Article: Belize Seeks to Diversify Economy.

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Dec. 21 -- English-speaking Belize is an anomaly in Spanish-speaking Central America. But that, says Said Musa, new prime minister of the former British colony, is an advantage, not a problem, in terms of economic development for the smallest country on the mainland of the Americas.

"We feel it's an opportunity that Belize is the bridge between the Caribbean and the Central American mainland, and we like to think of ourselves as being pretty much central to this new concept of the Association of Caribbean States," Musa noted in a recent interview in Miami.

The 25-member ACS includes Caribbean Basin states, ...

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