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The Ministry of Economic Development and the Belize Bureau of Standards are collaborating to standardize the honey industry in Belize. Through a Memorandum of Understanding, the Belize Bureau of Standards will be collecting data to use benchmarks on how the honey value chain, from production to consumer, can be regulated to ensure quality. The quality […]
Written on November 16, 2022 | Posted in
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The Ministry of Economic Development also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Meteorological Service of Belize for the development of a climate information system. The system will provide key information to small farmers to advise their planning and minimize loss. Farmers will be able to access this data through a mobile application. Doctor […]
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The entrance of Tower Hill looks the same way it did ten years ago. But the interior where sugarcane is milled and converted to sugar has undergone a series of upgrades between 2019 and 2022. Today, the company took the media on a tour of the facility to show how sixty million dollars was invested […]
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The dispute between the American Sugar Refinery, Belize Sugar Industries Limited and the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association has gone on for the better part of a year and perhaps almost for two years now. With no commercial agreement signed yet, both parties are also yet to agree on a mediator who will attempt to […]
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Taking you back to the launch of the People’s Constitutional Commission earlier this week, the work has begun towards developing a renewed Constitution of Belize. And, as we reported, the P.C.C. will be operating with full autonomy. But, just how much independence will they have to carry out their duties? That’s what we asked Prime […]
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The People’s Constitutional Commission has eighteen months to fulfill its obligations, before making its submissions to the Prime Minister. But, is eighteen months enough time for the P.C.C. to carry out the extensive consultations that are required for such a process? We also asked the Prime Minister if the entire process will be limited to […]
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The Belize delegation also had a bilateral meeting with the recently appointed Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Simon Stiell (Steel). The meeting was to address concerns from negotiators from AOSIS, CARICOM and Belize about the language surrounding loss and damage and to ensure that a fund is established for […]
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Today, inside the CARICOM pavilion at COP27, the Barbados Water Authority and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center signed off on the next step of a wastewater project for the island nation that seeks to link water, energy and food security. It is a partnership that is supported by the Green Climate Fund, for which […]
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For some time now, the Government of Belize has been the beneficiary of a climate finance advisor, in the person of Ranga Pallawala. Pallawala took up office in Belize through support from the Commonwealth Climate Finance Access Hub that seeks to provide Commonwealth member countries with in-country expertise. Now the support is not permanent and […]
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The approval of an environmental and social impact assessment for the proposed expansion of the Port of Belize Limited which will include a cruise terminal in Port Loyola, is now in the hands of the National Environmental Appraisal Committee, NEAC, following a final round of public consultations on Friday in Belize City. Tonight, we’ll revisit […]
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A family in Crooked Tree Village has turned to the media to say that they do not appreciate the manner in which the police department is handling the investigation when they searched their home sometime after midnight this morning. According to an uncle of four of the persons who were detained, police initially arrived without […]
Written on November 15, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize Police Department is mourning the loss of one of its own tonight, following a fatal R.T.A. on Monday in the Cayo District that claimed the life of Corporal Shannon Middleton. Two other persons, including Dillon Pommels and Luis Mejia were also injured in the incident which happened in the vicinity of Blackman Eddy. […]
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Santander lost five percent of its sugarcane crop due to the strong winds and rain brought on by Hurricane Lisa. The initial assessment seemed worst, with acres upon acres of sugar cane lying flat on the ground. But, once the rain cleared and the weather improved those flattened sugarcane stalks rose up once again, a […]
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We also asked Burke whether the company is concerned about the quality of the sugarcane in the field given its exposure to flood waters and strong winds. Here is what she had to say. Beverly Burke, Public Relations Manager, Santander “We work on production, we work on the quality of the cane and what […]
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Today, Belmopan Mayor Sheran Palacio and a team of fifty city council employees alighted a Floralia bus in Belize City and picked up shovels, rakes and garbage bags to clean up parks and other areas of the city that Hurricane Lisa had affected. The team also cleared three areas of fallen debris left behind by […]
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One of the parks that Mayor Palacio and her team from Belmopan cleaned was located in the Freetown area and while he is not responsible for parks and playgrounds, Belize City Councilor, Albert Vaughan is the Chairman for the P.U.P Freetown Office and decided to be a part of the exercise. He expressed gratitude for […]
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Today, government leaders took turns making national statements regarding climate change and their respective country’s positions on the crisis. The speeches were strong, especially those coming from countries like Belize that have been experiencing increasingly severe impacts of climate change. This morning, the head of the Belize delegation at COP27 in Egypt, Minister Orlando Habet, […]
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In his national statement, the minister speaks to Belize prioritizing its critical forest resource with effective policies, strategies and meaningful actions resulting in a national forest cover of over sixty percent, but that it becomes all for nothing if there is no true action from the G20 countries and other large polluters. Minister Habet goes […]
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It’s the final week of COP27 and the power brokers are now finalizing the negotiations going forward. High level ministerial meetings have been taking place and countries have been taking advantage of the opportunities being afforded to network and learn climate-smart practices and what’s best for their situation on the ground. While there have been […]
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Speaking about carbon credits, there are several interested parties who want to engage in Belize’s carbon market, even as the mechanism is being finalized. And today, following sessions this morning, Minister Orlando Habet and C.E.O. Doctor Kenrick Williams met casually with representatives of an interested party to look at the potential opportunity for business. In […]
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November nineteenth will mark the two hundred and twentieth year since the first Garinagu arrived on our shores from Saint Vincent. And each year there is no shortage of celebration in that regard. News Five’s Marion Ali was on special assignment in the Toledo District over the weekend and picked up on the sights, sounds […]
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There are over fifty thousand people in Belize with ties to Honduras, according to Anthony Mahler, the Minister of Tourism. So, Honduras is a natural market for the airline industry. That is one of the main reasons why Tropic Air now has a non-stop flight from Belize to Honduras. The direct flight also opens a […]
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Climate change experts, including the Belize delegation are at COP27 defending the need for financing from developed countries, by way of loss and damage, to adapt and mitigate the effects of climate change. But there is an added fire under the negotiators as Belize was, less than two weeks ago, battered by Hurricane Lisa, an […]
Written on November 14, 2022 | Posted in
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They are the only two cities in Belize and tomorrow one will be assisting the other in the wake of the damage and destruction caused by Hurricane Lisa. Mayor Sheran Palacio and the employees at the Belmopan City Council will travel to Belize City from as early as six in the morning to assist the […]
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As government leaders and climate change experts converge on Sharm El Sheikh to negotiate a way forward in addressing climate change, others are stationed outside the meeting rooms are engaged in peaceful protest. Hundreds of persons gathered on Saturday to express their concerns. Residents, the world over, are calling for immediate action, as they continue […]
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