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The Senate Special Select Committee that is tasked with investigating the Portico Definitive Agreement will hold its third hearing on Wednesday inside the National Assembly building in Belmopan. Among those expected to make an appearance to answer the committee’s questions are Hugo Patt, the Deputy Party Leader of the United Democratic Party, and Erwin Contreras, […]
Written on January 23, 2024 | Posted in
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The Leader of the Opposition, Moses “Shyne” Barrow, says he believes Agriculture Minister Jose Abelardo Mai is being dishonest with Belizeans. Last week, when reporters questioned Minister Mai about the sugar shortage on the local market, he indicated that the shortage was a result of increased demand in December. Barrow says he rejects that explanation. […]
Written on January 23, 2024 | Posted in
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Barrow was also asked how many municipalities he believes the United Democratic Party will win on March sixth. He answered while criticising P.U.P. municipal bodies across the country for their increased investments in infrastructural upgrades weeks before the upcoming municipal elections. Moses “Shyne” Barrow, Leader of the Opposition “It does not work. It did […]
Written on January 23, 2024 | Posted in
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Over forty personnel from the public and private sectors came together for a three-day technical workshop aimed at improving development financing and planning to meet Belize’s Sustainable Development Goals and climate objectives. This is being done through the implementation of an Integrated National Financing Framework approach. Considerations are being given to the nation’s SDGs and […]
Written on January 23, 2024 | Posted in
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As of Wednesday, January twenty-fourth, over nine hundred illicit weapons in police custody will have been destroyed by new machinery acquired by the Belize Police Department. The Government of Belize, in partnership with CARICOM IMPACS, and Mines Advisory Group, has launched a program that seeks to rid the streets of dangerous machinery and properly dispose […]
Written on January 22, 2024 | Posted in
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In just a few short months, The World Health Organization is hosting its seventy-seventh World Health Assembly where delegations from all Member States convene to determine the organization’s policies, appoint the Director-General, and review and approve the proposed program budget. The assembly, which will be held from May twenty-seventh to June first, will include its […]
Written on January 22, 2024 | Posted in
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The recent shortage of sugar that the country faced prior to the Christmas holidays should not be a recurrent problem, not if an arrangement between the Ministry of Agriculture, A.S.R./B.S.I. and Santander is properly set in place. Recently, Santander issued a release in which it stated that Belize should never be in a position of […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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Will the government adjust the prices of sugar that are sold locally? That is the question that cane farmers, pastry makers and restaurateurs are probably asking. The prices of Belize’s sugar sold locally, both white and brown, have been blamed for the high contraband activity of the product, resulting in sugar being smuggled into neighbouring […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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The year 2023 was not a good one for the citrus and banana industries in terms of revenues. Even citrus bi-products did not do well on the market. There was a marginal increase last year in those returns, but according to the Minister of Agriculture, the uptick in those numbers have not yet reached significant […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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In March of 2023, the Cabinet decided, based on the demands primarily of cane farmers of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association, to hold a commission of inquiry into the sugar industry. The inquiry will analyse and identify areas along the entire chain of the sugar industry in an attempt to modernize the Sugar Industry […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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The communities of Conejo, Crique Sarco, Santa Teresa, Sundaywood and Graham Creek have arrived at several conclusions after carefully reviewing the draft Maya Customary Land Policy. The collective has determined that the draft is rather confusing and incomplete in many parts. The villages also disagree with the fact they must apply for the registering of […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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A family of three is left without a home to call their own after losing everything in a house fire earlier this week. On Monday, around two-thirty p.m. in Gracie Rock Village, the Young family was socializing in their yard when they were alerted by a friend that their house was on fire. Sixty-four-year-old Carlton […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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It’s been around for over fifty years through funding provided by a Canadian aid program, and now, the Belcan Bridge has served its time and needs to be replaced. In fact, of the three Belize City crossings over the Haulover Creek, the Belcan is the one that needs the most urgent attention. News Five’s Marion […]
Written on January 19, 2024 | Posted in
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Santander wants in on the domestic sugar market, following the recent scarcity of plantation white sugar due to rampant contrabanding of this commodity into neighboring Mexico and Guatemala. In a press release issued by the company earlier today, it acknowledged that, “the decreased availability of sugar in our local market is a problem that Santander […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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According to Burke, Santander writes to the Government of Belize annually, requesting permission to enter the domestic market. The PR Manager went on to say that Belize, as the largest sugar producer in the Caribbean, should never run out of sugar for local consumption. On the Phone: Beverly Burke, PR Manager, Santander Sugar “On […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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As we’ve reported, the scarcity of particularly white sugar just prior to the Christmas holidays forced the government to issue a permit to A.S.R/B.S.I. to import sugar into the country to meet the demands. The problem arose out of the illegal contraband trade of sugar to neighbouring countries. When we met with him today, News […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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Earlier this month, Santander began harvesting sugar at the start of the 2024 crop. Unlike in the north, things went rather smoothly. The company shares its expectations for a productive season and is once again asking government to consider it as one of two major producers that can supply the local market with white and […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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The Minister of Agriculture, who played a major role in the recent negotiations between the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association and A.S.R/B.S.I., also came under a lot of heat during the days when the cane farmers protested. The leadership of the B.S.C.F.A. criticized the prime minister for an issue they felt was poorly handled. At […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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Downtown Belize just got a little more colorful with the opening of its newest addition, the Artisan Alley. The Belize Tourism Board, in partnership with the Belize City Council, has opened what they hope, will be a new hub of tourist activity in the city. Today, we attended the inauguration ceremony to hear what the […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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The tourism industry is perhaps as diverse as it is vulnerable. There is the potential for a marriage between tourism and entirely different industries and that is exactly what Belize is now contemplating. Today, the Minister of Agriculture, Jose Abelardo Mai, explained to reporters the possibility of Belize exploring agro-tourism. Jose Abelardo Mai, Minister […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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And while the government and the Ministry of Agriculture contemplate diversifying, one other area they are thinking to venture into is the production of African palm oil, particularly in southern Belize, which has seen farmers enter into coconut bi-products and grains. Jose Abelardo Mai, Minister of Agriculture “I believe that one other options is […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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The official opening of the newly rehabilitated access road to Valley of Peace community took place today. Funding for the four-point-five-mile gravel road project was provided by the Green Climate Fund and was done as part of the Resilient Rural Belize Project in the Ministry of Economic Development. The road serves a profoundly important purpose […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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The infrastructural upgrade at the portion of road and the river crossings near Sarteneja are progressing along as planned, with Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing officials estimating that about ninety percent of the work on one of the new bridges is completed. Today, Chief Engineer, Evondale Moody explained to News Five that by February, […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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The new Haulover Creek Bridge is nearing completion. Initially scheduled to be completed at the end of 2023, a new date has been set for the end of January. That is less than two weeks from today. The project began in October 2021. To date, ninety-five percent of the structure has been completed. Additionally, ninety-two […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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According to Moody, on January twenty-fifth, the old Haulover Creek Bridge will be closed. He explained that the closure is necessary to connect the new structure to the highway. As a result, for the first time since construction began, traffic will be diverted unto the new structure on that day. Evondale Moody, Chief Engineer, […]
Written on January 18, 2024 | Posted in
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