Price paid for stability at the pumps: a look at Belize's fuel-price smoothing mechanism
Sept 22 (PolicyScape360)--Policy measures to smooth fuel prices are hardly without controversy. The first hurdle to overcome is the...
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- Jul 9, 2022
- 5 min
A Balanced and Evidence-based Approach to Minimum Wage Adjustments
As the conversation on a minimum-wage adjustment develops, it is good that all stakeholders agree—even the business community, as...
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- May 15, 2022
- 5 min
AMLO to Belize: “Consider the proposals”
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)’s visit to Belize was certainly one of the shorter state visits to Belize by any...
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- Apr 26, 2022
- 3 min
Referendum Act: 10% is enough! It's a matter of 'time'
In recent weeks, the media airwaves in Belize have been a buzz as it pertains to the petition launched by the National Evangelical...
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- Apr 10, 2022
- 11 min
Belizeans demand Referendum as Marijuana legalization faces non-accommodative policy env.
In one way or the other, many individuals may have come across the term "entrepreneurial ecosystem." As the World Economic Forum (WEF)...
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- Mar 31, 2022
- 7 min
A Few Thoughts on Constitutional Reform
By Ambassador Daniel Gutierez I remember September 21st, 1981, clearly, the buzz, the music, and festivities, the bangs of the...
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- Mar 14, 2022
- 6 min
Fair fares? Policy options to respond to bus owners' call for a 25% price increase
For many analysts, the point in the economic-policy road where the price-controlled transportation sector representatives would provide...
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- Nov 23, 2021
- 2 min
Major economies coordinate to lower oil, fuel prices
Crude oil prices have soared by more than 20% in the last four months, and, in an effort to ease the upward trend, major economies such...
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- Apr 1, 2021
- 7 min
[OPINION] Maybe it's time to 'also' invoke GATT Article XVIII:B
A Legitimate Premise With the exogenous downside risks continuing to threaten a weakening of Belize’s balance of payments (BoP)'s...
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- Feb 27, 2021
- 3 min
Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) forecasts 3.8% GDP growth in 2021 for Borrowing Member Countries
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) released this week its 2021 projections for its Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs), stating that it...
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- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
WTO choses new Director General
After being stalled for months due to objections from the United States’ Government, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has chosen its...
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- Feb 13, 2021
- 3 min
Unusual economic times: The context of the Government of Belize’s pre-budget consultations
In the last two weeks, the Government of Belize (GOB) has commenced with marathon, pre-budget consultation sessions with various...
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- Jan 31, 2021
- 5 min
New amendment Bill seeks to grant new ‘Main Street easing’ powers to Central Bank of Belize
The International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s January update of its flagship World Economic Outlook (WEO) projections estimate a 2020 world...
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- Jan 23, 2021
- 3 min
Belize settles sugar-trade dispute with St. Kitts-Nevis; case against CARICOM and T&T continues
The Government of Belize announced a big win this week for its local sugar industry having achieved a settlement with its sister...
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- Jan 16, 2021
- 2 min
In response to Panama’s ban on Milk and more, Costa Rica calls for trade dispute consultations
This week, Costa Rica—invoking the World Trade Organization (WTO)’s Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of...
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- Jan 14, 2021
- 3 min
Stakeholders worry new CDC rules may slow moderate tourism recovery from last year's 71% decline
As far as tourism sector forecasts go, the United Nations World Tourism Office (UNWTO)’s 2020 outlook estimated three potential scenarios...
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- Jan 5, 2021
- 3 min
New Year ushers in start of world’s largest free trade zone: the African Continent Free Trade Area
On the international trade scene, the start of the New Year has certainly ushered in two landmark events that are potent enough to leave...
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- Jan 2, 2021
- 8 min
‘Clarity’ begins at home: ‘Banking’ on the Cannabis Economy may not be as straightforward
In wake of the COVID-19-induced global recession, governments globally are all on the hunt for that “wonder drug”—admittedly, pun...
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- Dec 31, 2020
- 3 min
Prime Minister Briceño: ‘We will not propose any new revenue measures’
Speaking in an eleven-minute New Year’s message, Belize Prime Minister Hon. John Briceño announced that his government “will not propose...
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- Dec 29, 2020
- 2 min
Belizean company, Quality Poultry Products Ltd, exports chicken meat to Grenada
Quality Poultry Chicken being loaded for shipment to Grenada
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