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Agriculture Minister, “Cane Farmers Deserve Fair Sugar Price”
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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July 5, 2025
The Minister of Agriculture is stirring the pot, this time, over sugar. Jose Abelardo Mai says Belize’s cane farmers have been quietly footing the bill for years, selling sugar below the cost of production. He claims that while the public enjoys...
OPINION: Caribbean cooperatives model advances sustainable development and social justice
Demerara Waves
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July 5, 2025
By Joni Musabayana, Director, ILO Decent Work Team and Office for the Caribbean 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...
Gen Z Holds the Cards in New Top-of-Wallet Showdown
PYMNTS.com - Massachusetts
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July 1, 2025
Banks and credit unions have long chased “top-of-wallet” bragging rights, but as consumers swap leather billfolds for digital wallets and tuned-in intentions, that coveted spot has never been harder or more consequential to win. For the four...
Peru reaffirms willingness to boost U.S. ties to comprehensive strategic partnership
Andina
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June 27, 2025
The meeting addressed issues related to security and defense cooperation, bilateral trade, economic relations, and other matters of mutual interest. #NoticiasTorreTagle | En reunión bilateral con el secretario de Estado adjunto de EE.UU.,...
Hicaqueños Prepare for Upcoming Village Council Election
The San Pedro Sun
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June 26, 2025
On Sunday, June 29th, residents of La Isla Cariñosa, Caye Caulker, will head to the polls to elect a new village council. The election will see two slates contesting for leadership of San Pedro’s sister island. These include the incumbent...
Here’s why the US plans to breed millions of flies and drop them from planes
Local 3 News - Tennessee
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(CNN) — Hundreds of millions of flies dropping from planes in the sky might sound like a horrible nightmare, but experts say such a swarm could be the livestock industry’s best defense against a flesh-eating threat poised to invade the...
Tell us more, GoB!
Amandala
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July 2, 2025
Sunday, June 29, 2025 This past weekend was an eventful and critical one in the relationship between a number of labor unions and the Government of Belize under the PUP administration of Prime Minister John Briceño, an administration that was just...
Olympic gold medalist Kaylia Nemour makes feelings known about meeting Simone Biles after Paris Games
Sportskeeda
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July 10, 2025
Olympic champion gymnast Kaylia Nemour shared her thoughts on meeting gymnastics sensation Simone Biles after the Paris Olympics. The Algerian gymnast won the Olympic gold medal in the uneven bars at the quadrennial event last year. Nemour...
A Brilliant Explorer Discovered America’s Greatest Sunken Treasure. Then Came the Manhunt.
Popular Mechanics
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July 3, 2025
It was late in the summer of 1988 when Tommy Thompson finally located a big rusty paddle wheel buried in ocean floor sediment. Now he was banking on an even bigger discovery: a cache of 19th-century gold worth as much as half a billion dollars. On...
$31 million drop in earnings for cañeros as season closes with lowest output in years
Amandala
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July 2, 2025
Cane impacted by Fusarium PM Briceño: “This may be the last crop for some of our cane farmers.” BELMOPAN, Fri. June 27, 2025 “Thank God the season completes one more crop,” was the message from Sugar Industry Control Board (SICB) chairman Marcos...
Five Caribbean countries to initially benefit from new CCRIF initiative
Jamaica Observer
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July 9, 2025
GEORGETOWN, Cayman Islands (CMC) — The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) on Tuesday said it had entered into a partnership with CelsiusPro and its subsidiary, Global Parametrics, to launch two initiatives allowing for the...
Molasses Price Debate Heats Up: Farmers, Rum Makers at Odds
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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July 5, 2025
Molasses might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of national debates, but it’s now at the center of a growing conversation in Belize. Agriculture Minister Jose Abelardo Mai says local farmers want to raise the price of...
Cooperatives Day Forum Highlights Grassroots Opportunities
Love FM
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July 5, 2025
Leaders of various cooperatives from across the country gathered in Belize City today for a special forum in light of the upcoming International Cooperatives Day. The day is celebrated annually on the first Saturday in July and aims to highlight...
Visualizing The State Of Freedom Around The World
Zero Hedge
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In 2024, 60 countries saw their freedom decline in a historic election year. Strikingly, 40% of countries and territories that held elections experienced targeted attacks on candidates amid heightened instability. Yet bright spots were seen in...
Mexico building sterile fly plant to eliminate help New World Screwworm
DGR News
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July 9, 2025: The Mexican government has started construction on a $51 million facility in southern Mexico as part of an effort to combat the New World screwworm that’s disrupted Mexican cattle exports to the U.S. Mexico’s agriculture ministry...
Bethel University
Money Magazine - Puerto Rico
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June 25, 2025
Bethel University, founded as a Baptist seminary in 1871, still teaches with an evangelical perspective, although it offers a variety of degree programs in addition to theological studies. The university's 247-acre campus is in Arden Hills, Minn.,...
Caribbean leaders pledge to join forces to fight gang violence and support Haiti
The Guardian
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July 9, 2025
Leaders in the Caribbean have pledged to join forces to tackle crime and violence as they reaffirmed their support for Haiti, which the UN says continues to be “paralysed”by gangs. Taking the reins as chair of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), a...
Double Disaster: Floods Deepen Sugar Cane Crisis
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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July 9, 2025
As if battling a devastating fungal outbreak wasn’t enough, sugar cane farmers are now facing another major blow, flooding. Weeks of heavy rainfall have left cane fields waterlogged across the country, wiping out crops and compounding an already...
The Hague Group revives the possibility of a new internationalism
Mail & Guardian
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July 3, 2025
A vigil remembering journalists killed in Palestine held at St.Georges Cathedral in Cape Town on 28 January 2024. Photo by Leanne Brady Imperialism is on a genocidal offensive in Gaza, and has recently bombed its way through Syria, Yemen, Lebanon...
Agriculture Minister agrees with an increase in prices for sugar and molasses
Love FM
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July 4, 2025
While the public might frown upon the idea of a price increase for sugar, Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise, Jose Abelardo Mai, says he supports the idea. Mai, who is a cane farmer himself and a member of the BSCFA says that a...