According to Anderson, the five-acre piece of land is in a strategic position, preventing the development of the area for tourism. He says the land transaction will not include seabed or coral reefs. Alex Anderson, Executive Director, Turneffe Atoll Trust “As you know a lot of studies show that for areas so pristine as Turneffe […]
Three years ago, on January sixteenth, 2016, American producer for ABC Anne Swaney was violently murdered in western Belize. Swaney was vacationing at the Nabitunich Resort and was last seen heading towards a river deck to practice yoga. Twenty-four hours later, her body was fished out of the Mopan River near San Jose Succotz Village. […]
At midnight on December twenty-first, the U.S. Government initiated a partial shut-down and it has stretched on to be the longest shut down in that country’s history. Because President Donald Trump rejected a congressional budget compromise that triggered the shutdown, suggesting that it could “ last a very long time” unless he get the funds […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow is in Cuba on his state visit to the island where he recently underwent surgery. He met Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and both paid tribute on Tuesday to José Martí, a national hero of Cuba. During their meeting, President Díaz-Canel and PM Barrow discussed issues of regional integration and areas […]
On Monday, the Supreme Court opened the legal year with the usual ceremonial fanfare in downtown Belize City. In his remarks, Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin spoke of the budget afforded to the judiciary. According to CJ Benjamin for the fiscal year 2018/2019, a little over ten million dollars was allocated to the judiciary. This represents […]
Thirty-two-year-old Blanca Benitez Yanes has been sent to prison for six months. Yanes appeared before Magistrate Tricia Pitts Anderson this morning on a charge of failure to produce a visitor’s permit. It is for an offence which happened on Monday of this week when an immigration officer asked to see her permit and she was […]
One week ago we aired the story of baby Nelson Tabora reportedly suffering from a condition called hydrocephalus. It is a condition where the head grows abnormally because the cerebrospinal fluid isn’t draining from the brain. Since his mother spoke of his condition and their story has been widely shared across Facebook, there has been […]
An Adolescent Health Strategic Plan is being finalized. The plan marks a crucial step of an expanded and holistic focus by the government on the issues affecting adolescents in the country. The plan will focus on three areas: education, health, and human development. Officials from three line ministries conducted a three-day session which culminated today […]
A citrus pioneer has passed. On Tuesday, the Sharp family announced that seventy-seven-year-old Gerry Sharp has died. Sharp, who is the husband of Marie Sharp, spent decades working in the citrus industry in southern Belize. According an online statement by the Sharp Family, after Gerry retired from the Citrus Company of Belize, he started to […]
A one-day training workshop took place on Monday in Belize City where officials from government agencies and N.G.O.s worked together on open street mapping. Open street maps are completely user-generated and run by the community. In this case, the Belize Red Cross has begun the process of gather data to update the maps in Belize […]
One man is dead and two others are missing, but what happened on Mapp Caye days ago is still being pieced together. Up until Monday night, all we knew was that one man was murdered and two had disappeared without a trace. Family members of one of the missing men, identified as forty-eight-year-old diver Evan […]
And what of Evan Neal? Well, forty-eight-year old Neal is the owner of Mapp Caye and veteran seaman. His family describes him as a diver and hard-working man, whom they say didn’t dabble in the drug business. They say he was to return home on Friday evening after he dropped off groceries for the two […]
And so the search is ongoing for Evan Neal and Anthony Reneau. This evening we spoke with Operations Officer of the Belize Coast Guard Lieutenant Roque Canul who says that today’s search didn’t turn up a shred of evidence that would point to the men’s whereabouts. Canul says they have been talking to fishermen and […]
A trio of men was escorted to court this morning for the brazen heist that evolved into a hostage situation in Belize City on Sunday night. The three: Wayne Welch, Steven Bernard and Richard O’Neil are facing a slew of charges. They are accused of robbing Rong Bin Liang and his wife, the proprietors of […]
The I.C.J. Declaration was signed on January ninth by five former Ministers of Foreign Affairs, including sitting Prime Minister Dean Barrow. Barrow was joined by former P.U.P. Prime Minister Said Musa, Lisa Shoman, who served also served as P.U.P. Senator, Godfrey Smith, and Assad Shoman. A day ahead of the signing, the People’s United Party […]
While Briceño says there is no rift in the party, in the wake of the signing of a seven-point declaration, several P.U.P. politicians have spoken out giving various reasons for and against taking the Guatemalan claim to the International Court of Justice. Today, former opposition leader and attorney general Francis Fonseca gave his perspective. Fonseca […]
Last Wednesday, former Prime Minister Said Musa agreed that a protocol should be in place between Belize and Guatemala where it concerns access to the Sarstoon River. He also said that the agreement should have been put in place ahead of the I.C.J. referendum in April. Today, former P.U.P. leader Francis Fonseca was asked the […]
Thirty-five-year-old Anthony Crawford, no stranger to the law, remains hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. tonight, following an attempt on his life while on his way home on Monday night. Sometime around eight o’clock, Crawford was riding a bicycle along Antelope Street Extension when he was ambushed and fired upon by an unknown individual. Crawford was shot […]
A press conference was held late this evening by the family of missing woman, Anisha Young and search team lead, Jose Espat. After providing a detailed run down of what has transpired since Young was reported missing on December ninth, Espat spoke about the efforts to locate the twenty-three-year-old woman, who they presume was murdered […]
It’s been over five weeks since Anisha disappeared and the family has not been able to find closure; they have, however, come to accept that Anisha was murdered. Today, Sheree Salgado and Sandra Hyde pleaded for anyone with information to come forward. Hyde believes that Charles Fortune, who was Anisha’s boyfriend and the main suspect […]
Tonight there is good news to report. Three-year-old Vera Timofeev and her mother Raquel Margarita Cocom have been reunited after a hellish ordeal. The mother and daughter returned to Belize today and were accompanied by Elisa Castellanos of Tukkun Olam Belize. Cocom and Castellanos arrived in Fairfield Columbia, South Carolina on Saturday. On the following […]
Earlier today when we caught up with the P.U.P. leader, we asked him a number of questions with respect to the I.C.J. In October 2018, John Briceño embarked on a countrywide listening tour to get feedback from party supporters on the upcoming referendum on April tenth. Last Tuesday, he sent out a release saying that […]
The media also asked Briceño for a reaction to the comments made by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilfred Elrington, on Monday. When asked about his thoughts on Diasporans voting in the upcoming referendum, Minister Elrington said that the referendum is for Belizeans who “live in Belize and who work in Belize and who will suffer […]
In 2010, the People’s United Party began discussing what is referred to as the Courtenay Doctrine, after former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Eamon Courtenay. Courtenay was the only former foreign minister who did not sign the I.C.J. Declaration. Courtenay believes in an alternative to going to a referendum on April tenth. He believes there is […]
Today marks the one hundredth birthday of the Right Honorable George Cadle Price. Price who is known as the Father of the Nation passed on September nineteenth, 2011, a few days after he suffered a fall. He left a remarkable legacy and today the party he founded in 1950, the People’s United Party, paid tribute […]
