Ministry Condemns “The Ultimate Business University”

Last week, the Ministry of Education issued a warning about an entity called “The Ultimate Business University.” This organization claims it plans to bring five thousand students from the U.S. to Belize and hire a whopping thirty-five thousand teachers. It also asserts that it’s registered as an educational institution in Belize. However, the ministry clarified that this business is neither registered nor legally recognized in Belize and has no official ties to the Government of Belize. Earlier today, Minister of Education Francis Fonseca addressed the issue, emphasizing the importance of verifying such claims.

 

Francis Fonseca, Minister of Education

“ I know it doesn’t sound to me at all feasible or logical, it’s just my view. Listen, I can tell you, we get lots of proposals from institutions all over the world. Every month you get one or two from all over the world. You don’t know  who these people are, you don’t know anything about them. My own view is that would not be something we would do. consider at all, but  they would have to make a, as I said, there’s a procedure in place. There’s a legal procedure in place for you to apply, especially if you want to open some offshore school. There’s a special regime in place, especially for those kinds of institutions because  so many of them have been associated with scams. Fly by night institutions that are just taking people’s money. So we have to be extremely careful with those types of institutions. In fact, we, we’re looking to close down some that got licenses previously. Yeah, but that would have to be looked at carefully.”