A Special Sitting of the Senate is schedule to take place on Thursday. Four resolutions will be tabled including the appointment of members to the Election and Boundaries Commission. Those persons are Phillipa Griffith Bailey, Naima Barrow, Orlando Espat and Magali Marin. They will serve for a period of five years retroactive to May first, […]
The United Democratic Party has released the names of sixty-six candidates who are seeking to become their party’s standard bearers for the thirty-one constituencies in the next general elections. We note that three sitting area representatives will be challenged and in other areas, there are as many as five aspirants. In the city, Prime Minister […]
In the blue corner, Cayo South Area Representative, Julius Espat is no longer a Deputy Party Leader for the People’s United Party. Even though his resignation had been leaked before today, Espat met with Party Leader John Briceño this morning in Belize City where he officially handed in his resignation and it was accepted. Espat, […]
The Solid Waste Management Authority Office in Belmopan is in trouble tonight or more precisely it is closed today. It all started on Thursday when court marshals crow-footed the authority’s property. Their office furniture and three vehicles have been seized because the authority has failed to settle a half-a million dollar lawsuit brought by Vision […]
The Kolbe Foundation started a rehabilitation programme at the Belize Central Prison back in 2006 at the Ashcroft Rehabilitation Centre. To date, some two-thousand plus inmates have completed the course which aims to help convicted prisoners curb drug, alcohol, behavioral and other problems. The inmates also learn about life-skills, conflict resolution, anger management and other […]
At a press conference today, Robert ‘Bobby’ Lopez announced that he intends to file a claim in the courts of Belize to challenge the constitutionality of the Special Agreement signed by Belize and Guatemala. Lopez is heading what he calls the Peace Movement along with familiar faces such at Wil Maheia of the Belize Territorial […]
Much has been said about the re-registering of Guatemalans who have acquired Belizean nationality. The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry was the first to address the issue in a letter sent to the Prime Minister. The Chamber objected to the fact that granting nationality to Guatemalans is against the constitution. Since the concern was […]
The Belize City Council has named a new city administrator, following the suspension and subsequent dismissal of Candice Miller on May eighth. Earlier this evening, City Hall confirmed Stephanie Lindo-Garbutt as Miller’s successor. Lindo-Garbutt comes with experience having worked in both the private and public sectors in the area of sustainable project management. In other […]
Attorney Arthur Saldivar is turning against his own party, which he wants to represent. This is all because he is not allowed to run for P.U.P. standard bearer in the Belmopan constituency. On June fifteenth, Saldivar filed an application requesting an injunction at the Supreme Court to halt the convention which was scheduled for this […]
There are new developments in respect of the embattled Choice Bank Limited. In a first statement issued today, the financial institution informed its depositors that as of July second, they will be able to withdraw up to twenty-five thousand U.S. dollars from their respective accounts. The announcement comes after the offshore bank suspended all withdrawals […]
Two Guatemalan farmers from Peten were detained inside the Chiquibul National Park on Wednesday. Friends for Conservation and Development and Belize Defense Force personnel were on a patrol to document human footprint in the area of Cebada in the southern Chiquibul National Park, when they came across two farmers with two horses about two point […]
Belize Telemedia Limited has spent forty million Belize dollars rolling out its National Broadband Plan. The project commenced in San Pedro in July 2017 and now the company wants to replace its outdated copper network with fiber network to the entire country. So government turned to Taiwan for a thirty-five-million-dollar loan for which it is […]
A public consultation involving stakeholders within the Fort George Tourism Zone is underway at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex, the proposed staging ground for the relocation of tour buses in Belize City. The bottleneck caused by the parking of buses in the Fort George neighborhood, particularly in the vicinity of the Radisson Hotel and the […]
According to Ian Jones, the National Sports Council is simply taking advantage of a business opportunity which it can parlay into the improvement of existing programs at the department. Ian Jones, Director, National Sports Council “We have the space available, we see it as a business opportunity basically for the sports council where we […]
Do you know your HIV status? The Ministry of Health and the National AIDS Commission have been working to ensure that you do. For some time now, there have been two major testing days annually for the public to know their status – one mid-year and the other in December first World AIDS day. Tonight […]
The controversy surrounding the Israel training of officers and civilians, in both the public and private sectors, easily eclipsed a government-led initiative to bolster the capacity of the police department in the area of community policing. That’s because the ceremony held at the Police Training Academy in Belmopan on Tuesday was overshadowed by the anti-Israeli […]
The idea of strengthening the substance of the department through community outreach, says Aragon, is a necessary means of fortifying those with shared interests within the society. That, according to the Minister of State, begins with building trust. Elodio Aragon Jr., Minister of State, Police “The neighborhood patrol officer, backed by the police organization, […]
Latest statistics show a mixed bag in the cost of living. Prices for goods and services went up slightly in May of this year when compared to the same period last year. Consumers also felt a pinch in their pockets due to transportation costs which resulted from a rise in prices for fuels and lubricants. But […]
Preliminary findings from the April 2018 labour force survey carried out by S.I.B. shows that the country’s unemployment rate increased by a marginal zero point four percent, so when compared to last April’s nine percent, the unemployment rate now stands at nine point four percent. According to the S.I.B., this resulted from an increase in […]
The University of Belize recently launched a four-year Bachelor of Science degree in Statistics. The degree programme consists of a modern curriculum and includes instruction in use of software to manage, visualize and interpret data of all kinds. According to the university, the programme is a response to technical and professional needs that have been […]
A team of six Belizean professionals in the culinary industry competed over the past three days in the regional Taste of the Caribbean Competition held in Miami, Florida. The Belize Tourism Board pooled together the likes of Sean Kuylen, Eva Longsworth, Robert Pronk among others to battle in several categories including master and junior chefs, […]
We have covered the police initiative, Du Di Rait Ting, many times in the past. But today’s ceremony was special. Forty-nine students completed the programme; eleven were honored for beating adversity and staying on the right track. While the youths have all experienced challenges, one student from Belize City, has lived through tough times, but […]
Tonight, a male manatee calf is being rehabilitated at Wild Tracks; a rehabilitation facility in Sarteneja, after it was is rescued near Long Caye. Sea to Shore Alliance Coordinator Jamal Galvez was en route to Caye Caulker for a tour with the Real Tarzan Man Michael Holsten, who is in Belize promoting the unique animals […]
Hurricanes and flooding in Belize are nothing new. Compounded with a changing climate, the frequency and intensity of these natural disasters are growing. In Belize, we have had our fair share of costly natural disasters and over the years, the focus on building resilient communities has grown. The Government of Belize and Taiwan are now […]
On Friday, Spoken Words 501, a group of poets from across the country, will be celebrating its fifth anniversary. It is a momentous occasion being marked by the launch of “To the Writers of the World”, a collection of forty poems. The book features the work of twenty artists who have penned life experiences. Founding […]
