Almost 100 Merchants Ticketed for Price Control Violations

Meanwhile, the Supplies Control Unit in the Ministry of Agriculture is mandated to enforce the provisions of the supplies control prices regulations. This means that they are responsible to ensure that there is compliance in the business community on the goods that the government has put under price control. When we spoke with him, the Director of the Supplies Control Unit in the Ministry of Agriculture, Lennox Nicholson, told us that the list of businesses that have been found in violation of the regulations has risen to almost a hundred.

Via Phone: Lennox Nicholson

Via Phone: Lennox Nicholson, Director, Supplies Control Unit, Min. of Agric.

“Some 30 odd additional tickets have been issued since the close of that first round and what you will notice – I didn’t, the release did mention – that in January, mid to late January, the results of our second round of inspections will be made public. And what you will notice is in that round is that certain gaps will be will be closed, right? On the first list that was published, you will notice that places like Placentia were unaccounted for; places like Hopkins were not accounted for, areas in Corozal South East, I believe places like Sarteneja, for instance, would not have been accounted for. And you would have noticed that there was only a single violation cited in the municipality of Dangriga. When you see the results in January for our second round, you will see that those gaps are being addressed. So you will see output for Placencia, you will see output for Hopkins, and you will see an increased output for Dangriga. And we will now double back and cover all bases again, and the enforcement work continue. The instruction that we have and the mandate given to us by, by law is to maintain a presence in the market.”