Sentence examples for belize from inspiring English sources
proper noun
An English-speaking country in Central America, formerly called British Honduras. Official name: Belize. The capital is Belmopan, and the chief seaport is Belize City.
The prime minister of Belize, Said Musa, agreed to guarantee repayment of all UHS's obligations to Belize Bank (assuming a guarantee previously issued by Belize's Development Finance Corporation).
Premise: Four over-the-hill fortysomethings gather in Belize to toast the retirement of their mutual buddy, and find themselves drawn into a sequence of violent and bizarre events.
Lainson first went to the tropics in 1960 as director of the Dermal Leishmaniasis Unit in British Honduras (now Belize).
Lincoln favoured various schemes for the mass deportation of freed African-Americans to the Caribbean (he was particularly keen on sending them to Belize and Guyana).After the civil war Brazil took on a powerful appeal to southerners in search of new opportunities who also wished for life to continue much as it had before.
In Belize the opposition used a similar blocking power.
Estimates vary, but according to the State Department of the United States, barely 50% of Salvadorans now identify as Catholic, and in Honduras and Belize the share has dropped below half.
"If home is where the heart is," his autobiography confides, "then Belize is my home".
Belize Bank had lent Telemedia $22m, while Telemedia owned bonds from BCB firms.The prime minister first tried to renegotiate the tax clauses with Telemedia.
It is unclear why the agencies and Belize Bank continued to lend relatively large sums over an extended period to such an unpromising enterprise, which was never able to meet its repayment obligations.By December 2004, says the Ministry of Finance, UHS owed Belize Bank Bz$29m $14.5mm, or £7.7m).
Mexico, Central America (except Belize) and Colombia are supporting the rival candidacy of Guatemala, announced before Venezuela's and backed by the United States.
According to the Ministry of Finance, the firm borrowed money from Belize Bank in 1998 and then from various arms of the government, incurring debts that were transferred between government agencies as they rapidly mounted.
