Whether you live in San Ignacio, Belmopan, Dangriga, or Belize City, at some point you would have been forced to breathe the sickening smoke of a burning garbage dump. But help may be on the way. Nearly a decade after the project was first outlined in collaboration with the IDB, Belize will begin to comprehensively […]
Cabinet has also approved a proposal to seek funding to increase efficiency and productivity in the sugar industry. The ten million dollar project would establish a core-sampling unit, which would be paid for through deductions from cane payments by BSI to farmers. The goal of the project is to increase yields from seventeen to twenty-five […]
In June 2003, shortly after Belize was placed on a black list of countries not complying with minimum standards to prevent illegal migration and trafficking in humans, the government established a task force to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the situation and suggest ways forward. With the help of a consultant from the International Organisation […]
It has been a dream of BEL engineers for years, but as of this week Belize Electricity Limited can finally boast of a truly national electricity grid that stretches from North to South, East to West. The final leg, a sixty-nine kilovolt line connecting Big Falls in Toledo to Independence in the Stann Creek District, […]
A ride by shooting in Belize City last night has left one man hospitalized. According to the victim, twenty-four year old Glenn Swazo, around seven Tuesday night he was standing in front of his house on Gill Street when a man on a bike rode by, pulled out a gun and started pulling the trigger. […]
Meanwhile, armed bandits have hit another business in Belize City, this time making off with cash and phone cards. Around eight last night, Hung Wai Chan, proprietor of Ah Konk restaurant, located at the corner of Cemetery Road and Lakeview Street, says two men, one brandishing a 9mm pistol, walked into the building and ordered […]
Proponents of a project to manage tourism on the Belize Barrier Reef say they will hold a press conference sometime this week to explain their plans to the public…although no time or date has been set. Today, however, representatives of the Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute have clarified their organisation’s role in the initiative. […]
The “Art in Motion” project today got fresh instalment to its bench museum at the Battlefield Park. Thirty-two year old Walter Castillo, originally from Nicaragua, but who now resides in San Pedro, spent the afternoon painting a mural on one of the area’s many benches. Castillo says apart from depicting the happier side of life […]
If you’ve been to Cancun, Jamaica or any one of a dozen tourist hotspots in the Caribbean, you know it’s not a particularly new idea. But hey, why reinvent the wheel? Or in this case the concept of a pirate ship…on which passengers can load up on rum punch, hoist the Jolly Roger and even […]
