FECTAB’S Yhonny Rosado has been at the front lines of the tender crisis since it first broke out in early January. He has been amongst the most vocal and passionate in trying to get a level playing field from the Carnival Cruise Lines for tender operators even though he is not an offshore operator. This […]
Lyndon Bailey has been in the news before because he was chosen from a group of persons nominated to the FirstCaribbean Bank’s Unsung Heroes Program. Bailey is also the founder of the Tubal Trade School in Ladyville Village, which provides a second chance to many youths who have dropped out of school. Bailey, a mild […]
There’s a new appointment in the management of the Belize Bank. Michael Castillo, who has been with the bank since 1987, has served as Manager of the San Pedro and San Ignacio Branches and he now holds the newly introduced position of General Manager of Retail Banking Services. His responsibilities will include the strategic direction […]
We start the news tonight with the story that a US tourist died during a snorkeling trip today offshore Belize City. The cruise tourist, fifty-nine year old Dianna Lynn Meschling, was reportedly part of a group that went to Goff’s Caye for on a tour. Police are at this hour taking statements from the others […]
A major decision has been made by Cabinet in respect of oil exploration. In our newscast on Tuesday we reported that members of COLA, FECTAB, BGYEA and environmentalists had camped out in front of the Prime Minister’s Belmopan office. They remained there during the night calling on the government to refrain from approving further licenses […]
Earlier we told you about the government’s decision to save one point four million acres of the sea from further oil exploration licenses. While COLA raised awareness on the issue of oil drilling in the reef, its advocacy partner OCEANA has been prepping for upcoming events in the United States. OCEANA Vice President for Belize, […]
An ambulance was called to the Antelope Street area this afternoon. Neighbors responded to the frantic call of a mother whose young daughter was being attacked by a family dog. The young child, Carla Cardinez, was bitten on the neck and head and had to be rushed to the hospital. It is not known why […]
On January twenty-fifth, Justice Denys Barrow announced his sudden resignation from the Court of Appeal. The reason he advanced was that he was going back to private practice because his pension had not been forthcoming. He also disclosed that he was suing the government of St Lucia for refusing to pay the pension benefits that […]
The planned demonstration by handicraft vendors outside the craft market in the tourism zone did not proceed today because a meeting between their union President and the Belize Tourism Board on Tuesday evening looks promising. Last December when the F.S.T.V. was zoned, they were relocated by the Belize Tourism Board inside the market, formerly the […]
The boss of Las Vegas Casino in Corozal and three of his security guards were detained in Chetumal and sentenced to ten years in Mexican prison following a brawl that started at the casino and ended up across the border back in July 2008. George Hardie Junior and one of his guards, David Gomez were […]
Just over a year ago, Special Constable John Myvett, was on duty at the Belize City Magistrates Court when Keon Williams, also known as Gambis, was denied bail on a charge of Committing an Unnatural Crime against a fourteen year old boy. But Williams never made the trip to Hattieville and later alleged that he […]
It has been a little over three and a half months since Hurricane Richard ravaged parts of central Belize leaving in its wake a number of displaced families and millions of dollars in losses. While the National Emergency Management Organization in tandem with the Belize Red Cross have managed to address the immediate needs of […]
APAMO and OCEANA, the two powerful organizations against oil exploration are already on record against offshore and onshore licenses in protected areas. Seventeen licenses have been issued, more than half of the country has already been parceled off for exploration, and a recent license granted to Paradise Energy, a local company that has no involvement […]
While protesters camped out at the prime minister’s office, in Belize City there was another angry group. The Fort Street Tourism Village instituted a zoning policy late December. From the get go, there was uproar by vendors who suffered a deep cut in the cash they took home to feed their families. The vendors, including hair braiders, […]
Has Alan Slusher, popularly known as “Sammy D” fallen out of favor with his friend the Prime Minister? For someone known to be a U.D.P. insider and close personal friend of the PM, Slusher has been moved around by the Government twice in recent times. A couple weeks ago, we reported that Slusher, who has […]
Today a few of the employees of the now defunct National Transport Company Limited returned to the Labour office in Belize City to once again pursue their case. The men are part of a bigger group of two hundred and seventy five that were fired in December of 2010 by the receivers who took over […]
Two time Emmy Award winner; that’s an impressive achievement to boast in the entertainment world. And as of January thirtieth, Belizean Joel Evans has those bragging rights. The Emmy is one of the most prestigious awards in international television production and is on par with the Grammy, Tony and Academy awards. Evans sat on the […]
There’s still uncertainty in cruise tourism tonight. As it stands, Carnival is yet to make a decision on proposals presented on behalf of the Executive Tenders of Belize Ltd which says it is not budging from the six dollars and fifty cents it charges to ferry passengers to and from the cruise line. The tender […]
OPIC, the state owned Taiwanese company, recently announced that it had given up the second largest exploratory concession for oil that stretched across the Belize Barrier Reef. The environmental N.G.O. community applauded the OPIC decision and APAMO today took it one step further. It called on the government to persist from the issuance of any […]
One of two suspected burglars who broke into Publics Supermarket in the early hours of Sunday morning is tonight in police custody after being identified on the store’s surveillance footage. The men gained entry into the building, located at the corners of Nargusta Street and Central American Boulevard, by prying open a door on the […]
Funeral Services were held today at the University of Belize in Belmopan for Irvin Penner, brother of Minister Elvin Penner. Penner’s body was discovered around nine-twenty on Saturday morning at a farm near Camalote Village in the Cayo District. The twenty-nine year old, who lives in Belmopan, was said to be on treatment for bi-polar […]
The land being reclaimed by the Belize Grass Roots Youth Empowerment Association, BGYEA, is thirteen hundred acres and includes an area already being settled by a group comprising mostly of Central American immigrants; they have named the area Valle Nuevo. BGYEA convened a meeting on Sunday for persons who want to legitimately own a piece […]
So far the news has been about the uproar over uncontested conventions in the People’s United Party. But on Sunday in Corozal Bay, the field was crowded by four aspirants to that constituency. It didn’t quite add up to the numbers of the U.D.P. convention, but still over one thousand seven hundred voters cast their […]
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That’s the general feeling environmentalists have tonight as on the heels of one victory, they suffer a major blow to their anti-drilling campaign. Earlier in the week we reported that the Taiwanese State owned oil Company, OPIC, gave up its rights to the second largest […]
Environmentalists believe that the devil is in the details of the Petroleum Act. Oceana’s Vice President for Belize, Audrey Matura Shepherd, a trained attorney, believes that the legislation needs to be amended to allow for transparency and to limit ministerial interference in the bidding process for these exploratory contracts. Audrey Matura Shepherd, VP, Oceana Belize […]
