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This year, Belize and Korea are commemorating thirty years of diplomatic cooperation. To recognize this milestone, on Monday the Republic of Korea sent a delegation to Belize bearing a four hundred thousand dollar gift. Lee In-ho, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea in El Salvador, presented equipment and vehicles to Belize’s C.E.O. in the Ministry […]
The International Monetary Fund has issued its final report on its annual Article Four consultation with Belize which took place in June. Despite Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s insistence that Belize is not following the projections of the I.M.F. lock, stock and barrel, the agency does appear to take credit for implementations of various reforms it […]
Day one of a two-day training of trainers’ workshop by the Caribbean Public Health Agency was held today at the Biltmore Plaza. Local medical practitioners from across the country are receiving refresher courses on infection prevention control. The workshop also focuses on better responses in terms of personal protective equipment required to be used in […]
Following an eight point oh earthquake off Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico twelve days ago, a seven point one magnitude earthquake killed over a hundred people in Mexico City and surrounding states earlier this morning. The powerful earthquake toppled buildings, damaged streets and knocked out electricity for millions in Mexico. Some reports say that at least […]
Hurricane Maria, a category five storm, made landfall on the island of Dominica on Monday night. Not much is known as yet about the extent of the damage, as initial assessments and search and rescue are believed to have just started later today. During the passage of the hurricane, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit updated his […]
Over the weekend, Belizeans were harassed and turned back from traversing the Sarstoon River and circling the island during an organized canoe race at Belize’s southern boundary. The Belize Territorial Volunteers’ second-annual Eco-Challenge canoe and kayak race was threatened to become an international incident this past Saturday. Guatemalan gunboats manned the entrance of the river, […]
This, of course, is not the first time that the B.T.V., or even the Belizean military and press including this station, have encountered Guatemalan military actively seeking to stop Belizeans from traversing the Sarstoon. Prensa Libre claims that Wil Maheia led a group to Sarstoon Island to install the Belizean flag and sing the national […]
NICH got a hundred thousand dollar boost today. The Taiwan Government handed over a cheque to help with cultural and artistic development. The monies will be used for a number of projects with a focus on cultural preservation and youth involvement. News Five’s Andrea Polanco has more. Andrea Polanco, Reporting A cheque of one […]
A release issued late this evening dropped a bombshell – Petrocaribe has stopped rolling, for now and quite possibly forever. The decision comes on the heels of an announcement by the Government just a week ago that it plans to raise fuel prices, which it blamed on damage to oil refineries in Houston, Texas, due […]
The U.S. President, Donald Trump, has placed Belize on a list of Major Drug Transit or Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for Fiscal Year 2018. The presidential determination was made earlier this week. Also included in the list are Caribbean countries such as the Bahamas, Jamaica and Haiti as well as all of Central America […]
It has now been fifteen months since the murder of thirty-year-old Krystal Mitchell, who was found dead at the apartment of an acquaintance in San Diego, California. The divorced mother-of-two from Phoenix, Arizona, struck up a relationship with thirty-three year old Raymond Samuel McLeod Junior, a Marine Corps recruiter and bodybuilder. They had gone to […]
It appears that Hurricane Irma is not slowing down and it is heading straight for Florida. Latest weather projections show that it may hit Miami directly. Thousands have evacuated the state and others are in full hurricane preparation mode as they wait for the storm to hit. Today, we spoke with the Consul General of […]
A few years ago a special group of women from across the Caribbean gathered to launch a campaign against teenage pregnancy. They are the spouses and partners of the Caribbean’s heads of state and government, and thus very close to the center of power. After successive meetings, today in Belize City, led by Belize’s Special […]
The revelry aside….the Northern Lesser Antilles and Florida are bracing for a category-five hurricane to make landfall over the next few days. This morning, Hurricane Irma was upgraded from a category four to five and according to the National Hurricane Center it is the strongest hurricane ever recorded outside the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. […]
But the highest court, the Caribbean Court of Justice headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago announced the imminent retiring of Sir Dennis Bryon, having reached his seventh non-renewable year at the helm of the CCJ. According to a release, the process to appoint his successor is already in train and regional and international stakeholders have so […]
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Guatemalan authorities have arrested a Belizean man they believe is behind a criminal structure dedicated to cloning credit cards for the purpose of fraud. Guatemalan news sources say fifty-seven-year-old Harold Lindsay Amos Rodriguez was held after attempting to avoid a checkpoint in the Nueva Montserrat section of Guatemala City and using a firearm to attempt […]
The Chinese Disabled People Performing Arts Troupe arrived in Belize over the weekend and took to the stage free of cost at the Bliss on Sunday, as part of a two-night cultural presentation in the city. But the arrival of the thirty-three visually impaired performers was not without controversy. The Belize Chinese Association is up […]
Belize was spared a direct hit from what was then Tropical Depression Harvey a week ago tonight, but residents of the Gulf Coast of Texas have not been so lucky. The storm intensified to Category Four status before striking the Houston area late on Friday. The storm has since been downgraded to tropical storm status, […]
Across the region, the economic and social well-being of the Eastern and Southern Caribbean have been plagued by high levels of violent crimes. Formally known as CariSECURE, short for Strengthening Evidence Based Decision Making for Citizen Security in the Caribbean, the initiative is part of USAID’s Youth Empowerment Services. It aims to improve youth crime […]
Last Wednesday, Minister of Human Development Anthony Martinez and Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte met with U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as part of a roundtable seminar on trafficking in persons organized by the Human Trafficking Institute. It comes on the heels of the State Department’s report which leaves Belize at Tier Three, as one […]
One finding of the report that clearly rankles the Barrow administration is the references to trafficking-related complicity by government officials, including those at high levels. Try though he might, Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte said he could not get the U.S. officials he spoke to in Washington to reveal who those persons might be. But while […]
Great Belize Television’s Channel Five has once again emerged victorious at the annual Caribbean Broadcasting Awards Competition held on Tuesday night in Nassau, Bahamas. As many as eight coveted prizes were won in fourteen various TV categories, including Climate Change and Renewable Energy, Coverage of Disaster Risk and Best Public Service Spot. The awards were […]
It is the sole province of the senate to accede to the ratification of international treaties and conventions signed by Belize in order for them to be ratified. At this morning’s meeting the senate considered three such treaties: the Protocol Amending the CARICOM Agreement on Social Security; the Amendment to Annex Three of the Agreement […]
Is the Taiwanese Embassy meddling in the affairs of government? It’s a suspicion that many in the Belize Chinese Association are grappling with tonight, reportedly following a decision by the Barrow administration not to waive a sum of sixty-six thousand dollars in visa fees for a visiting group of thirty-three visually impaired Chinese performers. The […]
P.U.P. Senator Valerie Woods, having heard the prime minister’s response to former Foreign Minister Lisa Shoman’s open letter on Thursday, is also weighing in on the comment made by Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington. While responding to questions asked by the media last Wednesday, the chief diplomat reiterated that Belize’s borders are not internationally recognized and […]
