BELTRAIDE is making a bold move to transform Belize's investment landscape by sending a high-level delegation to Costa Rica. Over the next two days, Jalen Avila, Acting Manager of BelizeInvest; Danielson Correa, Senior I.T. Officer; and Wendy Hernandez, Senior Projects Officer, will engage in a
The AMEXCID-FAO Mesoamerica Hunger-Free initiative, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology, has successfully completed two key training sessions to improve the National Healthy Start Feeding Program in Belize. The "Mesoamerica Hunger Free AMEXCID-FAO" program is a south-south triangular cooperation initiative
The United Democratic Party’s divide widens with every passing day. The central executive has ejected Tracy Panton, Patrick Faber, John Saldivar and Beverly Williams from the party. News Five has received information that as of Wednesday, all these individuals were declared constructively resigned. According to
The Commission of Inquiry into the sugar industry heard from Chief Executive Officer of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association, Oscar Alonzo today. He told the Commission that since the formula for the payment of sugarcane was first derived in 1966, there has not been
Ahead of the inquiry, the B.S.C.F.A had hired Senior Counsel Magali Marin-Young to make presentations on its behalf. Today, Marin-Young expressed, on behalf of the association, the importance for the Commission to investigate the legal framework, as well as the Sugar Industry Regulations to see
Chairman of the association’s Finance Committee, Javier Keme told the commission that there is concern over a disadvantage in the current model of the Net Strip Value, which Belize Sugar Industries/American Sugar Refinery uses in the method of payment to cane farmers. Keme explained that
Chairman of the Orange Walk branch of the B.S.C.F.A., Alfredo Ortega said that the farmers are not in agreement with the idea that increasing sugar prices will solve the problem of the sugar shortage on the shelves. He told the commission that what should be
The Government of Belize might be facing yet another lawsuit after it decided to compulsorily acquire a portion of Stake Bank land. The twenty-three point four acres of land is owned by the Feinstein Group’s Chairman, Michael Feinstein. A press release from the Feinstein Group,
A police officer has plead guilty to hitting a detainee in the head with a padlock back in 2023. He is Inspector Christopher Martinez, who is accused of removing the padlock from a jail cell and striking businessman Aaron Flowers in the head with it.
The immigration officer accused of extorting three thousand U.S. dollars from a Jamaican traveler was back in court today where she was provided full disclosure of her case. Allegations are that in March of this year, thirty-one-year-old Monique Escalante demanded three thousand U.S. dollars from
