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January 5, 2024

Sugar Cane crop off to a full start!

After days of tense negotiations and back and forth between the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association and American Sugar Refineries/ Belize Sugar Industries, it seems the [...]
January 5, 2024

Groundwater well installed at Belize Adventist Junior College 

The Belize Adventist Junior College is having their first harvest enabled by having water for their irrigation system. 
January 4, 2024

Latest proposal to BSCFA being analyzed but cañeros remain firm

Latest reports say another proposal brokered by Prime Minister John Briceño is being considered by the legal team of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association (BSCFA).
January 4, 2024

Opposition United Democratic Party accuses Prime Minister of cutting and running from ‘sugar cane crisis’

It compares the situation to the Prime Minister’s vacation over the Labour Day weekend in May of 2021 when there were major protests by trade unions. [...]
January 3, 2024

Tires burn on road as sugar impasse continues into another day and tensions continue to rise

The latest proposal from Government via Belize Sugar Industries Limited/American Sugar Refining (BSI/ASR) is for a three-year contract rolled over after two years pending appointment of [...]
January 3, 2024

Nine-million-dollar SSB loan application for distillery withdrawn

SSB Chief Executive Officer Deborah Ruiz confirmed to KREM News that the loan proposal is closed because they were unable to move forward. Other reports say [...]
January 3, 2024

Blockade resumes at Buena Vista, Corozal as farmers await word from Ministry of Agriculture; P.M. cuts Vatican trip short

Members of the Association briefly attempted to prevent Minister of Agriculture Jose Mai from leaving the area with a human chain and are demanding that the [...]
January 3, 2024

Parents and students in Jalacte engage in hands-on experience processing cucumbers

The event, organized by the Toledo Agriculture Department in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and UNICEF, brought together 15 students and 15 parents for a [...]