Market List

Beef mince

If you are shopping for the meat in any meat shop the asking price per pound will be $180. Some supermarkets are asking as much as $350 per pound.

Ripe plantain

This is not easy to come by at this time.The current asking price in any rural market, including Spanish Town and May Pen, will be $40 for the smallest and can go up to $80 for a large finger. Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market will quote the same prices.

Pumpkin

Montego Bay's Charles Gordon market will this week ask $50 per pound for pumpkin, and so will most rural retail markets across the island.

Cheaper outlets in downtown Kingston will ask prices between $30 and $40 per pound for pumpkin.

Yellow yam

The asking price this week is $40 per pound in most retail markets, including Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market.

Downtown Kingston's less expensive outlets will charge between $30 and $40 per pound.

Cabbage

Most rural markets are asking the $50 per pound price. Less expensive locations in downtown Kingston will ask as little as $40 per pound at this time.

Green bananas

This is on good offer these days in most retail markets across the island. Most rural markets, including Montego Bay's Charles Gordon Market, are quoting prices ranging between $80 and $100 per dozen.

Cheaper outlets in downtown Kingston will ask as little as $50 to $60 per dozen.

Cooking tomatoes

The per pound price being quoted in most markets at this time is $80.

Downtown Kingston's cheaper outlets may ask as little as $50 per pound.