Following today’s Cabinet meeting, the government issued what it calls a press advisory to say that it is suspending normal relations with Channel Five/Great Belize Productions. It cited four reasons for doing so including what it claimed was a failure to air Belmopan Weekly. For the record, that program was in fact aired by this […]
A new judge took the oath this morning in the chamber of Acting Chief Justice Samuel Awich. Judge Denis S. Hanomansingh, turned sixty-seven on Monday and has been appointed for a six month period. There was no fanfare and present during the proceedings were the Registrar, Velda Flowers and judges of the Supreme Court, Oswell […]
We have reported that businesses in the Commercial Free Zone have been unable to make deposits in US dollars. The freeze has been going on for about a week. The problem goes back to October when a global bank note services contract with Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) was discontinued for Belize and the […]
Honduran authorities still have no suspects for Thursday night’s grisly killing of fifty-five year old Milan Egrmajer. The Canadian sailor was killed on his private yacht while he and his daughter, twenty four year old Myda sheltered from a bad storm in a lagoon off the coast of Honduras. Myda has since travelled to northern […]
Since the release of the well known Anthropologist, Dr. Herbert Gayle’s detailed social research into Belize’s ever-present crime situation, there have been mixed reactions about the preliminary findings. The comprehensive report has now been released and the research highlights that the social state of the country is in decay. The four hundred page report of […]
Among the various related topics brought up during Gayle’s lecture on Monday was the racial stereotype that Blacks and Hispanics are innately violent. Gayle contends that race is not among the determining factors that contribute to crime and violence. Instead it is the fact that a specific group of Belizeans are being oppressed which has […]
Equally important among Gayle’s preliminary findings is corruption within the Belize Police Department. That, according to the research, is the result of neglect in the working environment. Over the years the needs of the department have been ignored and in the process officers have not been able to foster healthy relationships with the public. Herbert […]
Since Hurricane Richard hit Belize in late October, many of those left homeless and with damaged homes have been attempting to rebuild their lives. Many of the houses that did buckle under the category one force winds were made of material whose integrity was already compromised. In the wake of the devastation, many agree that […]
The wrangling in the citrus industry is no secret. This year there has been a demonstration, a number of press conferences and legal proceedings. In the eye of the conflict, is Doctor Henry Canton the Chief Executive Officer of the Citrus Products of Belize Limited. The problem is not a new one: The Citrus Growers […]
He was handed over to Belize after he was shot in Honduras a few weeks ago along with Alexander Edwards and Benjamin Peters. Edwards and Peters were killed and today a bail application was heard for Gabriel Salazar Villafranco, the man who police believe was linked to this year’s Spanish Lookout armed robbery and murder. […]
The family of a seventy-nine year old man is worried about his safety tonight and is asking the public’s help to locate Alfred Conorquie. He left home on Friday afternoon to pick up his pension at the bank and while that’s routine, the elderly man has not returned. Whether he was targeted for his money […]
The launch of a book named “Under the Ya’axche Tree” by David Nicholas Ruiz is currently underway at Saint John’s College. The book is a combination of entertainment in folklores and legends and education in the historical background contained in the introductions. Under the Ya’axche Tree takes mature audiences on a trip down memory lane […]
Over the years there have been many lotto winners, but we find the latest winner to be absolutely deserving. Sebastian Mucu hails from the south; he is the father of a six year old daughter in urgent need of medical attention and if that was not a challenge on its own, he also cares for […]
