Apr 26, 2021
Diana Locke
The International Office of Migration and the United States Agency for International Development hosted two Mobile Migrant Hubs in Toledo to provide information and services to migrants for safe and orderly migration. The Mobile Migrant Hubs offer a single location to provide information and services where regularized migrants can obtain foreign national documents, applications for work permits, birth certificates and other documents. This weekend hubs were held in southern villages.
Diana Locke, Head, IOM Belize Office
“We have already covered Bella Vista, Valley of Peace and Benque. We will be going to Placencia. We will be doing San Pedro, Belize City, Orange Walk, Corozal and Dangriga. So by August we should have covered the entire country.”
The International Office of Migration (IOM) in Belize with the support of the United States Government and private sector partners has signed an agreement with three partners to enhance their services at three migrant hubs. These newly established links are with the Child Development Foundation, Belize Red Cross and Humana People to People.
Diana Locke, Head, IOM Belize Office says that that these hubs are intended “to create a safe space on accurate information on regular migration procedures.”
According to Locke, IOM will also go a step further to provide services for migrants who qualify for regularization and a system in transitioning from irregular states to regular status in the country. The migrant hubs will also provide assistance and referral support to Belizean returnees enabling them to reintegrate into life and work in Belize.
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On Tuesday, December 8, 2020, Belize’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs received the Republic of Guatemala’s Memorial in relation to Guatemala’s Territorial, Insular and Maritime Claim to Belizean territory. That Memorial has now been filed at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in accordance with the Court’s extension order of April 22, 2020. An extension was requested due to delays brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
They have now compiled the Guatemalan Memorial which cites claims in terms of continental lands, islands, and seas, and the legal grounds for such. In its entirety, the Memorial consists of one volume of 500 pages, 462 Annexes, 8 Maps, and 24 Figures. While ICJ rules do not allow Belize to disclose Guatemala’s pleadings, and Belize is obliged to abide by these rules, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs understands the concerns and anxiety of the Belizean citizenry to know what the claims are. For years, the claims of Guatemala has varied and the most explicit f