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May 24, 2023

Further amendments to financial regulation structure passed

The Credit Unions (Amendment) Bill, 2023; The Central Bank of Belize (Amendment) Bill, 2023; The Domestic Banks and Financial Institutions (Amendment) Bill, 2023; The International Banking [...]
May 18, 2023

House of Representatives meets Friday: a raft of legislation in support of financial action tops agenda

The listed bills for second reading will include The Credit Unions (Amendment) Bill, 2023; The Central Bank of Belize (Amendment) Bill, 2023; The Domestic Banks and [...]
April 24, 2023

Raft of amendments to financial legislation introduced in the House of Representatives

As we have previously reported, Belize awaits a review of the legislative and enforcement framework by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF), to be carried [...]
April 13, 2023

More reforms to laws addressing money laundering, terrorism prevention

This week, Cabinet gave its recommendation for amendments to the Law Revision Act to better reflect the current state of the law with respect to Money [...]
April 7, 2023

Sanctuary Bay mastermind Andris Pukke charged with embezzling investor funds

Pukke, 54, was arrested in Los Angeles, California, and appeared in court there on the strength of an indictment in the Federal Court in Manhattan (New [...]
October 18, 2022

Caribbean International Brewery: ‘We are under attack’

Caribbean International Brewery maintains that the $3.1 million seized by authorities were the proceeds of its sales, not usually kept at its premises, but nonetheless illegally [...]
February 5, 2020

Patrick Faber says Lev Dermen scandal weakens UDP’s chances for re-election

In an interview with reporters, Faber indicated that his opponent’s name being called in the accused Armenian fraudster Lev Dermen’s case means “our party has taken [...]
October 10, 2019

Lionel Messi says he almost left Barcelona due to tax fraud case linked to Belize

Messi was found guilty of using companies in Belize and Uruguay to hide a total of €4.1 million between 2007 and 2009, that he obtained from [...]