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BELIZE

CARIBBEAN-CENTRAL AMERICA PROFILE 2018

Belize Port Authority (BPA) The Public Utilities Commission acts on behalf Belize Tourism Board
Caesar Ridge Road of the Government in monitoring and regulating 64 Regent Street
Belize City, Belize all telecommunication services within Belize, P.O. Box 325
Tel: (501) 227-2439 including the assignment of frequencies. Belize City, Belize
Fax: (501) 227-3571 Tel: (501)-227-2420
Telemedia Ltd Fax: (501)-227-2423
AIR Belize City, Belize Website: www.travelbelize.org
Airport: The main airport, Philip S.W. Goldson Tel: (501) 223-2868
International Airport, is situated 10 miles from Belmopan, Belize Statistical Institute of Belize
Belize City, and is owned by the Government Tel: (501) 822-2193 #1902 Constitution Drive
and operated by the Belize Airports Authority. Fax: (501) 822-2366 2nd Floor, Belmopan
Regular international services are maintained Belize
by five airlines to and from the United States CONTACTS Tel: (501) 822-2207
Central Bank of Belize
of America, Central America and Mexico. Gabourel Lane, P.O. Box 852, Fax: (501) 822-3206
Domestic air services provide connections to all Belize City, Belize Email: info@mail.sib.org.bz
main towns and to four of the offshore islands. Tel: (501) 223-6194 IN THE U.S.
Fax: (501) 223-6226 Embassy of Belize
TELECOMMUNICATION E-mail: info@centralbank.org.bz 2535 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
The Belize Telemedia Limited (BTL), a public Washington, DC 20008
limited company, owns the automatic telephone Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry Tel: (202) 332-9636
service which covers the entire country. BTL PO Box 291 Fax: (202) 332-6888
services include cellular, voice mail, card phones 4792 Coney Drive Email: ebwreception@aol.com
and Internet / E-mail. The network consists of 1st Floor, Withfield Tower
more than 30,000 lines, more than 2,200 cellular Belize City, Belize
customers, more than 1,300 paging customers, Tel: (501) 223-5330
and approximately 32,000 Internet customers. Fax: (501) 223-5333
Email: bcci@belize.org
BTL operates a regional service to Mexico,
Guatemala and Central and South America, BELTRAIDE Trade and Industry
as well as all other external services. A recent Development
expansion programme has doubled the capacity 14 Orchid Garden St,
of the telephone system. A satellite earth Belmopan City,
station in Belmopan provides high quality Cayo District, Belize
telecommunications with the outside world. Tel: (501) 822-3737
Fax: (501) 227-4984

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