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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- 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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- 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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- 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 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 29, 2020
- 2 min
Belize’s new COVID rules sets clear fines for Employers who do not implement remote work
The recently enacted Quarantine regulations, among its more common features, clarifies penalties for employers who do not allow remote...
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- Nov 2, 2020
- 3 min
UN Sect. Gen: ‘The world must look beyond incomes and factor in vulnerabilities of countries'
Dating back to the 1990’s works of leading economic minds such as University of Malta’s Professor Lino Briguglio, it has been understood...
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- Oct 15, 2020
- 1 min
US-Caribbean Trade Agreement Extended
An extension to the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Agreement (CBTPA), the expanded form of the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act
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- Oct 13, 2020
- 2 min
Japan and other countries block poultry
Several countries include Japan, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have suspended the important of live poultry and poultry mean
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