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Parents decry cost of living as schools reopen

Anxiety grips the country as parents and hundreds of thousands of children are expected to return to school this week, despite the country's difficult economic times, which are fraught with uncertainty.

With the increased hikes in the country's fuel prices, transportation for students returning to school for the second term has nearly doubled from the first term, and also from three months ago.

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