri Lanka , Bangladesh use hands often ..... It's not like they don't wash their hands....

    • @Thebrothaisback
      @Thebrothaisback Рік тому +2

      ​@@forever5745they dont wash their bodies, so why would they wash their hands?

    • @ranilabeyasinghe
      @ranilabeyasinghe Рік тому

      Food preparation with hands is part of South Asian culture, even though it's unhygienic, that is what people do here.

    • @Thebrothaisback
      @Thebrothaisback Рік тому +1

      @@iii___iii i have a nose

  • @bradentour3993
    @bradentour3993 Рік тому +1

    They sold their soul to Xi Pingpong. Totally deserved.