Agriculture C.E.O. Says Corona Permit was Based on Resorts’ Request

Agriculture C.E.O. Servulo Baeza explained to News Five that Goliath had not met the requirements to proceed with the importation of the beers, and now their permit has been put on pause. He said that the permit was granted because resorts were asking for the availability of Corona beer in Belize.

 

Via phone: Servulo Baeza, C.E.O., Ministry of Agriculture

“The conditions were that one, each bottle has to have the “Belize Market” and the address of the importer and that they have to pay all the duties. And as far as I know, they have not brought anything in to show that they are meeting the requirements because they would have to show that each bottle is labeled the Belize Market and so forth. I understand that there are bigger setbacks because for that amount of product, no big company wa goh do that, nuh and will take on the expense for going there, because that will be an additional expense for the labeling. So that is why even from the onset, I really thought that this thing wouldn’t fly. But they wanted to try it. The tourism sector is demanding and is always asking us for different things. This is one of the things that some of the resorts are asking us for, so that is how it came about.”