Will Belizean cane sugar remain viable on the European market in 2018? A gradual shift to cheaper beet sugar produced within the European Union will force stakeholders in the local sugar industry to become more competitive with the quality and prices of cane sugar produced for export. Earlier today, an article published by Bloomberg Market […]
According to Alpuche, the effect of European producers boxing out the competition can be devastating to local farmers if they do not diversify their crops. Jose Alpuche, Minister of Agriculture “There was also an issue of diversification of the sector itself and into other byproducts, rum, and ethanol but although ethanol is not an […]
The fiscal year 2017 commences on April first and the budget for the upcoming financial calendar has been presented by the Barrow administration. While the annual financial plan will be debated at the end of the week, Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington says that his government department will feel the pinch but won’t negatively […]
Investigations are ongoing in the case of a human skull found at a dump site over the weekend in the Orange Walk District. Police are providing only the minimal details on the discovery. The confirmation we have is that this past Saturday at about twelve twenty-five police were called to the dump site situated at […]
A minor was stabbed in Caye Caulker over the weekend. Police report that the seventeen-year-old boy Ryan Saldivar was wounded in the shoulder on Sunday sometime after seven. Investigations revealed that around six that same evening, the Belize City teen was socializing at a bar when he got into a fight with twenty-two-year-old Charles Robinson […]
A shop lifter who was caught in Public’s Supermarket on Saturday stealing a ball of Dutch cheese was charged with theft and was luckily sentenced to a three-month suspended sentence. Carlos Vasquez of the Kings Park area in Belize City was also ordered to stay out of trouble for the next year or else he […]
A nine-year-old boy who was harmed late last week was back in school today despite injuries he sustained allegedly inflicted by a Chinese businessman. The child’s mother, Darlene Morris alleges that the owner of Home Ever Supermarket beat-up her son, Arden Garbutt. In an interview outside the courtroom today, Morris claimed the young student was […]
An extraordinary general meeting of the National Trade Union Congress of Belize took place over the weekend in Belize City, at the headquarters of one of its strongest member unions, the Belize National Teachers’ Union. Its purpose was to elect two officers to complete the executive council – a president and a treasurer, vacant since […]
Neal was most recently an aide to Audrey Matura while she was vice-president at OCEANA, and he started out in the Government Information Service with stints at old United Democratic Party organs the People’s Pulse and previously the Beacon. Politics aside, is Neal the man to bridge the divide between more militant elements of the […]
For the past week or so, Belize’s youngest performers in the districts have been on the stage giving of their talents in art, music, dance, and drama as part of the Pre-School Children’s Festival of the Arts. The junior companion to the main show in May and more recently for secondary schools, it offers an […]
Much like the heyday of the adult Festival of the Arts in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, the various incarnations of children’s Festivals of the Arts have given Belizeans their first look at future stars of stage and screen. According to Leroy Green of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, the effort continues […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights from the weekend sporting activities….]
There was a meeting earlier this week between Belize and Guatemala’s Foreign Ministers. The last time they met was in June 2016 at the O.A.S. Headquarters in Washington when tensions built up considerably over the Guatemalan’s presence in the Sarstoon. But before that, relations soured following the death of thirteen-year-old Guatemalan Julio Rene Alvarado in […]
Speaking on the occasion of the visit of the Secretary General of the O.A.S., Elrington told the media that contrary to information widely reported in the media in early March, the Guatemalan Ambassador to Belize, Manuel Estuardo Roldan had not had not returned to duties in Belize after he was called back to his Ministry […]
The June 2016 meeting in Washington discussed the heavy presence of the Guatemalan Military in the Sarstoon. At the time Guatemala committed to the Sarstoon Protocol to ease tensions since the military was preventing the free flow of travel by Belizeans up the southernmost river. Despite several rounds of diplomatic meetings, the rules that will […]
Now to the visit of Secretary General Luis Almagro. Prior to his arrival in Belize, Ambassador Almagro was in neighboring Guatemala where he also met with high-level government officials in that country. While there, a meeting with foreign ministers Elrington and Morales was held to apprise the Sec Gen on the latest developments between both […]
As we’ve mentioned, Almagro arrived to Belize from Guatemala. While there, he was accompanied by Foreign Minister Carlos Raul Morales to several communities, including Monte Los Olivos and Las Flores. According to Almagro, being on the ground has given him a better appreciation of the challenges that the border communities are faced with. Luis […]
After more than two weeks in trial, the case of thirty-year-old, Brandon Taylor, charged with the May 2012 shooting murder of Kaylon Matura, came to a close. And it is the second time that Taylor has beaten a murder rap. Matura was shot on Central American Boulevard, Belize City, not far from his home. Taylor was […]
The two men accused of the gruesome murder of eighteen-year-old Keonia Ara were formally arraigned in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court this morning. Teakettle residents, twenty-two year old Jaime Patnett and twenty year old Shaylon Santos appeared before a Magistrate and have been remanded until May fifteenth, 2017. Shaylon Santos is the older brother of Shemar […]
The purpose of the visit of the Secretary General of the O.A.S. was to push for an early referendum and to take the claim for resolution at the International Court of Justice. On this side of the border it is already known that a referendum will not be held until after a re-registration exercise in […]
The O.A.S. Secretary General, while in Belize City this morning, also made a brief visit to Independence Hall where he called on Leader of the Opposition John Briceño. Briceño we are told, did not know of the meeting in Guatemala between the foreign ministers, but he was reassured that the O.A.S. will continue to remain […]
The O.A.S. Secretary General, while in Belize City this morning, made a brief visit to Independence Hall where he called on Leader of the Opposition John Briceño. The discussion was described as hearty, touching on a range of national issues, including the People’s United Party’s position on the forthcoming redistricting and re-registration exercises. John […]
Belize’s debts have climbed over three billion dollars for the first time, much of it owed externally. A full third of that is attributed to the Superbond, the package of development loans negotiated by past administrations that were bundled to avoid heavy payments. Coming just behind are monies owed to the international development banks and […]
The University of the West Indies’ Pro-Vice Chancellor for Planning, Professor Densil Williams, is in Belize in connection with activities for the installation of Dr. Luz Longsworth as Principal of the Open Campus of the U.W.I. Professor Williams is executive director of the Mona, Jamaica campus’ School of Business and Management with a concentration in […]
There was a shooting incident in Belize City on Thursday night that left a pair of young men suffering from various degrees of injuries. Sometime after eight o’clock, multiple gunshots rang out in the Lake Independence area, in the vicinity of Cumberbatch Street. During the gunfire Sherlock Vernon was shot in the stomach, while Kemar […]
