The Shirley Roberts-Young Care and Educate Foundation is providing twenty scholarships to deserving children who are transitioning to high school this coming August in its inaugural scholarship program. The recipients are from across the length and breadth of the country, as the organization had the difficult task of choosing the lucky students out of one […]
Last week, we told you about members of the Ministry of Public Service engaging in emotional intelligence training. The two-day seminar was replicated today at the University of the West Indies Open Campus but with staff from the Ministry of Human Development, Families and Indigenous People’s Affairs. The training is being facilitated by the Loving […]
Belmopan City Councilor, Nikki Augustine, is organizing an event that she believes will help teenagers process some of the modern personal challenges they face in everyday life. TAG Teen Summit 2022 is being described as an event where teens from across the country will be able to gather, learn from each other, exchange shared experiences, […]
In May, it was discovered that someone had gotten possession of a bottle of pesticide and emptied it in a water reservoir in San Vicente Village, Toledo District. The incident sent at least six of the villagers to the P.G. Hospital seeking medical attention after they became ill from consuming the tainted water. C.E.O. in […]
If you have empty pesticide containers, the advice from the Pesticides Control Board is that you store them and take them to the nearest collection outlet in your zone. The Department of the Environment and the Pesticides Control Board are working jointly on a national empty pesticide containers management plan. When the plan is implemented, […]
It’s been around for decades, providing full residential services to Belize’s neediest elderly citizens whose families have no means of taking them in or those who have no relatives in Belize to care for them. But the elderly home needs your help if it is to keep its services running. And today, the staff of […]
Now that the COVID pandemic has somewhat waned, the Sister Cecelia Home for the Elderly is slowly reintroducing the programs it once had before the virus put everything on halt. But now the facility wants to do more than it used to. It also wants to add activities such as a physical therapy exercise to […]
The National Institute of Culture and History (NICH) through the Museum of Belize and Houses of Culture officially reopened the Corozal House of Culture. The venue was closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following some renovations on the building, the Corozal House of Culture was once again opened to the public on Saturday July ninth. Present […]
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize today commemorated its fifty-sixth year of representing and protecting workers and their rights. The N.T.U.C.B. is a federation of trade unions made up of thirteen local unions. It is also an affiliate of the International Trade Union Confederation, and the Caribbean Congress of Labor. To mark its fifty […]
Also addressing the audience at today’s N.T.U.C.B. book launch was president of the trade union, Luke Martinez. In his remarks, Martinez raised three issues that he says requires urgent attention from the Government of Belize. He called G.O.B. to action on the appointment of a Labor Commissioner, an Ombudsman, and on the need for a […]
Team Belize is ready to compete in the nineteenth U-twenty-one Female Central American Volleyball Championship which will be hosted from July twelfth to the sixteenth at the Belize City Civic Center. Belize has always done well in the sport, winning silver in the women’s category back in 2018, then the under-twenty-three and under-eighteen in 2019. […]
The United Democratic Party joined forces with the Belize Coalition of Churches several weeks ago during a countrywide campaign by the religious community to garner the necessary number of signatures by eligible voters to trigger a referendum on the legalization of cannabis. During the third term of the Barrow administration, cannabis was decriminalized. Individuals were […]
When we caught up with Kareem Musa, the Minister of New Growth Industries at an event earlier today, we took the opportunity to ask him about the referendum exercise that the churches have been able to trigger through petitions. The churches have been unwavering in their quest to get the country’s input in the voting […]
There was an armed robbery at the Puma Gas Station on Thursday night in Belize City. It happened at the service station located at the corner of Faber’s Road and the George Price Highway. According to attendants, three gunmen came up just before closing time and relieved an employee of an undisclosed amount of cash […]
A Hattieville woman alleges that her neighbor assaulted her with a vehicle and a machete. Twenty- eight-year-old Kadisha Carter reported to police that forty-year-old Florith Requeña assaulted her with a vehicle and a knife. When Requeña appeared before Magistrate Khiana Gordon, she pleaded not guilty to the accusation. In her report to police, Carter said […]
Today at the University of the West Indies Open Campus in Belize City, the Alumni Association bestowed the Professional Excellence Apex Award on Doctor Adrian Coye, a former graduate of the institution. It is issued annually by the association to an alumnus who is recognized for his or her professionalism and excellence – in Doctor […]
The Belize Police Department is fighting crime by equipping Belize City children with the necessary tools needed for success. A.C.P. Howell Gillett spent the morning engaging children from across the city in a first-of-its-kind tour of the Supreme and Magistrates Court. He then made himself available for a ceremony at the Raccoon Street Police Station […]
And while these children had intervention from an early age to help steer them clear of prison walls, over at the country’s only penitentiary in Hattieville, the population now is significantly lower than what it was prior to when the decriminalization of marijuana possession of ten grams or less took effect some years ago. Minister […]
And one of the elements of landing employment often times requires a clean police record, so even a small infraction such as possession of marijuana could sometimes counts against one. But Musa explained that while some may not have known, from as far back as 2017, people who have criminal records for marijuana offenses under […]
Last October, the Cabinet decided to take a multi-sectoral approach to help to fight crime when the Ministry of Home Affairs, through the Department of Youth Services. D.Y.S. enlisted over seven hundred youths in three different programs and today, those students graduated from their courses and have options to either return to take another course […]
Electric vehicles are becoming the transportation of choice across the world. E.V.s are considered to be more cost efficient and environmentally friendly than fuel powered vehicles. And, with the increasing cost of fuel, making the switch is almost a no-brainer. In Belize, Ruth Esquivel is among the first to own an electric vehicle. Esquivel purchased […]
So, why has the E.V. wave not overtaken Belize as yet? Esquivel says, the challenge is threefold. They are physical infrastructure, legislative infrastructure, and political will. Here is how she puts it. Ruth Esquivel, Electric Vehicle Owner “I think it kind of threefold; the first is that the infrastructure is not here. BEL now […]
Tropigas has found a new home at the corner of Central American Boulevard and Mahogany Street in Belize City. The grand opening and relocation was marked by a brief ceremony this morning at the new retail space. The investment was strategic as the company brings itself closer to its clientele and is also providing employment […]
It’s summertime and the kids are rolling into two months of recess! Summer camps are kicking off and the Bliss Institute for the Performing Arts is one of the places being occupied by children while they are out of the classrooms. Kids ages three to fourteen are currently engaged in three weeks of theater activities. […]
The religious community has finally broken its silence since Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai announced earlier this week that the churches were successful in meeting the ten percent threshold needed to trigger a referendum on the issue of cannabis legalization in Belize. On Monday, Pastor Louis Wade, the church’s spokesperson for its anti-marijuana effort, told […]
