The recent announcement of a twelve million dollar S.S.B. loan to the Guatemalan owned Santander Group is raising eyebrows. The company, headquartered in the Cayo District, is near completion of a mega-million dollar project to grow and mill sugar cane. The plan is also to produce power and sell it to the national grid. So […]
And while Briceño acknowledges the investment by the group, he questions the policy of Government…lending millions to a foreign company while refusing to lend to Belizeans. John Briceño, P.U.P. Leader “It makes me wonder what the policy of the government is. If you can recall a few years ago when B.S.I. was in a […]
So in the wake of a less than amiable convention in some quarters, will the grand old party be able to overcome the pervasive division which has characterized it even prior to 2008? Cordel Hyde says that the party has to if it is to ever become politically feasible in elections to come. Cordel […]
Honduran national, Orbin Reyes, who is an off and on resident of Orange Walk Town, claims he was used as a mule to transport over fifteen pounds of weed into Belize City and was paid a pittance. The twenty-five year old was detained on Saturday morning in a sting operation between miles eight and nine […]
A domestic dispute between a woman and her ex-common-law husband did not end well for both. The man was pepper sprayed and cut with a knife, while the woman is facing criminal charges for wounding him. Thirty-two year old Suzan Castellanos of Magazine Road, Belize City is accused of pepper spraying Martin Bahadur and injuring […]
There have been numerous incidents of violence against visitors which do not augur well for the tourism industry and serve to discourage potential visitors to Belize. As recent as this weekend, two Canadian visitors were robbed and assaulted at the Tropical Education Center on the George Price Highway. Then, there is the recent murder of […]
Kaya Cattouse, the well-known female cyclist, has been threatened with suspension and fine by the Belize Cycling Federation for comments she posted on her Facebook page. Today, Cattouse received major support in her cry against the decision of the federation to cancel the participation of female cyclists in the upcoming Digicell Valentine’s Cycling Tour scheduled […]
This past Saturday, students from the House of Shotokan Karate Academy competed and won in an International Taekwondo Championships in Chetumal, Mexico. The tournament was organized by Black Belt Taekwondo Master Manuel Torres of Eagle Park Taekwondo and saw the participation of young athletes of Taekwondo academies from Merida, Cancun, and various schools within Chetumal. […]
Education rules to come on stream in the new academic year will likely lead to the loss of jobs of about a thousand three hundred primary and high school teachers. But the Ministry of Education isn’t apologizing because teachers have had as much as sixteen years to get trained and licensed and still yet a […]
The Belize National Teachers Union supports licensing and says that over the years; teachers were constantly reminded that to keep their jobs, they have to have to obtain the appropriate level of education. Minister Faber as well as Chief Education Officer spoke this morning about the opportunities the ministry provided to teachers. Dr. Carol […]
Approximately five hundred primary and eight hundred high school teachers will be directly affected by the reform of the education system. But there are some exceptions. Teachers who are in the process of getting their education certificates or pedagogical training will be able to apply for a special permit to further allow them to remain […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sport Monday. It was a full schedule of PLB football over the weekend and we caught up with yesterday’s match-up between the Belize Defense Force and the Placencia Assassins inside the MCC Grounds. The visiting Placencia team threatens to open the scoreboard some 5 minutes in […]
Huong Chong Park, a Korean woman charged along with American Bradley Paumen, Lisburn Anderson and Jahangir Abadi last Wednesday, is the last of the bunch to be freed on bail. She was arraigned one week ago for the little known charge of Abetment of Crime to Pervert the Course of Justice, and was remanded until […]
As Bradley stated, Justice Gonzalez at one point in court clearly contemplated holding all Park’s assets in-country as bail. Just before granting bail, he was handed documents which represented a value of one point five million dollars. Perhaps Park’s willingness to take those extraordinary steps to secure freedom convinced Justice Gonzalez that she had no […]
On Thursday night, we brought you coverage of a brewing storm between elite female cyclist Kaya Cattouse and Cycling Federation of Belize President Dion Leslie. On Tuesday, Leslie wrote Cattouse threatening to fine and even suspend her if she did not cease her outspoken Facebook commentary. Cattouse has come out strongly against Digicell, the title […]
The association comprised of small tour guides and operators, Federation of Cruise Tourism Associations of Belize, has stated that it will continue to ramp up the pressure on Government, NICH and the B.T.B. Today it did just that in an emergency press conference. For these operators, every day in which big foreign companies operate without […]
Almendarez and members of FECTAB have maintained that small operators are being unfairly treated while big companies get all the perks. They cite the many safety rules and structures which deter some tourists from choosing their packages, and say that those rules are not applied across the board. David Almendarez, Executive Member, FECTAB “When […]
As he does at every conference and every opportunity, small tour operator Yhony Rosado of Cave-tubing.com called on government to act on their behalf. He claims that the livelihood of the small-timers is being snuffed out and if not addressed they will end up going out of business. Yhony Rosado, Executive Member, FECTAB “We’ve […]
Yhony Rosado’s tire shop on the Phillip Goldson Highway is back open. On January twenty-sixth Econo Tires was closed down by City Council employees over some confusion about a trade license. Rosado had paid for his, but he had not been given the printed copy, which by law must be displayed in any registered business. […]
A Belize City man is lucky to be out on bail tonight and luckier to be alive after he got drunk and slammed his red Ford Escape into a tree at Mile sixteen on the Phillip Goldson Highway. The accident happened very early this morning. When Ladyville Police responded to the scene they saw thirty-four-year-old […]
Hours after that, officers from the Rural Eastern Division’s Rapid Response Team found another cache of weed. At about nine-thirty, they conducted searches on several male persons hanging out at the Chinese shop in the community of Bermudian Landing. While nothing was found on those persons, a search in the immediate vicinity yielded a black […]
On Thursday, we interviewed attorney Oscar Selgado, representing accused murderer and sex offender Bert Vasquez. Selgado claimed on national television that his client will walk because Police have absolutely no evidence. The outspoken attorney went further to throw a direct jab at senior cop Chester Williams, in charge of the investigation which resulted in the […]
Today in court, Mark Lopez, a resident of Faber’s Road, Belize City was arraigned on a single charge of drug trafficking for ninety-four grams of cannabis. He appeared before Magistrate Deborah Rogers along with Aaron Reynolds of Biscayne Village. But Lopez may be in far more trouble because he is a suspect in the double […]
In the months of the sugar crop, thousands of laborers are employed in fields to plant and cut cane. The practice is as old as the history of the local sugar cane industry. But things are moving ahead and with new technology, cane cutters will someday, in the not too distant future, no longer be […]
To assist with the development of the strategic plan for the industry, ASR has brought in sugar consultant Modesto Ulloa. Ulloa’s role is to bring new ideas and technology to modernize the sugar industry in Belize to twenty-first century standards. In early January, B.S.I. complained that the quality of the sugar cane being delivered at […]
