May 19, 2021
Taiwan Donation to Protect Border Personnel
Much needed masks for the protection against COVID-19 have been donated to the Customs Department by the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Five thousand surgical masks were handed over on Tuesday by Ambassador David Kuan-Chou Chien to Comptroller of the Belize Customs and Excise Department, Estelle Bailey-Leslie. They will be used by frontline customs officers while they carry out their duties at the borders and the Philip Goldson International Airport. This is the second donation made to the department. In June, 2020, the embassy handed over ten thousand Made-in-Taiwan surgical masks and twenty-five infrared forehead thermometers.
May, 2021
It may not have been part of larger strike actions, but today, there was a spontaneous walkout at the Philip Goldson International Airport. Employees there were incensed over management’s decision [.]
May 10, 2021
Livestock Breeding Program Gets Equipment from Taiwan
The Ministry of Agriculture, Food Security and Enterprise has received a tractor with forage harvester, a used Mitsubishi four-wheel drive pickup, and other farm implements from the Embassy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in Belize. The donation will be used at the National Sheep and Goat Breeding Center in Central Farm. The tractor and forage harvester combined with attachments for bush-hog, plow and harrow, post-hole drill, front-end loader and a sixteen-foot trailer has a combined value of one hundred and forty-four thousand dollars. The equipment will be used for harvesting of grass and forage to feed the four hundred head of sheep and goats at the center. Taiwanese Ambassador David Kuan-Chou Chien handed over the donation to Minister Jose Abelardo Mai and C.E.O. Servulo Baeza.
Taipei, April 14 (CNA) Taiwan has pledged to donate US$300,000 to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) in the wake of the devastation caused by the eruption of La Soufrière volcano, the nation's embassy in the Caribbean ally announced Tuesday.
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