And on Wednesday, you heard the Prime Minister say that even when the world fuel prices drop, Belize's might not. He explained that that's because the fuel subsidy has caused the government to lose a lot of revenue and they need to recover some of it.
But many complained, saying that they thought the fuel subsidy was, well, free - a much needed assistance to ease the pockets of everyone.
But the PM said this was no secret, however, conceded that they'd be willing to consider other options.
Hon. John Briceno, Prime Minister
"What we want to do is try to find a balancing act. All along I've said it, I did not hide it that it was going to be a loan from the Central Bank. I did explain what was going to happen. Now what we need to do is to relook at it and probably start to reduce it and return a little and keep a little over a longer period of time so instead of trying to recoup in a few months maybe we could recoup it in a year or two, so we could find ways and we are prepared to do that because we do understand that we need to try to reduce the cost of fuel and I know that the UDP constantly says "Oh, you said you were going to keep it at nine dollars." Well at that time they were charging three dollars and sixty-four cents a gallon on excise tax. Right now we are charging once cent, once cent, so that's the difference."
