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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bus owners don’t think the Transport Ministry has done the math
Amandala
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July 6, 2025
The safe, affordable movement of people from where they reside to where they work or go to school is an essential function of any government; thus, huge investments are made in roads, highways, and bridges that connect the cities, towns, and...
Climate Change Office Launches Cost of Inaction Study and National Framework
Love FM
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July 3, 2025
The National Climate Change Office (NCCO), with technical and financial support from UNDP’s Climate Promise Programme, has launched the Cost of Inaction Study and the National Loss & Damage Framework. From July 1 to 3, stakeholders and technical...
PUC Final Decision Rejects BEL’s Proposal for Rate Increase
The San Pedro Sun
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June 18, 2025
On June 12th, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) of Belize issued its final decision rejecting Belize Electricity Limited’s (BEL) proposal for an electricity rate increase for the period from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026. The PUC confirmed...
Full free movement October 1
Jamaica Observer
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July 9, 2025
Caricom chairman and Prime Minister of Jamaica Dr Andrew Holness addressing Tuesday evening’s media briefing at the end of the 49th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community in Montego Bay. At centre is...
Four CARICOM states to launch full free movement in October
Virgin Islands News Online
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Dr Andrew Holness, CARICOM chairman and prime minister of Jamaica. Photo: Ashley Anguin/Photographer JAMAICA GLEANER MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica- Four CARICOM member states will be implementing free movement of the region’s nationals by October 1, 2025,...
The US has a plan to breed millions of flies and drop them from planes. Here’s why
CNN
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July 9, 2025
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 southwestern...
CARICOM urged to Recommit to Core Goals of Prosperity, Security, and Well-being for all Member States
Win Media SKN
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July 8, 2025
“Together, we have nurtured a strong Caribbean identity that transcends borders, that is admired globally, and to which others aspire. As we begin our deliberations for this Forty-Ninth Meeting of the Conference, I encourage of us to retain our...
General Inspectorate of Labor expresses concern about the oil sector
Ver Angola
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In May of this year, a fire broke out on the subsurface deck of the deepwater platform Benguela Belize Lobito Tomboco, owned by Cabinda Golf Oil Company (Cabgoc), a subsidiary of Chevron, located in Block 14, in the maritime zone of Cabinda,...
Is Bulridge Bullying Dr Elma Kay With Lawyer Letter?
Channel 7 Belize
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And keeping it in Cayo - that's where the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest reserve is - and last week you heard conservationists speaking about the risks facing that area. One of them is Dr Elma Kay - who gave 7News an interview - where she mentioned...
Senior Counsel Robertha Magnus Usher Passes Away While in Jamaica
Love FM
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July 4, 2025
Senior Counsel Robertha B. N. MagnusUsher, a respected attorney-at-law in Belize has passed away. She reportedly died in Jamaica, where she had been visiting for her mother’s funeral over the weekend. Her sudden death has left the legal community...
Havoc or hegemony?
Amandala
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June 25, 2025
Belizeans, like many people the world over, are going about their business as usual on this Monday morning, but the world is not the same as it was a few days ago. Things were not good for many; in fact, surviving another day was a challenge for...
BNN Chair Says Western Hard Woods Logging Inconsistent With Sustainable Development Plan
Channel 7 Belize
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Dr Elma Kay agrees with Juan. She's the Managing Director of the Belize Maya Forest Trust, and well as a Scientific advisor to CITES. But, most importantly when she was at the University of Belize Environmental Research Institute, she worked with...