A deserving mother of three children was the lucky recipient of a house in the Lord’s Bank community, just in time for the upcoming Christmas season. Taralee Burgess and her family were devastated by Hurricane Earl last August and despite having her roof replaced, they were still inconvenienced whenever it rained. On Monday, Hand in […]
The seventh annual tacos festival is this weekend. On Sunday, Orange Walk will come together to celebrate the tacos. A staple of the Orange Walk food and culture scene, organizers want to highlight the importance and versatility of this quick, filling and flavor packed food eaten for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Between four to five […]
The Customs and Excise Department has to continuously grapple with contrabandistas, especially in the north. The latest culprit has been identified as one Edwin Patt, the brother of Labour Minister Hugo Patt. Villagers from Patchakan, where the brothers live, reportedly fought with police and Customs officers to hold on to the contraband goods and briefly […]
Later in this newscast, we will show you what the Customs Department is doing about enforcement on importation of known counterfeit goods. But the Department is practically a sort of border patrol along with Immigration and Nationality. On Friday at the western border, four Guatemalan soldiers and a media crew entered the Champon or so-called […]
For the next two days, representatives of both the employers and employees in Belize will meet at the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s office complex here on Coney Drive. Among the topics of discussion is social dialogue – the communication and discussion between the Government, employers and business organizations, and labour that drives the […]
The Government had to put together seventy-eight million U.S. dollars to repay Dunkeld International Investments Limited and the B.T.L. Employees’ Trust as final payment for the acquisition of Belize Telemedia Limited twice over. Both Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Financial Secretary Joseph Waight indicated that there should be no immediate effect on buying power. But Waight […]
The more than half a billion-dollar in settlement for Belize Telemedia Limited with its former owners has been paid off, but at what cost to the nation? President of the National Trade Union Congress of Belize, Floyd Neal, told us today that the nationalization of the company in 2009 and again in 2011 was presented […]
Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance and Natural Resources, Doctor Carla Barnett, on Thursday delivered the thirty-second Adlith Brown Memorial Lecture as part of the Forty-ninth Annual Monetary Studies Conference held last week. According to the Central Bank, the lecture elaborated on the emerging importance of climate change and its impact on developing […]
It has been a very busy few weeks for the Customs and Excise Department, at least in terms of training. First it was about trade facilitation two weeks ago; last week it was about immigration and border security. This week, the scene shifts to the Ramada Princess Hotel, where Belize and its Central American counterparts […]
The search for eighty-three-year-old Hubert Richards, a retiree of Sand Hill Village, continues after five days of being lost. Anna Richards reported to police that she hasn’t seen her father since he left her residence on Queen Helmet Avenue in Coral Grove last Thursday. Despite surveillance footage reportedly showing the elder man in the vicinity […]
Despite cloudy skies and showery weather, the Garinagu of Belize marked Garifuna Settlement Day this past Sunday. It commemorates the arrival en masse of Garifuna settlers in 1832, although a smaller number had landed thirty years earlier. 2017 marked the fortieth national observance of the holiday, established in 1977 after having been observed mostly in […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow, as we had reported last Tuesday, was to have been the designated guest speaker at Sunday’s official Garifuna Settlement Day ceremony in Belize City. He had held the role for the past two years when the ceremony was held in Dangriga. But according to his deputy, he had an emergency family […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
As personnel from the Civil Aviation Department and Belize Airports Authority began their investigation into the incident, the management of Tropic Air and the Government of Belize issued separate releases on the mishap. According to the airline company, the aircraft clipped a vehicle at the end of the runway as it was taking off, which […]
As we told you on Thursday, P.U.P. Leader John Briceño will go into the national convention unchallenged with a few changes to the National Executive, ratified during yesterday’s meeting at Independence Hall. While the projected date for the convention is January twenty-eighth, it has to be approved by the regional caucuses since it was a […]
And speaking of politics, the People’s United Party is licking its chops at the prospect of a potential United Democratic Party implosion after ten years of dominance at the polls. With Prime Minister Dean Barrow set to retire after three terms and more than three decades in government, the next leader of the U.D.P. is […]
It has been less than two weeks since the People’s United Party introduced its slate of eleven Belize City candidates for the City Council, which the United Democratic Party has held since 2006. The team is already hard at work campaigning on the ground, hoping to convince Belize City voters to go a different route […]
Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber told reporters on Thursday that he has yet to personally receive a letter sent two weeks ago by Leader of the Opposition John Briceño, which asked to look into the contracts tendered out by Belize Infrastructure Limited, of which he is co-chair. Briceño called for extensive details of who got […]
On Thursday, Leader of the Opposition John Briceño spared no quarter in his condemnation of Immigration Minister, Senator Godwin Hulse. He said he considered it hypocritical of Hulse to attempt to lay blame for the failures of the Immigration Department solely on public officers. But as a new set of allegations dogs the Department, Briceño […]
It appears the Caye Caulker Airstrip project will go ahead with Social Security Board funding, albeit reduced. The Belize Airports Authority is said to be receiving between three-point-five and four million dollars to re-do the runway with hot mix. The original seven-million dollar project, awarded by tendering to Imer Hernandez Development Company Limited, also called […]
There is bipartisan support for an extended investigation of Belize Jungle Experience Limited. The company is already being audited by the Supreme Audit Institution concerning monies paid for the training of German soldiers in Belize’s jungles between 2015 and 2017. For the year 2016, some thirty-six B.D.F. staff members were involved in the training under […]
It has been several years since the Belize City Council completed a mammoth undertaking to concrete as many streets as it could have, using monies that were floated through a municipal bond. Its agreement with the utility companies is that they are individually responsible for all repairs should the need for underground work arise. While […]
The People’s United Party held a National Executive meeting at Independence Hall this morning. Among other things, the party rounded off its slate of candidates to be presented at the party’s upcoming National Convention. We are told that the convention may be moved up to January 2018 rather than November twenty-sixth, but it is still […]
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court denied, without explanation, a review of the Government of Belize’s case against the Belize Bank Limited in a long-standing arbitration settlement dating back to 2004. The Bank had settled with the then-P.U.P. Government to pay close to forty million Belize dollars to satisfy the debt of Universal Health Services, […]
Two weeks ago, Leader of the Opposition John Briceño revealed that the People’s United Party intended to write Prime Minister Dean Barrow asking for all the contracts awarded by Belize Infrastructure Limited, and details on the people that applied for each contract, to see who has been chosen and the reasons why that person has […]
