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It has been a little over six years since the Sarstoon F.O.B. was inaugurated at the southernmost end of the country. Viewers would recall that at the time of the opening there was conflict between our security forces and the Guatemalan military which patrolled the waterway and often crossed over into Belize’s side of the […]
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The U.S. Secretary of State has released its twenty-second annual Trafficking in Persons Report and has upgraded Belize’s status to Tier Two. It’s a significant improvement that comes after two years of being placed lower on that index. The report highlights, quote, that the Government of Belize demonstrated overall increasing efforts compared with previous reporting […]
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The Anti-Trafficking in Persons Council, (ATIPS), is chaired by the Ministry of Human Development and is the multi-sectoral body which coordinates Belize’s response to human trafficking. On the phone: Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, Minister of Human Development “Because Human Development is sort of like the coordinator of our anti-trafficking efforts, we have to kind of wear […]
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The buzz words since the Earth’s surface temperatures began to increase two decades ago have been “global warming”, “climate change” and “climate resilience.” But while much discussion has surrounded the topic, how prepared would Belize, particularly its private sector, be to recover if we were to experience a catastrophic natural disaster as a result of […]
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As we reported earlier, Belize is now aggressively pursuing finance from the developed countries in order to be able to assist private sector businesses in the event of a climate change phenomenon. C.E.O. in the Ministry of Economic Development, Doctor Osmond Martinez suggested that this was an area where, in the past, we have been […]
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Martinez says that some of the finances from Green Climate Finance are already being put to use to mitigate the full impacts of climate change events. There are several rural communities that are benefiting from the funds, he told us. Dr. Osmond Martinez, C.E.O., Ministry of Economic Development “G.C.F. has looked at us and […]
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Belize is seeing trends in foreign direct investments that are more encouraging now than in previous years. In the past, there were a lot of bureaucratic procedures that discouraged foreigners from investing their money in Belize, but there are steps being made to lift a lot of the proverbial “red tape” that accompanied that activity. […]
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Today in front of the NEMO headquarters in Belmopan, the Ministry of Transport held a small ceremony to signal the rollout of its fuel subsidy program. Almost a hundred bus operators stand to benefit from the six-month program to the tune of one point six million dollars. Witnessing the event were public and private sector […]
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Twenty-six-year-old Paul Jex Junior has been found guilty of rape, following a verdict handed down by the Supreme Court. This is in respect of an incident that occurred in December 2015 where the wife of a watchman was sexually assaulted in front of her one-year-old child. Jex was among a group of seven men who […]
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There was another rape conviction handed down in the Supreme Court this afternoon, also in the courtroom of Justice Ricardo O’Neil Sandcroft. Thirty-seven-year-old Andre Gordon was found guilty after careful consideration of the facts in the case brought against him. Gordon, a former special constable and hotel security guard, was accused of sexually assaulting a […]
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Today, the Belize National Teachers’ Union celebrated its fifty-second anniversary. The union marked the day by acknowledging and thanking those who have fought diligently over the years to preserve and ensure its motto: service, security and success. According to a release issued by the union, it stands as the most steadfast and vocal trade union […]
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You’ve seen on international news where students are executed on school grounds by gun-wielding attackers. While such an incident has never happened in Belize before, one school has a series of protocols that are to be exercised in the event of a disaster, a health crisis, injury at school and in this case, an intruder […]
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The Thirty-Seventh Annual Conference and Trade Exhibition concluded in Miami today. CANTO, as it is referred to, is a non-profit association made up of operators, companies and individuals in the information and communications technology sector with a focus on leveraging regional ICT initiatives for CARICOM. This year’s theme was “Enabling the Digital Evolution” which spoke […]
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On Tuesday night, the ten hopefuls who survived the first round of eliminations on KTV the Remix, Season Four were announced before a packed auditorium. They then took to the stage at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts with a Belizean song of their choice. From legends like Lord Rhaburn, Andy Palacio and Leela […]
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