Norwegian Cruise Line’s mega-million dollar destination in southern Belize is one step closer to a done deal with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between G.O.B. and N.C.L. The signing took place on Thursday, but up until now, government had been tight-lipped on details of negotiations over the past month. But the two parties […]
The Norwegian Cruise Line’s memorandum of understanding has been signed. Industry stakeholders, including the well established hotel sector, have not been consulted regarding the long term effects on the environment. On Thursday, the Belize Tourism Board’s Director of Tourism, Laura Esquivel Frampton and the C.E.O. for the Ministry of Tourism, Tracy Taegar Panton, dismissed the […]
Krohn was not the only one who threw a few punches at the architects of the M.O.U. and the press release. President of B.T.I.A., Herbert Haylock, spoke of a political need to inject cash into the economy. Rather than thinking of the long term future of tourism for Belize, Haylock postulated that that the government […]
Two weeks ago, Forestry Minister Lisel Alamilla revealed on national television that G.O.B. sold containers of rosewood to exporters for fifteen thousand dollars. That’s a giveaway, especially since a container of rosewood has a market value of over two hundred thousand dollars. According to Alamilla, she got tired of the back and forth with exporters […]
And while P.M. Barrow says he didn’t know about the rosewood cheap sale, the PM admits to knowing about the Fresh Pond lots giveaway by his deputy and Minister of Natural Resources, Gaspar Vega. The situation got public attention after C.E.O. in the Ministry of Housing Lawrence Sylvester was escorted out of the Natural Resources […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow has gone out of his way to express his fullest confidence in Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega. Vega’s name keeps coming up whenever there is controversy, scandal or whiffs of corruption in government. Today Barrow defended Vega again, even though the man who benefitted the most from the almost-giveaway of the […]
There is more information tonight in respect of a huge drug bust in San Salvador two weeks ago, but has just come to light. Anti drug agents used drug-sniffing dogs on a vehicle that was found to be carrying more than eight hundred pounds of cocaine, which as it turns out was heading to Belize. […]
On Wednesday, the People’s United Party submitted a motion for inclusion on the order papers for a House Sitting scheduled for next Wednesday. The motion is for a restructuring of the composition of the Public Accounts Committee to include the Senate and take away the majority from either the government or the opposition. Prime Minister […]
Steven Buckley was shot in the head by a Police Inspector on April twenty-eight, 2010, more than three years ago. The shooting was unjustified and Buckley was in the hospital clinging to life for more than a month. Today Buckley is a far different man than he was back then. Because of his injury he […]
And wrapping up his interview which lasted just over an hour, Prime Minister Barrow also spoke at length about litigation in which government is currently involved. The PM commented on litigation with the Belize Bank over Universal Healthcare Partners. Barrow says that in that particular case, he is inclined to settle. Prime Minister Dean […]
The murder case of Jorge Vidal, accused of the December twenty-third, 2005 murder of Hortencio Contreras concluded earlier this week in front of Judge Denis Hanomansingh in the Belmopan Supreme Court. Vidal was acquitted on a technicality even before a jury could be empanelled to hear the matter. The trial judge raised the question of […]
While Jorge Vidal is a freeman, in the Northern Session of the Supreme Court, before Justice Herbert Lord, a teenager who was accused at the age of sixteen of a murder, saw the charge reduced to manslaughter. Tonight, Shawn Locke who is now twenty is serving his first night of an eighteen year old jail […]
The National Football Selection fought extremely hard to be part of the CONCACAF games in the United States. Carrying the Belize brand of Jaguars, the team that had players with fulltime office jobs accomplished a tremendous task for being in the competition with some of the world’s best players. While some teams had millions of […]
One of the highlights of the annual International Costa Maya Festival in la Isla Bonita is the pageant which seeks to promote the Maya culture. Central American and Mexican delegates competed for the coveted title based on cultural presentation, swimwear and evening gown. On Thursday night, it went down to the wire as the bevy […]
The sixteen annual national Belize Police Youth Cadet Camp is being held at the Edward P. Yorke Compound on Princess Margaret Drive. Since the twenty-seventh of July, some two hundred and thirty young cadets from across the country—both boys and girls between the ages of eight and seventeen years old—have been hosted at the one […]
In Belize, the battle with the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual and Transgender (LGBT) community, is taking place at the Supreme Court. UNIBAM’s Executive Director, Caleb Orozco is leading the charge to have the laws amended so it would be legal for same sex relationships. A Jamaican national is also hoping to challenge both Belize and Trinidad […]
