Data supplied on The Adele Ramos Show by the CEO of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) indicates that roughly 7.4% fewer businesses were registered for 2013 in four important municipalities for which information was available.

Those municipalities are Punta Gorda, Dangriga, Belize City and Belmopan. The data indicate that whereas 229 new businesses were registered in 2013, a total of 246 did not renew their registration.