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Honourable Madam Speaker attends CPA’s Benchmarks for Democratic Legislatures highlighted as key tool in achieving SDG 16 at Commonwealth Partnership for Democracy panel event in New York CPA’s Benchmarks for Democratic Legislatures highlighted as key tool in achieving SDG 16 at Commonwealth Partnership for Democracy panel event in New York The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s Recommended[...]

Tuesday, July 2, 2019 Mr. George Lovell, Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of National Security, is attending the Advisory Mission and Workshop on Legislation on cybercrime and electronic evidence and the Budapest Convention that is being held in El Salvador from the 1 and 2 July 2019.  Participants at the two-days meeting which is being organized by the[...]

The Senate met today, June 26, 2019, at 10:06 A.M. in the Chamber of the National Assembly Building, Belmopan for a Special Sitting. At today’s Special Sitting, the Honourable Senate elected a new President, the Honourable Darrell Bradley. The Honourable Bradley was nominated by Leader of Government Business, the Honourable Godwin Hulse, and that proposal was seconded by Dr.[...]

The House of Representatives convened on Friday, June 21, 2019, at 10:10 A.M. in the Chamber of the National Assembly Building, Belmopan.  The below summarizes the proceedings of the days agenda. PAPER Sessional Paper No. HR196/1/12 – Report of the Auditor General – Annual Report for the Year April 2014 to March 2015, was referred to the Public[...]

Tuesday, June 11, 2019 The Office of the Clerk has officially been informed by  the Leader of the Opposition, the Honourable John Briceño, of Senator Eamon Courtenay’s resignation from the Senate.  Furthermore, the Office has also been informed that the Leader of the Opposition has advised the Governor General that the Opposition has nominated Mr. Michel Chebat[...]

Friday, June 7, 2019 The Deputy Clerk to the National Assembly, Mrs. Clarita Pech, attended a meeting of the Consultative Board of FOPREL which was held in Nicaragua from the 3 to 5 June 2019.  Participants included officials from parliaments of Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica and Mexico as well as the Executive Secretary of[...]

Friday, May 31, 2019 The Honourable Laura Tucker-Longsworth, Speaker of the House of Representatives attended a Plenary Assembly of PARLACEN at the Central American Parliament Headquarters in Guatemala City, on Wednesday, May 29, 2019. The Honourable Tucker-Longsworth gave her remarks to the Plenary Assembly on the importance of signing the Agreement for Belize and the initiation of the joint working relations with the PARLACEN. Below[...]

The Senate met yesterday, May 21, 2019, at 10:05 A.M. in the Chamber of the National Assembly Building, Belmopan for a Special Sitting. The purpose of the Special Sitting of the Senate was for the Senate to pass the Maritime Areas (Amendment) Bill, 2019, that had passed the House of the Representatives on May 20, 2019. 1. Maritime Areas (Amendment)[...]

The House of Representative met on Monday, May 20, 2019, at 10:10 A.M. in the Chamber of the National Assembly Building, Belmopan for a Special Sitting. At the days sitting, the Speaker, the Honourable Laura Tucker-Longsworth was not present, therefore the Honourable Omar Figueroa, presided over the Sitting. The purpose of the Special Sitting of the House of Representatives was for[...]