New Sugar Crop Starts Monday
An intervention from Prime Minister John Briceño led the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association (BSCFA) and Belize Sugar Industries Limited (BSI) and American Sugar Refineries (ASR) to agree to sign an interim agreement. That agreement will last until April 30, 2022, and take effect on January 20, 2022, a day after the current commercial agreement expires. A meeting held today by the Sugar Industry Control Board (SICB), for which all directors were present, led to the feuding