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As you heard earlier the P.U.P. is demanding a greater say in the education campaign on the Belize-Guatemala issue. But as to taking a formal position on the coming referendum on taking the dispute to the International Court of Justice, party leader John Briceño is less concerned. As he himself admits, the party is squarely […]
The Belize Defence Force and the Belize Coast Guard received more than eight hundred and fifty-thousand dollars in drug fighting equipment and training packages. The US Embassy handed over the donation gifted by the US Southern Command’s ‘Counter Narcotics Program Office.’ While the U.S. and Central America have cooperated on defense and security, there have […]
There’s an article online that’s been attracting attention in the area of tourism. Naughty Island. It’s off the coast of Belize, and according to a U.K. newspaper, later this year; visitors on a special vacation package get to live out their fantasies there. The private island in question is eight miles off the coast or […]
Guatemalans head to the polls on April fifteenth to decide on the following question: Do you agree that any legal claim by Guatemala against Belize on continental inland territories and any maritime areas corresponding to those territories be submitted to the International Court of Justice for final determination and that it determines the boundaries of […]
Breaking News: There is a late evening report of the robbery of three Belizeans—well-known cyclist Darnel Barrow, Albert Leslie and another known only as Mark. Leslie daughter, Elisa, phoned in to our newsroom minutes ago to inform that the trio had just left the Mexican border with the United States en route to Belize. Just […]
The proposed move to transition to direct consumption sugar continues to be discussed among millers across the region, Jamaica being the latest country to endorse the idea of producing plantation white sugar for the CARICOM market. It is described by manufacturers, including ASR/BSI, as a win-win situation for stakeholders in the industry. Earlier today, News […]
The issue of Common External Tariffs not being applied to imported white sugar continues to affect millers. The Sugar Association of the Caribbean, according to McLachlan, is looking at the idea of assessing whether there is truly a need for imported sugar into the regional marketplace. Mac McLachlan, VP International Relations, ASR/B.S.I. “At the […]
This week, the Caribbean Development Bank held its annual press conference at its headquarters in Barbados. The headline is that the performance of its nineteen member countries economically in 2017 was not the best. Belize, at zero point five percent, brought up the rear and is around the regional average. But President of the Caribbean […]
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Belize recorded just a half a percentage point increase in GDP in 2017, and projects about one point five percent, hampered by increases in debt. But still, the C.D.B. remains confident that Belize can juggle growing debt and slow economic growth to rebound. The key, as a presenter told reporters, is in infrastructure, both physical and […]
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Twenty-one-year-old Hezron Parks is making the headlines in the U.S. where he shot and killed an Arizona fire captain. According to international media, Parks faces second-degree murder charge and was given a three hundred thousand dollar cash bail and put under electronic surveillance because he is considered a flight risk. U.S. media says that Parks’ […]
There is a major arrest of a Canadian national with a long rap sheet who is wanted in Belize for murder. But it may be a while before twenty-eight year old Jordan Bacchus returns to Belize. He was nabbed during a drug bust in Sudbury, Ontario, north of Toronto, on Friday. Bacchus and a woman […]
Earlier this week we told you about the Belizean who attended the State of the Union Address. It wasn’t a diplomat or a highly politically connected person – it was a young girl from Belize who is living undocumented in the US and has been at the forefront of the immigration fight. She is at […]
Mexico was one of the thirteen countries at Wednesday’s meeting of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States which supported Belize and Guatemala during their appearance there. Both Foreign Ministers Wilfred Elrington and Sandra Jovel Polanco tried to rally international support for the upcoming referenda on resolving the dispute at the International Court […]
Mexico continues to count the cost of the ongoing drug war in which thousands have been killed over the years. While the annual murder rate is much smaller than Belize, the sheer numbers are larger although mostly concentrated in the north and center of the country. But more recently there has been unruly behavior at […]
Mexicans are not alone in engaging in criminality. Witness Robert Gentle, who was recently caught driving a Lincoln Navigator over the border in which cocaine was found. He tried to make a run for it and Mexican police cut his legs from under him, shooting out his tires and forcing the vehicle to crash into […]
During U.S. President Donald Trump’s live televised State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night, he intimated that American foreign assistance should always serve American interests and go to its friends and not enemies. The comments came in the wake of more than one hundred countries banding against the U.S.’s decision to recognize […]
Back from his end-of-year working visit to his homeland to meet with counterparts in the Mexican Foreign Relations Secretariat, Ambassador of Mexico to Belize, Carlos Quesnel Melendez, hosted the press at the Institute of Mexico in Belize City, to review the work of last year and the projects for 2018. February second marks three years in […]
President Enrique Pena Nieto’s whirlwind visit to Belize for the Mexico-CARICOM summit was a highlight of the local embassy’s year, and planning has begun for a reciprocal visit, as well as the Bi-National Commission reuniting. A topic that will certainly be on the minds of the politicians and diplomats is the United States’ position on […]
There is an important notice tonight for our viewers of Mexican heritage. In five months voters will go to the polls there to elect a President and members of the Chamber of Deputies and Senators. Because Mexico’s constitution sets a single six-year, non-renewable term for the presidency, incumbent Enrique Peña Nieto cannot run for re-election. […]
On Tuesday night, eleven months after he was elected as the president of the United States of America, Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address in Washington D.C. Following disparaging remarks about small and developing nations and countries such as Haiti, El Salvador and others in Africa as ‘shithole countries,’ the U.S. […]
In respect to the suspension of U.S. visas for temporary workers that came on the heels of the Belize vote at the United Nations, the U.S. representative says that each country is assessed separately. In the region, there are countries that have had no success with convictions for human trafficking, but unlike Belize, have not […]
The thirty-three members of the Organization of American States’ Permanent Council – Cuba and Venezuela aside – met in session in Washington this morning to hear from the Belizean and Guatemalan foreign affairs ministers on the status of the Belize-Guatemala claim as it reaches flashpoint. The O.A.S. has established a Peace Fund to regulate activities […]
On Tuesday, we told you about Belizean Denea Joseph who has been living in the U.S. for seventeen years, but is one of one point eight million illegal immigrants who were taken to the U.S.A. as children and remain protected under its Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The Trump Administration says it will wind […]
Now, the State of the Union address is not one that receives extensive local coverage, but as they say, when the U.S. sneezes, Belize catches a cold. President Trump’s address contained matters that are consequential, especially on immigration. The controversial construction of a wall on its border with Mexico as well as limiting the green […]
U.S. President Donald Trump will give his first State of the Union address tonight in Washington. Marking the first year of his presidency, he will deliver the speech at the White House which will highlight issues related to the U.S. economy, national security and immigration, among others. And if you’ve been following the international news, […]
