COP28 is set to take place from the 30th of November to the 12th of December 2023, but yesterday experts in the climate space as well as officials from the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Disaster Risk Management were already looking forward to the conference.
They were also starting a dialogue for a national strategy with the hopes of identifying Belize's priorities ahead of regional discussions about COP28.
7News was at that strategy meeting to hear from the experts and to learn what's weighing on them ahead of the next global climate negotiation.
Mayday Comedy For Sunday
Comedy Belize is hosting its Mayday show this Sunday, May 21st at the Old Belize pavilion.
The show boasts headliners Eva Evans and Hot Topic who touched down in Belize just this afternoon. They stopped by our studios to give 7News a little preview and were already warming up the jokes for Sunday.
Also doing sets at the show will be Belizean comedians Tyron Anthony and Kenny Morgan. The show starts at 5:00 PM and tickets are $50.00.
Shyne & Speaker Spar
And while it's not comedy - for our next story, if we don't laugh, we'll cry. Ever since Madam Speaker Valerie Woods ordered Shyne Barrow out of the House Meeting a few months ago, he's become - shall we say - very "touches" about who's keeping and who's breaking the house rules for decorum and parliamentary speech. So today when the Prime Minister cautioned Barrow by using the old proverb about spitting in the sky and I falling back into your face, well, Dr Barrow took even that as an insult:
