And, in the secondary sector, which covers manufacturing, electricity and water and construction, production at the Belikin factory was way, way down. That has to do with the cancellation of tourist arrivals and the shutdown of bars. Here's more on that decline in beverage production in the second quarter:
Jacqueline Sabal, Statistician II, SIB
"Within the manufacturing and mining industry, beverage production suffered immensely from the lack of tourist visitors to the country, the closure of restaurants and bars and the restrictions placed on alcohol production due to COVID19. Production declined by a significant 31.1 percent. Beer production dropped 46.6 percent and soft drink production also declined 7.7 percent during the period. A total of 401.2 thousand gallons of beer was produced in 2020 down 350.1 thousand gallons or 46.6 percent from 2019. We know that in terms of beer they had a lot of difficulties due to COVID they could not produce alcohol due to restrictions that were placed during COVID19 so they did experience a decline due to that, also in terms of local consumption restaurants were closed, bars were closed so they could not sell beer, people weren't buying anything because even if you are going to the store there is a restriction on number of persons that were allowed in stores so a lot of restrictions were placed so we did see a significant decrease in beer production."
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