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Since 2013 the Black Pearl Motorcycle Club has been coordinating the Belize Bike Rally, bringing together motorcycle aficionados from North, Central, and South America, hence the title “Meet in the Middle”. Though there are similar rallies throughout the Americas, Belize’s positioning, geography and multilingual environment offer a unique experience for visiting road warriors. Organizers for the […]
More than seventy Belizeans are in Barbados studying at the UWI Cave Hill Campus. They are among thousands from the rest of the Caribbean and other countries. Now, student life can be tough and adapting to a new environment can be challenging. But for many, it is a way to a means and building camaraderie […]
The new shipment of fuel is in, and the acquisition cost, or C.I.F., is down, which means that pump prices should automatically go down. But they won’t, because GOB has decided to hike up import duties on fuel – AGAIN. The notice came in the form of a release today which states that based on […]
Written on February 24, 2016 | Posted in
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Investigations continue tonight in the shooting death of a Belizean mother of three children who lived in Inglewood, California. Kisha Michaels was shot in her car by cops early on Sunday morning. In the car was also a man who was injured but died as he received treatment at a hospital. The Inglewood police claim […]
The murder in San Pedro last week, followed so shortly after by another Tuesday night – both violent – may give the impression that La Isla Bonita is becoming a dangerous place. After all, this is Mother Nature’s best kept secret, where hundreds of thousands of tourists flock annually to experience a bit of paradise. […]
The Caribbean Development Bank held its 2016 media conference today at its headquarters in Barbados. President William Warren Smith opened the conference outlining the major issues that the Caribbean region is being challenged by. These include the current state and uncertainties of Caribbean economies and he outlined how the C.D.B. can help in building resilience […]
This Thursday, Jamaicans go to the polls to decide where Prime Minister Portio Simpson known as Mama P will remains as the P.N.P. Prime Minister or whether Opposition Leader Andrew Holness of the J.L.P. will be elected to run the country where sixty-three seats are up for grabs. Last minute campaigning is underway in the […]
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A Belizean woman, identified as thirty one year old Kisha Michaels and a man were fatally shot early on Sunday morning in Inglewood, California. Michaels died instantly while the man succumbed at the hospital where he was being treated. Inglewood Police say they intercepted and stopped a vehicle with two occupants in the middle of […]
This morning in Barbados, a two-day media law workshop got underway. The seminar brought together sixty-eight representatives of media houses and civil societies from thirteen countries across the region. The seminar was organized as a part of the “Improved access to Justice in the Caribbean” known as the IMPACT Justice project. Funded by the Canadian […]
International Mother Language Day was celebrated in Belize City on Sunday, as members of the local Bangladeshi community paraded downtown. It is a recognition of the sacrifices of martyrs for establishing the rightful place of the Bangla language. Observed annually on February twenty-first, it aims to promote awareness of the linguistic and cultural diversity and […]
Elections will be held in Jamaica this Thursday where the Jamaica Labour Party led by Opposition Leader Andrew Holness is going up against Prime Minister Portia Simpson of the People’s National Party. Sixty constituencies are up for grabs in a battle that observers say may be too close to call. Today the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) […]
Reporter Duane Moody and I are among a group of regional media personnel who will be participating in a Media Law Workshop to be held in Barbados which is funded by the Canadian Government. The two-day event is entitled Improved Access to Justice in the Caribbean (IMPACT Justice). A release from the organizers says IMPACT […]
The Twenty-Seventh Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM concluded in Placencia on Wednesday. Much of the discussions during the three-day event centered around major regional concerns, including the issues of correspondent banking and the Zika virus. While those topics remained at the front of the agenda, the CARICOM Development Fund, […]
According to the economist, CDF’s directives come from sessions such as those recently held in Belize where keen attention is paid to the needs of lesser developed countries. Isani Cayetano “You’re in Belize on a working visit that goes along with the recent CARICOM Heads of Government, the intersessional meeting. Can you speak to […]
We have been reporting extensively on the loss of correspondent banks which was top on the agenda of the Twenty-Seventh Intersessional Meeting which concluded in Placencia on Wednesday. The ‘de-risking’ by the US banks is affecting negatively critical services such as remittance transfers, credit card settlements and has the potential to severely impact the tourism […]
PM Gaston Browne’s mission is to knock at all doors including the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and the United States Congress. At the CARICOM inter-sessional, the Heads of government also agreed to write to the US President Barak Obama. Gaston Browne, Prime Minister, Antigua & Barbuda “Among the strategies that we are looking […]
As of February of 2016, twenty-two countries in the Americas, including eleven which are Caribbean countries and four which are CARICOM members have confirmed cases of Zika. Barbados, Guyana, Haiti and Suriname have confirmed cases of Zika since the virus spread to this region in 2015. This is why it is no surprise that Zika […]
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The day and a half long Intersessional Meeting of CARICOM Regional Heads of Government concluded in the Placencia peninsula today. It was a short, but comprehensive meeting of the region’s leaders with a focus on coming up with a concrete structure and timeline to dealing with the most critical issues facing the Caribbean Community. Certainly […]
The loss of correspondent banking relations has been called a potentially huge crisis for Belize, and it is already affecting to a major extent smaller countries in the region. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and one option put on the table at the session was the possible pooling of resources in all member countries […]
Prime Minister Barrow and a delegation of high-level financial experts have concluded a round of meetings in the U.S. with regulatory and federal agencies. Nothing concrete came out of those meetings in terms of new correspondent banking relationships or the mending of old ones. But what has come out, according to the PM, is an […]
The Conference of Parties 21, recently convened and concluded in Paris, has been dubbed a milestone session of world leaders where a concerted effort to understand, address and mitigate climate change is concerned. The challenge for CARICOM now lies in working out the tangible nuts and bolts which lead to binding treaty mechanisms and legislation. […]
For the first time in Belize, the three-time tango world champion dancers from South America will be performing locally. On Thursday and Friday nights at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts, the Colombian Dance Group “A Puro Tango” will grace the stage with traditional and contemporary tango dances. The entire family is in for […]
The looming threat of the Zika virus and its potential impact on the Caribbean was the subject of a presentation earlier today, before an audience of CARICOM heads of government in Placencia. While microcephaly and other disorders affecting the nervous system are possibly linked to the spread of the mosquito-borne disease, Zika has been declared […]
The opening ceremony for a gathering of CARICOM heads of government in southern Belize, complete with cultural presentations showcasing the ethnic diversity of the Jewel, was held in Placencia on Monday evening. In attendance were government ministers, as well as other senior representatives from fourteen member states. While the delegates were all treated to music, […]
On Monday, as a post mortem examination was being conducted on the body of Tomari Jackson, his classmates from North Cobb High School traveled back to Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. The fourteen-year-old first year student was on a one-week mission to the Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary with the group when they went swimming in the Sibun […]
