The Ninth Amendment public consultations are clearly drawn along party lines. Supporters of the government offer blind support while those that back the blue vehemently oppose. It’s a recipe for contention and on Wednesday evening in Dangriga, it got pretty heated and confrontational. The U.D.P.s Minister Melvin Hulse was ahead in the queue while the […]
The new Chief Justice arrived in the country earlier today. Guyanese National Kenneth A. Benjamin will assume post on September fifteenth. He has worked in courtrooms for over seventeen years. His experience has made him a Chief Magistrate in Antigua and Barbuda. He is also the former High Court Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme […]
James ‘Raindrops’ Swan is tonight a free man following a brief stint in prison for a weapons-related charge stemming from a search of his family home a little over four months ago. A pre-dawn raid on the property of the businessman by GSU personnel on April eighteenth netted fifteen thousand dollars in various denominations of […]
Going into the September tenth holiday, there is word that three major butane gas suppliers: TOMZA, Zeta and BWEL, are threatening to stop supplying butane to distributors beginning this Friday. Already two Belize City distributors are out of butane and others could be running short as early as this Friday since most depots only keep […]
There’s more bad news for the banana growers of the Stann Creek District, whose farms were battered for a third time by thunderstorms on Wednesday night. The first two nights of freak storms caused financial losses estimated at some twenty million dollars and that figure is going up considerably. In an update via phone, General […]
But the bad news gets worst because according to the National Met Service, more thunderstorms are expected tonight and on Friday. Winds are blowing at about forty miles per hour, which is too forceful for the fragile banana trees to withstand. Forecaster, Michael Gentle told News Five today that multiple weather systems in the region […]
The Global Competitiveness Report (GCR), published annually by the World Economic Forum, assesses how productively a country uses available resources to provide high levels of prosperity to citizens. The 2011–2012 report has been released and for the first time, Belize was included as one of the one hundred and forty-two major and emerging economies. But […]
We’ve reported periodically on US diplomatic cables dumped online by Wikileaks tonight in one cable, Wikileaks exposes the perception over the investment climate in Belize. And while the ninth amendment targeted public utilities to be enshrined in the constitution, rumblings in probably the most lucrative industry had long feared the Barrow administration’s intent on nationalization. […]
There are now five expressions of interest for a buyout of the Belize Sugar Industries Limited, which is threatened by foreclosure if it doesn’t pay a debt to ING Bank by the end of the month. Earlier this week the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association announced that it had secured financing from the Sterling Group […]
Two seasoned street figures, Leon Yorke and Shawn Edwards, were today found guilty of two counts of attempted burglary and one count of damage to property. The men tried to break into the home of Michael Belisle in February of last year. They damaged Belisle’s burglar bar door before they gave up their attempt to […]
If you were on the northern highway this morning, you would have seen traffic come to a halt. That’s because a lineup of beauties from Mexico were guests of the City. Thirty-two Miss Earth delegates from Mexico dropped by for a day of activities in the city. The bevy of beauties and their chaperones gathered […]
The mayor says that the sister relationship will bring the cities closer. Thousands of Belizeans cross the border for medical attention and others go simply to shop. Mayor Zenaida Moya also spoke of different initiatives that will have an impact on both the health and economic sectors of the two municipalities. Zenaida Moya, Belize City […]
Some medical conditions may not be life threatening but can be a source of embarrassment and discomfort to the person living with it. Urinary incontinence is not discussed publicly very often; it is a condition that is more common in women even though some men experience it as well. This week’s Healthy Living seeks to […]
