Gay rights activist Maurice Tomlinson, who is challenging the existing immigration laws of Belize and Trinidad & Tobago, was back before the Caribbean Court of Justice today. Tomlinson is suing the governments of both countries on the basis that their laws are discriminatory towards prohibited classes, including the LGBT community. On May ninth, 2014 the […]
This Wednesday, at the Organization of American States in Washington, Ambassador Nestor Mendez will be vying for election to the position of Deputy Secretary General of the O.A.S. Guyana is also presenting a candidate for the post so the election is being closely watched. Mendez has been campaigning for some time and in many quarters […]
The spike in violent crimes across Belize in 2014 has prompted the U.S. State Department to release a revised crime and safety report which points out that the country has seen an increase in theft and murder over the past year. Despite the fact that a majority of tourist destinations, including archaeological sites and cayes, […]
It is with deep sadness that tonight we report on the death of Guatemala’s Ambassador to Belize, His Excellency Manuel Tellez. He passed away on Sunday morning in Guatemala City surrounded by his loved ones and was laid to rest earlier today. Prior to his funeral services the ministry of Foreign Affairs of Guatemala paid […]
Belize has joined several other O.A.S. member states, including Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Trinidad and Tobago in consenting to receive onsite visits as part of the follow-up on the implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption. While it may not be the United Nations Convention against Corruption which the political third party VIP has been […]
Mexican Ambassador to Belize Carlos Quesnel is taking on a number of bilateral initiatives, some new and others in the pipeline. A priority area is in trade for which a number of entrepreneurs from Mexico have been making significant investments in the local tourism industry. In improving overall relations, the embassy is working to improve […]
And that partnership to strengthen the trade and investments in Belize is also being backed up with assistance to fight crime and narco-trafficking, two of the biggest challenges for the city and Ambergris Caye in recent months. Carlos Quesnel Melendez, Mexican Ambassador to Belize “As a matter of fact, this is also one of […]
The CSME Unit in the Ministry of Trade held a workshop in the Belize City to sensitize key front line personnel on how to handle and tap into opportunities to share their experiences and disseminate information. The Unit brought in a consultant for the Spokespersons Workshop to equip the participants, which included media personnel, students, […]
The new Mexican Ambassador to Belize, Carlos Quesnel Melendez, has hit the ground running. This morning, he hosted the media to breakfast and spoke on some of the projects that will be the focus during his tenure. Quesnel Melendez intends to strengthen bilateral agreements with Belize as it relates to education, health and culture. Also […]
And today marks the start of the Chinese New Year which runs through to March fifth. It is the “Year of the Goat,” which symbolizes good luck in the Chinese calendar. Benjamin Ho, Taiwanese Ambassador of Belize took the opportunity today to wish Happy New Year to Chinese Belizean. Benjamin Ho, Taiwanese Ambassador to […]
So while in southern Belize, there might be a boom due to cruise tourism, in Venezuela, the international media is reporting economic turmoil. According to Ambassador Yoel del Valle Perez Marcano, the impact of the steady fall in crude prices on the country’s financial affairs is being misrepresented by networks such as CNN and Fox […]
In spite of its existing economic woes, Venezuela is yet to pull the plug on the Petrocaribe initiative. The last shipment of premium fuel to Belize arrived in country in late January and delivery has since been put on hold indefinitely. While the Barrow administration has borrowed an estimated two hundred and forty million dollars […]
The first tranche of payment to Venezuela for the Petrocaribe loan is due later this year. That disbursement will bring to an end a two-year grace period granted to Belize upon signing an agreement with Venezuela in 2012. Yoel del Valle Perez Marcano, Venezuelan Ambassador to Belize “The payments are normal. We are not […]
Belize has been gaining recognition worldwide as a top tourist destination. Well tonight, there is one more to add as the leading tour operator for the Caribbean hails from Belize. Carnival Cruise Lines has selected H2O-Tierra Ltd, owned by Tom and Ivette Wilson as the top tour operator in the countries where the cruise lines […]
There is a report that surfaced earlier today in Caribbean news outlets, about billions of dollars being stashed away in Swiss Banks. The report claims that the funds were deposited by citizens of thirty countries in the wider Caribbean. The information was contained in a throve of sixty thousand internal Swiss Bank documents, leaked by […]
The 2015 Grammy Awards ceremony was held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California on Sunday before a packed audience of A-list celebrities. Kanye West’s now infamous post-show rant soundly criticizing the academy for awarding Beck ‘Album of the Year’ over Beyonce’s self-titled record, continues to buzz on social media. But it’s Belizean instrumentalist […]
Software magnate John McAfee fled Belize in 2012 after being named a person of interest in the murder of Greg Faull in San Pedro. Since then the sixty-nine-year-old, who claims that the Government of Belize is in his pursuit following accusations of corruption, absconded and surfaced in Guatemala briefly before returning to the United States. […]
Two Belizeans were attacked by three unidentified persons in Playa del Carmen over the weekend. According to Police reports from that area, authorities were called to downtown Playa del Carmen at around two-thirty Saturday morning where they discovered twenty-five year old Abner Torres with a wound to the left side of his face. Torres, who […]
There were numerous agreements signed in the past few days. The Government of Japan signed on to two grants for the agricultural and education sectors. A total of two hundred and five thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars were issued between both grants. One hundred and two thousand US dollars was handed over for an […]
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 […]
Caribbean Countries signed on to the Petrocaribe program some ten years ago. The program, which has provided social assistance, may very well see many countries cut off. While Belize’s name hasn’t been called for that, we have been cut off from the Premium fuel from Venezuela. Back in December, Prime Minister Dean Barrow made that […]
This morning at the Saint John’s Anglican Primary School in Belize City, education stakeholders turned out in numbers. The occasion was two-fold: the construction of a new building gifted to the school as well as the signing of a tripartite agreement between the Ministry of Education, the University of Belize as well as the Bridgewater […]
Last week on ABC, Belize was named as one of the top destinations to visit in 2015. Well, today the Belize Tourism Board announced that 2014 was an excellent year for the industry. Confirming that the number of visitors had surpassed the projected target of a million visitors, the B.T.B. says that overnight arrivals were […]
A week-long session in the Supreme Court of Jamaica commenced earlier today, following a lawsuit filed in 2014 by Professor Brendan Bain. The litigation involving the University of the West Indies is the result of an apparent violation of due process when he was removed as head of the institution’s Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training Network. […]
A Belizean student of the national university is receiving royal honours tonight as one of the Queen of England’s Young Leaders. Denielle Neal is one of sixty young persons from across the Commonwealth, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-nine, that are being recognized as exceptional leaders in their community. The Queen’s Young Leaders programme […]
