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And finally tonight, we have the Prime Minister speaking on the controversial Rosewood Amnesty. It finished on Friday and the Forestry Department is now tallying all that will be stamped and approved for export. The amnesty has been roundly, almost universally condemned, and the PM says, he hears it well enough.

Hon. Dean Barrow

“I [...]

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Who in their right mind would tell their enemy where their weak spot is?

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by Eamon H. Courtenay

Dear Editor,

On the Channel 5 newscast for February 11, 2012, Hon. Wilfred Elrington, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Attorney General, gave an interview in which he once again acted completely contrary to the national interests of Belize.

Mr. Elrington said: “But because the land border is already defined and the [...]

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By Adam Williams – Feb 12, 2013 12:32 PM CT

Belize’s government proposed extending maturities and cutting the coupon on the country’s $544 million of defaulted debt as part of the Central American nation’s second debt restructuring since 2007.

Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s plan would extend the maturity on the defaulted bonds [...]

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Why do we allow ourselves to be told what to do. We keep playing Guatemala’s games which is why they keep doing to us.

 

Otto Pérez limita a febrero plazo sobre consulta popular

Dos días después de que se diera a conocer la estrategia de Belice sobre la consulta popular prevista para el 6 [...]

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Dean Barrow says IDB President’s crass act of cowardice

There is a major fallout with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and this morning, Prime Minister Dean Barrow threw the IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno under the bus even though they have had a cozy relationship over the years. For background, in August, the [...]

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To: Honourable Prime Minister Dean Barrow

An international community of friends, allies and consumers of Belize tourism, agriculture and marine products want the governments of Belize and the United States to know that we are aware of the tenuous situation that is unfolding in the pristine cloud forest, ancient bog, and unique tropical wetlands of [...]

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New World Oil and Belize

On October 9, 2012 By

New World Oil & Gas announced Tuesday that it has raised approximately $14 million to fund drilling in Belize and a 3D seismic program in Denmark. The junior oil firm raised the money on London’s Alternative Investment Market, where its stock is traded.

New World, whose only assets are in Belize and Denmark, is focused [...]

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Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister
“I can say categorically that Ambassador Mark Espat has been appointed as an ambassador for economic affairs without any kind of remuneration – he gets no salary at all, no pay for that. With respect to the debt negotiation team; this is where the member gets [...]

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By Martin Hutchinson

Aug 20 (Reuters Breakingviews) – Belize is trying to force a debt restructuring. The 330,000-strong Caribbean nation’s government has said it can’t make a $23 million debt payment due on Monday. The country is more or less solvent, but its cash is precious and its debt expensive. Foreign creditors have limited leverage, [...]

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By Martin Hutchinson

Aug 20 (Reuters Breakingviews) – Belize is trying to force a debt restructuring. The 330,000-strong Caribbean nation’s government has said it can’t make a $23 million debt payment due on Monday. The country is more or less solvent, but its cash is precious and its debt expensive. Foreign creditors have limited leverage, [...]

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GOVERNMENT OF BELIZE Ministry of Finance
Belmopan, Belize

 

 

PRESS RELEASE                      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 14, 2012

Belize Unable to Meet Coupon Payment

 

Belmopan, Belize:  The Government of Belize announced today that it is unable to make an August 20, 2012 coupon payment on the country’s U.S. Dollar Step-Up Bonds [...]

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