Price of butane goes up by four dollars

One week after fuel prices jumped by more than fifty cents at the pump, Belmopan has announced a four dollar increase in the price of butane. The new rates take effect on Saturday with a hundred pound cylinder selling for a hundred and twenty-two dollars in Belize City, one twenty four in Belmopan and San Ignacio and a hundred and twenty-five dollars in Benque. In Orange Walk butane is now one hundred and twenty three bucks while in Corozal, it’s one hundred and twenty-two. Customers in the South will take the hardest hit as clients will pay one hundred and twenty six dollars in Dangriga and one hundred and twenty seven in Punta Gorda. According to the Government release, the new prices are based on increases in the acquisition costs reported by major importers of domestic butane gas.