Posted: Thursday, May 15, 2025. 9:06 pm CST.
By Aaron Humes: The Supplies Control Unit has announced an increase in liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) prices by 19 cents per gallon and $4 per hundred-pound cylinder countrywide.
The new prices, which took effect on Wednesday, are $4.30 wholesale, $5.90 per gallon retail in urban areas, and $6 per gallon in rural areas. Retail prices are up to $1.35 per pound in urban areas and $1.37 per pound in rural areas.
This means that a hundred-pound cylinder of LPG will now cost you $135 in the towns and cities and $137 elsewhere.
An increase in acquisition costs for propane and butane drove the change.
The public is advised that the prices established for imported LPG are based on the mixtures of 70:30 (Propane-Butane) only as per the requirement of the Belize National Standard Specification for Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) BZS 21:2012.
This increase comes after price decreases in the first quarter of 2025 ahead of general elections as well as during the teeth of American winter when prices are typically lower. As spring and then summer approaches the prices rise as demand falls in the American market from which Belize principally obtains LPG.
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