Corozal Belize

Corozal, Punta Gorda, Belize City, San Ignacio, Orange Walk, Dangriga. Teacher Trainers ...

Corozal Town Orange Walk, Belize City, Belmopan, San Ignacio, Dangriga Town, Seine Bight and Punta Gorda Town assigned to: Ministry of Education Centers for Employment Training PRIMARY EDUCATION ...

Ministry of Health Counseling Centers at Gwen Lizarraga High School and Edward P. Yorke High School Belize Family Life Association (BFLA) School Health And Physical Education Services (SHAPES) Placement will expand to all six districts of Belize: Corozal Town, Orange Walk Town, Belize City, San Ignacio, Dangriga Town and Punta Gorda Town. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ... [Read More]

Belize (08/04)

Members of the independent judiciary are appointed. The judicial system includes local magistrates, the Supreme Court, and the Court of Appeal. Cases may, under certain circumstances, be appealed to the Privy Council in London. However, in 2001 Belize joined with most members of the Caribbean Common Market (CARICOM) to work for the establishment of a "Caribbean Court of Justice," which is expected to come into being in the near future. The country is divided into six districts: Corozal, Orange Walk, Belize, Cayo, Stann Creek, and Toledo. ... [Read More]

Background Notes

Cities: Capital--Belmopan (2000 pop. est. 8,305) Other cities and towns--Belize City (54,125), Corozal (8,075), Orange Walk (13,795), San Ignacio and Santa Elena (13,545), Dangriga (9,020), Punta Gorda (4,425) and San Pedro (4,965). ...

Belize is a parliamentary democracy on the Westminster model and is a member of the Commonwealth. Queen Elizabeth II is head of state and is represented in the country by Gov. Gen. Sir Colville N. Young, Sr., a Belizean and Belize's second governor general. The primary executive organ of government is the cabinet, led by a prime minister (head of government). Cabinet ministers are members of the majority political party in parliament and usually hold elected seats in the National Assembly concurrently with their cabinet positions. The National Assembly consists of a House of Representatives and a Senate. The 29 members of the House are popularly elected to a maximum 5-year term. Of the Senate's eight members, five are elected by the prime mini ... [Read More]

Press Releases

Under the guidance of Marcos Garcia, Department of Archeology caretaker, the group started the tour at the Tzunu'un Maya House and Forest Garden where the group enjoyed the attractions of El Pilar Archaeological Reserve Maya flora and fauna. The highlight of the visit was the charting of the new Chikin trail through a corozal, a cohune forest, passing housemounds and storage units called 'chultunes' and on to an ancient Mayan causeway that joins the Nohol Pilar in Belize to Pilar Poniente in Guatemala. ... [Read More]

Visiting Belize

The 1990 Export Processing Zone (EPZ) Act of Belize enables companies to operate within special or general export processing zones in the country. Special EPZs are enclosed one?factory operations and general EPZs are enclosed multi-factory operations. Belize's first EPZ, consisting of 28.5 acres and located just 8 miles from the Mexican border in the northernmost district of Corozal, was officially opened in July 1992. ... [Read More]

Belize

In 2001 the National Committee for Families and Children (NCFC) and UNICEF commissioned a study of sex trafficking, which concluded that many minors were involved in the sex industry and that some women and children were trafficked to Belize from other Central American countries. NCFC's report found that approximately 35 percent of those working in the sex industry were under age 18 (the Corozal region ranked the highest, with 45 percent of sex workers reportedly being minors), with the youngest girls being only 13 years old. The majority of women working in brothels were from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala; many had worked in the sex industry in their home countries, but came to earn more money as a prostitute in Belize. According to this report, very few claimed to have been coerced or tricked into coming to the country. In February International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI), an NGO, investigated sex trafficking in Belize and found re ... [Read More]

Belize

A 2001 NOPCAN report stated that child labor existed in many forms in the Corozal district, with children working as shop assistants, gasoline attendants, and cane farmers. During the year, the ILO estimated that 11 percent of children between the ages of 5 and 17 were working. In the rural regions, children worked on family plots and businesses after school, on weekends, and during vacations and were involved in the citrus, banana, and sugar industries as field workers. In urban areas, children shined shoes, sold newspapers and other small items, and worked in markets. Teenage girls, many of whom were migrants from neighboring Central American countries, worked as domestic servants, and some were rumored to work as bar maids and prostitutes. ... [Read More]

F) Canada, Mexico, and Central America

Alternatively, once cocaine is delivered to Belize, it customarily moves northward on the northern highway. This highway leads to the Corozal commercial "free zone" as well as the Santa Elena border crossing of Belize and Mexico. The exploitation of numerous unguarded remote border crossings and lax customs enforcement contribute to cross-border operations. ... [Read More]

Canada, Mexico, and Central America

Once cocaine is delivered to Belize, it moves northward—often along the northern highway. This highway leads to the Corozal commercial free zone as well as the Santa Elena Belize/Mexico border crossing. Trafficker exploitation of several unguarded remote border crossings and lax customs enforcement contribute to cross-border operations. ...

Corruption. There is no evidence of specifically narcotics-related corruption within the GOB. However, there are allegations of general corruption within some government agencies. There were a number of police officers dismissed for wrongdoing in 2004 by the Internal Affairs Division. Police officers were banned from the Free Trade Zone in the Corozal District because of corruption-related issues. There is increasing evidence and information suggesting that the GOB suffers from serious corruption problems at all levels. Belize is a party to the Inter-American Convention on Corruption. ... [Read More]