The countdown to the first-ever Belize International Music and Food Festival that will be taking place at Saca Chispas in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye continues. The mega concert is now [...]
While preparations are underway for the upcoming music and food festival, the Government of Belize and the World Food Programme Caribbean have signed an agreement that will see Belizeans negatively [...]
Minister of Blue Economy Andre Perez will be returning to Belize over the weekend following his participation in the United Nation’s Ocean Conference 2022. During his time there, Minister Perez, [...]
While we spoke with the Coast Guard Commandant, we asked him about the Coast Guard’s success in removing illegal fishing camps that are set up on islets along the coast. [...]
The 2022 Fisher of the Year hails from Dangriga. She is Vonetta Dawson. As a child growing up on Tobacco Caye, Dawson made it a point to watch her father [...]
The Fish Right, Eat Right Initiative started a few years ago and focused not only on sustainable fishing, but also assisting stakeholders, including restaurateurs and consumers, to know exactly how [...]
Belize’s lobster stocks are in short supply, according to an assessment that has been completed. The Belize Fisheries Department, along with the Environmental Defense Fund and The Fisheries Research Center [...]
If you have conch in your freezer, it’s advised that you make that pot of conch soup or ceviche that you’ve wanted because come Sunday, the season for conch will [...]
A Food System Profile of Belize, conducted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in collaboration with the European Union and the French Agricultural Research Centre for [...]
The Belize Agricultural Health Authority, BAHA, along with OIRSA and Taiwan I.C.D.F., is hosting a four-day workshop in Central Farm as part of a pilot project that Taiwan is funding [...]
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise has also issued an advisory for farmers in flood prone areas. The safety measures advisory outlines actions to mitigate the effects of [...]
A little over one hundred thousand Belizeans, living in rural communities, are between the ages of fifteen to twenty-five. Of that number, it is estimated that twenty-five percent of that [...]
We also asked Minister Mai for his thoughts on the Leader of the Opposition’s recent trip to a carrot farm in San Carlos Village in the Orange Walk District. Following [...]
If you have travelled through the Phillip Goldson International Airport into Belize recently, you would have noticed a new inspection feature. OIRSA is now conducting pre-inspections using x-ray machines and [...]
While the rate of inflation is up, Belize’s economy is still performing well ahead of its projection. Minister Coye explained that despite all the factors that caused the cost of [...]
A representative from Marie Sharps Fine Foods Limited gave a presentation on how accreditation has propelled the company on the global market. Sales and Marketing Director, Jody Williams shared these [...]
With a more reliable system established at the Big Creek Port, will A.S.R./B.S.I. now look to creating refined white sugar? Country Manager Mac McLachlan was asked what’s next for the [...]
The start of the 2021 sugar crop was delayed as a result of a standoff between the miller and the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association, over the commercial agreement. So [...]
With the late start of the 2021 sugar crop season, is the industry on schedule to get the cane out of the farms and to the mills before the close [...]
The United Nations has a number of agencies in Belize and with the launch of its Migration Network, all of those agencies, primarily those that deal with issues of migration, [...]
There is an open call for food vendors to apply for stalls at the upcoming Belize International Music and Food Festival in San Pedro. The first-of-its-kind event which is designed [...]
This afternoon here in Belize City, six fishermen appeared before the Magistrate’s Court to answer to charges brought by the Fisheries Department for various infractions committed at sea over the [...]
About three weeks ago, the Ministry of Blue Economy was up north in Corozal, meeting with fishers from Sarteneja Village and other surrounding communities about the amendment to the fisheries [...]
On Friday night, during a gala event at the Biltmore, the conservation community wished Belize’s Barrier Reef a happy ten thousandth birthday. It’s quite an achievement, despite the challenges of [...]
Today, a preview of the 2022 Mesoamerican Reef Report Card was launched and the news is not so good. The preliminary report by Healthy Reefs Initiative finds that the health [...]
