Businesses Prepare for Belize Investment Summit 2025

The countdown is on, less than two months to go before the Belize Investment Summit 2025. Hosted every two years by the Office of the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Investment, this high-profile event brings together hundreds of investors, entrepreneurs, and business leaders from around the world. This year’s theme, ‘Bridging Markets, Building Resilience,’ is all about creating stronger connections between global and regional investors while helping Belize build a more robust and adaptable economy. We spoke with Lincoln Blake from the Ministry of Investment, who shared how this summit is shaping up to be a major opportunity for Belize to shine on the international stage.

 

Lincoln Blake, Director, Investment Policy & Compliance, Ministry of Investment

“Belize has  an objective to become an investment hub for Central America by the year 2030, and it’s all within the strategic plans and actions of the national investment policy and strategy. So the Belize Investment Summit is one of those actions, and with that we want to attract not only foreign direct investment, but also local investment nto the country as well to develop and continue growing the economy.”

 

Britney Gordon

“Can you talk about the success that this summit has seen so far? You mentioned that it grew from three hundred  people to five hundred attendees in the latest one.”

 

Lincoln Blake

“Yes. One of the successes of the investment summit is the networking. The summit has actually created an environment that were the investors and some of the senior government officials and technocrats would be able to meet with investors so as to make the investments happen. And that has worked well. From the first investment summit in 2021 to date we have seen a growth in the amount of investors coming in with interest. And also we have seen the data from the central bank where the foreign direct investment specifically has been growing from since 2021 to date. The small businesses mainly contact us when they need to engage with financiers or other investors that will be able to have some sort of equity investment within their specific projects, especially if they want to grow or expand. And that type of opportunity, the investment summit also has given to some of the local investors. But in most cases, a lot of them have also come to the investment summit to garner new ideas. Because when they go in there, we have presentations and where they be able to listen to new strategies and also new sectors that offer new opportunities for them to grow.”