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Cruise operators are steering troubled waters with their own private islands
The Independent
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June 30, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Bears' Jonathan Owens spends beach time with wife Simone Biles after hosting youth football camp
Sportskeeda
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July 1, 2025
Jonathan Owens and Simone Biles are continuing their travel adventures this offseason. The couple, who have already traveled to Switzerland and South Africa this offseason, can now check Belize off their list. After hosting a youth football camp...
Sugarcane Farmers Trapped in Costly Credit Cycle
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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July 1, 2025
Imagine running a business where every year, you must take out a loan—at a whopping fourteen percent interest—just to keep things going. That’s the reality for many sugarcane farmers in Belize, according to Agriculture Minister Jose Mai. It’s a...
Truth under siege
The Gleaner
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July 9, 2025
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, has called on CARICOM member states to take immediate steps to confront the dual threats of misinformation and citizen insecurity, warning that the very stability of regional democracies is...
Trinidad and Tobago among Caribbean countries in debt transparency workshop
Trinidad and Tobago Newsday
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June 23, 2025
Business Ryan Hamilton-Davis 6 Hrs Ago International Monetary Fund headquarters located on 1900 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC. - Photo by Jeff K. Mayers A total of 33 public debt managers from 16 Caribbean countries including Trinidad and...
What would Sedi say about the 13th Amendment?
Amandala
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June 29, 2025
by Colin Hyde Brother Sedi Elrington isn’t the only Belizean who sings about the virtues of Singapore, but he is one of a few who understands the steep price we must pay if we want to be like Mike, like that jewel in Asia near Malaysia. Please to...
Man charged for accident causing friend’s death
Amandala
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June 29, 2025
Gilbert Anthony Graham, Jr., charged BELIZE CITY, Tues. June 24, 2025 A teenager—Triston Omarion Ortiz, 18—lost his life in a freak accident that occurred as a Toyota Hilux 4-door pickup truck, in which he was one of two occupants, was crossing...
Haiti: Reparations Yes! Deportations No!
San Francisco Bay View - California
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July 1, 2025
by the Haiti Action Committee The calls from Haiti have echoed around the world: “France, Pay your debt to Haiti!” Demonstrators from Haiti to France to San Francisco, London, Belize and Jamaica have demanded that France pay for the ransom it...
Woman Scammed Out of $800 in Online iPhone “Deal”
Love FM
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July 1, 2025
Crime June 30, 2025 No Comment 154 Investigators are looking into yet another report of an online scam that occurred over the weekend. A woman reported to police that on Saturday, she was scammed out of eight hundred Belize dollars after...
Resisting Dependency: U.S. Hegemony, China’s Rise, and the Geopolitical Stakes in the Caribbean
Black Agenda Report
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The Caribbean has become an emerging battleground in the U.S.-China rivalry, as regional states strategically navigate between the demands of superpowers and their own development needs. This great power competition exposes both vulnerabilities...
BEL to Submit New Rate Proposal After PUC Rejects Increase
Love FM
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June 24, 2025
Belize Electricity Limited (BEL) says that it is preparing a new pricing proposal to submit to the Public Utilities Commission, following the PUC’s rejection of a proposed rate increase earlier this month.On April 4, BEL submitted a proposal for...
Let’s talk about anything but politics
Cranston Herald - Rhode Island
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I have never been vocal about political issues, generally keeping my opinions to myself. However, in our current intense political climate, it seems that people are more riled up than I have ever seen them. Tensions are high and lines are drawn....
What?! Aschroft suing Government AGAIN?!
Amandala
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June 29, 2025
Speednet (SMART) suing GoB over contracts awarded to BTL (DIGI) BELIZE CITY, Wed. June 25, 2025 Speednet Communications Ltd., doing business under the brand name SMART, has been granted permission to challenge the decision of the Government of...
Angels in America resonates with our times
Chicago Reader - Illinois
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July 1, 2025
With pitch-perfect performances and top-drawer design, Invictus Theatre Company’s production of Angels in America is bold, vivid theatrical storytelling. Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize–winning play is one of the great works of 20th-century American...
Greensboro native recounts harrowing plane crash that left him and a friend stranded in the Atlantic Ocean
WFMY News 2 - North Carolina
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July 8, 2025
Ed Regensburg was flying back from the island of St. Croix when his plane experienced engine failure. GREENSBORO, N.C. — Flying has been in Ed Regensburg's blood for most of his life. Regensburg says he attended the Guilford Technical Community...
Fort Worth musician raises over $337,000 for Texas flood survivors
KERA - Texas
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July 8, 2025
Fort Worth musician Josh Weathers and his band raised more than $337,000 in four hours for families affected by the flooding in Central Texas. Weathers, who had been scheduled to perform in New Braunfels and Orange Grove over the weekend, hosted a...
Climate crisis and cash crunch: 10 countries at breaking point by 2050
Asianet Newsable
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June 29, 2025
A new index from Columbia Climate School reveals the 10 most climate-vulnerable countries by 2050. Many face rising disaster risks and shrinking access to finance, trapping them in a cycle of crisis and recovery. A new index called the Climate...
Things to Do: See the Kelly McGuire Band at Cedar Oaks Inn
Houston Press - Texas
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June 30, 2025
click to enlarge Kelly McGuire Photo by Tom Zinser Singer/Songwriter Kelly McGuire has a lot of personal interests, and most of them seem to begin with a certain letter of the alphabet: Boats. Beaches. Bands. Belize. Buffett (as in Jimmy, not...
Vanni leads local scouts on mission of mercy
The Independent (Petrolia & Central Lambton)
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July 8, 2025
Blake Ellis/The Independent Myles Vanni says the Alvinston community has been very supportive of Lambton Scouts building water wells in Uganda. Vanni was the guest speaker at the Canada Day Ecumenical church service held at the...
Last bastion for small farmer heroes faces death blow from Fusarium
Amandala
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June 29, 2025
With our prized forest having been depleted by the mid-20th century, our economy was steered to The Green Revolution for its salvation. The PUP, under the leadership of George Price, pushed for small farmer involvement in the production of grains,...