Watch out, bread going up too!

And if you’re not happy with the price or supply of rice, hold on because things are not any better with that other staple food: bread. Sources tell News Five that the Bakers Association, in meetings with government, is asking for a fifty cent increase in the control price of its sixteen ounce loaf, bringing it to two dollars. It will be recalled that back in April bakers agreed that as long as Belize Mills Limited sold them a limited amount of the Bebe Agua flour at a special price of sixty-one dollars per sack they could hold the bread price at one twenty-five wholesale, one-fifty retail. It is believed that Belize Mills can no longer maintain that price, which is below its manufacturing cost, and will be seeking to eliminate the two tier pricing and sell all Bebe Agua at eighty-five dollars per sack.

… And that’s if you can get it. Right now the company has no flour in stock due to a delay in wheat shipments from New Orleans. An order of wheat that arrived at Guatemala’s Puerto Quetzal on the Pacific for transshipment to Belize arrived three weeks ago but problems with Guatemalan customs officials have delayed the convoy of trucks. According to Belize Mills, the wheat is expected to reach the Belize border sometime Friday.