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On Monday night, track and field athletes who represented Belize at the 2023 CADICA Championships in Guatemala City returned to the country after winning big in the regional tournament. During the sporting event, Belize won seven gold, eight silver and two bronze medals in various disciplines; in one instance, Belizean American athlete Brooklyn Little broke […]
Written on June 6, 2023 | Posted in
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Saudi Minister of Tourism Ahmed Al Khateeb arrived at the Philip Goldson International Airport on Tuesday where he was received on the tarmac by Minister of Tourism Anthony Mahler. The purpose of the visit included the signing of a loan agreement with the Saudi Fund for Development to build a tertiary hospital in Belmopan. Belize […]
Written on May 31, 2023 | Posted in
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The fleet of vehicles at the National Fire Service has increased following the handing over of a fire truck by the Belize City Council and the Republic of China (Taiwan). The department has been battling a number of structural fires and recently, due to the dry weather, brushfires have been a serious concern. And so, […]
Written on May 30, 2023 | Posted in
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As we stated earlier, Prime Minister John Briceño returned to the country today after attending the World Climate Industry Expo ─ Leaders’ Summit in Busan, South Korea, where he delivered the keynote address. Briceño addressed the threats of climate change on food security and livelihoods in Belize. He highlighted the annual losses suffered by Belize’s G.D.P. due […]
Written on May 29, 2023 | Posted in
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Prime Minister John Briceño is in South Korea attending the World Climate Industry Expo – Leaders’ Summit in Busan. At the summit, various countries gather to discuss endeavors and directions to be taken by the international society under the theme of “Global Cooperation and Solidarity for the Fight against Climate Change in the Ocean.” During the […]
Written on May 26, 2023 | Posted in
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This morning, the Philip Goldson International Airport was teeming with activity. Over a hundred and twenty Belize Defense Force soldiers and Belize Coast Guard officers left the country en route to Louisiana. They will be spending the next three weeks away from home on a training exercise. The trip is the result of a partnership […]
Written on May 24, 2023 | Posted in
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On Friday, a high-level delegation from the European Union travelled to the Adjacency Zone between Belize and Guatemala. Led by Marianne Van Steen, the E.U. Ambassador to Belize, the delegation was made up of six ambassadors representing E.U. member states including, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain. The primary objective of their visit […]
Written on May 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Doctor Carla Barnett has sent condolences to Guyana, following a fire at a school that claimed the lives of at least twenty schoolchildren. The fire in Mahdia, near the centre of Guyana, early this morning, swept through a high school boarding school killing at least nineteen of the students […]
Written on May 22, 2023 | Posted in
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Today at the Biltmore Plaza Hotel in Belize City, stakeholders across the public and private sectors were engaged in discussion about climate change and all its facets. The national strategic dialogue was to discuss the outcomes of COP27 that was held in November 2022 in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt and Belize’s outlook for the upcoming […]
Written on May 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Migration is the movement of people from one country, place or locality to another. Fossil evidence suggests that modern humans began to spread across the planet from Africa sixty thousand years ago. Since then, humans inhabit all corners of the Earth, on every continent. Currently, there is at least three percent of the world’s population, […]
Written on May 17, 2023 | Posted in
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A Belizean woman is indisposed in a Merida hospital bed and is in need of your assistance to clear a huge medical bill in order for her to return home. Kera Leslie has been at Clinica de Merida for the past several days with a rare auto-immune disease that has ballooned her bill to the […]
Written on May 17, 2023 | Posted in
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Shondaland, an American television production company, has done a feature on U.S. Ambassador Michelle Kwan in which the U.S. diplomat spoke highly of Belize. In responding to the question about what it is like to live and work in Belize, Kwan said, “I could definitely see why Belizeans and others refer to this country as […]
Written on May 16, 2023 | Posted in
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It made the headlines three weeks ago when thirty-three persons, primarily children, experienced side effects and had to be hospitalized after consuming weed-laced gummies sold at their school. A thorough investigation was launched and it was later revealed that the packaged drug-infused candies were imported in a barrel and intercepted by the Customs and Excise […]
Written on May 15, 2023 | Posted in
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After announcing its plans to drop the British Monarch eight months ago, the Government of Antigua and Barbuda is on the brink of becoming a republic. According to Loop Caribbean News, following Prime Minister Gaston Browne’s return to Antigua and Barbuda after attending the coronation of King Charles the Third, his government’s position on becoming […]
Written on May 15, 2023 | Posted in
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A five-day workshop commenced today to further ensure the ease of business in trade. With support from the World Customs Organizations, stakeholders in the industry are being engaged to understand the process, as well as to establish possible gaps. It is referred to as a National Time Release Study and is being held at the […]
Written on May 15, 2023 | Posted in
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Prime Minister John Briceño urged heads of governments attending the Ninth Summit of the Association of Caribbean States to remain relevant and viable amidst global challenges. He also called for a refocus on the organization’s roots, which is the sustainable development of the Caribbean Sea. At the event in Antigua, Guatemala, P.M. Briceño said that […]
Written on May 12, 2023 | Posted in
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Marie Sharp’s Fine Food Limited has reached yet another mile marker. Marie Sharp’s pepper sauces are now in the Caribbean. A statement from the company says that, following a business expo in the Dominican Republic back in September 2022, and after months of negotiations, communication, permit applications and logistics, Marie Sharp entered into a regional […]
Written on May 12, 2023 | Posted in
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Over the weekend, the world honed in on the coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. The royal rites of passage took place at Westminster Abbey; eight months after the death of Queen Elizabeth II on September eighth, 2022. Now, since […]
Written on May 11, 2023 | Posted in
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A recent poll conducted by former Conservative deputy chairman Lord Michael Ashcroft, has revealed that almost half of the countries in King Charles’ realms, including Canada and Australia, would choose to become republics if a referendum were held today. The survey of eleven thousand, two hundred and fifty-one persons across fourteen overseas countries found that […]
Written on May 2, 2023 | Posted in
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A new variant of the COVID-19 virus sweeping India shows unique symptoms in children. The sub-variant of Omicron has been identified in twenty-two countries, including Singapore, Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. The spread of the strain, first detected in late January, is worrying experts, as it seems to exhibit unique symptoms in children, one […]
Written on April 27, 2023 | Posted in
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Belmopan Mayor, Sheran Palacio, left Belize today to take part in a series of events in the United States. Mayor Palacio will take part in an Earth Day Summit at Miami University, followed by a panel discussion with Mayor Daniela Levine Cava of Miami Dade. Next week, the mayor will attend the first ever Cities […]
Written on April 21, 2023 | Posted in
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Belize just recently welcomed and hosted the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) Doctor Tsai Ing-Wen who was on a state visit to the Jewel and today, exactly two weeks after the president’s departure, the wife of the President of Mexico, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller (Mew-ler) arrived in Belize bearing gifts. The visit from Müller […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Over the weekend, a track and field coach from Virginia spent time in Belize scouting young talents. Former world champion sprinter turned coach, Andre Cason, spent Saturday and Sunday at the Belize Athletic Association’s National Track and Field Championships where he was able to witness some of Belize’s most promising athletes in action. The good […]
Written on April 18, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier in the week, we told you about the fourteen-year-old Belizean American who stunned the Caribbean over the weekend with his gold medal performances at the Fiftieth CARIFTA Games in the Bahamas. Well, Demetrie Meyers and his father and coach Gregory Meyers are in Belize. They arrived today to celebrate the two gold medal victories […]
Written on April 14, 2023 | Posted in
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Earlier this week, Prime Minister John Briceño met with the Regional Representative of the United Nations Development Program. The meeting was to discuss initiatives supported by the U.N.D.P. in Belize to improve the economy, develop infrastructure and achieve objectives aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals. And it would seem that Belize is doing great. PM […]
Written on April 13, 2023 | Posted in
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