Father of Belize Dies

George Price, the first Prime Minister and Father of Belize has passed into history. State Funeral to be held with full regalia Monday, September 26. How strangely fitting that like so many early American statesman he should pass within hours of Independence Day!

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Project WET Water Education for Teachers

Get WET Project WET is an award winning, non-profit water education program, publisher,and global network.  The goal of the program is to facilitate and promote awareness, appreciation, knowledge and stewardship of water resources through the dissemination of classroom-ready teaching aids and the establishment of internationally sponsored Project WET programs.  Join in and GET WET !

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Job – Help me find a Chief Scientist

Dear Friends,   Since networks of friends are often the best resource for finding great employees, I’m asking for your help.  Our growing science education company needs a Chief Scientist to manage its small (currently 8 people) R&D Department that primarily creates, revises, edits, and tests science experiments for our LabPaq products: www.LabPaq.com.  The minimum […]

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Grouper control of Lionfish

Grouper as a Natural Biocontrol of Invasive Lionfish Peter J. Mumby 1,2*, Alastair R. Harborne1,2, Daniel R. Brumbaugh3,41 and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom, York, New York, United States of America, Marine Spatial Ecology Lab, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia, 2 Biosciences, Hatherly Laboratory, College […]

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This week

This week at TREC we finally got rain for the first time this year!  But it only has rained at night so everyone is happy.  Marine life has been great with a Bull Shark at Hol Chan and Manatee at Tuffy.  Resident Green Turtles, Loggerhead, Permits and Spotted Eagle Rays have kept everyone amazed.

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Maya of San Pedro

Ancient San Pedro Dig It Herman Smith Centuries before the first permanent settlement at San Pedro a century and a half ago, Ambergris Caye was occupied by the ancient Maya. Archeologists have estimated the population of the caye in the year 800 A.D. was between ten and twenty thousand. There are at least thirty-two Maya […]

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Oil Industry Experts Assess Belize

Coalition to Save our Natural Heritage’s expert assess oil industry   The Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage is involved on a nationwide campaign for a referendum on the question of oil drilling and exploration. It is still short of the seventeen thousand signatures required for the poll, but as the deadline approaches, it has […]

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Revive the Belize Lobster Industry

How To Revive The Belize Lobster Industry During earlier years the Belize lobster industry was among the finest in the world. It provided major financial support that bolstered the Belize economy. But lobster fisheries today no longer produce such financial support, and the lobster season that just closed was the worst in history. The destruction […]

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Ban on Oil Exploration and Drilling Offshore Belize

BAN ON OIL EXPLORATION AND DRILLING OFFSHORE AND IN PROTECTED AREAS IN BELIZE REFERENDUM PETITION To: Sir Colville Young, Governor General of Belize cc. The Honourable Dean O. Barrow, Prime Minister of Belize, Belmopan City, Cayo District We, the undersigned, Citizens of Belize and Registered Voters, acting in reliance on Sec. 2 (1)(b) of the […]

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