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March 22, 2023

Deputy Prime Minister Cordel Hyde: “It costs $1,000 to send a child to school, but it costs $5,000 to send that same child to Hattieville, so better we spend that money now.”

Such as the fact that Belize was in a recession and that the economy was in contraction even before the COVID-19 pandemic; that more than half [...]
March 13, 2023

Budget Speech: Prime Minister hails turnaround at Lands Department

The provision of land – whether for housing, farming, or other purposes – is a critical component of the ruling party’s #planbelize agenda, and the Prime [...]
March 8, 2023

Will Placencia lose part of its beloved sidewalk to private property?

Magda Morales of Placencia narrated a five-minute video that detailed the issue. Almost a year ago, surveyors came to map out the area which according to [...]
March 2, 2023

Maya women map out next phase of communal land rights as CCJ holds monitoring hearing

The keynote speaker is Toledo native and former SATIIM executive director Dame Froyla Tzalam, Governor General of Belize, with Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, Minister of Human Development, Families [...]
January 10, 2023

Seven years later, Supreme Court exonerates Sharon Pitts over unjust enrichment claim on Haulover land

A total of two acres of land was involved. The Ministry of Natural Resources under Minister Gaspar Vega erroneously sold part of the private property to [...]
May 28, 2022

Department of Co-operatives hosts 20 cooperatives, micro & small enterprises at the National Agriculture and Trade Show 2022

By Rubén Morales Iglesias: The Department of Co-operatives is hosting 20 cooperatives, micro & small enterprises at its pavilion at the National Agriculture and Trade Show [...]
February 1, 2022

Free Prior and Informed Consent Protocol: what it is and what it is not

Per Article 6 of the 1989 Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (ILO Convention 169), governments are obliged to (a) consult the peoples concerned, through appropriate procedures [...]
November 18, 2021

Residents in the Krooman Lagoon community form Land Movement, seek help from land activist Nigel Petillo

Petillo and the residents met today to discuss a number of topics including government land discovered in the immediate vicinity of the lagoon, as well as [...]