Cabinet is on a cozy retreat in the Cayo District - but tonight at midnight they planned to drop a stealth bomb on consumers - again without notice.
7News has learned that the price of a gallon of diesel is going up by 50 cents when the clock strikes 12:00.
That will bring the price of a gallon of diesel in Belize City to a punishing 12 dollars and eight cents per gallon.
Yesterday the Prime Minister said that a new shipment of fuel arrived a few days ago and that the price per gallon of diesel would have gone up by a dollar - but the government chose to absorb it. We now assume he meant to say that they absorbed half.
And, the other half would have gone un-announced - just like the last increase - which was also not accompanied by a press release:
