Category: Sugar Industry

Salary increase for BSI workers

Salary increase for BSI workers

Belize Sugar Industries workers are getting a salary increase.  An agreement formalizing the pay increase was signed this morning in Orange Walk. Arturo Cantun from our sister station Estereo Amor has the details in the following report.

Contraband Belize sugar seized across the border

Contraband Belize sugar seized across the border

There were reports in the Guatemalan press over the weekend that Guatemala’s National Civil Police has seized a truck load of sugar allegedly imported illegally from Belize.  According to a report appearing in the Saturday edition of Prensa Libre newspaper, the truck, containing one hundred and forty sacks of white sugar was seized as contraband [...]

BSI official says sugar not dirty, just contains excess fibers

BSI official says sugar not dirty, just contains excess fibers

Over the last few weeks there have been numerous complaints about the quality of plantation white sugar on the local market.  Love News sought an explanation from the producers of the commodity, Belize Sugar Industries Limited.  John Gillett is the manager of BSI Tower Hill factory. In related news, Gillett says the current sugar crop [...]

New sugar crop starts

New sugar crop starts

The 2011-2012 sugar crop has started.  Our Orange Walk Bureau Chief Manuela Ayuso-Cantun reports.