International Women’s Month may have concluded on March thirty-first, but on the heels of our Kolcha Tuesday episode that featured Belizean women in business, we bring you the following story of thirty-one-year-old Monique Lamb. She is the first woman to captain the Aggressor III, a dive yacht that is popular with visitors from around the […]
Acclaimed gospel singer, Sinach, famous for her hit songs, Way Maker, I Know Who I Am, and There’s An Overflow is in Belize. The Nigerian-born singer arrived in Belize this afternoon for a free concert in Belize City. On Wednesday night, Sinach and her gospel band will light up Digi Park on Newtown Barracks and […]
The premiums on motor vehicle insurance have registered an increase. The Organization of Insurance Companies, ORINCO, convened several meetings earlier in the year to evaluate the performance of the insurance industry in Belize. Their studies found that the industry is operating at a loss of approximately four million dollars. As a result, ORINCO found it […]
Andrew Roe further explained what the most basic motor vehicle insurance package covers and why it is not sustainable to have that customer paying a one hundred dollar premium on the service provided. According to Roe, while companies have been increasing their motor vehicle insurance premiums since the onset of COVID19, those increases were only […]
We end tonight’s newscast with a story on the latest made-in-Belize snack to hit the local market. Snackers corn chips is being produced by Bowen and Bowen inside their Ladyville facility. It comes in a number of flavors, from natural cheese, to zesty ranch, lightly salted and spicy habañero. As of today, Snackers Corn Chips […]
Taiwanese President Doctor Tsai Ing-Wen had a full itinerary today during her second state visit to Belize. That schedule ends later tonight, following a dinner with Prime Minister John Briceño at the Museum of Belize. We’ll bring you a live report from that event later in our newscast, but first we look at what was […]
Following the signing ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Taiwanese president and Prime Minister Briceño met in closed session before proceeding to the National Assembly where a joint special sitting of the House or Representatives and the Senate was held. President Tsai Ing-Wen also addressed parliament and spoke of the abiding relationship between […]
On adjournment, we caught up with Opposition Leader Shyne Barrow and got his take on the ceremonial sitting, as well as the significance of President Tsai Ing-Wen’s presentation. Here’s that interview. Shyne Barrow, Leader of the Opposition “I was very moved by her speech. We have so much in common insofar as existential […]
Three persons lost their lives over the weekend in two separate shooting incidents and a road traffic accident. We begin with the murder of sixteen-year-old Belize City student, Wellington Williams on Central American Boulevard. At around six-thirty on Saturday night, Williams was walking towards the Port of Belize compound to deliver food for his aunt’s […]
Hattieville resident Denver Montero was chopped and shot to death in Gracie Rock Village on Sunday evening. Another man, Ryan Kerr was also injured, but was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he is reportedly admitted in a stable condition. Montero and Kerr were among a group of persons socializing in the village […]
A six-year-old student of Unity Presbyterian School in the Antelope Street Extension area of Belize City lost his life on Saturday morning when he was knocked down and killed just a stone’s throw away from his house. Initial reports were that Armando Godoy was heading to a shop across the street from where he lived […]
Two other persons lost their lives in separate road traffic accidents out west. On Friday night, Horace Popper was knocked down and killed by a taxi driver around mile fifty-one on the George Price Highway in Ontario Village. Guillermo Garcia has since been served with a notice of intended prosecution. Today, ASP Fitzroy Yearwood shared […]
He was a football athlete with Georgeville FC, but on Saturday night, Adrian Usher also lost his life in a traffic accident on the George Price Highway in the area of Central Farm. Usher was riding his motorcycle when he collided head-on with a pickup truck, driven by William Swan. The incident occurred around seven-thirty […]
For the first time since 1984, the United Democratic Party has a standard bearer in the Queen’s Square Division who does not bear the last name “Barrow”. On Sunday, attorney Godwin Haylock emerged victorious over Shane Williams in an election convention to succeed incumbent Area Representative, Denise “Sista B” Barrow. The day’s proceedings went without […]
Earlier today, Party Leader Shyne Barrow congratulated the new U.D.P. standard bearer for Queen Square, following a resounding victory on Sunday during a constituency convention. Godwin Haylock and Shane Williams contested the candidacy for that electoral division under the United Democratic Party. When the polls closed later that evening, Haylock, a close relative of incumbent […]
The National Party Council of the U.D.P. met on Saturday to discuss a number of issues related to the political organization moving forward. During the meeting, a vote was also taken to determine whether Shyne Barrow should be challenged as party leader ahead of the 2025 general elections. There was a near-unanimous decision, a majority […]
Last week, word broke that Ian Jones was going to step aside as the U.D.P. Standard Bearer for Collet, citing that it would be the best thing for the party, and for unity, heading into an election season. This, coupled with the U.D.P. Leader, Shyne Barrow’s comments, indicating that there’s a mending of fences between […]
Despite Faber’s wishes, the U.D.P’s National Party Council still went ahead and voted overwhelmingly to support Barrow’s proposal to keep the status quo within their party. The proposal, as it stood, was to keep Moses “Shyne” Barrow as its leader, First Deputy Leader, Hugo Patt, Second Deputy Leader, Senator Beverly Williams, Chairman, Senator Michael Peyrefitte […]
Following President Tsai’s stop at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the office of the Prime Minister, and the House of Representatives, she was hosted in Belmopan to a luncheon by Governor-General, Froyla T’zalam. From there, she traveled to Central Farm, Cayo, where she toured the sheep and goat centre, a breeding project that the Republic […]
Goodnight and welcome to another edition of Sports Monday, I am Paul Lopez. Like fireworks on September twenty-first, the George Price Highway lit up on Saturday morning for the thirty-second Annual Puma Women’s Cross Country Cycling Classic. The seventy-three mile race from Columbus Park in San Ignacio Town to the Digi Park in Belize […]
