Prime Minister’s office warns of ‘price gouging’ ahead of Hurricane Beryl

By Aaron Humes: The office of Prime Minister John Briceño has issued a warning, through the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) to shopkeepers and hardware store owners to cut out alleged price gouging of customers seeking emergency supplies ahead of Hurricane Beryl.

What the OPM describes as a “groundswell panic” has sent some Belizeans to grocery stores and hardware store to stock up as the Category 4 storm tracks into and through the Caribbean. In turn, “unscrupulous shopkeepers and hardware store owners [are] raising the prices of their goods.”

While the country remains vigilant of the potential threat posed by Beryl, the Government issued this caution to the business sector: “There is never a time to gouge our Belizean public, and certainly not in the face of what may be a devastating natural disaster. There will most certainly be repercussions based on reports of gouging.” It does not indicate where this may be taking place and with what items.

Nonetheless, the Government advises Belizeans to keep watch. There will be a formal briefing Monday afternoon in Belize City.

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