In April, a jury found him guilty of killing the family that took him in from Belize. Today, twenty-two-year-old Brian Omar Hyde learned that he will spend the rest of his life in prison, four times over, for doing so. However, the sentences will be served concurrently. In August 2015, Hyde used a machete to […]
The Ministry of Education handed out close to three hundred thousand dollars in education subsidies for four-hundred and thirty-nine students in Rural Belize and four-hundred and ninety-six students in Belize City. The three hundred dollar subsidies will go towards high-school education for the newly graduated standard six students. For the past nine-years, the Ministry of […]
Saturday, June ninth is recognized as World Accreditation Day. It is a global initiative that was established by the International Accreditation Forum and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation. We all have expectations that safety is critical in our work places, that food products are safe to eat […]
One of the accredited organizations at today’s forum is the Citrus Growers Association. Its Citrus Research and Education Institute’s plant pathology diagnostic lab is the first and only laboratory in Belize to receive ISO one-seventy accreditation for five tests. The CGA’s Henry Anderson shares how this accredited lab is critical not only to the work […]
Prime Minister on Saturday received a special award from Oceana in Belize and the Belize Coalition to Save our Natural Heritage at the Belize Biltmore Plaza. The sculpture of a wave shaped from the root of the mahogany, the national tree of Belize, commemorates a significant milestone for conservationists: Last year the Barrow administration, with […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of weekend sporting activities….]
Hummingbird Elementary of Belize City has consistently produced top scorers at the P.S.E.; but this year, students at the private primary school, over performed clinching five of the top ten spots of the exams, including the number one student, Haley Thurton who tied with Rolando Umana of La Inmaculada School in Orange Walk. At Hummingbird, […]
But while the joy of the top twenty-five and other high scorers is unconfined, the overall picture of the results remains under par. The mean score for English dipped two points, from fifty-seven to fifty-five percent; Math went up slightly, from fifty-one point nine percent to fifty-two point six percent; Social Studies slumped by six […]
Fourteen months ago, Mark Seawell was released from a decade of incarceration, six and a half years of which was under notice of extradition to the United States. Along with brothers Gary and Duane, he had been accused of running a drug-smuggling business through Mexico to the state of Ohio. But his attorneys convinced Chief […]
The Garifuna Collective is making a huge comeback at WOMEX, that’s the World’s Music Expo held in Spain. Back in 2007, Andy Palacio won the prestigious award. Well this year, the Collective presented new music and cultural rhythms and has been selected to perform at the WOMEX Showcase to be held at Grand Canary Islands, […]
Elwin Pitter, the minor who was shot by the police remains at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital recovering from injuries he sustained. Police maintain that the thirteen-year-old was shot because he pointed a firearm at them. But this is under dispute. The minor has already been charged with criminal offenses which have prompted a reaction […]
Two Guatemalans were detained inside the Chiquibul Forest some four kilometres from the western border on Wednesday. Rangers attached to Friends of Conservation and Development came upon a group of five men, later discovered to be poachers. Three of the men managed to escape, but the rangers successfully captured twenty-nine-year-old Edras Geovani Cantoral Garcia, originally […]
Supervisor for security firm Brints Security, Jody Rhamdas, was ambushed and robbed of two black nine-millimeter pistols by three masked and armed men on Wednesday afternoon, June sixth. A first arrest has been made, that of thirty-five year old Erwin Castillo, a taxi driver of Belize City. Castillo, accused of robbery with a firearm, conspiracy […]
Thirty-one-year-old Maria Estrella Jimenez Ortega, a resident of Caye Caulker, was arraigned on May thirty-first in the San Pedro Magistrate’s Court for attempted trafficking in persons in relation to a then-seventeen-year-old minor. She was denied bail despite being eight months’ pregnant, but she was successful today in the Supreme Court. According to the minor, the […]
On Thursday, we shared the City Emergency Management Organisation’s plans and preparation for the hurricane season. Also discussed was the issue of shelters across the City. According to CEMO, the shelters have been assessed and are in proper condition to be used in the event of evacuations. Here’s more from CEMO’s press briefing. Bernard […]
Covers for manholes? Mayor Bernard Wagner says yes. When he took up office in March, he also took up a contract, done under Darrel Bradley’s administration, to get the manholes covered. But even today the uncovered manholes remain a public health issue for pedestrian safety. But since taking up office Mayor Wagner says they are […]
Twenty-four-year-old cyclist Oscar Quiroz departed the country on Thursday to compete in the fifth annual Healthy Newton Omnium. It’s a competitive cycling race being held in Newton County in Georgia, U.S.A on June ninth and tenth. Quiroz, who was invited to compete by one of the sponsors of the race, says it is his first […]
Seven public officers from the Ministry of Natural Resources were terminated, according to a press release from the Ministry of Natural Resources last week. Additionally, the ministry made clear that none of them are henceforth authorized to conduct business on the ministry’s behalf. No further details or reasons were given. Of the seven fired public […]
The Southern Regional Hospital has a brand new lab. The new facility was inaugurated on Thursday in Dangriga where the funders, PROBITAS, foundation that provides medical resources, training and funding from Spain, along with UNICEF and the Ministry of Health, gathered to official open the new addition to the hospital. Andrea Polanco shares more about […]
The Small Business Development Center, a unit of BELTRAIDE, holds monthly workshops across the country to help businesses get acclimated to modern practices and initiatives. On Thursday, several businesses gathered at the offices of the Belize Training and Employment Center to learn more about strategies for internet marketing. In a modern world, some principles still […]
Meet the delegates of the 2018 Miss Universe Belize. The eleven ladies were selected from a pool of thirty-two applicants following auditions, background and social media checks. The candidates will now undergo rigorous training to prepare for the pageant at the end of August. Here’s a quick look at the ladies vying for the title: […]
A Belmopan resident has been convicted of the sensational death of sixty-four-year-old Panamanian diplomat Jose Rodrigo de la Rosa Stanford. But the verdict issued this afternoon by Supreme Court Justice Antoinette Moore stipulated that twenty-three-year-old Wilser Echevarria is guilty of manslaughter and not murder. In November of 2013, De La Rosa and Echevarria met in […]
An eighth price hike since the start of the year is coming, but only for diesel oil as confirmed by the Government of Belize this evening. As of midnight, diesel oil will cost ten dollars and ninety-seven cents, an increase of thirty-four cents, in Belize City. Prices will be slightly higher in the districts due […]
If there is one person whom most Belizeans believe could write the definitive history of Guatemala’s claim to Belize, Assad Shoman would be a safe bet. The former politician and diplomat is a long-time historian and was present, at least in the modern era, for much of the discussions and decisions that have shaped the […]
Shoman says the new book discusses as well how the claim is affecting life on the ground at the border lines in the west and south. Taking off from the recent situation in Otoxha and Dolores where Guatemalan farmers have been encroaching on Belizean territory, Shoman says Belize does not have to wait for The […]
