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Earlier today, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust, PACT, announced that a pair of programmes under its Climate Finance Portfolio has been approved through international climate finance mechanisms. Support for these [...]
Written on December 10, 2019 | Posted in
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Belize celebrates its third year having signed on to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, UNCAC. Since 2016, when government was brought to its knees during an eleven-day strike effected [...]
Written on December 9, 2019 | Posted in
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Belize, along with other CARICOM member states, has signed a memorandum, launching the Caribbean Small Business Development network. Penning the memo on behalf of the government was Minister of State [...]
Written on December 5, 2019 | Posted in
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The Special Envoy for Women and Children Kim Simplis Barrow was also present at today’s event. Barrow spoke about the value of gender based violence awareness and the impact the [...]
Written on December 4, 2019 | Posted in
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On Monday the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a release to say that the Republic of China (Taiwan) has given Belize support to facilitate international representation. According to the release, [...]
Written on December 3, 2019 | Posted in
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Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber represented Belize at a meeting of the Vice Presidents of the Central American Integration System. The meeting, which was held in El Salvador on Monday, [...]
Written on December 3, 2019 | Posted in
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A businessman who possesses Belizean citizenship is currently detained in China for allegedly colluding with people in the United States to meddle in the affairs of Hong Kong. This is [...]
Written on December 2, 2019 | Posted in
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Belize has finally been successful in getting its sugar into CARICOM for export. Trade Ministers of the Council for Trade and Economic Development in November agreed that Belize, and other [...]
Written on December 2, 2019 | Posted in
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After three years on the drawing board, Government is rolling out a national investment policy and strategy. The NIPS starts at the doorsteps of BELTRAIDE where investment proposals will be [...]
A forum encouraging men and boys to end violence against women was held today as events take place within the launch of Sixteen Days of Activism. Participants were encouraged to [...]
Written on November 26, 2019 | Posted in
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Founded in 1968, the booming Jamaican Stock Exchange has been named the world’s best-performing stock market, twice. According to online articles, Jamaica’s success in its stock exchange is greatly due [...]
Written on November 25, 2019 | Posted in
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The government asserts tonight that it has no agreement with the United States as a safe third country. The statement from the government was prompted by an international news article [...]
Written on November 22, 2019 | Posted in
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In early November, the Belize Tourism Board released its mid-year insight into tourism performance for the Jewel. And while there are some ups and downs, the industry continues to boom. [...]
Written on November 22, 2019 | Posted in
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Work for a twenty-seven-mile stretch of road linking Corozal Town to Sarteneja started last week following the inauguration of the fifty-million-U.S.-dollar project. The major infrastructure project is being funded by [...]
Today, Taiwanese Ambassador Remus Li-Kuo Chen gifted the Belize Police Department a brand new coaster. A short ceremony was held for a symbolic handing over, as the coaster bus will [...]
Written on November 20, 2019 | Posted in
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The Miss Universe pageant will be aired live on December eighth from the Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States. As that day inches closer, Belize’s delegate [...]
Written on November 20, 2019 | Posted in
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More than thirty Guatemalan families remain not only on the western border but on Belizean territory. These families claim they settled there since the year 2000 illegally squatting on a [...]
Written on November 18, 2019 | Posted in
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In early 2004, the then P.U.P. administration relocated some thirty families from the area after it was established that they had erected permanent structures in this side of the border. [...]
Written on November 18, 2019 | Posted in
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The Washington Post is reporting that the government of Guatemala is considering the resettlement of migrants in the Peten Department which is not too far from the western border of [...]
Written on November 18, 2019 | Posted in
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The economies of Belize and Barbados are dependent on tourism, but there are other opportunities that can open up for further trade between both countries. This is why a mission [...]
Written on November 12, 2019 | Posted in
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As it relates to CARICOM, some of Belize’s agricultural products have made their way into the regional market. But even as discussions are ongoing to introduce Belize Sugar Industries’ plantation [...]
Written on November 12, 2019 | Posted in
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While CARICOM is natural trading partner, Minister Panton says that Belize is looking at other opportunities outside of the CARICOM region to export the Belizean produced sugar. A delegation is [...]
Written on November 12, 2019 | Posted in
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Tonight a Belizean, forty-year-old Carlos Cirilo Chayash is recovering in a hospital in Felipe Carrillo Puerto, in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico after being stabbed on Sunday morning. Mexican [...]
Written on November 11, 2019 | Posted in
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Reynaldo Verde remains locked up in the U.S., facing charges of extortion and attempted extortion. The former Deputy Director of General Tax Services pled not guilty to those charges. Verde [...]
Written on November 6, 2019 | Posted in
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The sixth Biennial Conference of CAJO came to a successful conclusion on Saturday in Belize City. About one hundred and fifty members of the judiciary from the wider Caribbean took [...]
Written on November 4, 2019 | Posted in
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