World Ocean’s Day is being celebrated across the globe this Wednesday under the theme, “Healthy Oceans, Healthy Planet.” Locally, OCEANA Belize is commemorating this day through a Better Bag Initiative – an activity that encourages the public to use reusable bags. Across the country, stores will be giving discounts to customers who shop with these […]
The Belize Audubon Society is also joining in the efforts to keep the environment safe and clean. The N.G.O. is also making available reusable bags to the public. The first thirty persons will get the bag free of cost and thereafter a small fee will be charged for the bags. Dareece Chuc, Environmental Education […]
Twenty-one-year-old transgender woman, Vanessa Champagne Paris, died over the weekend at the Southern Regional Hospital in Dangriga. Born Porfelio Rodriguez, he would assume the name and personality of a woman, Vanessa Champagne Paris, and go on to live a controversial life. Champagne’s death is equally shrouded in mystery and its cause is to be determined […]
For LGBT activist Caleb Orozco, only the results of a post-mortem examination will provide some reasonable clarity, but the death in itself highlights what was Vanessa Champagne Paris’ very difficult life of often violent condemnation. Orozco who himself has been the target of hate attacks, told News Five that he hopes Vanessa is afforded more […]
Vanessa Champagne Paris, a member of the transgender community, first came to Orozco’s attention in April 2014 after she was badly beaten by an angry mob in Belize City. It’s hard to imagine a life of almost daily abuse, criticism and scorn, but Orozco says that is exactly what Vanessa experienced for much of her […]
A decision was handed down in the case of forty-five year old Ervin Reneau, accused of the double murder of Edgar Ayala and David Longsworth, the son of well-known businessman, Pastor Howell Longsworth. Both were murdered on November thirtieth, 2010. The case was tried by Justice Adolph Lucas. This morning, Reneau was found guilty of […]
There was another death in the south. A sixteen year old minor is currently detained by Dangriga police for Friday night’s murder of a well known artist in the culture capital. John Jay Rodriguez was killed during a robbery attempt at a gambling den, which he visited routinely on Friday nights. The Dangriga community as […]
This weekend, Cuba was the venue for the Association of Caribbean States’ seventh Summit of Heads of State and Government. Belize was represented by Gaspar Vega in his last official undertaking as Deputy Prime Minister, accompanied by Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington. The Summit is designed to forge stronger ties between the participating countries […]
Guatemala was also represented at the seventh Summit in Cuba, by President Jimmy Morales and Foreign Minister Carlos Raul Morales. Not surprisingly, the president didn’t take kindly to the address by Vega soliciting the support of the ACS and asked permission to respond specifically to Vega’s comments. Jimmy Morales, President, Guatemala “Thank you very […]
Earlier we told you about the sentencing of Ervin Reneau for the double murder of David Longworth and Edgar Ayala. But in the lower court, a forty-year-old Salvadoran national, who has been living in Belize for over twenty-two years, was placed on remand for a single count of sexual assault of a seven year old […]
The Chief Magistrate also heard the case against two cops: Phillip Swift and John Galvez were charged for theft of a wallet with five hundred dollars and personal items belonging to Carolee Samuels. After more than four years before the court, the Chief Magistrate concluded the case freeing the cops of the charge. The trial […]
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, issued its Article Four Consultation Report last week and the economy outlook is dismal. The report speaks to a decelerating economy amid increasing external vulnerabilities which could result in more taxes and retrenchment. There is also a reduction in the growth of the Gross Domestic Product or GDP, broadening the […]
Village Council elections are presently being held across the country and both political parties are fielding slates in the respective rural communities. While the Village Council Elections are not supposed to be along party lines, they often do. In the southern village of Independence on Sunday, a few hundred residents turned out to vote. Contesting […]
While diplomats and high-level representatives from both Belize and Guatemala try to forge some sort of acceptable accord between countries, there are other initiatives to do the same on other levels. Just over a week ago at least sixty pastors from Belize and Guatemala met in the Adjacency Zone between Benque Viejo and Melchor de […]
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali – died over the weekend. Ali was at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona where he died on Friday. Considered one of the world’s greatest sporting figures, since his passing, tributes have been flowing from all over the world to honor the former world heavyweight champion. The reports are that he was […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The 2016 Interoffice Basketball Competition presented under the Belize District Basketball Association roared into action Friday night with 2 heavy weights looking to get off on the good foot in the season opener as Heritage Bank took on Belikin at Bird’s Isle. Kurt Burgess […]
The National Fire Service is today mourning the loss of one of their own, Corozal Sub-station Chief Meshack Henry. Henry, who was in his uniform, died instantly this morning when the motorcycle he was driving slammed into a truck on the boulevard in Corozal Town. The investigation is still ongoing, but preliminary indications are that […]
The finals of the National Coca-Cola Spelling Bee took place today in Burell Boom, Belize District. Twelve finalists representing all districts competed to become the top speller in the nation. It was a nerve wrecking experience which would be won only for the second time by the Toledo District and the first time for a […]
Prensa Libre T.V. has been airing an amateur video in which it claims that Belizean police and border management personnel are intimidating Guatemalans from Melchor de Mencos along the Adjacency Zone on the western border. The incident is said to have happened recently when the Belizean officials approached the Guatemalans who were in that area […]
Scheduling conflicts between the Annual Carnival Road March and the Expo Belize Market Place will soon be a thing of the past. The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the National Celebrations Commission have signed on to a mutual agreement to establish a formal calendar outlining the dates for the respective events. The calendar […]
According to Blake, the calendar also takes into consideration the date for the annual Carnival King and Queen Competition. Marcello Blake, VP Commerce, BCCI “It was a meeting between both parties and basically what we all did was, each side provided their view on what the different activities were and we tried to find […]
The Memorial Park – remixed with a very expensive upgrade, was officially opened in September, 2013 – with what we were told was a modern bandstand and stylishly designed wooden booths. Nothing happened, and those booths were never opened. In October 2014 there were signs of life as Mayor Darrell Bradley spoke about eight of […]
Bad news at the memorial Park, but it’s not all bad. The Cinderella Plaza is almost done, and so are adjacent works on Kelly Street and Baymen Avenue. It’s welcome news for the residents of the area and for the taxi-men who had to endure months of gaping potholes. Mayor Bradley told us that where […]
And there is more good news. The Belize City Council, after a noticeable lull, is back at work cementing major streets in the old capital. Following general elections there was concern raised about the lack of activity as far as city infrastructure is concerned, but Mayor Bradley says that the work continues and eight projects […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice is set to hand down a decision in a highly publicized case involving outspoken Jamaican gay rights activist Maurice Tomlinson and the State of Trinidad and Tobago. Belize is also a party to the claim brought by Tomlinson who asserts that his right to move freely within the CARICOM member […]
