It’s the countdown for the annual Ruta Maya Canoe Race that starts at the Macal and ends at the Belize River. This year, more teams, including seven international teams, are expected to sign up for the four day race during the upcoming extended weekend. Momentum is picking up as the day draws closer and competing […]
Senator Paul Perriott, who was appointed to represent trade unions in the National Assembly, is tonight without a job after tendering his resignation to the management of B.T.L. last Friday. It is big news because Paul is a member of the Belize Communications Workers Union and is considered a strong supporter of the U.D.P. government […]
Paul says that his relations with B.T.L. went downhill following the meeting he attended with the former Telemedia management. Isani Cayetano “As president of B.C.W.U. you were of the impression that government was in an ideal situation where it could facilitate the process of Telemedia employees owning shares in the company through Sunshine Holdings. What […]
Butane distributors have come under fire in the past few weeks for cheating consumers. Following public outcry, the Belize Bureau of Standards today announced the introduction of the National Metrology Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Regulation 2011. It puts pressure on butane companies to give consumers what they’re paying for. The regulation requires suppliers to have […]
A sixteen year old student gone without a trace for over a month; it’s a parent’s worst nightmare and it is exactly the situation that the family of Khadisha Saragosa is facing. There have been numerous tips that the teen has been spotted in Belize City, Placencia and more recently in Cayo. And though all […]
According to the United Nations, nearly two point five million people from one hundred and twenty-seven countries are being trafficked around the world. The annual revenue derived from trafficking in persons is estimated to be in the billions. It is a brisk trade and victims are often sorted into categories of bonded labor, forced labor […]
Stephen Okeke is well-known as a painter, sculptor, author and fulltime entrepreneur. Okeke has donned another hat that many people aren’t aware of. For the past two years, Okeke has been a part of an organization intended to help fathers to deal with challenges of raising and protecting the family. It is called the Father’s […]
Sightseeing in the old capital is a favourite activity for visitors to the Jewel. The visitors learn about Belize’s colonial past as well as its modern history from tour guides, who take them through the city mainly on horse and carriage rides. To boost their knowledge of our history, the Belize Tourism Board facilitated a […]
The continued stability of the sugar industry has been the center of debate in political circles as well as on the hallowed and fertile ground that the caneros of Orange Walk and Corozal have tilled for generations. But the speculation on how the owners of Belize Sugar Industry will obtain the millions of dollars needed […]
The need for new financiers is not the only issue that B.S.I. is tackling. The disrepair of turbines at the BELCOGEN Plant has shut down production in what is expected to be a very successful year for cane farmers. Carballo said that the repairs are going on schedule. Via Phone: Belizario Carballo, Finance Director, B.S.I. […]
The wave of crime throughout the country has resulted in an abundance of studies, plans, documents and well intended workshops to curb violence. But the latest initiative by the Ministry of Police and Public Safety is actually not geared towards the male participation in violence, but towards you, the driver and the cyclist. According to […]
San Pedro is an ideal location for skydiving and the activity has taken root on the island for the past few years. So when we saw Tsunami Skydivers hovering above the island today it was no strange sighting. But we learned that the skydivers from the US are not only in Belize for a bird’s […]
A fifteen year old girl in the Corozal District was reported missing by her twenty year old sister on February twelfth. The minor returned home two days later, but with news that upset her family. Police have found out that the teen left home on last Friday with another minor and they both went to […]
For the second time in one month, a tourist has lost her life while on a water expedition in Belize. This time the deceased is an eighty-three year old who died after she fell out of a canoe into ten-foot deep waters during a caving expedition in the Cayo District. The accident occurred around twelve-thirty […]
“Be Prepared” is the motto that is constant on the minds of the youths who become scouts. The Local Association of Boy Scouts of British Honduras was established in 1911. One hundred years later, as the Scout Association of Belize, the organization’s numbers have significantly grown to two thousand members. This week, the association is […]
It appears that putting in extra hours after work, does not always bode well for employees. The Elections and Boundaries Department has been investigating the late opening hours of its Corozal branch on the night before the U.D.P. Corozal Bay convention on January eighth. According to Chief Elections Officer, Dorothy Bradley, an employee had asked […]
Learn, Sign, Vote, is the campaign launched on Monday by the Belize Coalition to Save Our Natural Heritage. The coalition needs seventeen thousand votes to convince the government that a referendum is necessary so that Belizeans may decide for themselves if they want drilling for oil in our reefs and national parks. It’s a personal […]
The country felt Hurricane Richard’s wrath over three months ago, and the relief efforts have now dwindled. Sadly, the effects have not been forgotten by many residents who are still struggling to recover from the destructive winds. The Red Cross continues to reach out to those persons, despite recuperating from damages it suffered to its […]
As the advert says MegaBingo is the game and its jackpot is hot. A Hopkins resident on the day she received her eviction notice won the jackpot of over one hundred thousand dollars last Saturday. A week later, three lucky persons won and will share the prize of one hundred and one thousand nine hundred […]
At most Social Security offices countrywide today, members of the Christian Workers Union did not turn up for work in fact they called in sick. The action caused disruptions in the delivery of services because untrained cashiers took up the slack in receiving payment from contributors. The sickout is the first action that can potentially […]
Port Loyola is one of the known hot spots in the City that is fraught with crime. The community has experienced numerous murders and other forms of violence over the years including the homicide of eight year old Marques Mahler. A project to break that cycle was officially inaugurated this morning and is intended to […]
In January two pilots took off with a Mexican plane that was grounded for months at the Philip Goldson International Airport. The story raised eyebrows because the pilots did not have clearance to take the plane out of Belizean airspace. According to Civil Aviation, the plane was to have carried out a flight test in […]
The case of the thirteenth Senator came up today in the Chambers of Acting Chief Justice Samuel Lungole Awich. Belizeans for Justice is taking the government to court for not implementing a constitutional amendment to appoint one more person to the Senate. That appointment would have come from the N.G.O.s, who elected a nominee but […]
A tourism project in San Pedro funded by the International Development Bank is running into trouble with residents of the town who over the years have relied on the designated area to earn their livelihood. The project contemplates blocking access to the lagoon and for boatmen, that’s like taking from their tables. The islanders say […]
On January seventeenth, aspiring local musician Damion August came to our studios with his jaws wired shut to make a public complaint of police brutality. August, who goes by the stage name Weezy, is tonight once again in the news not for an album release or another physical confrontation with the police but for allegedly […]
