And turning now to some more figures from today's press conference by the Statistical Institute of Belize - they disclosed that despite strong GDP growth - key industries in the primary sector are facing very major downturns. Here are the worrying recent figures form the banana and citrus industries:

On the upside, we note that Poultry was up by 10.3% and Marine Exports by 43.6%.

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