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June 8, 2022

BSI/ASR opens sugar and molasses storage facility at Port of Big Creek

The Port of Big Creek recently dredged its entrance channel to 11 meters, allowing for ships as long as 230 meters to dock for direct loading [...]
June 7, 2022

Ministry of Agriculture hosts five-day beekeeping training in Orange Walk through the Bilateral Cooperation Project with Mexico

By Rubén Morales Iglesias: The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security, and Enterprise is hosting a five-day training session in apiculture at the Yo Creek Agriculture Station [...]
June 6, 2022

Ministry of Agriculture, through the Bilateral Cooperation Project with Mexico, hosts five-day training for coconut farmers

By Rubén Morales Iglesias: The Ministry of Agriculture, through the Bilateral Cooperation Project with Mexico, is hosting a five-day training for coconut farmers which started on [...]
June 4, 2022

Investment opportunities in agriculture discussed between Agriculture Minister Jose Abelardo Mai and Israeli international company

By Rubén Morales Iglesias: Minister of Agriculture, Food Security, and Enterprise Jose Abelardo Mai met on Thursday with Maher Makalde, Chief Executive Officer of Israeli company, the [...]
June 3, 2022

Minister Jose Abelardo Mai says his carrot comment misunderstood, that he wouldn’t insult a woman, that he will apologize if that’s what she heard

Mai said she was calling Taegar Panton to apologize and clear the air.
June 3, 2022

Tracy Taegar Panton says Minister Jose Abelardo Mai’s carrot comment in the Sitting of the House of Representatives on Friday is unparliamentary, disrespectful, sexist

“The specific reference made that I should go sit on a carrot is completely unparliamentary and has no place in the House. Complete disrespect for ALL [...]
June 3, 2022

Belize has two new cooperatives: Concepcion Vegetable Farmers and Northern Sustainable Agro-Producers

By Rubén Morales Iglesias: The two farmers' groups from the Corozal District have become full-fledged cooperatives today, according to the Department of Co-operatives.
June 1, 2022

Ministry of Agriculture says remnants of Hurricane Agatha present threats to Agriculture Sector, advises farmers in low-lying, flood-prone areas to safeguard families, livelihoods

By Rubén Morales Iglesias: Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security, and Enterprise (MAFSE) said on Wednesday that the remnants of Hurricane Agatha present threats to Belize’s Agriculture Sector [...]