Nine families in Burrell Boom are flooded out as a portion of the main road in the village is submerged. Shelters in the Belize River Valley area remain open, as Iota is expected to dump more water on central and southern Belize. Today, aside from relief and supplies being issued by the National Emergency Management […]
Tonight, we bring you the story of a farming community that is reeling from the impacts of the flooding in rural Belize. Last Friday, we gave you a snippet of how a vegetable cooperative located behind Maskall Village is trying to pick up the pieces in wake of the flooding that followed the passage of […]
Eight months after the illegal cattle trade with Guatemala was suspended by the previous U.D.P. administration, it has resumed. But by then, millions of dollars had already been lost. The demand for cattle is high and livestock producers are now trying to return to some sense of normalcy. Since last Thursday, close to a thousand […]
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources, Petroleum and Mining, Cordel Hyde has been given the difficult task of reforming one of the most corrupt departments in government. As Minister of Natural Resources, Hyde has pledged to transform the Lands Department into a public office that is easily accessible by all types of people. […]
Oscar Requeña won the Toledo West constituency handsomely and was named the Minister of Rural Transformation, Community Development, Labor, and Local Government. He is one of four ministers from the south. Minister Requeña says that the south was forgotten for twelve years under the United Democratic Party. He laid out his plans for his constituency […]
Minister of the Blue Economy and Civil Aviation Andre Perez says that the recently enacted gill net ban will have to be revisited. Earlier this morning, a statutory Instrument signed into law the ban of gill nets from maritime waters. The area covered by the ban includes all the sea under the jurisdiction of Belize. […]
Minister of Health and Wellness Michel Chebat has met with all regional managers to discuss the way forward. During those discussions concerns and issues were also discussed, including the horrible treatment that patients receive at the hands of medicals professionals at public medical facilities. Chebat says that he has heard a lot of complaints where […]
Before the elections on November eleventh, the People’s United Party disclosed details of fifteen contracts valued over one hundred million dollars to International Environments which is owned by brothers Daniel and Carlo Arguelles. In the list of contracts was the fourteen point nine million-dollar contract for the construction of a new Foreign Affairs Building in Belmopan. […]
Every year, World Prematurity Day is observed on November seventeenth. It’s a day used to raise awareness of preterm births and the concerns associated with premature babies. And to observe the day in Belize, the K.H.M.H.’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit carried out activities to sensitize the public about the worrying increase in premature births. Reporter […]
Last Thursday, P.U.P. leader John Briceño took the oath to lead this country as Prime Minister. Today, his ministers and ministers of state headed to the Biltmore to be sworn in to begin the work of government. Seventeen ministers, the attorney general and seven ministers of state arrived at the appointed time; the event was […]
The south is fully represented in Cabinet. All four southern area representatives for the P.U.P. were elected and have ministerial positions. Doctor Louis Zabaneh is the Minister of State in Education, while Rodwell Ferguson has been assigned the Ministry of Public Utilities and Logistics, formerly known as the Ministry of Transport. Oscar Requeña is now […]
Caribbean Shores Area Representative, Kareem Musa, is now the Minister of Home Affairs and New Growth Industries. As Home Affairs Minister, the Belize Police Department falls under his responsibility and so does the Gang Suppression Unit. The G.S.U. has a negative image as a dreaded unit. The officers are known to be excessively abusive and […]
Some thirty loads of cattle from farms in Orange Walk have been transported to the western border with Guatemala for exportation. The informal cattle trade was halted under the Dean Barrow administration during the COVID-19 pandemic. Minister of Agriculture, Food Security, and Enterprise, Jose Mai gave the go-ahead to continue with the informal trade after John […]
The former Minister of Health was an electrician by trade and his name is Pablo Marin of Corozal. In Briceño’s new cabinet, the Minister of Health and Wellness is attorney Michel Chebat. Chebat says that his lawyer skills will be put to good use and when it comes to decisions of a medical nature, he […]
We also spoke to Deputy Prime Minister Cordel Hyde. He is responsible for the Ministry of Natural Resources, Petroleum and Mining. Hyde has been tasked in cleaning up the mess at the Department of Lands, labeled as a hotbed of corruption by former Prime Minister Dean Barrow. Hyde speaks of changing the culture of corruption […]
The Ministry of Works was also known as a hotbed of corruption under former U.D.P. minister Rene Montero. Like the Lands Department in Belmopan, the Ministry of Works office in San Ignacio has been closed down until the new government has had a chance to carefully peruse each and every document and piece of equipment. […]
Tonight, there is water everywhere in rural Belize District and the Crooked Tree causeway is impassable. Residents leave or enter the village with the assistance of the Belize Coast Guard as the village is experiencing one of the worst floods. And to compound the issue, it will take months for the situation to improve. The […]
The situation is also dire in Burrell Boom where a number of homes along the Belize River Valley area remain under water. As was expected, water levels have been rising quickly in Burrell Boom and in some parts of the village, there is up to three feet of water inside houses and yards are inundated. […]
A Santa Elena family is recovering from a violent incident over the weekend. Four of them were injured in a stabbing at the home of Marcelo Tzul. After an argument escalated into a violent confrontation, Tzul, his wife, son and nephew were all injured. Tzul says he did not want too many people in his […]
Two P.U.P. area representatives are fighting the COVID-19 virus. They are Toledo East’s Mike Espat and Cayo West’s Jorge ‘Milin’ Espat. On social media, Espat shared that he is stable and feeling well, while being monitored. Espat said that he started to feel feverish and later tested positive for the virus. Their colleagues, Deputy Prime […]
Belize just recorded its deadliest COVID-19 weekend! There were fifteen COVID-related deaths between Friday and Sunday. Of that number, ten of those deaths were recorded in a single day, on Friday. It’s an astounding increase in the number of deaths recorded within twenty-four hours. A closer look at those deaths over the weekend show that […]
One of the COVID deaths over the weekend involved a well-known and beloved employee of Belize Water Services Limited. Marlon Williams was on the verge of celebrating his twentieth anniversary with the utility company when he contracted the disease. His passing has saddened his fellow colleagues at BWS where there are five active cases of […]
This afternoon, Operations Manager Dave Pascascio spoke fondly about his colleague who, at the time of his passing, was up for an appraisal. His dedication and commitment as a foreman for BWS has been formally acknowledged. Dave Pascascio, Operations Manager, BWS “It so happens that next January 2021, he would have served us twenty […]
Nicaragua is for a second time in less than three weeks is bracing for another massive hurricane. Iota, a category five storm, the strongest Atlantic weather system to form in November, is expected to bring devastation to Central America when it makes landfall tonight. While relief organizations are stretched thin in the wake of Hurricane […]
Last week, we told you about sixteen-year-old Gregory Lewis who was killed in Santa Ignacio on election night. A Special Constable came across an injured Lewis on Bullet Tree Road and rushed him to the hospital but the teenager died shortly after. Police say he was able to share information about the man who attacked […]
