May, 2021
The Joint Unions Negotiating Team and the Government of Belize met today for day-two of discussions inside the House of Culture in Belize City. It was expected that the meeting [.]
May 6, 2021
U.S. Embassy Delivers Tactical Equipment to the Police’s M.I.T.
The U.S. Embassy handed over a trove of tactical equipment and gear to the Belize Police Department Mobile Interdiction Team in Belmopan. The equipment, valued at almost fifty-five thousand Belize dollars, was donated by the U.S. International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. News Five attended the handing over this morning at the police headquarters in Belmopan. Here’s how that went.
Keith Gilges, Chargé d’Affaires, U.S. Embassy
“What you are seeing here is just a tangible example of the long cooperation that we have between the government of Belize and the government of the United States to help Belize and support Belize as it tries to make sure that it is controlling its own borders. The reason that is important is because trans-national criminal organizations like to use insecure borders to move people, to move guns, to move guns across them and that is something that is