The association comprised of small tour guides and operators, Federation of Cruise Tourism Associations of Belize, has stated that it will continue to ramp up the pressure on Government, NICH and the B.T.B. Today it did just that in an emergency press conference. For these operators, every day in which big foreign companies operate without […]
Almendarez and members of FECTAB have maintained that small operators are being unfairly treated while big companies get all the perks. They cite the many safety rules and structures which deter some tourists from choosing their packages, and say that those rules are not applied across the board. David Almendarez, Executive Member, FECTAB “When […]
As he does at every conference and every opportunity, small tour operator Yhony Rosado of Cave-tubing.com called on government to act on their behalf. He claims that the livelihood of the small-timers is being snuffed out and if not addressed they will end up going out of business. Yhony Rosado, Executive Member, FECTAB “We’ve […]
Yhony Rosado’s tire shop on the Phillip Goldson Highway is back open. On January twenty-sixth Econo Tires was closed down by City Council employees over some confusion about a trade license. Rosado had paid for his, but he had not been given the printed copy, which by law must be displayed in any registered business. […]
Two men were shot on Wednesday night in south side Belize City just before seven o’clock, shattering a period of relative quiet on the streets since the beginning of the year. Twenty-six-year-old Benua Andrews was hit twice on the chest and is in a stable condition at the K.H.M.H. His friend, twenty-six-year-old Tyron Myers was […]
Orange Walk was once known as Rambo Town, back in the days when drugs and violence had overtaken that northern community. It has not quite reached that point yet, but there is an increase in illicit activity which may have lawmakers sitting up and paying keen attention. Even as investigators try to solve a broad […]
Six persons died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital between October 2015 and January 2016 due to unknown illnesses. The hospital, however, believes the deaths may be related to the influenza virus. Still yet, no epidemiological link has been found after testing. The family of one of the persons who died mysteriously explains the unusual […]
Gaspar Vega versus Ramon Cervantes Junior and Fiesta FM – the anxiously awaited decision in that sensational libel and slander suit was to be handed down today by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. But it wasn’t. For the fifth time since December 2015, the matter was postponed. Attorneys we spoke to told us that no adjournment […]
Three year old Brenae Timmons remains in an induced coma at the K.H.M.H. The child was badly injured last Friday when a heavy metal gate fell on her near the entrance to the Lloyd Coffin Pre-School. She had gone there with her mother to wait for her father to come off work at the public […]
Well known cyclist and sports enthusiast Kaya Cattouse has been threatened by Cycling Federation of Belize President Dion Leslie. In a letter sent to Cattouse Tuesday, Leslie accuses her of breaching three areas of the Federation’s code of ethics, namely – respect for others, respect for self and respect for the Federation. Leslie goes on […]
On this World Cancer Day, the news is not good. The Belize Cancer Society says the number of deaths due to cancer is staggering and it doesn’t include deaths by persons who seek treatment in the private sector. Close to two hundred persons died last year due the disease and about the same number of […]
The relief on Bradley Paumen’s face was clear this afternoon as Justice Antoinette Moore granted him Supreme Court bail. Paumen has spent seven nights behind bars awaiting a process which took less than ten minutes today. The American investor and owner of Dark Night tours appeared in Court last Thursday to face charges related to […]
Another man who spent seven nights behind bars with Paumen is Lisburn Anderson. He also received bail today from Justice Moore in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars and two sureties in the same amount. Anderson is the mechanic who allegedly placed the firearm in Michael Modiri’s vehicle on behalf of Paumen. His arraignment was […]
As we said, Bradley Paumen was before the courts this afternoon in Belmopan and secured bail for a slew of charges relating to a murder for hire plot he allegedly orchestrated. An issue that has been robbing local tour operators is that even while he has been exposed for his alleged deeds, he continues to […]
The new National Executive of the People’s United Party under the leadership of John Briceño was sworn in this morning at Independence Hall on Queen Street. A former minister and veteran of the P.U.P., Samuel Waight administered the oath. Briceño hit the ground running since Sunday’s election meeting with parliamentarians but today he officially assumed […]
Today’s swearing in was done at Independence Hall, the traditional and emotional home of the People’s United Party. But emotion aside, the assets of the Party, including Independence Hall, the Belize Times and Positive Vibes are privately owned by principals within the Party. It created no end of discomfort from 2008 when 2011 when Briceño […]
For years, the issue of the teachers training has been on the drawing board at the Ministry of Education. According to recent figures, only about forty percent of primary school teachers are trained at the associate level while in secondary schools only thirty-one percent have the required training. The ministry thus embarked on a program […]
Belizeans Milin Vasquez and Hugo Casanova were serving time behind bars in neighboring Chetumal since February 2013. They were arrested when they were busted at the house of notorious Mexican dealer, Carlos Cabanas Catzin, known as the Monster. In the house, the Mexican navy found with two million dollars worth of crystal meth. There were […]
Two young men from Orange Walk Town are the most recent victims of gun violence. A brazen gunman, still on the lam, opened fire on seventeen year old Rene Antonio Acevedo and nineteen-year-old Erlindo Matura Junior as they stood on Gristock Street at about four-thirty on Monday afternoon. A third person, a minor, was with […]
Also in Orange Walk, officers have been conducting anti-drug operations on a weekly basis. On Monday morning, a search in some bushes on Savannah Street in Orange Walk Town led to the discovery of a plastic bag containing thirteen, sixteen-gauge cartridges and ten point one grams of cannabis. There were no arrests and the items […]
There was an acquittal today in a trial by judge without jury. Thirty-two year old Daniel Anderson of Belize City walked out of court as a free man following his acquittal for murder. Anderson was behind bars for more than five years for the murder of Joyce Mitchell, who was gunned down while sitting in […]
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Tonight we report on four accidents that occurred on both main highways; of the four, one was fatal. On Monday afternoon, just before four o’clock, a pickup truck driven by Egbert Ferguson collided into a tour van, traveling from the opposite direction transporting six French tourists. A total of eleven persons were injured in the […]
Aside from the fatal accident that claimed the life of forty-seven year old Egbert Ferguson, there were three other accidents today alone on the Phillip Goldson and the George Price Highways. This morning just after nine o’clock, sixty-two year old Lloyd Foreman was knocked off his bicycle between miles six and seven on the Phillip […]
There was a third accident this morning just after nine on the George Price Highway, which happened at about the same time as the RTA on the Phillip Goldson Highway. It wasn’t fatal, but driver Deryck Satchwell got off very lucky after he lost control of his Dodge Caliber and it flipped off the road […]
