The Commonwealth Games 2014 opened in Glasgow, Scotland on Wednesday night to much fanfare. Belize is among seventy-one nations participating in the multi-sport event. With a delegation that spreads across several disciplines, including cycling, shooting and table tennis, the Jewel is being represented by its best athletes. Belize’s debut earlier today in the triathlon competition […]
Belizean cyclist, Gregory Lovell, and Flag Bearer, Katy Sealy, were selected from the delegation to dine with Queen Elizabeth the Second and the Duke of Edinburgh at the Commonwealth Games Athlete’s Village today. According to Vasquez, the athletes are all enthusiastic about representing Belize at the sports meet. Via Phone: Arturo ‘Tux’ Vasquez, President, […]
Summertime is extra special for children and youths who are attending interesting summer camps. Over at the Skills Training Center on Magazine Road, the City Council wrapped up two summer camps today. It was a fun time for the participants who engaged in activities such as arts and crafts, sports, and day trips to exciting […]
BCVI and the Lions have been in partnership for decades. Today, the official handing over of two projects that BCVI was able to secure through the local Belize Lions took place. The Lions Club International Foundation funded a first project and the other was by Sight First International. Duane Moody was present for the event […]
Currently, the Friends of Pediatrics N.G.O. is hosting a highly anticipated medical mission for Belizean children. Over thirty families will be directly impacted by the work of two visiting medical professionals. In tonight’s Healthy Living visited the Inspiration Center to find out more about what this long awaited mission entails. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting Belizeans […]
A domestic dispute ended in murder early this morning in the north end of San Pedro. A tour guide, Felix Alamilla who is also a caretaker of a luxury rental, was stabbed as he slept at the rental. Bleeding profusely after the stabbing, Alamilla was shuttled to at least five clinics, but he was unable […]
It has been a little over seventy-two hours since the unexplained disappearance of forty-three-year-old Kevin Carcamo, who disappeared on Sunday while returning through a densely forested area behind Freetown Sibun. Carcamo, the Chairman of Hattieville, was part of a team of forty-five linesmen employed by Discoverseis to run survey lines within the location. An intense […]
More than three million dollars has been placed into an account which will be administered by four union trustees. The funds represent dividends for shares which were offered to public officers and teachers whose increments were frozen between 1995 and 1997. According to a release sent out by G.O.B. today, in 1995 government agreed to […]
The seemingly unending litigation involving the government’s acquisition of the country’s telecommunications and electric utilities became complicated long ago. But it may all be approaching an end, one way or the other, as this morning the Caribbean Court of Justice granted special leave to hear the matter before the end of the year. The C.C.J. […]
The speculation about who will be named as Belize’s Ambassador to Guatemala in the wake of the death of former Ambassador Fred Martinez is over. It is known that Cabinet took a decision on Tuesday, but the name of the new head of mission is being kept under the lid. The Prime Minister will […]
The Puerto Azul Project has been mired in controversy since it came to light that Italian developers were preparing to invest in the development. On Tuesday, the environmental community reacted negatively to government giving its stamp of approval to the developers of Puerto Azul to proceed with an environmental impact assessment. The EIA will determine […]
When government ministers Manuel Heredia Junior and Erwin Contreras attended the Cannes Film Festival in May, where they hobnobbed with the rich and famous on the French Riviera. The occasion was the launch of the proposed Puerto Azul Project. The photographs went viral and there was outrage because it was felt that their attendance signaled […]
A late night blaze on Prince Street in Belize City Friday night completely destroyed the upper flat of a wooden home. It was allegedly started by a child playing with a lighter, and by the time it was extinguished only the walls of the lower flat were left standing. Four families were affected by the […]
Today, a former Gwen Liz teacher was slapped with additional charges of three counts of carnal knowledge for allegedly having sexual intercourse with a minor who was seven years when the abuse started. According to the complaint against Verden Blease, the abuse continued for five years until the child was twelve years. It is […]
Eight high school and five sixth form students will continue studies with scholarships from the Belize Bank. Accompanied by their proud parents, the deserving students were presented today with the scholarships awards. Chairman of the Belize Bank Lyndon Guiseppi said the generosity of the bank is expected to be matched with that of the students […]
A pair of young Belizean artists has placed highly in a regional tourism and environmental poster competition hosted by the Florida Caribbean Cruise Association. While they did not win the coveted first prizes in their respective categories, they continue to bring exposure to the Jewel as a major cruise tourism destination. Dengri Hernandez and Amber […]
Earlier, we reported on the murder of San Pedrano, Felix Alamilla. His death has brought to light a serious problem on the main tourism island of San Pedro. For years, residents have been clamoring for an adequate public medical facility which would include a morgue. According to Doctor Giovanni Solorzano, Alamilla could have been saved […]
The Commonwealth Games opened earlier today in Glasgow, Scotland. This station is airing the games daily at two o’clock in the afternoons beginning today through August third with two-hour highlights. At the momentous opening ceremonies of Glasgow 2014, the Commonwealth Federation and UNICEF partnered to raise funds for Children of the Commonwealth in a programme […]
The family of Kevin Carcamo, the Hattieville Chairman, is clinging to hope tonight. It is forty-eight hours since the linesman, who is employed by Discoverseis, has been missing. A search party has grown to about a hundred strong and widened its hunt of Freetown Sibun where Carcamo went to work on Sunday for the company […]
Nasley Sommerville, the former administrator of the Southern Regional Hospital, was a no show at a scheduled Public Services Commission hearing today in Belmopan. Sommerville was named prominently in an audit of the Southern Region which pointed to the misappropriation of over three hundred and seventy thousand dollars. It is alleged that Sommerville, over the […]
There are still more questions than answers where the Puerto Azul mega-tourism project is concerned. Government has maintained that it can’t provide much information because the concept is still in a very preliminary phase; it is fluid and is yet to get a green light. But concern over the project is not going away, and […]
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The Gang Suppression Unit conducted an operation today in the south side Belize City. The target was a property on Supal Street belonging to an elderly resident, seventy-two year old Marina Plunkett. The search occurred sometime after ten this morning, and by the end of the operation, five men and three women including the elderly […]
A Belizean electrician from Corozal has been charged with drug trafficking after a search of his car yielded a significant stash of cannabis. The Border Patrol Team was on operations at the northern border when their checkpoint was approached by a man identified as thirty year old Armando Vasquez. Vasquez was asked to pull his […]
Fifty-five-year-old Sherwin Leslie, a car washer, who was accused of stealing an eleven-dollar Armor-All, has been sentenced to six years in prison. Allegations are that on Sunday, Leslie, a resident of Flamboyant Street, entered Uno Service Station on Central American Boulevard and lifted the product which he uses to do his business. The cashier wasn’t […]
