{"id":83840,"date":"2026-02-26T14:14:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/?p=83840"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:14:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T20:14:53","slug":"cheaper-fuel-brings-relief-as-other-costs-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/cheaper-fuel-brings-relief-as-other-costs-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheaper Fuel Brings Relief as Other Costs Climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Belizeans started 2026 with almost no change in the overall cost of living. The national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/rising-rents-and-healthcare-costs-push-inflation-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inflation<\/a> rate was 0.04% in January compared to last year, according to the Statistical Institute of Belize. In simple terms, prices stayed about the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Groceries got a little more expensive. Fresh meats, bread, and drinks like coffee and juices all went up. Stewed pork rose the most, jumping nearly 18%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rent went up, and so did the price of cooking gas. A 100-pound cylinder of LPG now costs $130.63, about five dollars more than last January. Going to the doctor or buying medicine costs more, with surgery fees increasing almost 6%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The good news came at the gas pump. Premium gasoline dropped by $1.12 per gallon, regular fell by $1.03, and diesel went down by $0.52.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Punta Gorda saw the biggest increase at 2.6%, with higher costs for food, LPG, and personal items. Orange Walk had the lowest rate at -1.9%, thanks to cheaper fuel and local produce like tomatoes, carrots, and beans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Between December and January, prices overall fell by 0.5%, mostly because fuel got cheaper.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belizeans started 2026 with almost no change in the overall cost of living. The national inflation rate was 0.04% in January compared to last year, according to the Statistical Institute of Belize. In simple terms, prices stayed about the same. Groceries got a little more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":83841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[484,449,444,475],"tags":[11049,11050],"class_list":["post-83840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-economy","category-latest-news","category-news","tag-2026-02-26","tag-cheaper-fuel-brings-relief-as-other-costs-climb"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83842,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83840\/revisions\/83842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greaterbelize.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}