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Last night, Prime Minister John Briceño hosted a state dinner at the Museum of Belize for President Doctor Tsai Ing-Wen. The dinner followed a full schedule of events on Monday, [...]
Taiwanese President Doctor Tsai Ing-Wen had a full itinerary today during her second state visit to Belize. That schedule ends later tonight, following a dinner with Prime Minister John Briceño [...]
Following the signing ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Taiwanese president and Prime Minister Briceño met in closed session before proceeding to the National Assembly where a joint [...]
On adjournment, we caught up with Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow and got his take on the ceremonial sitting, as well as the significance of President Tsai Ing-Wen’s presentation. Here’s [...]
Written on April 3, 2023 | Posted in
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Following President Tsai’s stop at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the office of the Prime Minister, and the House of Representatives, she was hosted in Belmopan to a luncheon by [...]
Written on April 3, 2023 | Posted in
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Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen arrives in Belize on Sunday evening at four o’clock. The visit of the head of government to the Jewel, her second call on Belize since taking [...]
Written on March 31, 2023 | Posted in
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Taiwanese President, Tsai Ing-wen is scheduled to arrive in Belize on Sunday. This will be her second visit to Belize since she was first elected in 2016. This visit signals [...]
Written on March 29, 2023 | Posted in
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A Belizean woman living and working in San Diego, California has won a prestigious award. Belizean-born, Bernadette Griggs left Belize way back in 1980 and settled in the United States. [...]
Written on March 24, 2023 | Posted in
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Today, the Garifuna Collective returned from a successful tour of Australia and New Zealand. The group of seven musicians performed at venues in Melbourne, Sydney and at the prestigious WOMAD [...]
A team from Jamaica is presently in Belize on a fact-finding mission to determine whether poultry produced locally can be exported to the island nation on a commercial scale. The [...]
Written on March 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Meet the Belize Jaguars, the national ‘A’ team of the Football Federation of Belize. They are participating in the CONCACAF Nation’s League Tournament that takes place annually. On Friday night, [...]
Written on March 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen is returning to Belize for a second time during her two terms in office. The Government of Belize announced this morning that the President of the [...]
The Diaspora Relations Unit (D.R.U.) within the Ministry of Tourism & Diaspora Relations ran a one-year campaign where members of the Diaspora got a chance to register into the Diaspora [...]
Written on March 20, 2023 | Posted in
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Commissioner of Police Chester Williams met with the Vice Minister of Security of Honduras at his office in Belmopan on Thursday to discuss various matters, including bilateral working cooperation, human [...]
Written on March 10, 2023 | Posted in
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A Belizean couple living in Taiwan is tonight making a public plea for assistance after trying for almost two years to acquire their two-year-old daughter’s Belizean nationality certificate from the [...]
Written on March 8, 2023 | Posted in
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And on Saturday, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at is hosting a Women’s Day activity here in Belize City where a variety of services will be provided free of cost to women [...]
During the negotiation period of the Sendai Framework the “Build Back Better” concept was introduced as a post-disaster response towards creating more resilient nations and societies. It is considered to [...]
The NORCECA U-nineteen male Continental Volleyball Championship takes place in just about a week and a half, from March thirteenth to the eighteenth, in Guatemala. The twelve athletes have been [...]
Written on March 2, 2023 | Posted in
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The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 is the single-most important global agreement for the preservation of life and investments in the event of a disaster. But, this is [...]
Multi-hazard early warning systems are playing an integral role in the preservation of lives across the globe, in the event of an impending hazard. For example, when a tropical cyclone [...]
And while multi-hazard early warnings systems have yielded a great deal of success within the Caribbean, Executive Director Elizabeth Riley, of Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, says that to truly [...]
Written on March 1, 2023 | Posted in
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Science and technology are connecting communities across the world with game-changing approaches to disaster risk reduction. The first pillar of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction states that disaster [...]
Written on February 28, 2023 | Posted in
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Annually, millions of people across the world are at risk of losing their lives and livelihoods, as a result of natural hazards, including hurricanes, floods, droughts, and earthquakes. According to [...]
Written on February 27, 2023 | Posted in
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The Forty-fourth Caricom Heads of Government Meeting in Nassau, Bahamas, came to a close today with a press conference. Over the last three days, leaders from the community have been [...]
Written on February 17, 2023 | Posted in
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Discussions at the Forty-Fourth CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting also surrounded the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Haiti. CARICOM Heads today issued a statement signaling a renewed commitment by the community [...]
Written on February 17, 2023 | Posted in
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