Economy
Judge allows into evidence dying declaration of murder victim Egbert Baldwin
Egbert Baldwin, deceased (L); Camryn Lozano (Top right) and Albert Gill, on trial
by Roy...
Police welcome record-breaking number of new recruits
Photo: Squad 97 male graduates marching
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Apr. 22, 2024
Last Friday,...
The Museum of Belizean Art opens doors
by Charles Gladden
BELIZE CITY, Thurs. Apr. 18, 2024
The Museum of Belizean Art’s (MOBA) grand...
PWLB officially launched
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Mon. Apr. 15, 2024
The Football Federation of Belize (FFB) officially launched...
Historic $2.85 mil bond launched by SCA for multi-purpose building
BELIZE CITY--St. Catherine Academy this morning launched a historic educational bond, valued at BZ$2.85 million, to finally realize a long-held dream of constructing a...
BSCFA and BSI meet to hammer out new commercial agreement
ORANGE WALK--Officials from the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association (BSCFA) and Belize Sugar Industries (BSI) convened at BSI Staff Club yesterday in an effort...
$20 million for National Bank
BELIZE CITY--The House of Representatives approved a motion today for a further $20 million capitalization of the National Bank of Belize, in a transaction...
Good news for cañeros – for now
ORANGE WALK--After receiving the disappointing news that sugar conglomerate Tate & Lyle Industries will probably only be buying a minimum of 10,000 tons of...
IMF calls on Belize to take “strong measures”
BELIZE CITY--The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its latest assessment of Belize this evening, and its executive board’s assessment calls on the Government of...
Barrow comments on Belize’s economic performance
BELIZE CITY--Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Dean Barrow has described Belize’s 8.7% GDP growth for the second quarter of 2014 as “phenomenal,” but...
55,000-ton bomb dropped on cañeros!
ORANGE WALK--On Tuesday of this week, Tate and Lyle Sugars, a member of the American Sugar Refineries (ASR) group, dropped a bombshell on local...
Export earnings plunge $55 mil despite 3.7% GDP growth, Jan to July 2014
BELIZE CITY--Belize’s economy declined marginally by 0.4% for the first quarter of 2014, but the Statistical Institute of Belize (SIB) reported an upturn in...
120 to 125 tons of sugar sweeten the sea in Corozal
COROZAL TOWN—A Belize Sugar Industry barge carrying about 120 to 125 tons of sugar from Orange Walk Tower Hill Sugar Factory to Belize City...
Belize earns $1.5 billion in crude oil sales, but production decline
BELIZE CITY—Since Belize Natural Energy began producing commercial crude in 2006, roughly $1.5 billion worth of crude oil has been sold on the local...
Cañeros “outraged” at BSI’s 51-cent bagasse proposal
The farmers do not believe the sugar company, BSI, is acting in good faith
In a unified show of defiance today, local cañeros gave an...
Nearly 17,000 already unemployed as grads go job-hunting
Most unemployed persons have been looking for work longer than 6 months
With thousands of young people graduating from school in the recent weeks, many...
Cane farmers “struggling,” BSCFA chairman says
Bad road conditions continue in the north
Alfredo Ortega, chairman of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association (BSCFA), told Amandala today that cañeros continue to...
Economic performance projected to improve in Belize and the Caribbean: CDB
Caribbean economies are expected to grow, on average, by around 2.3% in 2014, and Belize’s economy by 2.5% in 2014 and 2015, according to...
