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International Day of Cooperatives
Barbados Today
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July 8, 2025
0 The Caribbean is at a critical juncture. Climate change is battering our shores, global economic shocks are testing our resilience, and social inequalities continue to leave too many behind. Amid these challenges, a powerful and time-tested...
UB Faculty Union Demands Action as Pay Raise Stalls Again
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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July 9, 2025
Faculty and staff at the University of Belize are reaching a breaking point. Tonight, their union is calling on members to mobilize, after a promised nine percent salary increase appears to be slipping further out of reach. The University of...
Four CARICOM countries set for free movement on Oct. 1st
Stabroek News
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July 9, 2025
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness during the press conference. Barbados, Belize, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica have agreed to free movement of all CARICOM citizens on October 1st this year. The 49th meeting of the Conference of...
Massive Coastal Highway Farming Project Gets Green Light with Conditions
Love FM
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July 9, 2025
The National Environmental Appraisal Committee (NEAC) has approved the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the Spanish Lookout Community Corporation Limited’s proposed farming development. As we recently reported, the 6,719-acre...
New River Bioreactor Pilot Project Aims to Tackle Pollution in the North
Love FM
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July 9, 2025
A 6-month pilot study of the Belize New River in the Orange Walk District is being launched through the Belize Social Investment Fund (BSIF). One of the main components of the study would be the testing of a new piece of technology called a...
BSCFA Wins Over Tate & Lyle And BSI In Battle Over Fairtrade Premiums
Channel 7 Belize
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The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association has won a key legal victory in its lawsuit against ASR-BSI and its affiliate, the UK-based Tate & Lyle Sugars. The case involves claims that Fairtrade premiums from the 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 crop years...
UB Staff Union Demands Long-Awaited 9% Pay Raise
Love FM
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July 9, 2025
After a decade without a pay adjustment, the University of Belize Faculty and Staff Union (UBFSU) is demanding immediate action on a promised 9% salary increase. Despite an April 10 bulletin from UB’s administration confirming the raise by August,...
US immigration crackdown shows it’s time for Caricom free movement of people
Jamaica Observer
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July 10, 2025
With the inevitable passage of time, and the tumultuous events of today, we can see clearly that the visionaries behind the West Indies Federation and Parliament — which lasted from 1958 to 1962 — were well ahead of their time. The Federation...
BSIF Water Project Reaches Halfway Mark
Love FM
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July 9, 2025
The Belize Social Investment Fund (BSIF) is at the halfway mark of a 4-year water and sanitation project that would see improved drinking water for residents in remote areas. It is a program that followed a national tour of remote areas where...
El Salvador’s Rising Wages Keep Nation in Upper-Middle-Income Status.
El Salvador in English
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July 8, 2025
El Salvador continues to rank as an upper-middle-income country, according to the latest World Bank statistics, placing it in a solid position within Central America. The classification, based on annual per capita income, includes countries where...
Sobers blames former govt for UK visa restrictions
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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Jensen La Vende Senior Reporter jensen.lavende@guardian.co.tt Caricom and Foreign Affairs Minister Sean Sobers says the United Kingdom’s decision to impose visa requirements on T&T nationals stems from a lack of political will...
DeVry University expands ‘Bridge to Brilliance’ initiative to SVG
Searchlight
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July 11, 2025
Residents of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), can now benefit from a new initiative launched earlier this year by U.S.-based DeVry University. Through the expansion of its Bridge to Brilliance Initiative, DeVry University said it will offer...
‘United We Bargain, Divided We Beg’: UB Union Urges Action on Salary Delay
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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July 8, 2025
Tensions are rising at the University of Belize (UB) as the University of Belize Faculty and Staff Union (UBFSU) issued a pointed public demand for the immediate implementation of a long-promised 9% salary increase. The union’s statement calls out...
T&T poised to join minority of nations with 21-year drinking age
CNC 3
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July 11, 2025
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has announced that Government will seek to raise the legal drinking age in T&T from 18 to 21. Legislation is expected to be introduced following the resumption of Parliament in September. The proposed measure...
Still shackled to the past, doubting the CCJ
Barbados Today
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July 11, 2025
0 The swearing-in of Justice Winston Anderson as the fourth president of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) at King’s House in Kingston last week was a moment steeped in symbolism. Jamaican-born and a Barbadian citizen, Justice Anderson now...
Cabinet Brief for June 26, 2025
The San Pedro Sun
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June 28, 2025
The Cabinet met on June 24, 2025. • Cabinet discussed the letter from the Belize National Teachers Union and the Association of Public Service Senior Managers Union, where the unions rejected the Government’s proposal for a phased approach to the...
Fixing… Caricom?
Guyana Times
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July 10, 2025
The reason why CARICOM is fulfilling the old joke about it actually being “CARI-GONE” was clearly brought out by the remarks of Barbados PM Mia Mottley at the conclusion of the 49th meeting of its Heads of Government (HoG) in balmy Montego Bay,...
Recognizing and supporting the transformative role of women in Latin America and the Caribbean in facing the climate crisis
Latinoamerica21
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July 8, 2025
In recent years, the effects of weather and climate phenomena in Latin America and the Caribbean have rippled across the region—from the Andes to Patagonia, from cities to coastal towns—causing deep socio-economic and environmental disruptions....
Simone Biles Has Perfect Reaction for Jonathan Owens’ Latest Life Decision
Essentially Sports
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July 8, 2025
“Gone to belize,” Simone Biles captioned one of her Instagram posts, giving us confirmation that she’s currently vacationing in Central America. But even when she’s surrounded by the sun, sand, and the sea, nothing’s holding her back from cheering...
TT Chamber CEO: Celebrating Caribbean innovation
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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July 3, 2025
Business Newsday 14 Hrs Ago TT Chamber CEO Vashti Guyadeen addresses Belizean stakeholders during TT's trade mission to Belize - VASHTI GUYADEEN In this week's column, the TT Chamber is pleased to share the feature address delivered by chamber CEO...