Today was set for trial in the case of Geovannie Brackett, President of Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action (COLA); Perry “Sticks” Smith, the founder of the Days of Healing organization; as well as thirty-year-old Clayburn Pascascio, twenty-three year old Adrian Avaloy and two minors, ages seventeen and sixteen. But it did not happen due […]
Chair of the Executive Committee of Belize Telemedia Limited and company C.E.O. Anwar Barrow has begun his final week in that capacity, as he leaves office on February tenth, 2017. In a statement released today, the state-owned company says that it continues to recruit a new C.E.O. and has appointed chief financial officer Ivan Tesecum […]
The Public Service Union is to meet with representatives of its membership in the Immigration Department on Tuesday in Belize City. It comes amid reports that up to twenty clerks of the Department were planning to stage a “go-slow” today, protesting plans to promote a female employee. This is despite the officers’ belief that they […]
The Government has once again extended its offer to bondholders for a renegotiated 2038 Superbond. On Friday, it announced that the offer remains open until this coming Friday at five p.m., New York time. When it was opened in January, the original Consent Solicitation Offer included a reduction in the interest rate to four percent […]
Three weeks ago the controversial Puerto Azul project for a massive luxury resort and hotel complex in the Lighthouse Reef Atoll unravelled. Seven persons were arrested including chief developer Domenico Giannini, while nearly thirty-nine million Belize dollars in property and financial assets were seized. Belizean government officials have been scrambling to reassure the public that […]
Pistolesi contacted us to tell the previously unknown story of investors in the failed project who were “sold a dream” by Giannini and his cohorts, and offer his help in rehabilitating Belize’s international image as a result of association with this scandal. Pistolesi says that the images generated by Giannini of the Blue Hole were […]
A twenty-five-year-old woman of the Ladyville area was raped and police have arrested and charged a Jamaican national for the alleged crime. Today, twenty-year-old Andre Knight was taken before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith on single charge of rape. At the arraignment, Prosecutor, Inspector Egbert Castillo, who is aware of the mental state of the […]
Today, the Belize Audubon Society hosted twenty-one tour guides, who successfully completed a first ever advanced level bird watching training program. Bird watching is a growing attraction of the tourism industry and over four hundred thousand visitors to the Jewel in 2016 were birders. The training was funded under the project of Strengthening Bird-based Tourism […]
According to Lizama, Belize is prime and ready to cater to the birding tourism market. The pilot training will see the Belize Tourism Board partner with the Audubon to continue programs for the tour guides. There were a total of twenty-one participants of which two are women. But according to tour guide Vladimir Rodriguez, the […]
It’s the month of love and for those brides to be, an event by Confetti on Saturday turned out to have all the ingredients for the perfect wedding. It started with an expo in the morning where couples were connected to companies representing all goods and services for that special day. In the night, a […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. {Feature on weekend sporting highlights….]
The prime tourism destination San Pedro has lost an outstanding member of the community who was murdered inside his home in the island. Forty-four year old Felix Ayuso was a well-known and respected advocate for a wide range of issues from culture and the arts to carnival. He was also a businessman and the President […]
There was another murder, this time in Belize City where Mark Jones, was shot to death in his own yard. After eight o’clock on Thursday night, Jones was returning to his home on Iguana Street Extension, accompanied by his girlfriend, when he was ambushed. While Jones’ family believes it may be related to another shooting […]
The third murder victim to the ongoing gun-violence in Conch Shell Bay, Belize City is nineteen-year-old Keimar Nicholas. Around ten o’clock this morning, Nicholas succumbed to gunshot injuries he received back on January twenty-third. He was left paralyzed from the neck down when he was shot while hanging out on a basketball court in front […]
Developments have been happening fast and furious in terms of another arbitral award being contested between the Government of Belize and the former B.C.B. Holdings and the Belize Bank Limited. On Thursday, the Caribbean Court of Justice declined via order to hear an inter-party application for an anti-enforcement injunction. It was brought by Attorney General […]
Prices for all forms of gasoline – regular, premium and diesel – are up again following a slight reprieve lasting a little over a week. News Five understands that after several weeks of prices for regular and premium gasoline being the same, the price of the latter has shot up past ten dollars, with the […]
Twenty-year-old Zachary Knox, a Belizean/American, is serving the first night of a six months sentence handed down this morning by Magistrate Carlin Mendoza for shooting at Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. Knox is convicted for committing an aggravated assault upon ACP Williams as a result of a shooting which occurred on May twelfth, 2016 […]
A seventy-one-year-old resident of Santa Elena, Toledo is out on bail tonight after more than six months on remand at the Belize Central Prison accused of sexually abusing a child, on more than one occasion. The abuse started when the child was eight years old and continued until she was eleven. Pedro Pop Ico appeared […]
Bring on the loud pipes! The guttural rumble of a Harley Davidson motorcycle is often an acquired taste. For enthusiasts, the sound of a hundred bikes roaring through the streets of Belize City is all about the enjoyment that comes with the annual rally. Today, that distinct hum was heard up and down Cemetery Road […]
Fifteen years ago, the Museum of Belize was established from the remains of Her Majesty’s Prison, one of Belize’s longest standing colonial buildings. As former president of the National Institute of Culture and History (NICH), Yasser Musa, related in a note for the official program; “It was a circus of the mind to think that […]
Strange as it may sound, the Museum of Belize is not a national museum – most of its collections detail life in the Old Capital from its days as a colonial outpost to its modern depiction. With space limited at its location, the Museum regularly shifts around its exhibits. But future expansion, says Director Alexis […]
A five million dollar investment from Taiwan in the local aquaculture industry is coming to a successful end. In 2012, Taiwan invested and established a tilapia hatchery in the Cayo District which has generated a hundred and fifty tons of fresh tilapia. The project has assisted more than a hundred tilapia producers and created jobs […]
The Rotaract Club of Belize’s four branches—located in San Ignacio, Dangriga, Belmopan and Orange Walk—are collaborating in a national project assisting multiple schools with needed donations for various amenities. Automotive and agricultural vehicle parts supplier Westrac Limited today made a donation of seventeen thousand, seven hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty-three cents to the Club, […]
Thinking about getting married soon, or perhaps you’re just looking for something to do with your lover this weekend? You may want to visit the Belize Biltmore Plaza Hotel for the Wedding Expo hosted by Confetti. A variety of businesses tied to nuptials will be displayed and you may get some ideas for your special […]
This weekend sees the fifteenth annual tribute to reggae legend Bob Marley, born February sixth, 1945, in Jamaica. Joel “Dara” Robinson combines this celebration of his personal icon with his continued philanthropy established in the well-known Dara’s Feeding Program based at his Dunn Street home. Forty children enjoy nutritious lunches and in some cases get […]
