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December 19, 2023

Government confirms Senator Eamon Courtenay to drop Ministerial portfolios

Effective December 31, Courtenay will wrap up his duties as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, and Immigration and return to practicing private law after an [...]
December 19, 2023

Won’t be home for Christmas – Mainland Chinese man denied bail on Immigration charge

He will be spending Christmas at the Central Prison on remand pending trial on the charge of being a prohibited immigrant after serving time for illegal [...]
December 19, 2023

Major Cabinet change as Eamon Courtenay leaves Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Immigration

Reports say Courtenay had only agreed to serve for three years from the start of the John Briceno administration. He managed the overhaul of the passport [...]
December 12, 2023

Jamaican national deemed prohibited immigrant released on bail pending hearing

Carlos Higgins has been in Belize since November 24, but has seen far less of it than he would like. He was detained at the Philip [...]
November 20, 2023
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Israel’s former Ambassador to Belize suggests tourism, business connections will be lost with suspension of diplomatic ties

The decision puts Belize on a short list of countries that have also cut diplomatic ties with Israel including Bolivia and South Africa.
November 18, 2023

Jamaican immigrants headed back home after Immigration charges dropped

The group, respectively identified as Horace Antonio Boyd, 32; Romain Dwayne McDonald, 34; Michale Rohan McGowan, 39; Fabian Anthony Wellington, 36; Kevin Ian Carter Sr., and [...]
November 16, 2023

Former Prime Ministers, Foreign Ministers back GOB stance on Israel: “there are no two sides to a genocide”

In their previous separate statements, former Prime Ministers Said Musa and Dean Barrow (who were both also Ministers of Foreign Affairs) and former Ministers Assad Shoman [...]
November 8, 2023

Government says vetting for 12,765 migrants in Amnesty Program will continue until March 2024

Accordingly, stakeholders are informed that the valid “white” Amnesty Program receipts issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, and Immigration are a legal document [...]