{"name":"Applied AI in Belize — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Belize, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/belize","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Belize","slug":"belize","iso2":"BZ","region":"Latin America & Caribbean"},"counts":{"entries":8,"deployments":3,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":4,"regulation":1,"industries":4,"countries":1,"linked":8},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Belize","org":"National Assembly of Belize","text":"Belize's National Assembly sent Acting Deputy Clerk Manuel Grant and Parliamentary Officer I Tiarrah Bedran to AI training for parliament staff: the 'Applying AI and Digital Solutions to Modernize Parliamentary Practice' workshop, 12–13 September, Florida International University. Caribbean officials explored parliamentary AI skills for law-making, records and public access to House information.","date":"2026-09-16","source":"https://www.greaterbelize.com/belizes-parliament-looks-to-ai-to-modernise-operations/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Belize","role":"Judge","org":"Senior Courts of Belize (High Court)","text":"Belize's High Courts will use Lexis+ Protégé, an AI legal research and drafting tool, to speed up judgments. Judges and Belize Bar Association members trained on it at a 15–16 July High Court seminar hosted by Chief Justice Louise Esther Blenman and the Judicial Education Institute, following an April workshop on LexisNexis's AI tools.","date":"2026-07-15","source":"https://amandala.com.bz/news/high-court-to-deploy-ai-for-quicker-rulings/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Belize","org":"Belize Department of Civil Aviation","text":"Staff at Belize's Department of Civil Aviation finished \"Cleared for AI: A Civil Aviation Literacy Session,\" covering AI literacy in aviation. Topics included AI history, prompting, safety, ethics, and demos of FOD detection and RAG chatbots, aimed at building AI training for aviation staff while preserving human oversight.","date":"2026-06-03","source":"https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dlpsbelize_belize-civilaviationauthority-ailiteracy-activity-7473216319413374977-RQNS"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Belize","org":"Judicial Education Institute of the Senior Courts of Belize","text":"Judges and legal staff in Belize completed AI training for judges this April, run by the Judicial Education Institute of the Senior Courts. Chief Justice Louise Esther Blenman framed the workshop as part of modernising the judiciary, building capacity for artificial intelligence in the judiciary while preserving ethical standards.","date":"2026-04-21","source":"https://lovefm.com/belize-judiciary-to-host-ai-training-workshop-for-legal-professionals/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Agriculture & Food","region":"Belize","role":"Forest officers","org":"Belize Forest Department","text":"The Belize Forest Department and the Ministry of Sustainable Development launched three tools for AI forest monitoring, developed with the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Each analyses satellite imagery: land use cover map, near-real-time fire monitoring system and national mangrove cover map spanning 2020 to 2024. Chief Forest Officer Wilbur Sabido says AI-assisted forest tracking sits within the National Forest Monitoring System.","date":"2025-09-12","source":"https://www.greaterbelize.com/ai-mapping-tools-unveiled-for-forest-monitoring/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Belize","org":"Senior Courts of Belize","text":"Belize now regulates AI use in courtrooms through Practice Direction No. 18 of 2025, issued by the country's Senior Courts. The rules require checking machine-produced text for accuracy, flagging its role in filings, and keeping final decisions with people rather than software. Belize thus became one of the first Commonwealth Caribbean nations to set formal limits on generative AI within its justice system.","date":"2025-08-12","source":"https://www.greaterbelize.com/practice-direction-18-ushers-ai-into-belizes-senior-courts/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Belize","org":"Ministry of Public Utilities, Energy & Logistics (Belize)","text":"34 officials, including Minister Michel Chebat and Dr. Leroy Almendarez, gained government leadership training via a two-day workshop jointly run by Belize's Ministry of Public Utilities, Energy & Logistics and the Belize Port Authority. Participants built hands-on capability for steering AI responsibly inside public bodies.","date":"2025-07","source":"https://www.mpuele.gov.bz/artificial-intelligence-workshop/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Belize","role":"Teachers","org":"Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology","text":"Belize's Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology unveiled three AI teaching assistants on the 501 Academy portal at the country's first National EdTech Summit. Avatar Buddy built the set: 501 Historian, covering Belizean heritage material; 501 Teacher Assistant, for lesson planning; and Kriol 501 Historian, replying in Kriol and English. The AI buddies for education target teachers' paperwork and lesson quality.","date":"2025-05-02","source":"https://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=74121"}]}