The Belize City Council has engaged residents of the Bella Vista development in a one hundred and eighty-thousand-dollar project to pave eight streets in the community in exchange for property taxes. The work is underway and there are plans to expand the project to all of Bella Vista, which is located off the Philip Goldson […]
A new locally produced sitcom that will air on this station is called “Livin’ Mi Life.” It was written and created by Kim Vasquez, who partnered with Thirteen Productions and Steve Berry, a former professor at Howard University. It is the same team that brought you the locally acclaimed ‘No Matta Wat’ and they hope […]
There are more questions than answers in the fatal shooting of a fisherman in South Stann Creek. Wilfred Malcolm was along with a friend when a single gunshot from a security guard at a shrimp farm caused his immediate death. The Malcolm family believes he was murdered when he got lost during a thunder storm […]
There is another fatal shooting that is under investigation. Last Thursday in San Ignacio, Jose Castellanos was at a restaurant when he was fatally shot by Nevis Betancourth. Tonight we speak with the owner of the restaurant, who says that an unsuspecting Castellanos retrieved a machete to defend himself from Betancourth. In the altercation, Betancourth’s […]
Police have released details of a man wanted for the murder of twenty-year-old Samuel Mendez, a resident of Salvapan, Belmopan. He is twenty-two-year-old Angel Antonio Orellano, also known as Weche, who is five feet eight inches in height with light brown complexion and brown eyes. Police also believe Orellano is armed and dangerous. Mendez was […]
A family lost almost half a million dollars of property in a fire on Monday night. Sometime around eight that night, the family had just closed their business ‘Super Tienda Molina’ in the Duck Run Three in Spanish Lookout when they saw the business engulfed in flames. The structure housed a large grocery store, a […]
Mayor of Belize City Darrell Bradley is heading back to private life at the conclusion of his second term in February of 2018. He confirmed the decision not to contest a third term in office at an interview this morning in the Old Capital. For all the rumors about infighting in the Belize City Council, […]
Love him or dislike him, there is no question that Mayor Bradley thought big. The City’s first ever municipal bond helped cement hundreds of streets and improve driving conditions in the Old Capital. Major infrastructure projects have transformed Belize City’s face and lifted its reputation both in the country and internationally. But there were many […]
Attention now turns to August twenty-seventh, when either Dion Leslie or Philip Willoughby will be chosen by United Democratic Party voters to replace Bradley. Already enjoying the open support of at least one U.D.P. area representative, Tracey Taegar-Panton, Leslie became the de facto front-runner when Mayor Darrell Bradley publicly endorsed his candidacy today, and pledged […]
Even if most think Leslie is the frontrunner on August twenty-seventh following that endorsement from Mayor Bradley and Albert Area Rep Panton, the aspirant and three-time councilor has been campaigning on air and on the ground since announcing his candidacy on July seventeenth. Today, he reiterated that he is willing to work with anyone and […]
But does that mean that the man in the Superman hat has met his kryptonite? This would not be the first time that Willoughby has not had party backing for higher office – he had to step aside for Bradley in 2012, and shortly thereafter for Tracey Taegar-Panton when she was the party’s choice to […]
It is not often that the good deeds by cops are celebrated publicly – but two officers attached to the San Ignacio Police Station are being praised by their Department and the public they serve for saving three teenagers from drowning. From all accounts, it is unlikely that the boys would have survived the strong […]
The Chiquibul forest is being pillaged by gold panners and cattle ranchers, who illegally cross into the national forests to ply the lucrative trade. Friends for Conservation and Development has been monitoring the illicit activities, but its resources are spread thin to contain the exploitation of the natural resources. This Monday, a conservation post was officially […]
In international news, the South American country of Venezuela has been a noted supporter of Belize in the area of trading for petroleum and social missions established under the presidency of the late Hugo Chavez. But Venezuela is currently going through political upheaval. There have been mass protests in the wake of an economic and […]
The fight over Venezuela also continues in the Organization of American States. Countries not aligned with the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (ALBA) have tended to vote in favour of resolutions condemning and censuring the Venezuelan government. Belize is on the side of those supporting Venezuela’s right to self-determination but has condemned gambits such as […]
Today marks the nineteenth anniversary since BERT opened its doors in 1998, offering pre-medical ambulatory care to Belizeans. It was initiated by local Rotarians along with Yvette Burks Barnes, who has managed the organization since inception. But BERT is setting up itself to expand its services countrywide and on the occasion of its anniversary, it […]
Just last year, BERT temporarily closed its doors but was able to reach an agreement with the Ministry of Health for a forty-five thousand dollar subvention for operational costs. General Manager Carillo says it is enough to keep the doors open at BERT. But the organization recently saw several of its emergency medical trained technicians […]
The fifth in a series of signs created by attorney Estevan Perera and supported by the Belize City Council was unveiled this morning at a park in Belama Phase Two, across from Perera’s law office. The “Love Sign” as it is officially called joins two “Belize” signs along the Marine Parade and at Seashore Drive […]
Police Constables Daniel Choc and Derwin Garcia are being hailed as heroes tonight. The officers rescued three teenage boys who almost drowned in the Macal River in Cristo Rey Village on Saturday. San Ignacio Police received a distress call around three on Saturday afternoon and six officers went out to help. It took the officers […]
This past Wednesday, the final public hearing of the Senate Special Select Committee on Immigration before a one-month hiatus was abruptly canceled over lack of consensus as to the necessity and propriety of interviewing three senior auditors of the Supreme Audit Institution. The potential witnesses were part of the investigative team that conducted an audit […]
There’s a new emergency airlift that will be flying across the country in the days ahead, assisting the Belize Emergency Response Team with aerial capacity. Wings of Hope has provided BERT with a single engine aircraft valued at approximately one hundred and seventy-five thousand U.S. dollars. The six passenger Piper Cherokee Six has been fitted […]
The Police Department has received six motorcycles to bolster its fight against crime, primarily in the Belize District. The generous donation came from Offshore Solutions at the request of the former Regional Commander for the Rural Eastern Division, Assistant Commissioner Edward Broaster, who was present at today’s event. Broaster says the motorbikes will get the […]
The Ariel Rosado Foundation, established in the memory of the fallen cyclist turned legal practitioner, has increased the number of scholarships it awards to students for the fifth year in succession. This year, the foundation has approved funding for a total of forty six scholarships comprised as follows: ten primary school students to learn to […]
Taiwanese Foreign Minister David Lee concluded a three-day working visit to Belize this morning, his final stop being a tour of the Samuel Haynes Institute of Excellence on Mahogany Street. As we’ve reported, Dr. Lee was in the Jewel on official business during which he signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Bilateral Cooperation that will […]
Foreign Minister Lee also shared his thoughts on the Belize/Guatemala territorial dispute, stating only that it is Taiwan’s wish that both countries eventually arrive at a peaceful solution to the age-old issue. Dr. David Lee, Taiwanese Foreign Minister “Well certainly, you know, we are also advocating peace and we hope that there will be […]
