What is being reported as a marked across-the-board rise in food prices in Guyana over the past several weeks is being proffered by international news sources as a microcosm of a wider problem as CNN, earlier this month used the United Nations Food Price Index to report a nearly 40% year over year food price increase with last month reflecting the sharpest monthly rise in average food prices in more than a year.

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