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But even though the amendment was signed on Monday, the document will need to get approval from the Guatemalan Congress, unlike Belize. So what is the possibility of it getting the congressional nod anytime soon? Carlos Raul Morales, Foreign Minister, Guatemala “You know it is difficult. With Congress it is difficult to say that […]
For about two years now, the referendum unit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been holding an education campaign in schools and civil society on the pros and cons of taking the territorial dispute to the International Court of Justice. That has not been the case in Guatemala where the Foreign Minister says the […]
F.F.B. President Ruperto Vicente is in Zurich, Switzerland ahead of a congress later this week which will see FIFA President Sepp Blatter facing re-election. The news tonight however, is that international football’s governing body is the subject of two unrelated investigations into alleged corruption. In an early morning raid today, fourteen FIFA officials were arrested […]
There is a lot of crime news, but tonight we start our newscast with a historic event that occurred in Guatemala City on Monday. A Belizean delegation led by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilfred Elrington, was there to join the Guatemalan Foreign Minister, Carlos Raul Morales, in signing an amendment to the original special […]
According to the original Special Agreement, a simultaneous referenda was scheduled for October 2013, but Guatemala decided it was not proceeding with it and for years, it did not support taking the territorial dispute to the International Court of Justice. But all that has now changed and Guatemala is now aggressively pursuing that route. We […]
Foreign Minister Carlos Raul Morales told the media that for both countries to move forward, the bilateral agenda between the two must be separate from the territorial dispute. This strategy resulted in the signing of a number of agreements at the SICA summit last December in Placencia. Nine of these have now gone through the […]
Career banker Patrick Andrews is heading to Washington in a couple of weeks. Today, the Prime Minister announced that the now retired banker will be serving in the capacity of a diplomat. Andrews is replacing Nestor Mendez as Belize’s O.A.S. and ambassador to the U.S. Mendez, who was elected as the Assistant Secretary General of […]
Belizean born soldier Lee Busano is making headlines in the UK. The twenty-eight year old British Lance Corporal has been accused of two rapes and one sexual assault. Two of the alleged incidents happened within days of each other, while the third one happened some months later. When Busano appeared in Preston Crown Court a […]
Written on May 12, 2015 | Posted in
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In financial news…the Development Finance Corporation in collaboration with the Caribbean Development Bank today launched the corporation’s seventh consolidated line of credit. Under the new agreement, the CDB will be providing twenty-one million dollars directly to the institution. According to the Chief of the Social Sector Division of the Bank, Deidre Clarendon, the loan was […]
In the U.S., former middle school teacher, forty-nine-year-old David Wendel Thompson has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison after being found guilty of attempting to lure Belizean teens for sex. Thompson, who admitted to leading a double life, spun many fantastic yarns about the immense wealth his country has to offer to adolescent Belizean […]
A regional project inclusive of CARICOM member states seeks to strengthen fisheries food safety regulations. The purpose is for the Caribbean to be able to access the international markets for fishery products such as conch, fish, lobster and shrimp. Along with the Belize Agricultural Health Authority and the Fisheries Department, the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism […]
Belizean born athlete Rakeem Nunez-Roches has been drafted to the National Football League as a sixth round pick and defensive line for the Kansas City Chiefs. He is the first Belizean to enter the professional league of American football. While the twenty-eight ranked Chiefs didn’t enter the 2015 NFL draft with a variety of needs, […]
In July 2014 NICH received around seventeen thousand US dollars for the start of the Primary School Art Skills Training Project. Seventy-eight students from standard two through six participated in the programme. Today, the project was awarded additional funds by the Taiwanese Embassy to boost the art program in the participating schools. News Five was […]
The United Nations Country Team resident members UNICEF, U.N.D.P., U.N.F.P.A., and PAHO held a press conference this morning to talk with the media about some of the social issues in Belize and where they fit in the bigger picture. The mandates of the resident agencies include equality, human rights, vulnerable groups and H.I.V./AIDS issues that […]
The process of ‘derisking’ is underway by international financial firms that are withdrawing from sectors within the Caribbean region and elsewhere that represent compliance risks. It is a situation where a number of banks, having assessed the present circumstances, deem it too risky to persist with certain customers and activities, since the risk outweighs the […]
Written on April 21, 2015 | Posted in
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Belizean artist Tanya Carter is making her mark in the music industry. Over the weekend, she won the People’s Choice Award for Best Belizean Artist of the Year at the International Red Carpet Affair held annually in California. Carter was attending the event where she performed with Lova Boy. While there was word that she […]
Many Belizeans have served and are serving in the U.S Military and like many other immigrants, have risked their lives to serve, but even after their service they are still held to the military’s standard and pay the ultimate price for infractions of that standard- they are banished from the country they served, separated from […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice this morning commenced hearings for the first time in Belize, since its establishment in 2001. There are currently three other members, Barbados, Guyana and Dominica, is its newest member. And while the CCJ is headquartered in Trinidad, it is not the final court for that country. On its historic sitting, […]
The basis for the legal challenge, according to Courtenay, is the constitutionality of the court’s decision to incarcerate August for the remainder of his life. Equally, the case against August was based solely on the use of circumstantial evidence, a point of interest for Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl-Lynn Vidal, who did not disagree with […]
As we reported in Monday’s newscast, an energy summit was held in Washington earlier this year and the U.S. is trying to move its energy influence back into the Caribbean. Last week, before his arrival at the seventh Summit of the Americas in Panama, U.S. President, Barack Obama made the first presidential trip to Jamaica […]
2015 is deemed historic and significant for Belize and the European Union because this year, the country has received a whopping forty million Euros, which is almost double the amount of money previously provided to Belize from the E.U. The eighty-four million, six hundred and nine-two thousand dollars will be used for the development funding […]
An energy summit was held in Washington earlier this year and the U.S. is trying to move its energy influence back into the region. But in Belize, for some time now, the government has been looking at alternative renewable energy projects that can add to the national grid and reduce Belize’s dependency on energy from […]
Belize’s Ambassador to the O.A.S., Nestor Mendez, in a historic vote became the new Assistant Secretary General Elect of the organization. The post becomes effective later this year in July and will be held by Ambassador Mendez for the next five years. In his first time back in Belize since the election, he too attended […]
But with a Belizean representative holding the second to the highest seat in the O.A.S. hierarchy, will it help with the resolving the Belize-Guatemala dispute? Nestor Mendez, Assistant Secretary General Elect, O.A.S. “The O.A.S. has been involved as a key facilitator in trying to resolve the dispute between Belize and Guatemala for many years […]
A Belizean delegation participated in a simulation summit for the O.A.S. at the end of last month in the Caribbean. They joined over a hundred delegates for sessions to role-play as diplomats and political officials of the Member States of the Organization of the American States and followed parliamentary proceedings to debate and approve resolutions dealing […]
