Consumer prices increase 5.8 percent, imports up 53.3 percent and domestic exports down 13.6 percent in April 2022

The most recent figures from the Statistical Institute of Belize’s monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) survey show that the overall national inflation rate for the month of April 2022 was 5.8 percent, with an All-Items CPI of 108.9 for that month, compared to a CPI of 103.0 in April of last year. This was primarily…