In Episode 17 of Season 3 of Caribbean Business Review, Joseph Cox speaks with Dr. Khadijah Usher, Director of Strategy, Business Development and Regulatory Affairs at Belize Electricity Limited.

The discussion examines how Belize is navigating energy security in an era of geopolitical instability, volatile fuel prices, climate risk, and global supply chain disruption.

The episode explores:
• Belize’s renewable energy transition and evolving energy mix
• Regional interconnection with Mexico as a resilience strategy
• Distributed generation, storage, and energy diversification
• The economics of electricity pricing in small-island systems
• Why resilience may matter more than absolute energy independence
• The impact of global geopolitical shocks on Caribbean energy systems

This episode also includes the CBR Briefing:
“Humanity Is Eating Natural Gas — Climate, Conflict and the Emerging Global Food Security Squeeze.”

The briefing explores how climate change, fertilizer disruption, energy shocks, and geopolitical conflict are combining to create growing food security risks for import-dependent economies, including the Caribbean.

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