Taiwan today made a less controversial donation than rice. The Governor General, Colville Young, has received a monetary donation for his Music in the Schools Programme to purchase a small consignment of musical instruments. The G.G. also got souvenir pins for the annual state reception to mark Independence Day. Taiwan’s ambassador, Charles Liu, presented the […]
The Organization of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Sector of the Central American Isthmus (OSPESCA) is hosting a four-day workshop in Belize to train regional fisheries technicians to do an assessment of lobster stocks in Central America and the Caribbean. The data gathered from the survey will be used to help make better fisheries management decisions […]
Four days are left until the mass re-registration exercise concludes on Friday, August thirty first. Latest figures show that as of August twenty-fifth, one hundred and nine thousand, five hundred and eighty-nine applications have been received by the Elections and Boundaries Department which is a little over fifty percent of the projected total. Between August […]
On Saturday night, torrential rains caused a portion of the Southern Highway to be impassable. Pictures show the bridge in Jacintoville, eight miles outside Punta Gorda Town, flooded with about five feet of water. Personnel from the Ministry of Works, Department of Transport and NEMO were on the scene monitoring and managing the situation. It […]
The official ceremony for the launch of the September Celebrations was held on Sunday in San Ignacio at the Falcon Field. The launch, which kicks off the celebrations for the two-hundredth and twentieth anniversary of the Battle of St. George’s Caye and the thirty-seventh year of Belize’s Independence, was celebrated under this year’s theme ‘Belize […]
Since the launch of the celebrations was hosted in San Ignacio, Mayor Earl Trapp also spoke at the ceremony. Mayor Trapp shared why Belizeans should celebrate the season and defend the eight thousand eight hundred and sixty seven square miles of Belize. Earl Trapp, Mayor, San Ignacio & Santa Elena “As we look back […]
The People’s United Party will not have to deal with Attorney Arthur Saldivar anytime soon and that’s because the second lawsuit he filed against the party was thrown out in its entirety this afternoon. After a four-hour hearing session, Supreme Court Justice Courtenay Abel dismissed Saldivar’s application for an emergency injunction, he was seeking, to […]
The Belmopan convention proceeds this Sunday as planned with Weizman Patt, Michelle Rodriguez and Oscar Mira. So is this the end of the Arthur Saldivar/P.U.P. saga? There is a default judgment pending with respect to his first claim in which Saldivar sued the party for two hundred and ninety thousand dollars in special damages. In […]
The top brass of the Belize Coast Guard headed today to Bacalar Chico, a national park. The occasion was the groundbreaking ceremony for a forwarding operating base at the strategic site, which is the nearest point between Belize and Mexico near the bay of Chetumal. The area has mushroomed into a hotspot for drug trafficking […]
Local bus companies running excursions to Chetumal, Cancun and other destinations within the state of Quintana Roo are required to purchase vehicle insurance in order for them to traverse carriageways in neighboring Mexico. The new condition came into effect earlier this month after a yearlong delay by Mexican authorities. While the municipal government of Chetumal […]
According to Castro, if Belizean auto dealers are required to purchase insurance when traversing from Texas to Mexico, then it is only fair that bus owners and drivers purchase insurance to move around in Chetumal. On the Phone: Edmond ‘Clear the Land’ Castro, Minister of Transport “We must respect the law of the land […]
On Saturday night at the Biltmore Plaza in Belize City, eleven delegates will vie for the title of Miss Universe Belize in hopes to represent the Jewel at the Miss Universe Pageant later this year in Thailand. The pageant will air live on this station starting at six-thirty p.m. Dangriga’s Rebecca Rath last represented the […]
Port Loyola area representative Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez gave a fiery response to the media when he was pressed about the third piece of missing equipment which belongs to the City Council. Earlier in the month, an audit of the Works Department at the council revealed that three heavy duty equipment, a Caterpillar Bulldozer, an eighteen-foot […]
The media also asked Minister Martinez about Dean Samuels, the former Belize City Councilor, who is contesting the U.D.P. Convention in the Port Loyola Constituency. Samuels publicly announced his candidacy after Martinez got on national television to publicly endorsed Michael Peyrefitte. Samuels told the media then that his was and will always be Martinez’s first […]
The Solid Waste Management Two Project, valued at ten point two million dollars funded by the Inter-American Development Bank, is being rolled out across the country since 2016. The project will see the closure of six dumpsites and the construction of six transfer stations. A component of the project, however, focuses on citizenry involvement for […]
The results for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate, better known as CXC, have not been officially released to the media and the public as yet. But some schools in southern Belize and elsewhere have received their grades in the exams taken earlier this year. So how did Belize fair off in the exams, given a […]
At a meeting of the national executive of the People’s United Party on Wednesday, Rene Skeen, a well-known resident of Ladyville, was also rejected from running in Belize Rural Central. According to Skeen, former P.U.P. area rep, Dolores Balderamos-Garcia will be endorsed as standard bearer for that division. He says that he has been on […]
Belize Telemedia launched a campaign to reinvent itself under one brand which is designed to attract and appeal to new customers. The services and products offered by the telecom will be bundled under the ‘Digi’ brand. The roll out of the rebranded services starts on Monday with the renaming of the B.T.L. Park to the […]
With the upgrade of its infrastructure and network, B.T.L. is also looking at becoming a cable service provider. Cable Television is a system that will allow for television programmes to be transmitted to the sets of subscribers by cable rather than by a broadcast signal. That industry is not available in Belize; but the company […]
NICH President, Sapna Budhrani, has come under fire for her performance, or lack of it, at the job she took over in April. Earlier today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Patrick Faber held a press conference to discuss the future of the Municipal Fair on September Tenth. We’ll share that with you later […]
But has the musical ambassador lost his place in challenging the appointment of Budhrani by the DPM, who is a senior member of the United Democratic Party, which he wants to represent in Mesopotamia? Faber points out that Shyne too was appointed as musical ambassador, but that he doesn’t work in his ministry. Patrick […]
The Regional Anti-Doping Organization has suspended Belize’s National Anti-Doping Organization. This happened on August fourteenth, following another absence by Belize’s rep Doctor Michael Pitts at a meeting of the Advisory Board in Cuba. According to the official letter that was copied to Minister of Sports Patrick Faber, this is the third consecutive time that Doctor […]
Minister of Education Patrick Faber confirmed today that a number of teachers will not be returning to the classrooms at Gwen Lizarraga High School. That high school, which falls within his constituency, has been consistently plagued by internal problems and the enrolment numbers have plunged; so much so that only three hundred and thirty students […]
Gwen Lizarraga High School remains in disarray, despite a new school year kicking off on Monday. That disorganized state is due in part to a protracted issue involving Principal Lorna McKay who has been benched while the Teaching Services Commission adjudicates a matter brought against her. Doctor McKay refutes allegations of financial misappropriation during her […]
Taiwan’s rice donation on Wednesday has some local rice producers up in arms. This is according to the P.U.P.’s Orange Walk South Area Representative, Jose Abelardo Mai. Mai says he was shocked when he learnt on the news of Taiwan’s ten thousand bags of rice donation to the Ministry of Human Development which falls under […]
