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Cabinet Green lights Industrial, Health, and Education Policy Reforms
Love FM
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June 28, 2025
The last meeting of Cabinet saw the Briceno administration being apprised of several government initiatives while giving recommendations and approval for Bills and policies. The latest Cabinet briefing shows that the administration gave...
Cruise Ships In, Groceries Up: Belize’s Mixed Bag
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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June 28, 2025
Belize’s economy is showing some serious staying power. Despite big hits to agriculture and manufacturing, the country still managed to grow by two percent in the first quarter of 2025. That’s right, while sugarcane and citrus took a dive, tourism...
Belizeans Losing Faith in Economy, Says SIB Report
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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June 27, 2025
Belize’s Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) declined marginally in May 2025, according to the Statistical Institute of Belize. SIB reported that it fell by 0.5 percentage points from 47.7 in April to 47.5. The dip marks a continuation of the gradual...
PM Briceño: Sugar Industry Facing “Existential Crisis”
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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June 27, 2025
Prime Minister John Briceño told the nation this morning that “the sugar crop has come to an end, and it’ll be one of the worst sugar crops we’ve had in a long time.” He said that the industry is experiencing an “existential crisis”, following the...
Fire is both destruction and rebirth for Maya communities of Belize
Mongabay
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June 27, 2025
Wildfires in 2024 heavily impacted the Maya communities of southern Belize, burning 43,987 hectares (108,695 acres), a staggering 10.2% of the region’s forest and farmland. Fire has always been a sacred element to the Maya people, central in...
Invictus Theatre Commits Entire Summer To Ambitious Production Of ‘Angels In America’
Block Club Chicago - Illinois
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June 27, 2025
IRVING PARK — “I have tons of anxiety about it,” said Charles Askenaizer, artistic director of Invictus Theatre. Speaking to Block Club from his theatrical home at Windy City Playhouse, 3014 W. Irving Park Road, the director admitted some...
National square dancing convention brings energy and rhythm to Shreveport
KTBS 3 - Louisiana
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SHREVEPORT, La. -- Shreveport is swinging into action this week as the city hosts the National Square Dancers Convention at the Shreveport Convention Center. The annual event draws dancers, vendors, and professionals from across the country—not...
Deepening trade relations with Belize
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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June 26, 2025
Business Newsday 19 Hrs Ago TRIPARTITE TRADE & BUSINESS ALLIANCE: TT Chamber president Sonji Pierre-Chase, centre, with her Belizean counterparts – the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Belize Coalition of Service Providers –...
Belize Tax Services Calls Them Out, Business Owner Claps Back
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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June 25, 2025
The Belize Tax Service is turning up the heat, naming and shaming more than a dozen businesses for unpaid taxes in a bold public notice. But while the government is calling out defaulters, at least one business owner is calling foul. Andrew...
Fusarium Wreaks Havoc on Sugarcane Fields
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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June 28, 2025
Belize’s sugar industry is facing one of its worst crises in recent memory. The season has come to a sudden and painful close, with record low yields and millions in losses. The culprit? A devastating fungal disease known as fusarium, which has...
Sugar Season Ends with Record Low Output
Love FM
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June 28, 2025
Today marks the close of the 2024/2025 sugar crop season. The closing is marked with doom and gloom as the season has recorded the lowest output in history. While there are several contributing factors to the situation, Prime Minister John...
Raise Local Sugar Price to Combat Contrabandists?
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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June 28, 2025
With the sugar industry in crisis, many Belizeans are wondering if grocery store shelves will soon be empty. But according to Agriculture Minister Jose Mai, the real threat isn’t a lack of supply, it’s illegal exports. As Mexico faces its own...
Mai Says Sugar Prices Will Have To Increase
Channel 7 Belize
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Mai Says Sugar Prices Will Have To Increase posted (June 27, 2025) And one of the measures the Ministry of Agriculture is proposing is increasing sugar prices. According to Minister Jose Mai, the fact remains that Belize's retail sugar prices are...
BSI Confirms One of Worst Sugar Crops in History
Love FM
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June 28, 2025
At around ten o’clock this morning, Belize Sugar Industries (ASR/BSI) held a briefing with the media to explain just how bad things were. The company says that around 883,000 metric tons of cane were delivered, which is below 900,000 metric tons....
Belize Cabinet to Address Iran Conflict Fallout on Oil and Tourism
Love FM
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June 24, 2025
The Briceno Administration Cabinet is expected to discuss the potential ramifications on Belize following the weekend assault upon Iran in the Middle East. While the situation is thousands of miles away, Belize is vulnerable to potential economic...
New Study Shows Belize’s Economy Hasn’t Progressed in 20 Years
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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June 25, 2025
This morning, the University of Belize turned the spotlight on the nation’s economy—past, present, and future. At a special policy research seminar, renowned economics professor Victor Bulmer-Thomas unveiled a thought-provoking paper titled ‘The...
Belize, World Bank Group Forge New Path for Investment and Sustainable Growth
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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June 23, 2025
The Ministry of Economic Transformation (MET) has concluded a high-level mission with the World Bank Group (WBG). The four-day mission was led by Carlos Felipe Jaramillo, World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Alfonso...
Sugar Shortfall: Weather, Disease, and a Bitter Harvest
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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June 28, 2025
The 2024/2025 sugarcane season has officially wrapped up, and the results are hard to ignore. BSI’s Director of Finance, Shawn Chavarria, says this year’s crop is one of the worst in decades, with cane deliveries falling below eight hundred and...
Belizeans warned about New World screwworm in pets & humans
Amandala
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June 22, 2025
by William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer) BELMOPAN, Thurs. June 19, 2025 The first case of New World screwworm in Belize was detected in the village of Crique Sarco, Toledo District, on December 24 last year; but there are now 160 cases spread...
Belize and T&T hold three-day trade mission
Amandala
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June 22, 2025
by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Wed. June 18, 2025 Representatives of Belize and Trinidad & Tobago met this week in Belize as part of a three-day trade mission with the objective of strengthening economic ties between the two countries and...