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In attendance today were various stakeholders from the private and public sectors including BELTRAIDE, the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry as well as entrepreneurs and small business owners who have over the years developed products and services that have been sold locally and internationally. The C.E.O.s in the Ministries of Trade and Investment and […]
Retired California Supreme Court Justice, Carlos Moreno, has finally received senatorial approval to proceed on diplomatic mission to Belize as US Ambassador. The Ambassador is expected to arrive in Belize sooner rather than later because the Embassy has been without an Ambassador for some time. When he arrived it would be his first trip because […]
As we reported on Monday’s newscast, Professor Brendan Bain of the University of West Indies had come under fire for appearing as an expert witness in the case in which Caleb Orozco and UNIBAM are challenging the section fifty-three of the criminal code before the Belize Supreme Court. Well, the news tonight is that the […]
World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) is observed annually in the Caribbean on May seventeenth. It is spearheaded by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and this past Saturday, to commemorate the occasion, a Trinidad and Tobago based company, CANTO, engaged in several activities including a video competition. Held under the theme, “Broadband for Sustainable […]
One of the country’s most generous partners is the government of Taiwan. This morning in Belmopan, Ambassador David Wu presented a cheque in the sum of five million U.S. dollars to the Prime Minister Dean Barrow. The cheque is a grant from the Republic of China for the Bilateral Cooperation Program between the two countries. […]
The United States Embassy in Belize, since the departure of Ambassador Vinai Thummalapally last year, has remained without an ambassador. Currently, Margaret Hawthorne is at the helm of the embassy as Charge d’ Affaires. While ambassador designate, Carlos Moreno, a former United States judge, was nominated in October 2013 following President Obama’s reelection, his appointment […]
The police department today received a hefty donation courtesy of the United States Embassy. It involves a brand new fleet of vehicles valued at more than two million dollars. The US Charge d’ Affaires, Margaret Hawthorne, says that the heavy duty trucks will be used to improve citizen security. News Five’s Isani Cayetano was on […]
On Thursday, the Caribbean Court of Justice ruled favorably on behalf of LGBT activist Maurice Tomlinson, granting him special leave to challenge the immigration acts of Belize and Trinidad & Tobago. The decision followed a suit which was filed in July of last year in which Tomlinson claims that the existing laws are prejudicial towards […]
The Petrocaribe initiative took its first baby steps in Belize in 2005, but fizzled out in 2009. It was reloaded in Belize in 2012, and to say that the Jewel is reaping major financial dividends would be an understatement. Today, the head office of Alba Petrocaribe Belize Energy Ltd. officially opened its doors in Belize […]
Amid the bad news, there was a bright spot over the Easter weekend for those following the upcoming Commonwealth Games to be held in Scotland. The Queen’s baton relay reached Belize on Monday. The relay was launched in London last October and by the time the baton is delivered to the Queen or her representative […]
There isn’t any local official report on it, but the Department of Foreign Affairs of Philippines says that Belize is among a group of countries that will enjoy visa free privileges to enter the Philippines for thirty days effective today. The other countries are Croatia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. According to the announcement […]
Where murders are concerned, Belize recorded fewer numbers in 2013 that in the five years prior. That was good news for a country under siege, and provided hope that perhaps it signalled a trend. 2014 isn’t looking as good, with five murders just this past weekend. For context, you can look at a new study […]
The recent killing of a Guatemalan national by Belize Defense Force personnel inside the Chiquibul forest has sparked renewed concerns by the international community about the existing border issues between Belize and Guatemala. Since the incident a week ago, Guatemalan officials have been meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to look closely at what […]
On February twenty-first, the Golden Princess Casino at the northern border closed its doors. Fifty-seven employees were terminated while ninety-six persons were relocated to the other Princess Casino at the border. The abrupt shutdown was a result of difficult financial times attributed to exorbitant rent and a drastic slow-down of patrons from across the border. […]
The European Union earlier this week imposed fisheries sanctions on Belize because the country has been found not to be cooperating in the fight to stop illegal fishing. The government jumped to the defense saying that all necessary steps have been taken to eradicate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. According to the Prime Minister, the […]
On Monday, the Council of the European Union formally imposed a sanction on Belize, as well as two other countries, for failure to comply with international regulations in the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. The ban is a hard blow being dealt to non-compliant third countries, including Cambodia, Guinea and Belize, and its […]
For the first time, Belize is hosting the Caribbean HIV AIDS Program (CHAP) Regional Exchange Meeting. The program is an initiative funded by the American Red Cross to address the prevention, education and organizational capacity strengthening in the area of HIV/AIDS. Today and for the rest of the week, forty Red Cross National Society representatives […]
Today at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital the signing of a grant agreement between the national referral hospital, the Offices of the Special Envoy for Women and Children and the Japan Government took place. The grant, which is approximately one hundred and twenty thousand U.S. dollars, is to be used for the purchasing of equipment […]
The following is not good news for the jewel despite a raft of legislation passed in February that includes the Financial Intelligence Unit Amendment Act and the Money Laundering and Terrorism Prevention Bill. Still today, Belize was named in a list of countries considered as major money laundering countries around the world. The 2014 International […]
What is being called a miscommunication between the Belize Defense Force and the police department resulted in the brief detention of several armed officers who crossed into Belizean territory at the northern border last Friday. The incident occurred prior to a high-level meeting held between B.D.F. officials and members of the Mexican military and caused […]
Belize has so far done exceedingly well in the Arnold Classic Bodybuilding Tournament. On Tuesday, Mister Belize, Rigo Vellos, and Miss Belize Fitness, Cricel Castillo, traveled to Columbus, Ohio to compete in the prestigious Arnold Classic Bodybuilding Tournament at the Arnold Sports festival. The event is from the twenty-seventh of February to the second of […]
Violent protests continue to rock Venezuela, where the government is coming under heavy pressure from opposition parties. But according to news reports, even as the unrest continues, a rift between the two main opposition leaders has been exposed. On Wednesday, the Venezuelan Ambassador spoke about the uprising, tonight he tells us about the Petrocaribe Agreement […]
The Venezuelan government is bracing for more protests which have now spread to the capital, Caracas. The United Nations, as well as the Pope speaking from the Vatican, has called for peace. The government today organized a peace conference inviting the opposition which is also organizing a women’s rally led by congresswomen, Maria Corina Machado, […]
The Venezuelan Ambassador says that the opposition is fueling the uprising and accuses the US government of throwing its full support behind the Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, MUD or when translated, the Democratic Unity Roundtable. According to Perez Marcano the United States is protecting its business interests in Venezuela, but it will not be […]
A US woman who was living in San Pedro for some time was picked up by US agents with the cooperation of local police and whisked away to the United States. There is little information available locally on how she was arrested and flown to the US, but the US Department of Justice in a […]
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