In June, the Government of Belize appropriated the International Business Companies Registry and the International Merchant Marine Registry of Belize, I.B.C. and IMMARBE, respectively, both operating under Belize International Services Limited. The reason given by G.O.B. was that an extension allowing BISL to operate until 2020 was invalid. The move sparked off threats of another […]
Both the National Trade Union Congress of Belize and the Chamber of Commerce have recently expressed support for a motion to restructure the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives. The motion, crafted by chairman of the PAC Julius Espat, proposes the removal of a government majority and the inclusion of representation from the […]
On Sunday, seventy-four year old Onofre Sabido, better known as “El Primer Tacero or Senor Waco”, was brutally attacked inside his home in San Jose Palmar in the outskirts of Orange Walk Town; two men were charged for the offense. Twenty-seven-year-old Najirie Quiroja and eighteen-year-old Edwin Cruz pleaded not guilty to Aggravated Assault and Robbery […]
Fifty-one year old Brenda Mejia, a school warden of Belize City, has been charged with drug trafficking after being busted at her home on Pelican Street Extension. On Tuesday evening, police executed a search warrant for illegal firearms and ammunition at her residence. While guns and bullets were not found, the raid yielded a bag […]
Thirty-six year old Shirley Lambey-Arnold, the wife of Michael ‘Crazy’ Arnold, who is currently serving time for rape, has been charged with wounding. The arraignment follows an incident during which she allegedly threw a stone at an ex-boyfriend, accidentally hitting another woman. It is reported that at about nine-thirty on Tuesday night, Lambey-Arnold was engaged […]
There was a meeting scheduled for this afternoon between P.U.P. prodigal son Cordel Hyde and the leadership of the party. Both Hyde and those leaders have made no secret of the fact that there have been discussions geared at bringing the former Lake Independence Area Representative back into the fold. The meeting was postponed because […]
But while Cordel Hyde is tentatively on the way in, the door has been slammed shut in the face of Belmopan P.U.P. political figure Amin Hegar. Hegar narrowly lost to incumbent John Saldivar in 2012, and was considered to be the P.U.P.’s choice for the next elections. But a month ago, newcomer Patrick Andrews announced […]
The national under-fifteen football team has made Belize proud with their performance at the 2013 CONCACAF U-fifteen Championship being held in the Grand Cayman Islands. Last Friday, the team had its first match with St. Lucia where it defeated that team one-nil and then went on to beat Jamaica. On Tuesday night, the young athletes […]
The Belize Female Junior National Volleyball Team is stirring up a storm in Honduras, where it is representing Belize in the U-18 Central American Championship. Held in San Rosa de Copan, Honduras, the team has faced the host country, as well as El Salvador and smashed the competition. But, there are still several other games […]
A tribute to late reggae legend Lucky Dube by philanthropist Dara Robinson, as part of an annual fundraising effort to collect funds and canned goods for his feeding program, was postponed at the end of last month due to eleventh hour changes. A subsequent date was set for August twenty-fifth at the MCC Tennis Court. […]
Be the Next Superstar… the finals for season two of the hottest entertainment show was staged at the Bliss on Tuesday night. Four performers pulled out the best pieces to wow the judges for the final leg of the competition. The judges had their say and now it is all left up to you the […]
This morning, a group of about one hundred persons held a twin protest in the nation’s capital – against the government and against the University of Belize. The group included members of Belize Can as well as pastors and supporters of various evangelical churches. They want the gender policy and all its interpretations and implications […]
Earlier in the newscast, we told you about the protest in Belmopan. At eleven this morning, the group prepared to march from the National Assembly Building on the Ring Road and to the University of Belize. The protest at that venue was against a gender department which Menzies claims has been formed at the institution. […]
OCEANA Belize has been one of the most fervent and active environmental groups. It has challenged offshore drilling concessions and made waves when it tried to push for a referendum on the question of drilling. Thursday will be the last day for Audrey Matura Shepherd as OCEANA’s Vice President for Belize. Matura Shepherd told the […]
Four years ago, Matura Shepherd was planning to go into private practice as an attorney. But that’s when the call to champion OCEANA’s cause sent her on a different path. Though she intends to resume her plans, she will still appear at the OCEANA cases that she is involved with. Matura Shepherd indicated she will […]
San Ignacio Police are looking for one man in connection with a shooting incident on Monday night. Just before nine pm Police were called to the emergency ward of the La Loma Luz Hospital in Santa Elena where they saw thirty-two year old Matthew Ifield suffering from a gunshot wound to the right thigh. Initial […]
Living in a developed country has appeal because of the availability of most amenities known to man. However, there is also a price that comes with a developed nation’s quality of life, and that includes healthcare. Belize has joined countries who are now becoming an attraction because of the lower cost of healthcare. Isani Cayetano […]
And in a reversal of that story, a Belizean woman is in urgent need of medical assistance outside of Belie. Rosita Williams is in need of urgent medical assistance aboard for an operation to assist her with her speech. According to information received, she had complications and some five years ago went to the Karl […]
A housekeeper and her common-law husband are in trouble with the Police after the woman allegedly suffered a severe case of sticky-fingers syndrome. Reports are that thirty-one year old Sylvia Augustine attempted to walk out of her boss’ home on Monday with items concealed in her purse. The owner of the home noticed and escorted […]
A Belize City electrician is out on bail after being charged for the theft of a car battery from inside a vehicle belonging to Errol Garbutt. The grey Chevy Tracker was reportedly parked overnight in front of a home on North Creek last Wednesday. At about four-ten a.m., early the following morning, Garbutt was informed […]
Orange Walk businessman, fifty year old David Carrillo, was sentenced to one year behind bars for the aggravated assault with his vehicle of a cop. The Trial Farm resident today pleaded guilty to running into Police Constable Yann Chin with his vehicle whilst at checkpoint. And tonight, Carrillo is serving his first night of the […]
Former Mayor of Benque Viejo Del Carmen, Moises Martinez is up in arms about the deplorable condition of the Edison Coleman Park. Built on the twenty-eighth of March 1993, it was a main tourist attraction of the most-western town in the jewel. The park provides the residents and tourists alike with a recreational area on […]
Ninety seven million volunteers worldwide belong to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. The Red Cross was founded to protect human life and health, and to prevent and ease human suffering. Different incarnations of the movement has been in existence for over close to a hundred years, but the Belize Red Cross […]
There will soon be a hatchery center for tilapia farming located in Central Farm in the Cayo district. That center will come courtesy of the Republic of China/Taiwan which today presented a check for six hundred and fifty one thousand seven hundred and twenty five US dollars to the Government of Belize. This sizable donation […]
Earlier in the news we told you about the departure of Oceana Belize Vice President Audrey Matura Shepherd. A team from Oceana’s headquarters will come to Belize to conduct interviews with the shortlisted candidates. But whoever is selected to fill the vacancy will also have access to a new website. Oceana’s summer intern, Idalia Machuca […]
