Economy grows by 5.4% in the second quarter 2018; consumer prices up 0.5%, both imports and exports up in July 2018.

Consumer Price Index Figures released by the Institute show that the All-Items Consumer Price Index for July 2018 stood at 105.0, an increase of 0.5 percent from 104.4 in July 2017. On average, during this month in 2018, the prices of goods and services regularly purchased by Belizean households were 0.5 percent higher than they…