A blog about the work of the British Embassy in Guatemala
29th September 2016 Guatemala City
Tikal As offered, this is the second part of the blog about the adventures we had on holidays in Guatemala, hope you enjoy! The following day we drove up through Flores (a really delightful town on its compact little island in lake Peten Itza) and on to Tikal. Tikal is the jewel of all Mayan […]
22nd September 2016 Guatemala City
Guatemala is blessed with a huge diversity of tourist sites. Best known are the charming Spanish-colonial city of Antigua, the stunning Mayan ruins of Tikal, and the beautiful volcano-ringed lake of Atitlan. But it also boasts some other remarkable but less known sites, which draw significant number of discerning travellers – and especially young backpackers. […]
14th September 2016 Guatemala City
As a public servant and as a Briton, to talk about democracy is to talk about something I am passionate about. It’s not that I am an expert in the topic, but it is a system with which I can identify closely and it is an ideal which drives every day of my working life. […]
28th June 2016 Guatemala City
Rock music and Shakespeare may not seem immediately to have much in common. You might see both as a form of art, but that might be as far as the similarity goes. Well, here in Guatemala, we have been celebrating all three for being British. In the last few weeks we have been treated to […]
10th May 2016 Guatemala City
This year Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her ninetieth birthday. Born in 1926, she became Queen in 1952 on the death of her father, King George V, and has been Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for the last 64 years. Events to mark The Queen’s 90th birthday are being held […]
3rd March 2016 Guatemala City
This is my first blog as British Ambassador to Guatemala. I arrived here six months ago, but thought I’d wait a while before starting to blog. I’ll try to write quite regularly from now on. I hope you find my blogs interesting! I arrived in Guatemala City in mid-August 2015, just in time to witness […]
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22nd June 2015
On European climate diplomacy day I am reminded of a recent visit to the Mayan Biosphere with Wildlife Conservation Society, The Balam Association (the Mayan word for jaguar) the Guatemalan national body for protected areas (CONAP) and a representative from the EU delegation. During the visit we talked about illegal wildlife trafficking and compared the […]
22nd June 2015
On European climate diplomacy day I am reminded of a recent visit to the Mayan Biosphere with Wildlife Conservation Society, The Balam Association (the Mayan word for jaguar) the Guatemalan national body for protected areas (CONAP) and a representative from the EU delegation. During the visit we talked about illegal wildlife trafficking and compared the […]
20th May 2015
Para marcar el Día Internacional Contra la Homofobia, Transfobia y Bifobia la Embajadora Sarah Dickson le pidió a Jorge López Sologaistoa, Director Ejecutivo de OASIS escribir este blog acerca de la situación en Guatemala. Pueden conocer más acerca de este tema en http://dayagainsthomophobia.org/es/ : “En un sentido muy estricto, la homofobia es entendida como una […]
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20th May 2015
To mark the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia Ambassador Dickson asked Jorge López Sologaistoa, Executive Director of OASIS to comment on the situation in Guatemala. You can also learn more about this issue here http://dayagainsthomophobia.org/ – also available in Spanish: http://dayagainsthomophobia.org/es/ . “In a very strict sense, homophobia is understood as an obsessive […]
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