Market List

Market List

Goat flesh

Goat flesh will be relatively easy to come by at this time in supermarkets and meat shops across the island.

If you are shopping out any meat shop or butcher stall, the asking price per pound of goat meat will be $280. However, if your shopping spot happens to be a supermarket or delicatessen establishment, you will be asked to pay $430 for a pound for the meat.

Yellow yam

Yellow yam will be on fair offer in most rural retail markets this week. The asking price for a pound will be between $50 and $60 per pound, and these prices apply to Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market as well.

Less-expensive spots like Coronation Market will ask at least $30 at this time for a pound of yellow yam.

Cooking tomatoes

Cooking tomatoes will not be cheap this week. From the $50-per-pound price that had prevailed for a number of weeks, the current asking price per pound will range between $100 and $120.

Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market will quote those same prices, but downtown Kingston's cheaper outlets will ask as little as $60 per pound for cooking tomatoes this week.

Ripe plantain

This is neither in large supply nor cheap this week. May Pen market will offer it at $50 for the smallest finger, and as much as $80 for the largest. Lower-priced outlets in downtown Kingston can have a price range of $30 to $40 this week for a finger of ripe plantain.

Oranges

This citrus is on good offer these days in most rural retail markets. The cheapest of the lot, Parson Brown, will go at $150 to $200 per dozen, while the most expensive navel fruit can fetch as much as $300 per dozen.

These same prices hold true for Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market.

Downtown Kingston's less-expensive outlets will ask prices ranging between $100 and $120 for the Parson Brown variety, and $240 for the navel fruit.