AARON HUMES Reporting: Belize City hosted the second leg of the third annual Caribbean Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Roadshow at the Radisson Hotel in Belize City today. ICT is basically the use of modern technology such as computers, cellular phones and so on to link with softwar...

UNITED NATIONS, CMC – Belize Monday appealed to the international community to help Small Island Developing States (SIDS) overcome the problems associated with the global economic situation as well as those caused by climate change. Ambassador Lois Michele Young, addressing the United Nations...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Belize National Coast Guard confirmed it had demoted an officer following an embarrassing incident involving Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, who was a guest of the government for the country’s independence celebrations last week. Commander ...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management (SATIM) and four Mayan communities in the Tamesh National Park have gone to the court seeking to prevent a United states-based oil company drilling within the national park. SATIM and the other groups claim that U...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Belize will host the first ever first ever Intra-African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) Programme Regional Technical Meeting (RTM) later this month. The Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) said the main objec...

BELMOPAN, CMC - The Belize government has placed a significant section of the country under an agriculture quarantine following the detection of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly. The MedFly, as the pest is also known, is detrimental to fruits and vegetables and the authorities said the quarantine had gon...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – A senior government minister has written a public essay expressing grave concerns about what she perceives could be the promotion of hate crimes against gay men and women in Belize. Forestry, Fisheries and Sustainable Development Minister Lisel Alamilla posted the short...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC –The Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC) says it will launch a seminal on-line support tool in St. Lucia on Friday in keeping with the thrust to promote a culture of risk management across the region. St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Dr. Kenny A...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – Prime Minister Dean Barrow is defending the decision of his government to take over the International Business Companies Registry and the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize even as the Belize International Services Limited (BISL), the private company manag...

BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC - Junior Finance and Economic Development Minister Santiago Castillo Junior, has been hospitalised after he was seriously injured in a cycling incident. Castillo, affectionately known at Santino, is an avid cyclist who owns and manages his own cycling team and actively particip...