St. John’s College Extension Department, after fifty-six years of service to Belize, has closed its doors permanently. It was announced in February 2011, under the presidency of Frank Garbutt, that the Jesuit institution would be phasing out its Adult Continuing Education program over a two-year period. Since the Ministry of Education began offering high school […]
While oil companies across the country continue their quest for black gold, Belize Natural Energy Ltd., the first to strike and mine oil in commercial quantity, has won the 2013 Getenergy Global Education and Training in Exploration Award. The announcement was made earlier today during the ninth industry presentation underway at the Business Design Center […]
The annual hurricane season which commenced on Saturday has seen the National Emergency Management Organization working diligently to tie up loose ends in the event of a natural disaster. Last Thursday, NEMO held a press conference during which Minister Godwin Hulse, National Emergency Coordinator Noreen Fairweather and Chief Met Officer Dennis Gonguez outlined a conventional […]
The House of Shotokan recently had a eight man fight inside the auditorium at the Belize Elementary School grounds. The karate team has just returned from Chetumal, Quintana Roo where they participated in another tournament. The grandmaster of the House of Shotokan, Shihan Ray Kelly, says that two of his athletes won gold. Shihan […]
A Cabinet subcommittee met today at the Belize Tourism Board to discuss the Norwegian Cruise Line’s tourism project for Crawl Caye which is within a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The mega project has been met with strong opposition from stakeholders within the tourism industry including the Belize Tourism Industry Association, APAMO and Healthy Reefs. The […]
A robbery at a bar in Las Flores, Belmopan turned deadly for one of two patrons. The incident happened just past midnight on Saturday. There were at least four persons on duty as well as the manager, Joshua Lopez. A resident Salvadoran national and a visiting friend, also from Salvador, were at the neighborhood bar […]
Two relatives were shot over the weekend and one of them is clinging to life and the other is in critical condition. On Saturday night at around seven-twenty p.m., twenty-four year old Arthur Baptist and his uncle forty-four year old Melvin Baptist were socializing inside Melvin’s Barbershop on Neal’s Pen Road in South side Belize […]
Just minutes after forty-three year old Isabel Antonio Ballona was being killed by armed robbers at the La Choza del Cabrito Bar, another Salvadoran national also lost his life when he was knocked down and killed a mile away. Sometime around twelve-thirty on Sunday morning, Belmopan Police found the body of thirty-two year old Mario […]
The Organization of American States will be meeting in Antigua, Guatemala beginning this Tuesday. Among the twenty-eight of thirty-four foreign ministers who will be in Antigua is Belize’s Foreign Minister, Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington. The forty-third annual assembly will be looking at the problem of drugs in the Americas and will conclude with the Declaration of […]
Imer Hernandez – he’s the man at the center of the San Antonio Road controversy in Orange Walk Town. The nephew of Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega, Hernandez drew media attention after government vouchers surfaced showing that he had been paid for the paving of the San Antonio Road even though that road had not […]
While that’s very likely the last we’ll hear about the San Antonio Road, it’s certainly not the last we’ll hear of the elusive Imer Hernandez. In fact, his name came up again today, this time in Belmopan. The Imer Hernandez Development Company Limited has been awarded a contract for the renovation of the Belmopan Market, […]
An elderly fisherman of Southside Belize City who Fisheries Authorities claim was found in possession of over two thousand pounds of lobster tails was arraigned in court this morning. Seventy-eight year old Ishmael Lewellyn Moody, a resident of the corner Heart and Tibruce Street was charged with a single count of Possession of Lobster during […]
The family of seventeen-year-old Brian Lopez Jr., a student of Ladyville Technical High School, is livid, following claims of physical and verbal abuse at the hands of a Ladyville police officer. The minor was on his way to school this morning when he was pulled over by police on mobile patrol in the area. While […]
A burglary gone wrong has left one man with a headache and time behind bars at the Belize Central Prison. Convicted burglar Nelson David White appeared in the court of Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer today after he was accused of unlawfully entering the home of Stanley Lizama located in the King’s Park area of Belize […]
A forty-year old man from the Punta Gorda area was freed of a charge of carnal knowledge after his daughter, now fourteen years old, took the stand but failed to testify against him. Although she pointed out her father as the man who had sexual intercourse with her on several occasions between February 2010 and […]
The resignation of OCEANA Belize Vice President Audrey Matura-Shepherd is still very much big news, especially after a press conference in which Matura-Shepherd claims that resignation was precipitated by attacks from the gay community in Belize. In the wake of the Caleb Orozco versus the Attorney General of Belize trial, emotions on both sides of […]
Construction of the Inspiration Center, a facility that is being built to assist children with disabilities, is quickly becoming a reality. Last Tuesday, members of the media and donors to the cause were given a tour of the center which is located at mile one and a half on the George Price Highway. On Saturday, […]
Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley and Mayor Renan Barrera Cocha of Merida, Yucatan have signed a letter of intent to establish a sister city relationship in the near future. That gesture of collaboration came during an official visit to Merida by Mayor Bradley and a delegation from Belize City from Wednesday, May twenty-ninth to Friday, […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this is sports. Since it’s mandated that Belize must present a U-17 football team in UNCAF’s 2013 female competition, Belize has been paired with Guatemala for 1st round play. In the away match we lost 8-nil so expectations were somewhat low for game 2 inside F.F.B. Stadium yesterday. In […]
A grocery store shop located in the village of Biscayne was burglarized sometime between May twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh in the absence of the owner, Raquel Borland. The police arrested an employee and his girlfriend and charged the couple for Burglary and Handling Stolen Goods after police recovered some of the stolen money amounting to three […]
