BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Prime Minister John Briceño says whereas issues usually are not good, he believes Belizeans are significantly better off than when his administration got here to workplace in November 2020.
He informed reporters that the ruling Folks’s United Occasion (PUP) has been addressing the principle points affecting the nation, together with crime, the economic system, unemployment, homelessness, well being, schooling, and the price of dwelling.
Briceño mentioned opposite to the statements made by the opposition concerning the price of dwelling, Belize imports most of what it consumes.
“Secondly, most of our meals gadgets don’t pay taxes. It’s not like we may take away the taxes. Thirdly, we’ve got not raised taxes. And fourthly, we’ve got performed so much to have the ability to, in lots of cases, pay subsidies.”
Briceño mentioned that bus operators had paid subsidies “to attempt to maintain down the transportation prices for workers,” including, “We’ve got managed to pay subsidies even to the bakers to have the ability to attempt to management the worth of bread.”
Briceño mentioned that in March, the federal government raised the minimal wage “regardless that the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Business had been clamoring that we should always not do it, that we should always do it in phases.
“However we mentioned, no, we have to do that instantly. By elevating the minimal wage, greater than 30,000 individuals’ wages had been elevated,” Prime Minister Briceño added.
In the meantime, the federal government says it’s coping with worth gouging because it blamed a “few retailers’ for the issue.
“There’s a drawback, and the folks at Provides Management have identified to us within the cupboard, it says, on the wholesale stage, there’s a fierce competitors amongst them, and so they’re slicing down costs.
“However relating to the retailers, the retailers don’t deliver down the costs; they proceed to extend the costs. And so they try this as a result of a small group of individuals management the retail enterprise in Belize,” Prime Minister Briceño mentioned.
“We’ve got been issuing tickets to a lot of them. We’ve got now even posted their names on social media and even on the information so that individuals can see who the folks we’re seeing are profiting from our residents.
“And lastly, simply within the cupboard, we mentioned the Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB) combines quite a lot of information on costs in several shops. So we’re asking, not SIB, to have the ability to compile the information to say…these are the shops which have the bottom costs.
“These are the shops which have the very best costs, and do the identical factor in Belize Metropolis and all around the nation so that individuals can know the place to go to have the ability to purchase the, the bottom costs,” he added.
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