The 2011 International Costa Maya Festival has begun. The weeklong event is highlighted by the La Reina De La Costa Maya pageant, in which beauties from Central America compete for the coveted title. If you didn’t make it out this past weekend for the opening events, it’s not too late as the festivities continue into […]
Every year the biggest technical college in Mexico accepts students from Belize, who earn their degrees through scholarships provided by that country’s government. The selection process for 2011 was recently completed and fifteen students are now preparing to head north for up to four years of studies in subject areas including tourism, nursing, food production […]
The CARICOM heads of government have finally selected a new Secretary General to replace Sir Edwin Carrington who vacated the post since last year. The new SG of the regional body is Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, a fifty-six year old Dominican national. For the past six years, LaRocque has served as Assistant Secretary General for Trade […]
Athletes from across Central America have converged on the Old Capital to participate in the annual Beach Volleyball Championships. With the exception of Panama every other country is being represented in the games that are scheduled to commence on Friday. Belize will be facing stiff competition from Guatemala and Costa Rica, both teams that have […]
Belize is among a small group of twenty-three countries that has relations with Taiwan. As part of Taiwan’s diplomatic outreach, youth ambassadors are deployed to the various countries. In Belize, the Taiwanese delegation today launched its cultural exchange program at the IT-VET. News Five’s Delahnie Bain met the delegation as they previewed their traditional dance. […]
But there’s other news; twenty Belizean women from across the country are participating in a two day Marketing workshop. The Institute of Mexico collaborated with the University of Quintana Roo to hold its first workshop which was held in March of this year. Building on the success of the first workshop, the second round, entitled […]
An article by Kiplinger.com, an online American personal finance magazine has named Corozal Town on its list of eight great places to retire outside of the US. The writers paid close attention to the cost of living and health care services in each destination and consulted experts in travel, tourism and overseas retirement before compiling […]
A new report on the financial status of Belize has been written by a well known Financial Advisor of Oppenheimer and Company Incorporated. Carl Ross, the Managing Director of Investments at Oppenheimer has just concluded research on the ongoing fiscal strength of the economy in light of recent nationalizations that have sent the national foreign […]
Mexico’s new Ambassador to Belize has received congressional approval. He is career diplomat Mario Velázquez Suárez, who previously served as the deputy chief of mission in Finland. Velázquez was confirmed on Thursday and is expected to assume his new spot in Belmopan in the next two months. The jewel will be Velazquez’ first posting as […]
The Pan American Games is a multi-sport event held every four years with athletes from all nations in the Americas. The sixteenth staging of the games will be held in Guadalajara, Mexico from the fourteenth to the thirtieth of October and Belizean athletes will be competing. With violence from drug cartels at an all time, […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow returned this afternoon from the International Conference to pledge support for the Central America Security Strategy in Guatemala City. While regional security was the headline focus, the continued flow and supply of electricity to Belize and a meeting with the Mexican President were the Prime Minister’s main motive for attending. The […]
The B.E.L. nationalization has been picked up by several international organizations whose perceptions help investors decide whether or not the country is stable enough to pump cash. They also serve as advisories to lending agencies that can help the country in hard times. Currently, Moody’s Investors Service has marked Belize at B-three, a level lower […]
After nationalizing B.E.L., Prime Minister Dean Barrow headed to Guatemala for the International Conference in Support of the Central America Security Strategy during which, he will be meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderon on the CFE’s credit line to B.E.L. P.M. Barrow left today and is accompanied by the Minister of Police, Doug Singh. The […]
The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS, which sets new goals to be met by 2015. Belize, was among the countries that signed on to the declaration in a high level meeting in New York. The declaration consists of sixty-five pledges, aimed at intensifying the international response to HIV/AIDS. But […]
There is other seaworthy news regarding Belize, but instead of the Caribbean Sea, it’s in Asia. Belize has been in international news over the weekend; unfortunately, not for positive reasons. A North Korean ship, registered in the Jewel, was intercepted on its way Myanmar in Southeast Asia and is believed to have been carrying missile […]
Over thirty representatives from the region, the U.S, the U.K, European Union along with government representatives in Belize are discussing personal and economic security. That’s at the center of the deliberations at a United Nations Development Assessment Framework roll-out workshop that is ongoing at the Radisson Hotel. News Five’s Andrea Polanco reports. Andrea Polanco, Reporting […]
The OAS forty-first General Assembly focused on citizen security in the Americas and the discussions wrapped up today in San Salvador. A declaration for a regional approach to tackle transnational crime was approved by the member states. In the context of Belize, it focuses on Central America, which has felt the brunt of the upsurge […]
While the ideas coming from the general assembly emphasize the need for strengthened law enforcement entities, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington, says that might not be the best route for Belize. According to Elrington, the focus should be on preventing the youths from turning to crime, rather than reacting when the deed is […]
On Monday you heard the Foreign Minister of Guatemala, Haroldo Rhodas, speak about the referendum on the Belize/Guatemala dispute. While in Salvador, we caught up with Belize’s Ambassador to Guatemala, Fred Martinez. We asked him about the development of southern highway to Jalacte and whether it will change relations with Guatemala. Marleni Cuellar “Recently we […]
The forty-first General Assembly of the Organization of American States is underway in El Salvador and is being held under the theme “Citizen Security in the Americas”. Organized transnational crime is a burning issue that is plaguing Belize, like the rest of the region. The assembly brings together the foreign ministers of the thirty-five member […]
A top agenda item at the general assembly is the re-admission of Honduras, which lost its membership after a military coup in June 2009, interrupted the democratic process ousting former president Manuel Zelaya. After a deal was worked out, Zelaya has now returned to Honduras from where he was exiled. Today, Honduran Minister of Public […]
The protest was not the only event of the day. A trade mission coordinated by the Mexican Business Council for Foreign Trade, Investment and Technology, ProMex and the Mexican Embassy wound up today. Representatives from six companies as well as public and private sector organizations were in Belize for two days of meetings with local […]
The recent performance of Belize’s Under Seventeen National Basketball Team can only be described as impressive. During its first two games in the COCABA Championship tournament that’s underway in Costa Rica, the Belize team took down Nicaragua with a score of eighty-eight to fifty-seven. The local boys went on to play El Salvador on Wednesday […]
The Under Seventeen National Basketball team is in Costa Rica for the COCABA Under seventeen Championship Tournament which got underway on Tuesday. In the opening games, Belize walked over Nicaragua by thirty one points and tonight will be going for the win against El Salvador. Today we spoke with Head Coach Fred Garcia via phone […]
Earlier this month, Mexican police in Chiapas busted two tractor-trailers crammed with hundreds of men and women, squatting on the floor or grasping ropes to avoid getting crushed. There were seven people for every square yard, a total of five hundred and thirteen migrants in suffocating temperatures of over one hundred and five degrees, marking […]
