On Tuesday evening, a transgender woman was badly beaten in Belize City. She goes by the name of Vanessa Champagne Paris and was walking on Vernon Street when she was first targeted. Dressed in women’s clothing, Vanessa’s attackers followed her and by the time she got to Mayflower Street, the group morphed into an angry […]
Band Fest 2014 has been moved to the Santiago Ricalde Stadium in Corozal Town. The decision was made on Monday, less than a week before the event. The original venue was to have been the People’s Stadium in Orange Walk Town, but organizers say the field was not ready. It’s a decision which has caused […]
The top executives of the Norwegian Cruise Lines were in the Jewel today and invited the media to a tour of one of its two ships that called on port. It was sort of a PR Tour organized through the Belize Tourism Board and we’ll have that later in the newscast. But first, time is […]
According to Vice President Murphy, Norwegian Cruise Line has been calling on port in Belize since 1998 and the Harvest Caye project will further reinforce its presence in Belize. With NEAC’s green light of the EIA, construction and other works will begin within the next three weeks. FOR VIDEO CLICK HERE. Colin Murphy, V.P. of […]
Earlier we told you about the decision by organizers to move the popular Band Fest from the People’s Stadium in Orange Walk to the Santiago Ricalde Stadium in Corozal. There’s been anger, frustration and confusion over the decision, so today Mike Rudon went north to the People’s Stadium and has the story. FOR VIDEO CLICK […]
So that’s the Band Fest story in a nutshell. But since we were at the People’s Stadium, we couldn’t help but take a closer look at the facilities there. It was all pretty terrible. Apart from the broken down and burglarized B.N.E. building and the ashy football field…it all looked abandoned and decrepit – definitely […]
As we reported on Tuesday, attempts by U.S. Capital Energy to convene a meeting with indigenous leaders in the south, in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Maya community against G.O.B. and the oil company, was not received well over the weekend. Attorney Michael Peyrefitte, on behalf of U.S. Capital, […]
In the Supreme Court today, the murder trial of Leon Gomez was summed up by Justice Adolph Lucas and at news time, a jury was still deliberating. Gomez, a Belize City youth at the age of eighteen was charged with the murder of Salvador Martinez which occurred on January eighteenth, 2010, at the MCC grounds […]
A mother of five children, the youngest only one year old, was today imposed a non-custodial sentence and fined a whopping ten thousand dollars for drug trafficking. The court also ordered that she pay five thousand dollars immediately or serve a jail term. The house of thirty-five year old Roshawn Higgs, a mother and domestic […]
The Norwegian Cruise Ship project on Harvest Caye has been getting a battering from private tourism stakeholders in the south. The project came under fire from as soon as it came to light but now that it has received the green light from the NEAC, the cruise ship line is pressing full steam ahead. In […]
Since the appointment of Danini Contreras, daughter of U.D.P. minister Erwin Contreras, to the post of Director of Drug Inspectorate on March fourth, the Pharmacists Association of Belize has been up in arms about her appointment to the high-level post. According to the association, the creation of that particular placement did not go through the […]
President of the association, Hortence Humes, says that they have presented the matter to the Public Service Union, as well as the National Trade Union Congress. She says that they have the full support of both unions. Hortence Humes, President, Pharmacists Association of Belize “From the union is that when we took the matter […]
