IT WAS FOLLOWING a trip to Belize that legendary film director Francis Ford Coppola decided to purchase the then-abandoned Blancaneaux Lodge in the rainforest of Belize.
Nearly 20 years after opening the resort, the 20-room boutique property remains one of the region’s great escapes. It’s one of a pair of lodges Coppola has developed in Belize, [...]

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — The European Union has given a grant of 8.6 million euros to support a regional project to improve Caribbean food security in the context of climate change.
The project, which was being introduced and coordinated in a two-day session in Trinidad, is being conducted in four countries in the region: Belize, [...]

Donneil Cain, Resource Economist at the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (5Cs), delivered a well-received Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) Talk on behalf of Executive Director Dr. Kenrick Leslie, CBE at this week’s staging of the Belize-leg of the Sagicor Visionaries Challenge (SVC).
The Challenge is a partnership between the Caribbean Science Foundation (CSF), Sagicor and the Caribbean [...]

The Organization of American States (OAS) has announced the 14 recipients of small grants under the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) “Sustainable Communities in Central America and the Caribbean” project.
The winning proposals were announced by OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulsa at a formal ceremony held at OAS Headquarters on 10 December [...]

Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute
 BELMOPAN (BPO) — The Belize Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute in partnership with the Natural Capital Project, World Wildlife Fund, Inter-American Development Bank, Caribbean Community Climate Change Center, and the Nature Conservancy will be hosting a three-day Caribbean Regional Conference entitled, “Integrating Climate Change Adaptation Planning into Coastal Zone [...]