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Sugar Season Ends with Record Low Output
Today marks the close of the 2024/2025 sugar crop season. The closing is marked with doom and gloom as the season has recorded the lowest output in history. While there are several contributing factors to the situation, Prime Minister John...

Are Country-To-Country Deals The Future Of Climate Finance?
This aerial view shows a degraded area of the Amazon rainforest, near the Koatinemo indigenous land, ... More in Para state, Brazil, on June 12, 2025. (Photo by Carlos FABAL / AFP) (Photo by CARLOS FABAL/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images...

Doctor Love: Not That Into You
Dear Doctor Love, There’s this friend, let’s call him “Captain Clueless,” who thinks we are meant to be, but I’m just here for the friendship. He drops hints like anvils, and I dodge them like I’m in an emotional obstacle course. How do I gently...

Motorcycle Safety Challenges in the Caribbean Region
Claudine Allen (right), general manager of the JN Foundation in discussion with (from left) with Gloria Murga, chief executive officer of Belize Automobile Touring Association; Frank Fotia, president of the FIA Region 3;Agnieszka Krasnolucka,...

Where to Travel in Mexico 2025 Guide: Beach lovers
The beaches in Mexico rank high as some of the world’s best: from windswept strands with big swells to secluded coves where spearmint water laps up on silky white sand. The best part is there’s a beach for every kind of traveler in Mexico –...
Sugar industry up north in peril
Hon. Jose Mai, Minister of Agriculture Agriculture Minister: “Sugar industry is in serious crisis” ORANGE WALK, Wed. June 18, 2025 On the sidelines of the budget debate on May 27, when Amandala asked for an update on the efforts to bridge the...
Nazarene High School’s Class of 2025
by Charles Gladden BELIZE CITY, Wed. June 18, 2025 A total of 122 students bade farewell to Nazarene High School on Saturday, June 7, as they completed their secondary education at that institution. Sheryn Vallencilla-Rosa, valedictorian The 57th...

Minister Requena Continues School Tours to Strengthen Education
Minister of Education Oscar Requena has been conducting a familiarization tour in southern Belize this week, meeting with the management of secondary schools. Since receiving the portfolio for education in March, Requena has been meeting at the...

PICTURES: Sutherland's Jonathan Brett Young receives MBE at Armed Forces Day ceremony in Golspie
Armed Forces Day 2025 was marked in Sutherland today, Saturday June 28, with a ceremony in Golspie. The event, which took place in the village’s Memorial Garden in blustery weather conditions, was organised by the Friends of Sutherland Veterans...

What to expect from tomorrow's episode of General Hospital (June 30, 2025)?
In the upcoming episode of the ABC soap opera General Hospital airing on June 30, 2025, fans can expect a lot of drama, surprises, and secrets. Sonny will not stand back when Natalia crashes Daisy's christening ceremony. He will try to get Natalia...

Cabinet Green lights Industrial, Health, and Education Policy Reforms
The last meeting of Cabinet saw the Briceno administration being apprised of several government initiatives while giving recommendations and approval for Bills and policies. The latest Cabinet briefing shows that the administration gave...

CVU High School’s RISE Program Takes Student Engagement to the Next Level
CVU Student Cole Hart helps kids at Hinesburg Community School P.E. class as part of his Rise study program. Photo by Tyler Cohen By Tyler Cohen For The Record The last two weeks of the school year at Champlain Valley Union High School looked,...

Two Caribbean experts recruited for Canada-funded STAR-Fish Project, being implemented by the CRFM
From CRFM Secretariat Mr. Sherrón Barker STAR-Fish Regional Project Coordinator Belize City, Thursday, 19 June 2025 (CRFM)—The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) is moving full speed ahead with the implementation of the Canada-funded...

General Hospital spoilers for the next week from June 30 to July 4, 2025
Showdowns and confrontations mark the week of June 30, 2025, on General Hospital as Kristina's business faces trouble, Natalia shows her retaliation, and Giovanni wards off awkward gestures from his biological father. The upcoming week will also...

Water declared ‘critical’ priority
To address the widespread water shortages that have infuriated residents in recent months, the government has allocated $8 million and made an official declaration that will allow it to bypass tender requirements and award infrastructure contracts...

San Pedro RC Church Gets Involved in Recruiting Blood Donors
Recognizing the vital role of voluntary blood donors in our country, San Pedro Roman Catholic Church (SPRCC) invited Island Donors Squad (IDS) to organize a donor recruitment drive for Sunday, June 15, 2025. Washington University of Health and...

Unions Unite Over Salary Demands
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize (NTUCB) called a press conference this morning in the Lion’s Den in Belize City. It is a major move as the umbrella union organization has brought together all the unions to ventilate their issues with...

‘Diplomat for a Day’ programme hosts five young women at CARICOM headquarters
Young diplomats for a day. From left: Amelie Burnham; Chanecia La Rose; Kyra Adams; Adana Dorrick; Natassia AshbyOn Tuesday, June 24, 2024, a delegation of young women who assumed diplomatic roles participated in a special commemoration of the...

CRFM Secretariat recruits two Caribbean experts for Canada-funded STAR-Fish Project
Mrs. Daintyann Barrett-Smith Belize City, Thursday, 19 June 2025 (CRFM)—The Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) is moving full speed ahead with the implementation of the Canada-funded STAR-Fish Project: “Sustainable Technologies for...

Obituary: Thomas Slayton Ross
July 28, 1953 – June 24, 2025 Thomas “Tom” Slayton Ross of Steamboat Springs, CO, who told the stories of the Yampa Valley in the Steamboat Pilot and Today for a generation, died June 24, 2025. He was 71. Tom was a loving husband and father and an...