Belize Online Inc. and Belize.com Ltd. operate the only independent Geo Portal devoted to Belize. We are the very first web site established on Belize. We are not controlled by any government or para-statal entity. Our support comes solely from private sector advertising partners and business affiliates. Belize Online is the Registered Trademark of Belize.com Ltd.
We feature original articles covering all districts of the country with pictures, information and maps on what to see and do. Useful for visitors and tourists looking for a splendid vacation destination. For retirees and investors, we have information on what you may need to make up your mind if Belize is for you. Our news page covers all major news outlets in the country and international news on Belize. And we have a blog where we share important news and current affairs.
Our Promise to you: Our media properties are free of Belize Tourism Board marketing hype. Official and other “private” web sites bankrolled by the Belize Government Tourist Board or trade lobbying bodies are long on carefully edited touristy fluff but short on the down-to-earth information real travelers are looking for. We love our country and this will always be reflected here. But we will always strive to give you truthful and independently researched information on Belize – the straight dope.
The People Who Bring You Belize.com
Manolo Romero established Belize’s first electronic Bulletin Board System in 1994 when the Internet was in its nascent stage. Ahead of even the then telephone monopoly BTL, the Belize Online BBS polled via long distance dial-up a UUCP feed at the University of Puerto Rico 4 times every day delivering electronic mail to some 390 Belizean families thus making the Internet a reality in the country.
Soon after, the University College of Belize began offering email for students and faculty. Both email services were eventually shut down by the local telephone monopoly Belize Telecommunications Ltd. Shortly thereafter Belize.com was launched using servers based in the U.S.A. outside the reach of the country’s government.
Manolo was trained as a journalist at the Caribbean Institute of Mass Communications, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica. He began his career as a cub reporter at Radio Belize in 1975. He did tours of duty as Assistant Editor of The Reporter Newspaper, Editor of the Belize Times, Photo Editor of Fun and Games Magazine (Published by the Amandala Newspaper Group), News Editor of Radio Belize, and Chief Information Officer at the Belize Information Service.
He was also a popular music D. J. on Radio Belize along with contemporaries Rene Villanueva, Ernesto Vasquez and Enrique David Martinez. His final posting in the government was as Communications Advisor in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in 1995. Manolo is a single parent.
He is Director of Belize.com Ltd. which operates this web site and related media networks. He enjoys surfing the Internet, travel, good books, model photography, dance club dancing and working on his web sites.
Susan and Izzy Garcia are natives of Northern California, U.S.A. and own resort condos in Ambergris Caye,and Panama. Susan is a well-known trial-attorney. Izzy, is a consulting engineer. A former executive engineer at Advanced Micro Devices, he now runs Garcia Project Management, a regional construction project management and consulting firm.
Manolo and the Garcias founded Internet Travel Marketing. Inc. in January, 1994, as a joint Belizean-U.S. enterprise. The purpose of the partnership was to create and maintain Belize Online, as a vehicle for promoting responsible tourism and investment and for providing affordable online advertising to the tourism and investment sectors. They went online in April 1994.
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Would you like to submit content for our consideration? If you have an interesting, well-written first-person travel adventure or cultural experience, you may send it to us for consideration. We also welcome educational, adventure, scientific, or research material relating to our country. We welcome submissions for inclusion on this web site and will credit you as requested. This is also an excellent facility to post questions. Would you like to list your web site on Belize.com? It’s easy to become an advertising partner with Belize.com? Use our Contact Form for inquiries.
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