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August 31, 2024

Belize Territorial Volunteers make annual Sarstoon Island visit, bumped by Guatemalan Armed Forces

That visit proceeded without initial incident as the boat circled the island, but as the group departed the area, they ran into a Guatemalan Armed Forces [...]
January 8, 2024

BREAKING: Deadlock broken – BSCFA and BSI/ASR sign new 2-year commercial agreement after face-to-face meeting

For the first time in some time, negotiations which concluded late tonight at the Yo Creek Agricultural Station featured representatives of both BSCFA and BSI/ASR face [...]
January 8, 2024

BSCFA membership blocking Philip Goldson Highway as leaders ask for more time

Members of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association (BSCFA) are still awaiting, impatiently, word of the final obstacles removed for the signing of an interim commercial [...]
January 8, 2024

BSCFA farmers back on picket line over additions to interim commercial agreement

Again the holdup according to the BSCFA is changed language offered by Belize Sugar Industries Limited/American Sugar Refining (BSI/ASR) seeking to narrow the role of Hugh [...]
January 7, 2024

Eleven years later, quadruple murder at Dean and Plues Streets remains unsolved

Sometime between January 7 and 8, 2013, Keino Quallo, Albert Fuentes, Anthony Perez and Leonard Myers were viciously murdered at their shared residence at the corner [...]
January 4, 2024

BREAKING: Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association accepts final proposals to end sugar stand-off

The BSCFA leadership is currently reporting to members the results of today's negotiations, which are as follows: first, a two-year commercial agreement, with no extension beyond [...]
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 2, 2024

BSCFA Buena Vista blockade cleared; BSI/ASR responds on Wednesday

According to Minister of Agriculture Jose Mai who addressed the Association’s general membership meeting, Prime Minister John Briceno is in contact with the principals of American [...]