The ladies and ladies who want sanitary napkins/towels and tampons deserve reasonably priced entry to those important hygiene merchandise. Prime Minister Hon. Philip J. Pierre and the Cupboard of Ministers took a decisive step towards ending interval poverty in Saint Lucia.
The Cupboard accepted a memo submitted by the Ministry of Commerce to incorporate feminine sanitary merchandise within the authorities’s official value management listing. Earlier than the Prime Minister’s Cupboard agreed so as to add feminine sanitary merchandise value management listing, retail and wholesale markups ranged from 90% to 155%.
Due to the Cupboard’s intervention, markups on feminine sanitary merchandise shall be restricted by 35% for native retailers and 30% for wholesalers. Including feminine sanitary merchandise to the value management listing will stop value gouging and promote menstrual fairness in Saint Lucia.
Feminine sanitary merchandise will stay on the value management listing from October 23, 2023, to August 1, 2025.
