Former President of the National Institute of Culture and History, Yasser Musa, a teacher and artist in his own right, took jabs today at the Government of Belize, calling a proposed Heritage Bill a fraud. The Heritage Preservation Legislation Bill seeks to get millions of dollars in funding from the Taiwanese Government to preserve colonial […]
According to Musa, it is difficult for Belizean artists and musicians to appreciate their worth and talent locally when there is more focus on tourism rather than culture. Yasser Musa, Former President, NICH “You ask any farmer what it is they are doing with this land, the land and the sea; yes we understand […]
The National Assembly is developing a security plan to address new threats to the sanctity of the parliament’s meeting place. A series of incidents inside and outside the parliament’s meeting place in recent years has brought a stain of disrepute to the previously revered building. Speaker Laura Longsworth told us on Tuesday that the new […]
A Belize City Security Guard, David Reneau, employed at the Radisson Fort George Hotel, is the latest victim of a robbery allegedly perpetuated by another security guard. This afternoon, twenty-six-year-old Philip McLaren appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith and was read two charges, one count of attempted robbery upon Radisson Fort George Hotel and one […]
Another alleged robber appeared in court this morning, only that the theft was significantly higher. Burrell Boom resident Santiago Padillo was arraigned for the theft of three thousand and thirty-three meters from the Belize Electricity Limited, valued at one hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars. Allegations are that the theft occurred between February and April of […]
Beyond the Horizon keeps on giving – today they handed over a brand new health clinic in Double Head Cabbage to the Ministry of Health. Measuring 2100 square foot, the building is the largest completed during the Beyond the Horizon exercise. The eleven room structure is able to accommodate up to forty people in its […]
In the coming weeks, Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams will be leaving his Commander duties on the south side of Belize City to take up a new position in the Capital. During the course of his tenure, he would invite the media out to on his weekly meet and greet on the south side. […]
He came on to the music scene back in 2005 with his hit song, “Livin’ ina Di Devil” and over the past twelve years, Belizean artist Positive Vibes has been creating other hit tracks on four different albums, including collaborations with other Punta Rock artists, Consego and Taprick. But today, after nine months and countless […]
Save lives and give blood. Across the globe today, blood banks encouraged one and all to become voluntary blood donors to save patients battling for their life. Now, while the National Blood Bank is adequately supplied, it is anemic in certain blood types so the message resonating today is to give now and give often. […]
The Corozal Police Department remains under pressure tonight. Four officers were assigned by Corozal Police in an operation to evict forty-four year old Richard Garcia last Friday in Chunox Village. The task was accomplished with prejudice – Garcia was shot dead after, the officers alleged, he menaced them with a machete. The Professional Standards Branch […]
One suspect is being questioned following the brazen robbery of the Toledo Teachers Credit Union late last week. The robbers concocted an elaborate plan to break into the building, pry open the vault containing over a hundred thousand dollars in cash, and then flee with the money undetected. But even as the robbers carried out […]
Omar Barahona Junior was shot seven times and killed as he attended a going away party in his honor on Saturday night. The twenty-one-year-old from Cotton Tree was socializing with a cousin and twenty-year-old Devon Brooks when a man fired several shots at the trio; seven of those caught Barahona Junior, one hit Brooks in […]
There is more tonight to the ongoing battles within the Football Federation of Belize. On Monday, you heard Sergio Chuc who has been disqualified from seeking elections as president, call on delegates to stay away from the June twenty-fourth elections. The F.F.B. Electoral Appeals Committee barred Chuc from running following allegations of bribery, corruption, conflict […]
With Chuc out of the way, Ruperto Vicente and Marlon Kuylen will go head-to-head in a few weeks at the annual congress. In the 2016 elections, after twenty-two rounds of voting, there was no clear winner between Chuc and Vicente, and Marlon Kuylen, was appointed to hold over as president. But will the election follow […]
In the immediate aftermath of Sergio Chuc’s disqualification to contest the presidency, the vehicle of Michael Blease, the secretary general of the federation, was set on fire. Both Chuc and Vicente came out against the criminal act, saying whoever is responsible should be dealt with by the law. Sergio Chuc, Football Stakeholder “That was […]
A Belizean attorney is moving up to a senior post at the Inter-American Development Bank. Senior Counsel Lisa Shoman has been appointed to a six-year term as a sitting judge for the Inter-American Development Bank. She joins six other adjudicators on the organization’s administrative tribunal which is tasked with dealing with employment matters. The IDB […]
So, with a cushy number waiting for Shoman at Thirteen Hundred New York Avenue, will her law office here in Belize City be shuttered? That’s what we asked her earlier today. Isani Cayetano “What does that mean for your private practice? Do you now have to give up the office here?” Lisa Shoman, […]
A majority of members of the National Assembly Staff Committee voted on Friday during a meeting to reprimand, rather than suspend or remove, House of Representatives Sergeant-At-Arms Brian “Yellow Man” Audinett for his attacks on media personnel inside the National Assembly during the public hearing of the Senate Special Select Committee on May seventeenth. Audinett […]
There will be another public hearing of the Senate Special Select Committee tomorrow, Wednesday, and members of the Belizeans against Courtenay movement led by Alberto August are expected to be there. Former Immigration Minister Carlos Perdomo will continue his testimony from last week, while Immigration Officer Ady Pacheco and ASP Rochelle Chan also in the […]
Last week Friday, Supreme Court Judge, Hon, Justice Herbert Lord heard a bail application for convicted prisoner, Orlando Vera, the Belize Police Department Ballistic Examiner. On June first, 2017 Vera was convicted for the offense of abetment to pervert the course of justice when he was recorded by a Belmopan businessman, Michael Modiri. In the […]
Two men, one from San Pedro and the other from Corozal, will have to stand trial at the Supreme Court for thirteen counts of possession of false documents in respect of nationality certificates. Forty-two-year-old Marcos Basto and thirty-one-year-old Mark Antonio Rosales were charged back in November 2015; and today a preliminary inquiry determined they are to […]
The Western Regional Hospital got a major upgrade today. The works done on an Accident and Emergency unit will enhance the capability of the hospital to accommodate more patients. Added to the expansion, the hospital was gifted with a brand new incinerator – all of this comes courtesy of the U.S. Army South through its […]
Valentino Blanco is the embattled C.E.O. at the Free Zone. Over the past few weeks his appointment raised eyebrows with many questioning his qualifications and wondering if there was any political influence, since he is the brother-in-law of Minister of State Doctor Angel Campos. Things came to a head and Blanco was suspended after management […]
Almost a year ago, Belize Sugar Industries Limited lost over two thousand, six hundred tons of molasses due to a first-of-its-kind Maillard Reaction inside its tanks at Tower Hill. The initial loss had been closer to four thousand tons but about a third was eventually recovered. The company attempted to have the Belize Sugar Cane […]
A Women in Fisheries Forum was held today at the Biltmore Plaza. When looking at the fishing activity in Belize, particularly extraction, men dominate the sector. But the industry includes processing, transportation, sale and management. In Belize we have forty-seven licensed commercial fishers and there are a large number of women involved in the processing […]
