Will there be a shutdown of butane gas outlets this Wednesday? That’s what is being threatened by Belize Gas Company Limited, Western Gas Company Limited, Zeta Gas Limited and Gas Tomza Limited. It all has to do with the production of butane by Belize Natural Energy, at prices that the importers say cannot be undersold. […]
The U.D.P. pulled a fast one on Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers. We reported last week that the party would meet to decide whether or not the mayor’s expulsion would be rescinded. Well, that meeting did take place on Saturday and Moya Flowers is still out in the cold. That’s because it was agreed that the […]
There are no murders to report tonight but there were three shootings over the weekend. Forty-seven year old Honduran national Miguel Marcia remains bedridden inside the recovery ward of the K.H.M.H. after being shot during a robbery attempt. Marcia, a local vendor, was on his way to catch a boat near the foot of the […]
The second weekend shooting also took place in the Old Capital, a stone’s throw away from the previous incident almost twelve hours earlier. Nineteen year old Clement Bol Junior, a construction worker and student of Gwen Lizarraga High School’s Evening Division, was shot on Saturday evening while walking along West Canal in the direction of […]
There’s grim news in cruise tourism; this week alone ten thousand passengers will not be coming to the Jewel. That’s because there will be a noticeable absence of Carnival cruise ships from our waters this week as four of its vessels; namely the Dream which was scheduled to call on Belize on Tuesday, Glory which […]
If you drove past mile three and a half on the Northern Highway today you would have noticed a long line extending into the highway from the building that houses a new company called Trextel Belize. The operators of the company did not return our calls but according to its website, Trextel would be conducting […]
The machineries of the both major political parties were in full gear over the past weekend. The opposition People’s United Party held two conventions; both were uncontested. In the Belize Rural North, after complaints by aspirant Jerome Wade that he was boxed out of the convention, Attorney Arthur Saldivar was endorsed as the candidate to […]
The other P.U.P. convention over the weekend was held in Red Bank. Like Saldivar, Rodwell Ferguson was endorsed as the Party’s candidate to run for Stann Creek West. Ferguson won the 2003 general elections but lost in 2008 to Minister Melvin Hulse and is now attempting a comeback. In his speech, Ferguson said he wants […]
A man walked free this morning for a murder which occurred back in 2008. In the first nolle pros for this year, thirty six year old Roger Anthony, a known figure of Ghost Town gang walked from the murder of Dillon Bennett who was gunned down in October 2008 at the corner of Central American […]
While Anthony is out of prison, Arthur Young was back in court today. Two weeks ago, Young beat charges for keeping prohibited material, drug trafficking and possession. He was charged along with Errol Haynes, who is still facing trial, after police found a silencer at a house in Vista del Mar. But Young was in […]
It’s an offence that is all too common, but often goes unreported and unpunished. Today a Belize City woman was charged with Child Neglect for allegedly leaving her three children alone inside a wooden house, with a candle burning and the door padlocked from outside. Twenty-eight year old Mary Tatum was read the single charge […]
There has recently been an increase in missing persons reported on the police blotter, but they are often followed by updates that the persons have returned home. That’s with the exception of cases like Janessa Jones, who was found murdered or Matthew Gonzalez who hasn’t been found at all. Tonight a Belize City mother is […]
There’s finally some good news for Christopher Bowman who has been suffering with a tumor for more than a decade. If all goes according to plan, Bowman will be flying out to the United States for urgent surgery. While his condition has worsened significantly, there is hope that the new round of medical interventions will […]
The threat of the delisting the Belize Barrier Reef is top on the agenda of the new Belize National Commission for UNESCO. This morning at the ITVET campus, members of the Commission were formally installed. The Commission has until the end of the month to report on the status of the barrier reef as a […]
On Thursday night we reported that the Novelo brothers are now running the Belize Diesel buses, formerly operated by Lopez Shuttle in Belize City. The brothers have formed a new company called Arrow Line which uses the buses to provide an air-conditioned ride in the West Landivar/Downtown route. But the new run comes with its […]
Belize’s Aid for Trade Strategy was launched earlier today at the Radisson. The Aid for Trade Strategy is designed to support the government in the identification of priorities for building trade capacity and initiating dialogue with donors and investors. The conference had participation of the Inter-American Development Bank, CARICOM representatives, and members of private and […]
It started with a small enrollment but over the years, Escuela Secondaria Tecnica Mexico has become one of the top high schools in the north. The school is an Independence Day gift to Belize by the government of Mexico and is one of the more tangible benefits in the relationship with the northern neighbor. The […]
The nation’s only referral hospital is getting a facelift. The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital has embarked on a program to improve its aesthetics and it is turning to the private sector for partnership. With an annual budget of around eighteen point five million dollars, of which sixty percent goes towards emoluments, there’s hardly any money […]
Where in the World is Belize? That used to be the catch phrase over two decades ago to promote the location of the Jewel. But Belize’s location is no longer a secret as thousands of cruise ship tourists take part in packaged tours every week. But for those who wish to spend more than a […]
The price of fuel keeps soaring, premium is selling for a whopping ten dollars and forty nine cents per gallon. Just about everything is going up and if you ride the City, bus you might just have to dig deeper in your pocket. Since Wednesday, a number of commuters, adults as well as school children, […]
And while Kevan Jenkins told us off camera that the Traffic Department has not received any proposal from the Novelo brothers for the new bus run, Spokesperson for Arrowline, Philip Jones, said they have proof of the proposal and did get the approval for it. Philip Jones, Spokesperson, Arrowline Services “We have Belize Intransit; we […]
When we checked today, cruise lines are still on schedule for Friday but the future of tender operations remains up in the air. Three lines called on port today: Carnival Valor, Aida Luna and Seven Seas Navigato. Their passengers were ferried to the Fort Street Tourism Village by Eurocaribe. Despite having recently formed an association […]
The anti-drilling movement in national parks is picking up steam. On Wednesday, the Coalition to Save Our National Heritage issued a release in support of Greg Ch’oc and SATIIM, which manages the Sarstoon Temash National Park. Initially Ch’oc reacted against statements made by the prime minister in which the PM indicated that drilling in the […]
In November of 2010, the Humanitarian Association, a charitable group in Benque Viejo was being forced out of the building it occupied by the Health Department. It seemed that the group would have been allowed to continue its work but on Tuesday, a letter from Benque’s Mayor explained that if the organizers did not attend […]
The National Executive of the People’s United Party met in what they refer to as an emergency session on Wednesday. But during that meeting, two P.U.P. execs said they were resigning; that’s Deputy Leader Dan Silva and Executive Member Hugh O’Brien. Both say that they cannot support conventions that are merely endorsements and that the […]
