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Belize Makes Waves in Ocean Protection, But Is It Enough?
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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July 2, 2025
There’s a ripple of excitement in the conservation world, and Belize is right at the center of it. We are making serious strides toward protecting our planet’s oceans. Back in 2019, the country joined a bold global mission to safeguard thirty...
Belize Leads Regional Revival of Maya Legacy Through Cultural Tourism
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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July 2, 2025
Belize is taking center stage this week in a powerful regional push to celebrate and protect one of the world’s most iconic civilizations, the Maya. Alongside Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and southern Mexico, Belize is part of the Mundo Maya...
Belize Launches Climate Impact Study and Loss & Damage Framework
Love FM
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July 2, 2025
The National Climate Change Office (NCCO), with technical and financial support from UNDP’s Climate Promise Programme, has launched the Cost of Inaction Study and the National Loss & Damage Framework. From July 1 to 3, stakeholders and technical...
From Jungle to Sea, These 2 Belize Resorts Deliver Eco-Friendly Adventure
Matador Network
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With a graceful pivot, he flicks his tail fin and glides off — a parting gesture and welcome to the tropical wonderland of Belize. I’m here with a small group, three days into a too-short jungle-and-sea adventure in this former British colony,...
Placencia Under Scrutiny by New Environmental Task Force
Love FM
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July 2, 2025
The newly established National Environmental Enforcement Task Force will be taking a special focus on Placencia in the coming months. Last week, the task force was established, with the aim of greater enforcement of environmental regulations....
Belize District Sees Spike in Dengue Cases
Love FM
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July 1, 2025
The Belize District is seeing a spike in cases of dengue fever this rainy season. That’s the latest data coming from the Ministry of Health and Wellness (MOHW). For 2024, the Belize District recorded a total of only 90 cases of dengue; however,...
Belize sugar crop falls victim to a devastating fungus
Loop News
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CMC – Prime Minister John Briceño says this year’s sugar crop will be one of the worst in recent years after the Fusarium Wilt disease ravaged cane fields here. The Belize Sugar Industries (BSI) in confirming the situation, described this year’s...
GLOBAL: NGO calls for funds from shipping’s global emissions fee to ‘support countries at the frontline of climate change’
Bunkerspot
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June 30, 2025
Details Written by Ian Taylor Published: 30 June 2025 In a new report published today (30 June), the climate NGO Opportunity Green said the funds raised by the global fee on ships’ emissions that will be introduced as part of the International...
CCCCC breaks ground for new headquarters at University of Belize
Trinidad and Tobago Guardian
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The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) officially broke ground for the construction of its new headquarters at the University of Belize (UB) Belmopan Campus last Wednesday. The ceremony marked the 20th...
Belize: Devastating fungus affects sugar crop
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation
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June 29, 2025
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Prime Minister John Briceño says this year’s sugar crop will be one of the worst in recent years after the Fusarium Wilt disease ravaged cane fields here. The Belize Sugar Industries (BSI), in confirming the situation,...
Climate crisis and cash crunch: 10 countries at breaking point by 2050
Asianet Newsable
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June 29, 2025
A new index from Columbia Climate School reveals the 10 most climate-vulnerable countries by 2050. Many face rising disaster risks and shrinking access to finance, trapping them in a cycle of crisis and recovery. A new index called the Climate...
Climate Change Caribbean Community awards Cuban Institute of Meteorology
Cuban News Agency
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June 28, 2025
HAVANA, Cuba, Jun 27 (ACN) Cuban Institute of Meteorology (INSMET) received one of the awards presented by the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center, (CCCCC), at a gala commemorating its 20 years of foundation at its headquarters in Belmopan,...
Weather Watch: Tropical System Expected to Intensify in the Gulf
Talk Radio 960AM - Louisiana
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June 28, 2025
We are almost a full month into the 2025 hurricane season. A few days ago, our first named storm of the season (Andrea) formed in the Atlantic, but quickly dissipated as it moved eastward. READ MORE: Beware the Rubber Duck Cruise Ship Scam...
EU deepens strategic partnership with Caribbean Investment Forum
Jamaica Observer
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July 2, 2025
Dr Erja Askola, Head of the European Union Delegation to Jamaica, Belize and the Bahamas. Montego Bay will take centre stage as a hub of opportunity and innovation when the Caribbean Investment Forum (CIF) 2025 opens its doors from July 29 to July...
Are Country-To-Country Deals The Future Of Climate Finance?
Forbes
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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...
Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre breaks ground for new headquarters in Belize
Caribbean National Weekly
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June 29, 2025
In a landmark moment for climate resilience across the region, the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) officially broke ground this week on its new state-of-the-art headquarters, to be constructed at the University of Belize’s (UB)...
Sugar Shortfall: Weather, Disease, and a Bitter Harvest
Great Belize Television Channel 5
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June 28, 2025
The 2024/2025 sugarcane season has officially wrapped up, and the results are hard to ignore. BSI’s Director of Finance, Shawn Chavarria, says this year’s crop is one of the worst in decades, with cane deliveries falling below eight hundred and...
Disturbance in Belize and Yucatan could strengthen this weekend
WFTV - Florida
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June 27, 2025
ORLANDO, Fla. — We’re keeping an eye on a disturbance over Belize and the Yucatan, which could develop as it moves back over the Bay of Campeche in the southwest Gulf this weekend. For central Florida, a weak storm system remains nearby, and so...
PM PIERRE COMMENDS CCCCC ON 20 YEARS OF CLIMATE ACTION
HTS St Lucia
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Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre stated that despite the CARICOM Community Climate Change Centre (the 5 Cs) delivering transformative regional projects for the past two decades, few people in the region recognize its significant work and meaningful...
Spain and World Bank in push for wider use of 'debt swaps'
The Straits Times
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July 1, 2025
SEVILLE/LONDON - Spain has partnered with the World Bank to help poorer countries free up money to spend on development and conservation via debt "swaps," the country's Ministry of Economy said on Tuesday. With rich governments cutting official...