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The Youth Innovation Incubator Summer Program is a feature program by the Belize City Council and the Belize City Child Advisory Body. The three-week experience gives participants an opportunity to build useful skills for the future. A myriad of courses offered during the program include steel pan, entrepreneurship, communications, self development, sports, and financial literacy. […]
Written on July 22, 2022 | Posted in
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As the whole discussion of climate change and carbon credits takes shape, Belize being under-developed, as it were, is an advantage for us in the greater scheme of things. That’s because we can benefit from a significant amount of money, possibly hundreds of millions of dollars because we are still a green nation with a […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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A recent Sustainable Energy for All report by the United Nations indicates that countries across the Caribbean are unable to meet their energy demands. CARICOM’s Regional Organization for Standards and Quality has sounded the alarm, stating that efforts to address sustainability in energy use are needed now more than ever. Saving money on energy is […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Lait Up Belize Project, an initiative of the European Union, is providing the financial support needed for the Belize Bureau of Standards to develop its energy efficient labeling framework. Glynn Morris, the team leader at Lait Up Belize was present at this morning’s event. He gave an overview of aid being provided. Glynn […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize International Music and Food Festival is less than two weeks away, and while the performing artists are fine-tuning their sets, the San Pedro Town Council and Area Representative Andre Perez are looking forward to the first-of-its-kind event on the island. It’s not to say that La Isla Bonita has not hosted international concerts […]
Written on July 21, 2022 | Posted in
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It has been a little over six years since the Sarstoon F.O.B. was inaugurated at the southernmost end of the country. Viewers would recall that at the time of the opening there was conflict between our security forces and the Guatemalan military which patrolled the waterway and often crossed over into Belize’s side of the […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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The buzz words since the Earth’s surface temperatures began to increase two decades ago have been “global warming”, “climate change” and “climate resilience.” But while much discussion has surrounded the topic, how prepared would Belize, particularly its private sector, be to recover if we were to experience a catastrophic natural disaster as a result of […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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As we reported earlier, Belize is now aggressively pursuing finance from the developed countries in order to be able to assist private sector businesses in the event of a climate change phenomenon. C.E.O. in the Ministry of Economic Development, Doctor Osmond Martinez suggested that this was an area where, in the past, we have been […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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Martinez says that some of the finances from Green Climate Finance are already being put to use to mitigate the full impacts of climate change events. There are several rural communities that are benefiting from the funds, he told us. Dr. Osmond Martinez, C.E.O., Ministry of Economic Development “G.C.F. has looked at us and […]
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Today in front of the NEMO headquarters in Belmopan, the Ministry of Transport held a small ceremony to signal the rollout of its fuel subsidy program. Almost a hundred bus operators stand to benefit from the six-month program to the tune of one point six million dollars. Witnessing the event were public and private sector […]
Written on July 20, 2022 | Posted in
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You’ve seen on international news where students are executed on school grounds by gun-wielding attackers. While such an incident has never happened in Belize before, one school has a series of protocols that are to be exercised in the event of a disaster, a health crisis, injury at school and in this case, an intruder […]
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And while health officials remain on high alert for monkeypox, COVID-19 continues to spread across the country. Fortunately, the number of infections reportedly on a daily basis continues to trickle downward. Doctor Diaz gave an update on the status of COVID -19 in Belize. Dr. Melissa Musa Diaz, Director of Public Health Services “Yesterday […]
Written on July 19, 2022 | Posted in
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The Belize Social Security Board has an investment portfolio of over four hundred and fifty-three million dollars in areas such as utility companies, banks and financial institutions, in agriculture and tourism. According to a public notice that was circulated, S.S.B.’s latest investment in the Development Finance Corporation is a twenty million dollar loan facility for […]
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Last Thursday, an implementation arrangement for the digital inclusion program was signed between the governments of Belize and Taiwan by Ambassador David Kuan-Chou Chien and Minister of Public Utilities, Energy, Logistics and E-Governance Michel Chebat. The almost half-a-million Belize dollar program is being funded by the Taiwanese government and will assist in the development of […]
Written on July 19, 2022 | Posted in
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This afternoon in Belmopan, we also took the opportunity to put to the prime minister the perspective of some Belizeans who have expressed their view that government’s decision to not reduce fuel prices immediately upon acquisition means the government wasn’t really giving us relief. There is that school of thought that suggests that to keep […]
Written on July 15, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, at the Edward P. Yorke High School a multimillion-dollar agreement was signed between the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology and Digi for the expansion of wifi to approximately two hundred schools across the country, particularly institutions in rural communities. The idea is to bridge the digital divide in the country and for […]
Written on July 14, 2022 | Posted in
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Today, the media was called out to the M.C.C. Grounds in Belize City where close to a hundred young children, ages four to sixteen, were engaged in the STARS Football Camp carried out by Coach Stanley Reneau through support from Smart. The participants in the grassroots program have been attending the camp for the past […]
Written on July 13, 2022 | Posted in
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We’ve been hearing about the BA Five sub-variant in other countries and now it has been confirmed to be in Belize. The Ministry of Health and Wellness issued a press release today, stating that forty samples that were processed between June first and twenty-eighth, and all were of the Omicron variant. While the majority – […]
Written on July 12, 2022 | Posted in
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The National Institute of Culture and History (NICH) through the Museum of Belize and Houses of Culture officially reopened the Corozal House of Culture. The venue was closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following some renovations on the building, the Corozal House of Culture was once again opened to the public on Saturday July ninth. Present […]
Written on July 11, 2022 | Posted in
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From as early as Friday, the team from El Salvador was already in country and over the weekend, the others arrived, except for Panama and Costa Rica who will not participate this year. President of the Belize Volleyball Association Allan Sharp says the five teams competing are all formidable. Allan Sharp, President, Belize Volleyball […]
Written on July 11, 2022 | Posted in
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When we caught up with Kareem Musa, the Minister of New Growth Industries at an event earlier today, we took the opportunity to ask him about the referendum exercise that the churches have been able to trigger through petitions. The churches have been unwavering in their quest to get the country’s input in the voting […]
Written on July 8, 2022 | Posted in
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And while these children had intervention from an early age to help steer them clear of prison walls, over at the country’s only penitentiary in Hattieville, the population now is significantly lower than what it was prior to when the decriminalization of marijuana possession of ten grams or less took effect some years ago. Minister […]
Written on July 8, 2022 | Posted in
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And one of the elements of landing employment often times requires a clean police record, so even a small infraction such as possession of marijuana could sometimes counts against one. But Musa explained that while some may not have known, from as far back as 2017, people who have criminal records for marijuana offenses under […]
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Tropigas has found a new home at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Mahogany Street in Belize City. The grand opening and relocation was marked by a brief ceremony this morning at the new retail space. The investment was strategic as the company brings itself closer to its clientele and is also providing employment […]
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The religious community has finally broken its silence since Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai announced earlier this week that the churches were successful in meeting the ten percent threshold needed to trigger a referendum on the issue of cannabis legalization in Belize. On Monday, Pastor Louis Wade, the church’s spokesperson for its anti-marijuana effort, told […]
Written on July 7, 2022 | Posted in
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