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The Belize Tourism Board is boasting ‘groundbreaking’ figures as it relates to tourism arrivals. B.T.B.’s latest stats show that for the first six months of 2018, overnight tourism arrivals and cruise ship arrivals registered a seventeen point one cumulative increase. For the month of June, B.T.B. registered more than forty-three thousand overnight arrivals. This is […]
A two-day marketing intelligence training workshop for local business owners began today at the ITVET Compound in Belize City. It is being held through a partnership between the Caribbean Export Development Agency and the Belize Trade and Investment Development Service and seeks to engage businesses that are exporting or interested in exporting to international markets. […]
The two days will feature presentations from the Belize Bureau of Standards, the Belize Intellectual Property Office as well as BELTRAIDE and CEDA. Marketing Intelligence and Caribbean Export Advisor, Zamani Moodie says this is the third training session being done to assist not only Belize, but the region in its export capacity. Zamani Moodie, […]
A four-week childcare training is ongoing at the Belize Training and Employment Centre at the ITVET compound in Belize City. Some eleven participants, all from the childcare sector—primarily pop-up babysitters— are taking a course on a very important issue. That is to take care of young children and become certified childcare providers. Trainees are receiving […]
Written on July 12, 2018 | Posted in
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A national entrepreneurship workshop was held at the BTEC office in Belize City. The workshop brought together key stakeholders to the discussion table on integration of synergies and transferring of information and opportunities to strengthen the support for women entrepreneurs. The concept which will be launched in Belize later will work along with twenty women […]
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Grayson Cadle remains in a critical condition tonight in the hospital. He is the twenty-one-year-old who was burnt to seventy percent of his body when a butane leak inside his neighbour’s apartment sent off an explosion on Monday evening after four. Cadle has since been placed in an induced coma. According to his mother, Marianne […]
But the road to recovery may be long for Grayson Cadle. And that is why his best chances may be at an overseas medical facility for burn victims. According to Marianne Cadle, they are working with Yvette Burks of the Burn Victims Mercy Fund to get him to the U.S. But while costs and logistics […]
Former four-term city councilor Phillip Willoughby took up the post of Operations Officer with the National Emergency Management Organization in April, following a stunning defeat of the United Democratic Party’s slate in the March seventh municipals. Willoughby landed the job with NEMO just a few weeks after the election loss and was touted as having […]
The Belize Territorial Volunteers is not happy with Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington for comments he made in an interview last Thursday, July fifth, while speaking at a ceremony where the United Nation Development Programme and the US Government announced technical and financial support towards the I.C.J. campaign. When asked about the I.C.J. campaign, Elrington said […]
Taiwan’s Foreign Minister, Joseph Wu, is expected in Belize on an overnight visit next week. According to a report in the official press in Taiwan, Wu will be heading here on the sixteenth and seventeenth of July following a visit to El Salvador. Support for Taiwan has been dwindling in this region and in recent […]
Former NBA athlete, Milt Palacio is in Belize to train the national men’s basketball team which has just been formed to compete against teams from the region in the Central American Championship, a qualifier for the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup. Palacio touched down on Sunday from Canada and has been putting the team together […]
In the month of June, the Ministry of Public Service observed ‘public service month’ and honored those who have been working for a long time in the public service. The ministry is now rewarding over three hundred and fifty police officers and civilian staff working in Belize City with the Belize Police Department. Similar programmes […]
Written on July 11, 2018 | Posted in
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Summer camps are getting in full swing all over the city. At the Gateway Youth Center today, at least twenty youths converged to participate in a sport which they hope to master. The volleyball camp is expected to run for two weeks and the young athletes, both male and female, have their eyes on big […]
World Population Day is observed internationally on July eleventh and seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues. It was established by the then-Governing Council of the United Nations Development Program in 1989. The theme for this year is, “Family Planning is a Human Right” and signifies the fiftieth anniversary of […]
Two women and a man were sent to the hospital on Monday evening after an explosion at an apartment building in Belize City. A faulty butane cylinder in one of three apartments on the lower flat of the building at the corner of Mopan and Mahogany Streets caused a leak and when a stove was […]
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There are questions on whether the explosion could have been avoided? Well, according to the fire officials, having a butane cylinder inside a house is a hazard and even more so when the tank is corroding or faulty. Monday’s explosion in a residential area could have been disastrous. Today, Station Officer Orin Smith warns about […]
Written on July 10, 2018 | Posted in
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The location of the fire at the corner of Mopan and Mahogany Streets sits directly across from Brown’s Gas Depot. Had the fire not been contained, it could have proven dangerous. Station Officer Orin Smith explains the dangers of gas depots within residential communities. He says that Brown’s has been there for a very long […]
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The Belize Solid Waste Management Authority, a statutory body, has recovered all of its assets that were crow-footed during a writ of execution carried out on behalf of Vision Architects on June twenty-ninth. At the time, all of the office’s equipment, including furniture, appliances and vehicles, were seized for auction. The crow-footing succeeded a twenty-one-day […]
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According to the Solicitor General, an appeal has since been filed, challenging the outcome of a lawsuit in which the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Vision Architects. Despite the expiration of the twenty-one-day period, Hawke says there is the likelihood of permission to be granted for an appeal out of time. Nigel Hawke, […]
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The price for regular fuel decreased at midnight, but some motorists are not too happy with the reduction of thirteen cents. Regular gas still sells above the ten dollars mark, with the new price being ten dollars and eighty-nine cents. The government maintains it won’t reduce fuel tax, arguing that to do so would result […]
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Today, fire officials say they are yet to ascertain the cause of the fire that wiped out the house of Leo Martinez in San Pedro. On Monday, Martinez told us that he suspected that someone set his house on fire on Sunday night just after eight thirty in the San Pedrito area. The investigators say […]
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The Ministry of Health is currently spending two million dollars to assist persons with renal failure. The assistance comes in the form of dialysis treatment which is costly and unaffordable for most patients. The money is currently covering thirty patients, but the ministry is in discussion with a third party who is willing to provide […]
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After months of delay, the Cycling Federation of Belize is holding elections at the University of the West Indies Open Campus in Belize City this Saturday. Two teams are in the running for the leadership seats in the federation. The current executive includes Orson Butler, who has his bid for the presidency and former politician […]
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A team from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, as well as representatives from Haiti and Tuvalu, began a round of consultations this morning with local officials from various government agencies, including the D.P.P.’s office. The working visit is to assess Belize’s standing in areas relating to legislation, corruption and law enforcement. The […]
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While there are areas in which Belize’s laws are consistent with the expectations of the UNCAC treaty, Solicitor General Nigel Hawke says that there is also work that needs to be done to bring local legislation up to par with international requirements. He cites the international transfer of prisoners as one such area. Nigel […]
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