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Girls and women are disproportionately affected by climate change. Gender disparities have resulted in threats to the safety, health, and livelihoods of these groups, all of which are amplified during [...]
Written on September 28, 2023 | Posted in
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The conch season officially opens on Sunday, October first, and will run through to the end of June 2024. If the production quota is realized earlier, the conch season will [...]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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The United Democratic Party is celebrating a milestone today as it turns fifty. The political organization was founded on September twenty-seventh, 1973, as an amalgamation of the National Independence Party [...]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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The Development Finance Corporation has endured the test of the last sixty years. Today the financial institution celebrated its sixtieth year of service to Belize. D.F.C. has faced its share [...]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Additional data coming out of the Statistical Institute of Belize also shows that the G.D.P. growth for the second quarter in 2023 was two point six percent. This is the [...]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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And staying on finances, in its last report, the Central Bank announced that there is excess liquidity in Belize’s financial system. Central Bank noted that most of this liquidity is [...]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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And, with a commitment to build ten thousand homes for Belizeans, Prime Minister John Briceño says Cabinet is looking at ways to increase funding for the Ministry of Infrastructure Development’s [...]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Insurance premiums – it is a conversation we don’t want to have until an accident, misfortune or disaster hits and we need that financial support to get back on our [...]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Today, the Statistical Institute of Belize held its quarterly press conference, looking primarily at the second quarter of 2023. The presentations centred on the gross domestic product estimates of the [...]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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And one of those agriculture industries that the PM says is underperforming is the citrus industry. The Minister of Agriculture, Jose Mai says the government has undertaken numerous initiatives recently [...]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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El Salvador’s Minister of Agriculture, Oscar Enrique Guardado and a technical team have wrapped up a two-day visit to Belize, where they toured selected farms. The purpose of the trip [...]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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The two countries plan to begin trading before the year ends, however, there is all the red tape that must be dealt with, and then of course, the supply and [...]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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There is a new Mega Bingo jackpot winner; the second in less than two weeks. She is a mother of an eleven-year-old son who has been playing the game since [...]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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One could never have too many sanitary supplies at the nation’s referral hospital. Today, Grace Kennedy Belize donated thirty-six gallons of hand sanitizers to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The [...]
Written on September 27, 2023 | Posted in
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The next municipal elections are slated for March 2024 and both major political organizations are putting together their respective lists of candidates who will be taking part in the upcoming [...]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Last night, we told you about the People’s United Party’s meeting at Independence Hall where the national executive discussed the municipal elections slates for March 2024. As many as one [...]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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When a high-level U.S. delegation visited Belize in early August, discussions were held about the likelihood of Belize joining a multinational security mission to Haiti to help stabilize the country. [...]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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When asked for his thoughts on Belize joining the international community in aiding Haiti in this time of upheaval, Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow also used the opportunity to suggest that [...]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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The steep hike in the cost of basic food items, fuel and other essentials, remains an issue that the Government of Belize is grappling with. Several measures have been put [...]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Tacos have been a Belizean staple in every city, town, and village over the last three decades. Many vendors have raised their families by making and selling tacos. They have [...]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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A well-known Belmopan vendor who has been operating in Mae Gordon Park for the past fifteen years is tonight up in arms. Guadalupe Gabourel, the owner of G2 Barbeque, claims [...]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Housewives and bakers experienced the most unusual of situations last week when they discovered that sugar had gone scarce and they were allowed to purchase only a couple pounds each. [...]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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For well over a year now, government officials have been trying to help the American Sugar Refineries and its partner, the Belize Sugar Industries Limited and the Belize Sugar Cane [...]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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Prime Minister John Briceño delivered his annual Independence Day address last Thursday in Belmopan, where an official ceremony was held in commemoration of Belize’s forty second anniversary of self-rule. His [...]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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On Friday, the Social Security Board introduced a proposal for the construction of another administration building adjacent to the Eleanor Hall Building on Lake Independence Boulevard. That undertaking would be [...]
Written on September 26, 2023 | Posted in
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