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MoH dumps Digi for SMART

Ministry of Health latest to contract SMART telecom services BELMOPAN, Thurs. May 16, 2024 If you go by the social media following (Facebook and Instagram) for our national telecommunication providers, Belize Telemedia Limited (BTL) under the Digi brand and SMART Belize (Speednet Communications Limited), BTL is...

Sugar shortage again!

Photo: Plantation white sugar produced by BSI ORANGE WALK, Wed. May 16, 2024 Just four months after our last sugar shortage which saw Belize Sugar Industries (BSI) approved to import 250 metric tonnes of white...

Amazing Alyssa Fisher

Visually impaired student to graduate as Wesley College’s valedictorian by Kristen Ku BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 16, 2024 Sixteen-year-old Alyssa Fisher, a visually impaired student from Belize City, has been named Wesley College’s valedictorian for the...

Double murder on Southside

Photo: (l-r) Marvin Pook and Anthony Young, deceased by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Wed. May 15, 2024 Two Belize City men were slain on Belize City’s Southside on Tuesday night, May 14, with one of the victims instantly...

Raging wildfire in San Pedro Colombia Village, Toledo

Photo: Daniel Mendez, National Emergency Coordinator, NEMO by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Thurs. May 16, 2024 For some days now, there has been an increase in wildfires that have been occurring in various locations of the...

Belize reaffirms commitment at COP 3 of the Escazú Agreement

by Kristen Ku BELIZE CITY, Tues. May 14, 2024 Belize emerged as a key participant in the third meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 3) to the Regional Agreement on Access to Information,...

Da when rain wahn come?

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by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Tues. May 14, 2024 For the past several days, Belizeans have been hoping for rain as they try to endure an intense heatwave in the country—with temperatures reaching the high 90s or even 100s. The period of escalating heat, which started as early as the final days of April, but extended into, and intensified in the first two weeks of May, is projected to continue for approximately another week, as we enter the Atlantic hurricane season, set to commence on June 1. “We are in a heatwave … the primary reason is that we are under a ridge of high pressure at the mid-levels of the atmosphere, which...

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Electricity troubles, water concerns

In the last century, rolling blackouts were a regular feature in our cities and towns, and Belizeans in villages knew the state of no electricity permanently—the electric lines passing...

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Independent expert finds BSI cited port costs to be justified

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Photo: BSI/ASR terminal at Port of Big Creek BIG CREEK, Stann Creek District, Mon. May...

Being better prepared for flooding in the Belize River Basin

Photo: The five participants of the 91 hours of training in Taiwan along with Hon. Orlando Habet, Her Excellency Ambassador Lily Li-Wen Hsu, and Dr. Kenrick Williams by Orlando Pulido SANTA ELENA, Cayo District, Tues. May 14, 2024 The Flood Warning Capacity Improvement Project (FWCIP) that covers the Belize River...

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