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Also receiving funding today from Japan was the Carmelita Government School. Currently, the school has sixteen classrooms hosting over four hundred primary school students. With this grant of one hundred and three thousand and eighty-six U.S. dollars, three additional building will be constructed on the school grounds. For School Administrator, Keith Augustine it is part […]
Since the inception of the Taiwanese scholarship program over two hundred and sixty Belizeans have successfully acquired graduate and post graduate degrees from Taiwanese institutions and over a hundred and sixteen others are currently in Taiwan studying. Today, Taiwanese Ambassador to Belize, Benjamin Ho, and his team hosted its 2015 scholarship briefing. Duane Moody reports. […]
The SICA Heads of State Summit was held in Belize last week, and while that’s big news, the nation’s attention has been focused on thirteen agreements signed at that summit. Those agreements, between Belize and Guatemala, cover a wide range of areas…from prisoner and education exchanges to visa waivers for students. The agreements haven’t been […]
Earlier today, the governments of Belize and Japan signed a grant which will see the purchase of equipment, including weather instruments and heavy equipment from areas of the island nation which were ravaged during the last natural disaster. The initiative is one of several ways in which the local economies of those affected areas are […]
As you know, thirteen agreements have been signed between Belize and Guatemala. The historic signing was done by the Foreign Ministers of Belize and Guatemala and has been described as a huge achievement by the government but the opposition says it cannot support because the people were not consulted. The agreements are wide ranging and […]
Of equal concern is the matter of Belizeans being locked up in Guatemala. Viewers would recall the case of Joseph Budna, a Belizean who is serving a lengthy sentence in a Guatemalan jail after being convicted of a slew of charges, including kidnapping and extortion. Both countries have since agreed that inmates can now request […]
For context, Leslie told News Five that the agreements signed fulfilled a mandate that was established through a joint commission between Belize and Guatemala. Initially, there was a total of fifteen agreements which were to have been signed but, according to Leslie; the plug was pulled at the eleventh hour, particularly where it concerned air […]
The ratification of thirteen agreements between Belize and Guatemala, in the words of Prime Minister Barrow, is a single step commencing the journey of a thousand miles. The long road ahead for both countries to resolve an age-old territorial dispute is perhaps being made smoother by the signing of the cooperative agreements. But there has […]
There were thirteen agreements signed on Wednesday between Wilfred Elrington and Carlos Raul Morales, the Foreign Ministers of Belize and Guatemala. They cover a period of ten years and while the contents have not been disseminated, we have just obtained copies and we can tell you that they are voluminous. We have not had the […]
Will Guatemala proceed to a simultaneous referendum on whether or not to take the unfounded territorial claim to the International Court of Justice? On this side, Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington has been consistent that it is the way to go, but in Guatemala, it has not been as clear as that. An education campaign leading […]
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States departed to Washington on Wednesday after participating in the SICA Summit. Jose Miguel Insulza was witness to the signing of the thirteen agreements between Belize and Guatemala. In fact, the O.A.S. had a critical role when negotiations were taking place on the territorial dispute between Belize […]
Thirteen…that is the number of agreements that were signed today between Belize and Guatemala in the margins of the SICA Summit that concluded today in Placencia. We will have more on the summit, but it is the agreements that are grabbing the headlines tonight. The accords signed between the foreign ministers of the two countries […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow, signatory to the agreements on behalf of Belize, also conceded that both countries desire to live peacefully. The PM acknowledged, in large part, the role Foreign Ministers Wilfred Elrington as well as Carlos Raul Morales, in formalizing the way forward through several rounds of negotiations which began earlier this year. […]
All that was being said at simultaneous press conference held by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. At the close of the forty-fourth SICA Summit, Belize transferred the Pro-Tempore Chair to Guatemalan president Otto Perez Molina. Except for Nicaragua and Costa Rica, five presidents from Central America and the Dominican Republic landed […]
Regional Security is among several key issues being discussed at a gathering of SICA member states in Placencia. On Tuesday, foreign ministers from the respective countries belonging to the regional organization participated in the Sixth Joint Commission with Taiwan’s Foreign Minister David Lin. Today, we look at the illegal immigration of children from Honduras, El […]
While presentations were made earlier today concerning issues affecting all SICA member countries, there are ongoing developments in Placencia where rounds of discussions on various matters continue. On Wednesday morning, we will have special coverage of the SICA General Assembly during Open Your Eyes. But for the latest from Belize Ocean Club, we go to […]
The Placencia Peninsula is overflowing tonight where delegations from Central America and the Dominican Republican are converging for the SICA Summit. But today, the Central American countries, except for Costa Rica, met with Taiwan. The Taiwanese government has substantive cooperation programs with the region and that was the focus for today’s meeting. News Five’s Isani […]
Marleni Cuellar is also in Placencia and has the latest on the meeting between Taiwan and Central America. Marleni Cuellar “Good night! Of course I am here at the Belize Ocean’s Club in Placencia where there is actually a lot taking place here at the moment. As you have been able to see through […]
Since arriving on a working visit to Belize on December eleventh, Taiwanese Foreign Minister David Lin has had a busy schedule which included the conferral of the Order of Distinction of Belize on Friday. Later that afternoon, Minister Lin was also present for a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of a new headquarters for Belize’s […]
A delegation led by Taiwanese Minister of Foreign Affairs David Lin is scheduled for a working visit to Belize from the eleventh to the sixteenth of December. The official call comes in the margins of SICA’s Meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs to be held in Placencia next week. On December fifteenth, the Taiwanese […]
A pair of Guatemalan men found hunting in Belizean territory illegally is spending the first night of a five-year sentence at the Belize Central Prison. Thirty-five-year-old Emilio Chub and twenty-five-year-old Erasmo Vasquez were poaching near Machakilha when they were busted by a team of law enforcement officers on patrol in the area. The men were […]
Three weeks ago, a bilateral meeting was held between the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry and its counterparts in Mexico. As a follow-up to that meeting, today at the Institute of Mexico in Belize City, the Chetumal Chamber of Commerce and the Embassy of Mexico organized a tourism fair which allowed for tour operators, […]
Written on December 3, 2014 | Posted in
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The Office of the Prime Minister announced today that the PM will be away from the country until December ninth. PM Barrow departed today for Atlanta, Georgia on personal time. From the US, he will head to Havana, Cuba where the Fifth CARICOM-Cuba Summit takes place on December eighth. President Raul Castro will preside at […]
On Monday, Costa Rica celebrated its sixty-sixth anniversary of the abolition of its military. We spoke to the Costa Rican ambassador, Edgar Garcia Miranda about that milestone that has allowed his country to focus on other important sectors such as education and health. In part two of that interview, Ambassador Miranda says that Costa Rica […]
Written on December 2, 2014 | Posted in
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Here’s a significant fact many people might not know. Costa Rica is one of only twenty-two countries in the world that doesn’t have a military. The decision to abolish the small nation’s military was made sixty-six years ago today, on December first, 1948. The rationale was the prioritizing of developmental needs – the country preferred […]
