The Public Service Union came out swinging on Monday when it lambasted the Belmopan City Council for secretly selling off a parcel of land within the Ring Road that it has been occupying as its headquarters since 1998. Sale of the property to Chinese businessman Xin Ni has raised the ire of many, particularly since […]
On Thursday, it was revealed that the physical location in Corozal which businessman Xin Ni used to register Simplex Design Company Limited is actually the home address of P.S.U. branch executive, Amelio Cal. Cal told News Five that the property in Santa Rita Layout is owned by his mother and is occupied by his family. […]
Former Prime Minister Said Musa has weighed in on the matter. Musa released a statement today in which he recalls that when he was Prime Minister in 2000, officers of the Public Service Union including the then President Margaret Ventura appealed to him to regularize and grant security tenure of the Hilltop recreational facilities to […]
According to Musa, he was shocked to learn that the present Belmopan City Council has sold the property to an Asian businessman of Corozal. Musa was also shocked when he read a lengthy post by U.D.P. Minister John Saldivar, in which the Belmopan area rep accuses Musa of gifting the property to the P.S.U. Saldivar […]
Orange Walk ITVET called off its sit-out this morning sometime around ten-thirty after teachers got some good news from the Ministry of Education. The sit-out started on Tuesday of this week because the teachers are not happy with a number of issues that have gone unaddressed for a long time. One of the major concerns […]
An accident involving a Belize Defense Force soldier stationed at the forward operating base near the mouth of the Sarstoon River is raising serious questions about the conditions of the facility. The F.O.B. was officially launched in April 2016 and is staffed on a twenty-four-hour basis by military and coast guard personnel. The unfortunate incident […]
The infamous John McAfee is back in the news tonight. He has been found legally “liable” for the death of his neighbor, Gregory Faull. A Florida court on Thursday handed down a default judgment against McAfee as part of a five-year legal battle by Faull’s family against McAfee. Faull was found dead with gunshot wound […]
The F.B.I. is offering ten thousand U.S. dollars as a reward to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of the person or persons who killed thirty-six-year-old U.S. national Drew Thomas De Voursney. De Voursney was found dead along with his Canadian girlfriend fifty-two-year-old Francesca Matus on April twenty-fifth of 2017. Their bodies […]
Coalition for Sustainable Fisheries fired off a release today expressing concerns over the functionality of the Gillnet Task Force, which was formed in February to reduce the harmful impacts of gillnets. The year is coming to an end and according to the Coalition; the task force has only held one meeting since members were appointed. […]
The Belize Coalition for Sustainable Fisheries is demanding that the Ministry of Fisheries release the composition of the members of the Gillnet Task Force as well as the list of fishers who have been given permission to use gillnets. According to the Belize Federation of Fishers, Nigel Martinez, the Coalition has made moves to file […]
The Fisheries Department and its partners have been revising the Fisheries Bill, which they hope to see approve in the near future. The changes aim to make the existing act comprehensive and are expected to give it new teeth through additional regulations and a number of updates. This revised bill, once approved and enacted, will […]
Since Monday of this week, more than twenty Wildlife Conservation Society representatives, including programme officers and country directors from around the world, have been meeting in Belize. The organization, which has an office here in Belize City, hosts a global marine meeting every few years to bring together personnel to re-strategize for future conservation work. […]
The opportunities to conduct research in Belize have been growing and if you ask about marine research, you’ll find out that those opportunities are endless. From mangroves to fin-fish, turtle and coral research, Belize has been recognized as an ideal location for these kinds of scientific work. In southern Belize, about forty-five kilometers off the […]
Teenage girls are having babies at an early age; some as young as thirteen years have given birth. On the occasion of World Prematurity Day, there is focus on the risks of babies born before their full term who sometimes face a lifetime of health challenges. The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Karl Heusner […]
The Belize Cancer Society officially launched a cancer app today at its offices in Belize City. Working in conjunction with Smart, the application is available for download, in the first instance, from the Google playstore for all android devices. For Apple products that carry iOS platforms, it is still being worked out. But the app, […]
The Belize Agricultural and Health Authority and the Ministry of Health in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization convened yet another round of discussions with stakeholders in the agricultural and health industries. The antibiotic awareness forum looks at monitoring the use and misuse of medicine in humans and animals, which inhibits the growth of […]
According to Drug Inspector Samira Gongora, antibiotic resistance can occur in humans and animals. The long term effect of its misuse can potentially lead to the eradication of the population because it weakens the body’s immune system. Among the presenters today was the registrar for veterinary products, Doctor Joe Myers. Myers gives approval to vets […]
Activities are ongoing to celebrate the arrival of the Garifuna to Belizean shores. Here in Belize City, Lerisi Garifunaduau will be the venue for a mega concert on November eighteen featuring cultural artists from Belize and Honduras. This will be followed by the reenactment of the arrival leading to a procession to the Saint Martin’s […]
The sensational story involving the questionable sale of choice land between the Belmopan City Council and Chinese businessman Xin Ni continues to unravel. Tonight, the plot thickened because the Vice President of the Corozal Branch of the Public Service Union has come forward to say that the mailing address used in the dubious transaction is […]
On Tuesday, Mayor Khalid Belisle hosted a press conference during which he refuted claims made by the Public Service Union. When asked who from Simplex Design brokered the deal with CitCo, Mayor Belisle remained circumspect. He told reporters that he was purposely refraining from any name calling. So, the fact that a bogus address belonging […]
Police believe they have cracked the latest murder in San Pedro. Late this evening, a fourteen-year-old minor was charged for the execution of Cyril Jones, a thirty-seven-year-old BWS employee who was targeted at his home on Tuesday night. The minor is among several persons held since Tuesday after the deadly incident in the San Pedrito […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Warren Lewis became a free man on Wednesday night after he was found not guilty of murder. Lewis stood trial for the 2009 killing of twenty-two-year-old Albert Allen. After a three-hour deliberation, a jury of four men and eight women told Supreme Court Justice, Marilyn Williams, that they found Lewis not guilty of the […]
The Forward Operating Base at the mouth of the Sarstoon River is placed at a strategic location at Belize’s southernmost border with Guatemala. The post is manned around the clock by military and coast guard personnel who launch from the F.O.B. to conduct patrols upriver. On Wednesday morning, shortly before nine o’clock, a Belize Defense […]
The lifeless body of fifty-seven-year-old Francisco Sis, a farmer of San Marcus Village, was observed in the middle of the Southern Highway on Monday night. He had been fatally struck by a pickup truck driven by forty-seven-year-old Gregorio Choc. According to the self-employed resident of San Felipe Village, he was driving the Ford Ranger in […]
Well-known Belize City cabbie, Arthur Requeña, will be laid to rest on Friday. The taxi driver was knocked down and killed on Monday morning while attempting to cross the Philip Goldson Highway near mile two. He was fatally struck by a vehicle registered to the Belize Agricultural Health Authority, which was driven at the time […]
