While with the Deputy Prime Minister today, he was asked about a report that his ministry will be spending two point one-three million dollars on school fees for selected persons identified by U.D.P. campaigners. Faber refuted the claim, stating that the coffers are dry, but confirmed that there is money that hasn’t been spent in […]
Scotiabank is closing two of its branches. In a release issued today, the Bank says that it will be closing the Spanish Lookout Branch effective April twentieth and the Placencia Branch will be shutting down effective June twenty-second of this year. The rather vague release, without giving specific details on the closures, says, “Like any […]
Police in San Pedro have now charged a resident in connection with an alleged case of rape. Thirty-seven year old John Cus, an electrician of San Pedro Town, was detained almost immediately after the report was made. Last week a twenty-five-year-old female American tourist visited the San Pedro Police Station and reported that at around four-thirty […]
In the coming weeks an initiative sponsored by a British organization in conjunction with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime will establish a portal through which instances of sexually explicit imagery of children found, seen or shared online can be reported. There was a sensitization workshop organized on Friday by the Belize Police […]
The pressure is building on Belizeans in the creative industries – broadcasting, both radio and television, and music and the arts – to begin recognizing copyright and intellectual property and pay the requisite fees to satisfy rights holders. Among the first of the major international companies to come calling on Belize is Home Box Office, […]
If you’re wondering when the Civic Center will be open for business, the Minister of Sports says it may be as soon as April. The construction of the state-of-the-art facility began back in December 2015 and was concluded by Belize Infrastructure Limited last December to the tune of thirty-three million dollars. Today, Patrick Faber says […]
The Integrity Commission was named a year ago in response to overwhelming public pressure as it relates to holding politicians accountable for their personal spending and assets. Little has been heard from it since the furore over the term under which persons in public life were to submit returns. Chair Marilyn Williams has moved on […]
As we reported Contractor General Godwin Arzu is out of his post. He has failed to produce the annual reports from his office as part of his obligations to continue in the office he has held for several years. So for now, there is no one to vet government contracts being issued. While Ombudsman Lionel […]
The Police Department has been explaining its recent move for police officers to take photographs of persons stopped and searched as part of its activities on the ground in various areas. The question has been raised as to whether this is profiling or singling out certain individuals based on their particular descriptions and activities. Legal […]
The Belize Cycling Federation has been waiting for the National Sports Council to sign off on its new constitution before elections for its executive can be called. But Tariq Cano, a young cyclist, is seeking to replace the leadership of current president and vice-president Dion Leslie and Orson Butler, respectively, over allegations of neglect of […]
On Thursday afternoon the body of an elderly woman was discovered under the popular Mike’s Club on Regent Street West. Police have since indicated that the death is natural. Sixty-one year old Yolanda Bowman Nembhard was described as a mental patient. The find was made around three-fifteen Thursday afternoon and police investigations so far have […]
A novel project that will provide sustenance as well as income to participating families kicked off today at the YMCA compound. It is named the Port Loyola Urban Gardens Greenhouse and involves families of the Jane Usher Boulevard Neighborhood. They have learnt to plant fruits and vegetables, inside a greenhouse, which they will consume as […]
Since its last mission to Belize in 2017, a team of doctors has returned to perform various procedures on four children afflicted with heart disease. Those operations, facilitated through the Rotary Gift of Life Program, were all successful and the patients are recuperating in ward at the K.H.M.H. Among them are two infants, Leiny and […]
One-year-old Leiny Montalvo is diagnosed with PDA, an abnormal blood flow occurring between two of the major arteries connected to her heart. Along with her parents, she has traveled all the way from Chunox to Belize City for this special procedure. The family has been struggling financially to seek medical attention outside of the country. […]
Traditionally, the ringing in of a new year takes place at midnight between December thirty-first and January first, with merrymakers joining voices for the refrain of Auld Lang Syne. The Chinese New Year, however, varies each year and lasts for over two weeks. The 2018 Chinese New Year begins today, based on the lunar calendar. […]
Parents and teachers of a primary school in Camalote, Cayo, are tonight breathing a sigh of relief. That’s because a fence is now in place providing security and safety to the students. The fencing will also assist teachers to better monitor students and most importantly, it will keep away perpetrators who may want to prey […]
Nominations for all municipal candidates will be made next week Wednesday across the country. In Belize City, the political parties and independent candidates will be going over to the Elections and Boundaries Department at the Charles Bartlett Hyde Building on Mahogany Street between ten and four in the afternoon. It’s the procedure before elections that […]
BELTRAIDE, in partnership with Compete Caribbean, held a “national cluster workshop” in Belize City today. The idea of clustering in business is to bring partners together within or even across industries to collaborate and build capacity with the aim to increase productivity and stimulate economic growth. With financial support from Compete Caribbean, a multi donor […]
The third annual Sprite Eastern Police Division Basketball Cup kicked off today with three games on the outdoor basketball court at the new Civic Center. The tournament started back in 2016 as an intervention activity for high risk and gang members on the south side of Belize City. This year fourteen teams from both south […]
In mid-January, a Guatemalan reporter with Prensa Libre, Rigoberto Escobar, entered into Belize from the western border and claimed he was confronted by the police within the adjacency zone also considered no man’s land. Escobar would go on to complain to the Guatemalan press about the incident going as far as to say that he […]
While there is a new Guatemalan ambassador, another is departing the Belize Foreign Ministry. Today, Elrington confirmed that Ambassador Stuart Leslie is no longer a part of the Referendum Unit of the Ministry and has opted to move on to do political work with the Leader of the Opposition. The unit has focused on the […]
Now it is no secret that crime is a major issue in Belize. Elsewhere in the Central American region, border countries such as Guatemalan and Honduras have seen a decrease in its murder rate. Belize, on the other hand, in last year saw one hundred and forty-murders; and the murder count continues to climb in […]
At a recent special session of the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C., convened to report on the Peace Fund, as many as thirteen nations expressed support for a resolution to the territorial claim. The foreign ministers of Belize and Guatemala, Wilfred Elrington and Sandra Jovel Polanco, brought the council […]
According to Elrington, the United Nations Development Programme, U.N.D.P., is also on board, providing funding to assist in the referendum process which is to take place after the a re-registration exercise. Elrington says all hands are on deck, including the L.G.B.T.I. community, specifically Caleb Orozco who has provided an advocacy proposal. Elrington says the campaign […]
The resolution of the territorial dispute has been the number one foreign policy issue for successive governments of Belize. The people, however, are yet to decide at a referendum on whether or not the claim will go before the International Court of Justice for resolution. Foreign Minister Elrington told the media today that it doesn’t […]
