Belize’s star striker Deon McCauley is back in the Jewel. As we reported on Thursday, a petition to return McCauley, in time for the Jaguars to prepare for the second round of World Cup qualifying competition, had been spearheaded earlier this week by a dedicated group of football fans. They simply wanted to see the […]
Now that McCauley is back in the country, F.F.B. President, Ruperto Vicente, says that the ball is in his court and he must now show and prove in the days ahead. Isani Cayetano “What’s to happen going forward? He’s here in Belize, have you been able to have an informal conversation with him coming […]
Following a congress of the Football Federation of Belize last Saturday, President Ruperto Vicente informed the media that embattled second vice president Rawell Pelayo was expected to tender his resignation from the post in the days ahead. The Orange Walk businessman and F.F.B. executive was recently deported to Belize after serving time in a U.S. […]
In February 2014, Deon McCauley inked a one-year contract with the Atlanta Silverbacks to play in the North American Professional League. During that time he has had to undergo surgery for an injury he received while playing for the team. McCauley has since recovered successfully but only to find himself without a team. Along with […]
It hasn’t happened just yet, but the Caribbean and Central American regions are keenly aware that there is some intention by large European and US banks to end relations with small domestic banks in countries like Belize. The threat is serious enough that the matter was raised as a priority on the agenda at the […]
The Belize Tourism Board is in a financial crunch and has been for some time. The company which is responsible for marketing Belize, we are told, has had to impose serious austerity programs after amassing debts in the millions of dollars. Sources at the Ministry of Tourism point to mismanagement as one factor, but also […]
The tourism industry has lost one of its pioneers. Peter Tonti, the C.E.O. of Cahal Pech Village Resort passed away on Thursday. Tonti has been visiting Belize since the nineteen seventies as part of the Peace Corps. He fell in love with the country and decided to make it his home. He made his first […]
An inmate of the Belize Central Prison serving ten years for arson got some more bad news earlier today. Following a preliminary inquiry this morning, Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith ruled that twenty-nine-year-old Lorenzo Smith Jr. will be tried in the Supreme Court for murder. In October 2009, Smith shared a cell with Arturo Eck, […]
A Belize City mechanic is spending his first night behind bars on remand after he was charged for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor today. Twenty-nine-year-old Francis Avilez, a full-time mechanic and part time “dollar van” operator, is accused of twice having sex with a minor who was thirteen at the time. Last week the […]
What’s the sentiment of Belizeans on LGBT persons? A poll that was done about a year and a half ago shows that people are generally more accepting and that Belize is only one of two countries polled in the Caribbean of which this can be said. Another survey tested attitudes and shows public support for […]
The National Institute of Culture and History is adding yet another event to its yearly calendar…the Belize International Jazz Festival. Over one hundred and sixty local and international artists and twelve engineers from across the country have registered so far with the festival and will be taking part in the annual event. The Belize International […]
The event will feature ten days of jazz fusion and will see the collaboration of local culture makers, business enterprises and globally renowned artists to promote the cultural and social love for the genre of music and its respective art. The event will be held from June fifth to the fourteenth and will travel to […]
But aside from the long list of festivals that will be held over the course of the year, the events within the September Celebrations Calendar will see thousands of Belizeans within the Diaspora come back home to participate. The National Celebrations Commission has hit the ground running and today, Communications Officer for NICH, Shari Williams, […]
And if you’d like to win a thousand dollars, you can also participate in the 2015 “September Celebrations Theme Competition.” All Belizeans, living at home and abroad, are invited to submit their most creative ideas for the theme for this year’s anniversary of the Battle of Saint George’s Caye and Independence. Williams says that the […]
Concego and Taprick the Sheriff…they’re well established names on the musical scene and only getting bigger and better. Today, they were guests on our morning show since both are launching new albums simultaneously. Taprick is keeping faithful to his style with edgy lyrics and fast-paced beats while Concego told us that the eleven tracks on […]
