Belize
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Region launches on-line climate risk assessment tool
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 Anthony will address the launch of the Caribbean Climate Online Risk and Adaptation TooL…
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Government defends take over of merchant registries
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 managing the two companies, has warned of legal action. BISL insists that it has a contract with the…
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Junior finance minister hospitalized
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 participates in cycling races as an elite rider.
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BELIZE-HEALTH-Death of babies linked to bacteria outbreak
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The death of 12 babies at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH), has been linked to the outbreak of it enterobacter cloacae – an organism that is said to be responsible for major outbreaks in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) all over the world. In a release on Wednesday, Director of Medical Services at the hospital,…
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Authorities probe the deaths of 12 babies at hospital
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital (KHMH) says 12 babies have died during the month so far and it has launched an investigation to determine whether the deaths were due to an infection outbreak. In a statement, the hospital said that the investigation is to “determine whether this is an outbreak of hospital-based (nosocomial) infection and if…
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Contractor apologises for destruction of Maya archaeological site
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The man at the center of the destruction of a Maya archaeological site in northern Belize, Denny Grijalva, has expressed regret at the razing of the Noh Mul monument and has launched an internal investigation into the incident. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Grijalva said he is “committed to fully cooperate with the authorities in…
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Government announces investigation into destruction Maya archaeological site
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Belize government says it has launched a “vigorous” investigation into the into the circumstances surrounding the near total destruction of the Maya archaeological site known as Noh Mul in northern Belize. Police are also investigating the matter and the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, the National Institute of Culture and History and the Belize Tourism…
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Environmental groups denounce destruction of Maya archaeological site
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC – The Institute of Archaeology has launched an investigation into the destruction of a Maya archaeological site in northern Belize. Pictures broadcast on a local television network over the weekend showed the near total destruction of the Noh Mul site, which means Big Hill. Officials of the Institute of Archaeology said they were shocked when they arrived…
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Belize and Guatemala foreign ministers to meet in United States
BELMOPAN, Belize, CMC –Foreign Minister Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington is due to meet with his Guatemalan counterpart, Fernando Carreras, in the United States on Wednesday, less than a week after Belize confirmed that there will be no referendum in the two countries on October 6 in a bid to end the long standing border dispute between them. The meeting will also…
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IACHR wants Belize to guarantee rights of indigenous people
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Monday expressed concerns regarding the human rights situation of the Maya indigenous communities in the District of Toledo, in Belize. The IACHR said that it has received information that private companies have been carrying out oil exploration and exploitation and logging activities in the traditional lands of Maya communities under…
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