Farmers who have taken a double hit from the 2019 drought and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic are about to get some relief. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise [...]
The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, also known as IICA, is piloting a voluntary third-party quality assurance project in Belize and Honduras. Today, a virtual ceremony was held to [...]
The project will also look at legislative frameworks, capacity building efforts and public-private partnership opportunities to facilitate changes to strengthen the food security management system. Minister of Food Security Jose [...]
On Thursday we told you how Mahogany Chocolate Limited, a craft chocolate business celebrating its shipment of hundred and fifty-thousand dollars worth of chocolate products to the U.S. When we [...]
The Ministry of Blue Economy and Civil Aviation, after consultation with the Fisheries Department, announced last Friday that the close of the lobster season has been extended for another two [...]
The area is called “The Maya Golden Landscape,” and it’s the site of an exciting partnership between those working to maintain Belize’s healthy natural ecosystems and southern cacao farmers. News [...]
If you have the budget, it’s a great idea to treat your Valentine to some lobster this weekend as the 2020-2021 Lobster Season winds down on Sunday at midnight and [...]
As the season comes to a close, the Fisheries Department reports that lobster production is up for the 2020-2021 period, with seven hundred thousand pounds of lobster tail processed. According [...]
One month after he was hired, the Sugar Cane Production Committee Manager was fired! On Tuesday night, Naim Cal was given his walking papers; terminated on the spot. The S.C.P.C., [...]
So, as you heard just now, Naim Cal is out from the Sugar Cane Production Committee. But who will replace him? That’s what we asked the chair of the Sugar [...]
In a virtual press conference today, Santander announced that they have had to push back their harvesting for this season. It was scheduled to start some weeks ago, but due [...]
Santander explained that the unprecedented rains last year wreaked havoc on the sugarcane in the fields and made conditions difficult for the company. Today, the company’s Chief Executive Officer and [...]
Another matter discussed at today’s press conference is one that Santander says will deliver a hit on Belize’s sugar producers. According to the company, Brexit – the official departure of [...]
Last month, the Government of Belize settled a trade dispute out of court with St. Kitts and Nevis. Last year, Belize sued St. Kitts and Trinidad and Tobago because they [...]
Ya’axche Conservation Trust and the European Nature Trust have partnered to promote climate-resilient farming techniques to ensure food security and protect natural resources such as forests. It has been more [...]
Ten farmers from Mayan communities in Toledo went on an organic farming tour in the Mountain Pine Ridge today. Many of the farmers are in the livestock business but also [...]
Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise Abelardo Mai has been on a countrywide tour in the past weeks. He has been visiting farmers and other producers in the agro-productive [...]
Tensions between the Valley of Peace Farmers Association and Valley of Peace Farms Limited got high last week. The farmers are blaming the company for damaging their crops. Chairman of [...]
When Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise announced that he was looking at protectionist policies in order to promote domestic producers, it wasn’t welcomed with open arms. Some sections [...]
Cacao farmers in San Jose Village in Toledo are up in arms because they say that the cacao associations are pushing them to undersell their beans. According to the Tzub [...]
So, some of the San Jose Cacao farmers are not happy with the associations – those are the Toledo Cacao Growers Association and the Maya Mountain Cacao. Today, we reached [...]
When the Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise, Jose Mai, told the House on Friday that he favored limiting import permits for certain milk and cheeses on the market, [...]
When will the milling at the B.S.I. factory at Tower Hill resume? It is all dependent on the weather conditions – and the rains brought on by the weekend cold [...]
While milling is to resume within the next few days, Agriculture Minister Jose Mai does not believe that the hundreds of thousands of sugar cane still in the fields will [...]
Today, News Five’s reporter Duane Moody and cameraman Kenroy Michael headed north to the sugar belt to highlight an issue that has cost the government millions of dollars annually. While [...]
