Calls to raise Senior Citizens Grant
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Politics
October 11, 2026
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Seventy-two-year-old gardener Samuel Baptiste starts his mornings before sunrise, tending to a handful of chive and tomato plants in the small backyard of his Diego Martin home. The produce helps stretch his monthly budget, but he says it is no longer enough.
Between rising grocery prices, utility bills and medication costs, the Senior Citizens Grant he relies on disappears quickly.
“I have to watch every dollar,” Baptiste said told the Sunday Business Guardian noting, “Once I buy medicine and food, there isn’t much left.”
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