In May of this year, Treaty Belize Energy went full steam ahead with oil drilling operations in the south at San Juan near Independence. That was despite a court ruling declaring that the license to the oil company was null and void. Fighting a public relations nightmare, the company made big and attractive promises to […]
Since announcing a promising oil discovery in June, there has been much talk about oil in the northwest corner of the Orange Walk District. News of the encouraging show was also used by the prime minister as a carrot during negotiations with the unions over a much delayed salary adjustment. But speculation of the favorable […]
In September 2012, there was an upheaval in the Immigration Department after it was discovered that a Lebanese-American, allegedly with ties to Hezbollah, received a Belizean passport in two days. Rafic Labboun used the identity of Wilhelm Dyck, a Mennonite newborn who died decades before. Labboun somehow managed to procure a birth certificate in Dyck’s […]
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize has been agitating for the introduction of the Occupational Safety and Health Bill for quite some time. On Thursday when the bill did not make it to the house, the N.T.U.C.B. made known its discontent. A few days earlier the N.T.U.C.B. declared that it expectantly awaited the introduction […]
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Marsha Reid is the woman from Dangriga who was accused of murdering her common-law-husband, B.D.F. corporal Donovan Castillo. In the Dangriga Supreme Court this morning Reid was found not guilty by Justice Dennis Hanomansingh who tried the case as a judge sitting without a jury. Reid was accused of stabbing Castillo four times on the […]
Fabian Bain has twice been charged for manslaughter but today he was convicted in the Supreme Court for the 2006 shooting of Fortunato Chun. Chun was a KBH security guard who was at the time on duty at the WASA compound in Belize City when the incident happened. The motive of the shooting was the […]
And in the Belize City Courts, thirty year old Special Constable Joslyn Gill, has been granted bail of four thousand dollars after being charged with theft of two hundred and sixty dollars from Tyrell Hyde, the Belmopan resident who was allegedly ingeniously and brazenly shaken down by Gill, Reymundo Requena and Edgar Teul, on September […]
Streets and major roads across the country which were already in less than spectacular condition have been gutted by the incessant rains in the past weeks. In rural areas in the Orange Walk critical roads have become impassable, denying access to farms and villages, and in every municipality from north to south pothole infested streets […]
The newly-renovated, quite spiffy looking B.T.L. Park was to have launched on Friday, and the first event to greet that launch would have been City Hall’s annual Christmas event. But the rain which shows no signs of stopping anytime soon has put paid to that idea. Because the works were slowed down, the Park will […]
While City Hall’s street woes inhibit Christmas cheer, there has been an attempt to deal with the sanitation company crisis. In early December, the Council was behind in payments to Belize Waste Control to the tune of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That’s four months worth of arrears, and BWC was at the point […]
The Statistical Institute of Belize has issued the Consumer Price Index or CPI for September 2013. Not surprisingly, for consumers who have been feeling the pinch, the statistics show that prices crept up by zero point eight percent higher than last September. The cause is due to price increases in the categories of Transportation, Housing, […]
Contracts were signed this morning between the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and contractors for works to be undertaken at the national referral in the upcoming New Year. In the first instance, the K.H.M.H. will be renovating the Adult Intensive Care Unit and secondly, remedial work will be done on the parking lot. But there is […]
Government provided a subsidy of eighteen point five million dollars to the K.H.M.H. this year. Notwithstanding, the renovations to the hospital will come at a cost to the public. As was mentioned earlier, the K.H.M.H. took out a loan with the Belize Bank Limited to pay for the remodeling and construction works. The Director of […]
A decision by the Supreme Court on a constitutional challenge to repeal Section Fifty-Three of Belize’s Criminal Code remains pending, despite closing arguments in early May by high-powered attorneys representing Caleb Orozco and the Government of Belize, as well as the Council of Churches. The challenge seeks to have struck out a ten year prison […]
You can find Nelson Young’s paintings on the walls of many businesses and certainly in residences in Belize; but his pieces can also be found internationally. Based in Caye Caulker, these days Young paints primarily with oil creating art of vivid and bright colours. His passion for faces became his signature work, but tonight his […]
