Big Creek Better for Business Says BSI/ASR
The press also asked about the company’s decision to move its sugar loading operations from the Port of Belize to the Big Creek Port. The company asserts that this will [...]
The press also asked about the company’s decision to move its sugar loading operations from the Port of Belize to the Big Creek Port. The company asserts that this will [...]
If you feel like you have been paying more for basic necessities lately, you are right. Belizeans have been paying more for transportation, food, electricity, water and gas, according to [...]
Also on the brighter side, this month Belize’s imports have almost doubled compared to this time period last year. In June of 2020, Belize exported one hundred and three million [...]
The Port of Belize Limited is slowly bouncing back after taking a major hit to its bottom line in 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sugar exports were [...]
C.E.O. Lane also addressed the negotiations between P.B.L. and the Christian Workers Union since talks resume on Wednesday. Lane says a first meeting will be held to discuss the staff [...]
The Public Service Union is speaking out following a leaked letter that guarantees C.E.O. salaries and allowances will not be touched. The document, from the Office of the Prime Minister, [...]
The P.S.U. is now seeking legal advice because the Public Sector Emoluments and Allowances Bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives on May twenty-eighth and in the Senate [...]
The Public Service Union has also written to Governor-General Froyla T’zalam, expressing concern over the Governor-General Conditions of Service Amendment Bill, 2021, which provides for an increase in salary, duty [...]
There is some not-so-welcome news tonight for Belizean commuters. The Ministry of Finance announced today that effective Thursday, July twenty-second; the pump price of two fuel products will change. Regular [...]
In news from this week’s Cabinet meeting, the Prime Minister is in the United States to meet the U.N. Secretary-General, António Guterres for discussions on climate change, Belize’s work on [...]
President of the Belize National Teachers Union has sought assurance from the Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance, Christopher Coye, that financial institutions will continue to offer forbearance [...]
What’s in a name you ask? Plenty apparently, so don’t call it “grocery bags” – it is now “food assistance”. The programme has a new name since it was rebranded. [...]
Among the complaints raised by public officers facing salary cuts and increment freezes is that G.O.B. is not doing enough to come down on tax evasion. On Friday, a bill [...]
For years, Cemento Progreso has been imported into Belize from neighboring Guatemala. The powder for concrete has been used extensively in the infrastructure development and housing construction of the country. [...]
The formal exportation of cattle to the Mexican market was further realised today when the process of transporting hundreds of head of cattle to that neighbouring country began. The Mexican [...]
You may be missing conch for a while with the Queen Conch season closed right now, but today the 2021 lobster season officially opened. We head to San Pedro where [...]
Belize’s economy shrank for a fourth consecutive quarter, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest Statistical Institute of Belize data shows that Belize produced sixty million dollars less [...]
The Turneffe Atoll Sustainability secured a one-point two-million-dollar blended finance facility to strengthen the management of Belize’s marine protected areas and contribute to its blue economy. TASA is one of [...]
Executive Director Valdemar Andrade says the one point two million dollars blended financing will also be put back into the management of fisheries and by extension the marine protected areas [...]
We also got a chance to ask PM Briceño for his thoughts on comments made by Doctor Jaime Guajardo, the I.M.F. Mission Chief of Belize about the International Monetary Fund’s [...]
Statutory Instrument Number fifty-seven of 2021 may have been passed and slipped under the radar of most people, but not the fisher folk community who today, came out expressing their [...]
Debt levels were high for many countries prior to the COVID-19, but the pandemic has worsened the situation in many low and middle-income countries. Revenue collection and economic activity have [...]
This morning the news of multiple terminations at the Belize City Council spread like wildfire on social media. But Mayor Bernard Wagner told News Five the employees in question are [...]
As we’ve reported over the last few weeks, Belize has gotten an extension of its international bond payment. But U.D.P. Chairman Michael Peyrefitte says that he remains concerned about how [...]
The price of regular gasoline and diesel will increase at midnight tonight. The price of regular fuel will increase by eight cents, from ten dollars and ninety-five cents to eleven [...]
