SWITCHING GEARS NOW...
After acceding to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in December of 2016 and having met the first review cycle. The UNCAC review team is in Belize again, this time to begin the second review cycle of Belize's efforts to promote good governance and combat corruption. GOB welcomed the distinguished guests and participants today in Belmopan as part of the review team.
Rolando Zetina, CEO, Ministry of the Public Service
"Our ministry has been arduously implementing measures that will lead to the implementation of UNCAC. We have trained, and continue to train public officers in the area of good governance. We have established the good governance unit. The unit is mandated to consolidate all our efforts towards implementing anti-corruption measures. We are also meeting with the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption and we have had preliminary discussions with Transparency International. This is how committed we are. Our commitment not only upholds the rule of law, but also empowers citizens to actively participate in our country's progress."
Tanja Santucci, UNCAC, Review Team
"As with all countries the review process is intended mainly to assist the states under review to more fully implement the UN Convention Against Corruption. As such the observations may shed light certainly on successes or good practices when it comes to implementing the convention, but also perhaps on areas here additional work may be useful or necessary to more fully implement those principles. As such in many cases the suggestions for improvement may help to also identify areas which may be useful when it comes to reforms and initiatives that have already been identified by the governments themselves where perhaps reforms or work is already underway."
"Certainly, we see a number of areas here in Belize where government has taken measures to amend laws, to strengthen legislation or to improve or strengthen institutions in areas relevant to good governance and to anti-corruption."
