In news that will surely fire off much heated debate on the social media, News Five has confirmed that from September fifth to September twelfth, members of the LGBT community abroad will be painting the island of San Pedro in rainbow colours. It’s an event, the first of its kind and dubbed the largest ever, […]
The football pitch at F.F.B. headquarters in Belmopan has been an unending source of frustration for national team players and executive members. But not anymore. If you watched the home game between Belize and the Dominican Republic you must have noticed the condition of the field. After months of disappointments and many thousands of dollars, […]
The Belize Tourism Industry Association is celebrating thirty years. And with those thirty years, the association has grown tremendously, just as much as the industry. The association president says that their influence in recent years has dwindled and members hope to re-assert themselves in an industry that is the bread and butter of thousands of […]
The Mexican Embassy today hosted a half day trade mission for Mexican businesses to meet with local businesses. The aim is to build a relationship and forge business opportunities that will be mutually beneficial to each country. Majority of the businesses were from the tourism industry, and as the Mexican Ambassador explains, the tourist industry […]
With the hurricane season upon us, the Belize Red Cross has released two new emergency apps that are tailored to meet the needs of the country. The first app basically provides first aid information in instances of health related emergencies. The second app provides expert advice on what to do in case of disasters such […]
For the first time in Belize’s storied football past, three players are under investigation by CONCACAF and UNCAF for match-fixing. The incredible allegation comes in the wake of a playoff match between B.D.F. and Verdes on April twenty-ninth, in which Verdes was victorious by a score of six to nil. Even more incredible is the […]
Even as that match-fixing investigation looms, the F.F.B. is coasting on an amazing victory over the Dominican Republic, and history being made as the Jaguars qualify for the Third Round of World Cup Qualifiers. The elation of the Federation is tempered by the realization that it has no money to finance preparations for or participation […]
Vicente insists that the almost five hundred thousand dollars used between the First and Second Rounds was finances solely by the F.F.B., with no assistance from the public or from the Government of Belize. The truth is that what lies ahead where public assistance is concerned hinges largely on the clarification of a dark cloud […]
A twenty-eight year old man is tonight clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot multiple times to the body on Tuesday night. Just before nine p.m., Jorge Caceres was gunned down while he was hanging out at a house in the village of Lord’s Bank in the Belize District. […]
If you see increased military activity in your neck of the woods, don’t be alarmed. It is a well organized military training taking place. Personnel from the US, Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean are taking part in Trade Winds 2015. The exercise is two-fold: to improve regional capacity to fight the drug war and to […]
The assessment of damages caused to the reef by a Guatemalan vessel running aground last Wednesday has been completed. On Thursday, the preliminary dive was done by members of the Department of the Environment even before the sixty-five foot gunboat was removed. After it was pulled off its inadvertent dry dock by a tugboat sent […]
Up north, a housewife has given police a report of a horrifying experience she lived at the hands of her husband. Maria Pech of Santa Clara Village, Corozal claims that on Monday, she was assaulted by her husband, Joel, in her yard. While it is not known what prompted the domestic dispute, Maria claims it […]
Further up north in the village of Ranchito, the Police Anti-Drug Unit, ADU, made a sizeable bust of highly addictive and illegal drug. In operations at a house in the village on Monday, they found seven parcels of heroin, which weighed in at over sixteen pounds of the drug. The bust, in the U.S., carries […]
On Tuesday, Quick Response Team of the Police Department in Placencia conducted several searches in Seine Bight for drugs. In an abandoned lot in that community, they found what appeared to be a part of a makeshift object adopted as a handmade firearm. The homemade gun was retrieved and taken to the Placencia Police station […]
The Gang Suppression Unit also carried out operations over the weekend. On Friday afternoon, the unit conducted a search through Taylor’s Alley area and in an empty lot they found a nine millimeter Smith and Wesson pistol. No one was in the area at the time of the discovery so the firearm was kept and […]
This morning, twin sisters, Tanisha and Tenisha Bodden of Arlington Drive, Belize City were arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court on a single charge of Harm. It is claimed that on Tuesday, the sisters attacked Aldeshia Flowers at the corner of Arlington Drive and Central American Boulevard. This morning in the courtroom of Senior […]
Today, after being released from the K.H.M.H. having spent more than a week under police watch, thirty year old Kareem Betancourt, of the Saint Martin’s De Porres area of Belize City was taken to court with his arm in a sling and his face covered. He was arraigned for one count of Aggravated Assault with […]
Earlier this month, BMI Research, a leader in financial information services, made public the results of a research into Belize’s existing economic state of affairs. That forecast was dismal, as it is expected that the country’s debt dynamics will remain unstable, with an imminent threat that Belize will strive to access capital markets or even […]
It’s been a while since we’ve heard of anything within the Ministry of Housing. Well, today they held a workshop in at the Biltmore where they met with partners with the aim of developing a social housing policy. It is expected that it will address a number of issues, including attracting funding for housing for […]
And while the establishment of the social housing policy is the latest initiative being undertaken by the Ministry of Housing in a very long time, the Ministry has long been involved in home improvement grants. We asked C.E.O. Belisle just how those are working out. Well, they are working alright, once you have the approval […]
A single father of four of the Lord Bank area, Belize District, is tonight celebrating the comfort of spanking new quarters. Aaron Garbutt and his family are moving from their crammed house into a newly constructed and more spacious house provided to them by the Hand in Hand Ministries. It took only three days for […]
Veteran radio broadcaster and sports enthusiast Gerald Garbutt passed away today after suffering a massive stroke sometime last week. Garbutt was a mainstay in the local media for over fifty years, working at Radio Belize, Krem Radio and FM2000. He was also active in basketball, football and cycling. In April 2008, the former President of […]
On Wednesday, Guatemalan gunboat GC-651, Tecum Uman, allegedly suffered mechanical difficulties and crashed into the reef just off Middle Caye in the Glover’s Reef system. By Saturday morning, it was pulled off by a Guatemalan tug and was under tow, on the way back to Puerto Barrios. There was serious concern about the presence of […]
That explanation by C.E.O. Wallace will likely do little to quell anti-Guatemalan sentiment, especially after two very hostile encounters recently with Guatemalan military. Just over two months ago, thirty-seven Belizeans were detained in Belizean waters by Guatemalan soldiers and taken against their will to Livingston. To date, there has been no official update on that […]
Maheia is also very vocal on another, more recent issue – as recent as this weekend. Five Belizeans are claiming that they were detained by Guatemalan military in Santa Cruz and then were basically terrorized and threatened before being falsely charged in a Guatemala Court. According to the men, who say they had gone over […]
