This Saturday in Orange Walk Town, the Northern Maya Association will be hosting Maya Heroes Day, a cultural event to honor outstanding promoters of the Mayan heritage. The activity which is endorsed by the National Institute of Culture and History, NICH, coincides with other events to kick off the September Celebrations. According to organizer Arturo […]
The National Celebrations Commission today announced that the Belize flag is being standardized. For years, Belizeans have complained that the national is not uniform. Relying on historical information and after consultations with experts, the Commission will standardize the design and colour schemes of the national flag. The work begun a few years ago, but it […]
So what does the new flag look like? According to Encalada, it has been a tedious task to complete, but they laboured to make the new design and colour scheme closely resembling the flag that was presented at Independence in 1981. He described a few of the differences now visible between both flags. Nigel […]
The twenty-ninth women’s softball championship is scheduled to begin on Friday at Roger’s Stadium in Belize City. Four teams, two from Belize City and two from Rural Belize will go head to head to compete and become this year’s champions. Participating are the Belize Bank Bulldogs, Arrows Reloaded Softball Team, Orchid Girls and Gigi Softball […]
The women of each participating team spoke to the media, expressing their aims for this weekend’s softball tournament. The athletes shared what they would focus on during the upcoming matches. Narissa Fraser, Digi Softball Team “My intentions along with the team is to stat focus. Focus is basically the main thing out here for […]
In its ninth year, the annual Back-to-School Trimming Drive is here once again and primary and high school students from across south side Belize City are looking forward to spending their last summer weekend preparing for the start of a new school year next Monday. Organizers Edmond Staine and Brian Dena have managed to collect […]
The annual pageant to select the Queen of the Bay takes place this Friday. This evening, eight young delegates from across the country were at the Bliss Institute in anticipation of the pageant. We caught them practising the all important curtsy which is a major component of the pageant. Outgoing Queen of the Bay, Jenny […]
Three persons are said to be in detention for the murder of Nelson Flores in Santa Elena, Cayo. Flores was at home with his family when a gunman entered his house and unleashed a barrage of bullets on Sunday night. Flores was rushed to the hospital but did not survive; his twelve-year-old daughter was also […]
The robbery of a store in Cotton Tree Village, Cayo was caught on camera and police are looking for the three perpetrators. It happened on Monday evening after five o’clock. The store owner, thirty-nine year old Xinlong Chen and his wife were inside the store when three thieves bolted in. One was armed with a […]
Traffic came to a grinding halt this afternoon on the Burrell Boom Bridge. A drunk driver collided into an oil truck which then crashed into other vehicles, including a bus filled with tourists and two military vehicles. It was a mass casualty event that looked like real life, but fortunately Tropical Alliance was testing its […]
A House Committee met in Belmopan today. A small crowd gathered to protest the write-off of a debt owed to the government by Joshua Perdomo, the son of the Cabinet Secretary, Carlos Perdomo. The loan was granted to Joshua years ago to undertake a Masters Degree in Forensic Genetics at the University of North Texas. […]
The extended period of dry weather that has been affecting central and northern Belize persists and threatens to adversely affect the agriculture industry in the Corozal and Orange Walk districts. According to climatologist, Ronald Gordon, of the National Meteorological Service, drought warnings have been issued for the past few months and notwithstanding a change in […]
While rainfall is predicted towards the end of September and early October, the peak period between June and November would have already elapsed. Ronald Gordon, Climatologist, National Met Service “Having said that, most of the models that we look at for the long term are suggesting that rainfall will become normal heading towards the […]
Dengue cases are still rising, but the increase is now being registered in the Cayo and Stann Creek Districts. The numbers have stabilized in the Orange Walk and Corozal Districts. This is according to new information release by the office of the Director of Health Services. It states on its Facebook page that, “current data […]
Having sailed through the House at its sitting on August sixteenth, the bill for the proposed National Gas Company goes before the Senate this coming Friday. The new company will be the supplier of butane gas to households across the country taking over from current Mexican suppliers. The company will be granted a fifteen year […]
At its last sitting, the House also approved an amnesty programme for land taxes. Millions of dollars will be written off in taxes owed to government. When the Bill came up in the House, Lake Independence Representative Cordel Hyde pointed out that small land owners will not be benefitting from the programme and that in […]
Police have made a significant drug bust in ongoing anti-drug operations. As a result, a Corozal man was found in possession of a significant amount of weed. On Monday afternoon, at around two thirty, police searched a Dodge van that was being driven by twenty-five year old Bryan Hamilton. Inside the vehicle police found a […]
A father of a six-year-old girl was in court today for stealing a microwave from the house of his ex. For that burglary, thirty-four year old Allison Cutkelvin, will spend three years in jail. Cutkelvin made a hole on the wall and entered the home of Denise Martin on Lacroix Boulevard and camped out there […]
A senior official from the U.K. will be in Belize later this week. He is Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Sir Simon McDonald, who arrives on Friday as part of a tour of Central American countries including Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. Sir Simon’s schedule includes a […]
Special Envoy for Women and Children Kim Simplis Barrow visited two groups of asylum seekers in Belmopan today. The meeting was organized by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, U.N.H.C.R. The purpose was for asylum seekers to speak about the limitations they are facing to integrate in their communities. Simplis heard the frustrations of […]
Retired educator Sharon McKay applied to renew her Belizean passport at the end of July and was asked to return for her travel document three weeks later. It has been one month since and there is no word as to whether her passport has been updated. According to McKay, she has purchased a plane ticket […]
A partnership between the Protected Areas Conservative Trust and the Getch Foundation is seeking to invest nine hundred and five thousand dollars in improving the resilience of Belize’s coastal and marine resources to the negative impact of climate change. The initiative will focus on four protected areas including the Port Honduras Marine Reserve, specifically Abalone […]
The Eco-Marketplace Expo is taking place at the Biltmore on Wednesday. It’s an event where suppliers of eco-friendly products showcase their goods and services. The expo is a partnership between Oceana Belize and Caribbean Culture and Lifestyle. This afternoon, we stopped in at the Biltmore for a sneak peek as various participating companies began their […]
The Caribbean Festival of Arts, CARIFESTA, concluded this weekend in Trinidad and Tobago. Since it started more than forty years ago, the festival has been a vehicle to promote the arts and culture of the Caribbean region. This year was no different as Belize joined other countries in the showcase of Caribbean dance, music visual […]
A Santa Elena man was ambushed and executed on Sunday night inside his house. He is Nelson Flores, who is no stranger to the law and has two drug convictions. Flores was in his living room with his family when a gunman entered his house through the back door. The gunman shot Flores multiple times […]
