Monthly Archives: April 2022

Parliament Represented at Leadership and Good Governance Workshop in Barbados The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Valerie Woods, and the President of the Senate, Hon. Carolyn Trench-Sandiford, along with Hon. Elvia Vega-Samos comprise the Belize parliamentary delegation attending the Commonwealth Secretariat’s workshop this week on Leadership for Good Governance and Social Transformation in[...]

Human Rights Handbook for Parliamentarians The Honourable Valerie Woods, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Ms. Birgit Gerstenberg, United Nations Resident Coordinator, met earlier this week on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 in the Office of the Speaker, National Assembly Building, Belmopan. The purpose of the meeting was to receive from the UN Resident Coordinator[...]

Presiding Officers of parliament meet with Executive Secretary of FOPREL The Honourable Valerie Woods, Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Honourable Carolyn Trench-Sandiford, President of the Senate, had a courtesy visit from Dr. Santiago Rivas Leclair, Executive Secretary of the Forum of Presiding Officers of Parliaments/Congresses of Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico.[...]