Seven bills were brought back for second reading from the last session held on May twelfth. An eighth, the Trade Licensing Bill, was deferred to the next session. A new motion for a loan of just over a million Belize dollars to finance support for the Placencia Peninsula Wastewater Management Project was tabled and approved […]
Tonight, some villages remain under water in southern Belize. Since five o’clock on Sunday morning, NEMO Toledo was activated because several villages were flooding and portions of the highway were impassable. Due to heavy rainfall over the course of Friday and Saturday, the overflowing Temash and Moho Rivers inundated several low-lying communities. Villages like Santa […]
The illegal marijuana trade continues to flourish, as the prohibited substance remains the recreational drug of choice for a number of Belizeans. Local demand for weed has led to a significant increase in wholesale supply, a fact that is evidenced in a sizeable bust on Sunday evening. At approximately six-thirty p.m., a joint operation involving […]
The lucrative business, though very much unlawful, has seemingly expanded to include church ministers turned drug traffickers as well. On Friday evening, forty-five-year-old Mark Humes, a pastor of Burrell Boom Village, was busted at a checkpoint near the corners of Victoria Street and New Road. He was driving his taxi when he was pulled over […]
Around eleven a.m. on Sunday, residents gathered at the Central Park in San Pedro for the Justice for Felix March, which took the gathering through the streets of the town. The initiative was organized by friends and family of Felix Ayuso Junior, a human rights activist who worked along with the National Aids Commission on […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of weekend sporting activities….]
