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A week ago, the Ministry of Defense hosted the third annual multi-national security conference in Belize City. The purpose of the conference was to share Belize’s vision, work and needs on military assistance with our allies and partners. The conference emphasized security cooperation and military capacity building for the Belize Defense Force, Belize Coast Guard, […]
Across the globe on Wednesday, International Day of the Girl Child was recognized. In her statement, United Nations Population Fund’s Executive Director, Doctor Natalia Kanem says, “Girls today enjoy better life prospects than previous generations in many ways. Prosperity and nutrition are improving, child marriage and teenage pregnancy are declining, and female educational attainment and […]
In advance of hearings next week, the Caribbean Court of Justice today rejected an application by Sunshine Holdings Limited to intervene in the final appeal between the Government of Belize, Dunkeld International Investment Limited and the Belize Telemedia Limited Employees Trust. Sunshine was previously owned by the Trust and nationalized by the government as part […]
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Last week, Emmy award-winning journalist, Kendis Gibson was in Belize at the invitation of the US Embassy. Gibson is a co-host with ABC’s World News Now. During his visit to Belize he met with students, was hosted to a dinner by the US Embassy and had a session with local journalists. Kendis who is known […]
And this news from Guatemala, immigration authorities there have revoked the visa of Ivan Velasquez, the head of the CICIG, the United Nations body investigating corruption in that country. The official reason provided is that the visa was not issued by the competent authorities and so it was revoked a week after it was granted. […]
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Canadian news sources have picked up on murder victim thirty-eight-year-old Gabriel Bochnia to be from Toronto, Ontario. CTV Toronto reports that his sister Kate is on her way to Belize to make funeral arrangements for her brother, who was living here with his wife Jeshanah Maritza Zetina and their three children. Police have announced no […]
Kylah Ciego of Dangriga Town is Belize’s new female CARICOM Youth Ambassador. According to a post on the World Youth Conference Belize 2017 Facebook page, Ciego has spent years doing community and youth work in her home town and the wider Belize, saying, “She is passionate about supporting youth development and believes that in this […]
On Saturday night at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts, Belize’s “buffest” men and women will be participating in the Belize Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation’s annual “Mr. Belize” competition. Invited as a guest participant is former regional and international amateur champion turned professional from Grenada, Vonne Francis. But the local focus is on who […]
Vonne Francis is a three-time Central American and Caribbean champion and joined the pro ranks in 2007. While he is not here to officially compete, he doesn’t mind an opportunity to steal the show. Francis told us that presentation of his sculpted body is just as important as overall health and fitness. He shared a […]
It has been weeks since hurricanes Maria and Irma devastated parts of the Caribbean whose economies depend heavily on the tourism dollar. Today, the Belize Tourism Board, in collaboration with the Belize Tourism Industry Association and the Belize Hotel Association, launched a relief campaign to support our Caribbean brothers and sisters affected by the impact […]
The Kingdom of Morocco is all the way in Africa, but that huge country with a population of thirty-two million plus, shares commonalities with Belize. This week, representatives from Morocco are in Belize to collaborate on issues involving the marine environment. A first of its kind study tour between the two countries is being coordinated […]
Belize won a regional sporting competition in Guatemala last week. But this sport doesn’t have as much of a national following as football or basketball, though it does have centuries of tradition behind it. The Maya sport of pok-ta-pok or Maya pelota is one of the last surviving traditions of a people who dominated northern […]
Two devastating earthquakes struck central and south-western Mexico in succession between September seventh and nineteenth. Between them they have caused more than four hundred deaths and extensive material damage. As bad as things have been, the rest of the nations of the world, led by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs […]
Millions have been affected by the massive seven point one earthquake that hit Mexico City on the nineteenth of September. Over the weekend, two other quakes were experienced even as Mexico continues to search for survivors. So far the death toll has risen to three hundred and twenty persons and many more are believed dead, […]
The Eastern Caribbean island nation of Dominica continues to recover from the ravages of Category Five Hurricane Maria which struck a week ago tonight. Its prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, has become the face of his nation’s suffering, openly crying on television as he told of his witness of the devastation his island had suffered. Taking […]
This afternoon, Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington addressed the United Nations. Last year, he earned rave reviews for a speech he gave in New York at the General Assembly debate, in which he sharply took on Guatemala. At the time, he was critical of their rejection of an independent report clearing soldiers of the […]
The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility has announced that Dominica will receive a payout of over nineteen million U.S. dollars following the passage of Hurricane Maria as it begins the process of recovery. Prime Minister Dean Barrow said on Thursday that Belize will be offering some sort of assistance to Dominica. The island has been […]
It’s been three days since a seven point one earthquake hit Mexico City, killing two hundred and eighty-six persons and hundreds more remain missing, at last count. Those numbers continue to climb as over one thousand volunteers and officials continue to conduct searches for survivors from the rubble of dozens of buildings within the capital, […]
The Opposition withdrew from talks with Guatemala because it was not kept wholly in the loop and has said that it had no confidence in the conduct of the FM as it relates to the claim. Here is how Elrington puts it. Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs “The only negative we had […]
News Five has confirmed with the local Petrocaribe office that meetings took place this week hoping to hash out a solution to delivering fuel from Venezuela under the Petrocaribe Accord but that there is nothing official available by way of comment at this time. On Tuesday, four officials delegated from the Venezuelan government arrived in […]
More than two hundred and twenty people, including twenty-one school children, are dead in Mexico after Tuesday’s seven point one earthquake. The deadly quake toppled buildings and cut off power and communication services in Mexico City and surrounding states. The hunt continues for dozens who are listed missing after the earthquake. Firefighters, cops and volunteers […]
Within a span of fifteen hours, Hurricane Maria went from a category one to a category five storm. The catastrophic storm hit the island of Dominica on Monday night – causing widespread destruction and a state of emergency has been declared on the island. Dominica completely without power, running water and telecommunication services and there […]
After the hurricane devastated that island, it moved over towards the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico where it made landfall on Puerto Rico shortly after six this morning as a category four storm. The hurricane knocked out electricity on the entire island and it is being reported that electricity may be out for the […]
But what really are Belize’s most important threats – as the Minister defined them, things that can cause injury, pain and harm, either from internal or external sources? Apart from those others he mentioned and some that do not directly affect Belize, the most obvious one is the Guatemalan claim, on which Elrington touched in […]
In diplomacy, ‘appeasement’ is a dirty word dating back to Neville Chamberlain and his accommodation of German dictator Adolf Hitler’s expansionist ideals, which led directly to the Second World War. It has been used before in relation to the current Government’s policy on Guatemala by opponents, and in the wake of the Guatemalan Armed Forces’ […]
