One of the biggest industries up north is the papaya industry. It provides employment for hundreds, but the future of the industry is bleak tonight because Fruta Bomba and its subsidiary, Belize Food Packers Limited are closing shop and moving to more profitable destinations in the region. This week, the Ministry of Agriculture was advised […]
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, they only got word of Fruta Bomba’s departure two days ago, but P.U.P. leader John Briceño, who hails from the north of the country, says that explanation is unsatisfactory. According to Briceño, the writing has been on the wall for a long time now and the ministry was caught […]
Convictions for human trafficking are rare, but tonight a grandmother is behind bars for the offence. Honduran national Estella Gonzalez was convicted this morning in the Supreme Court by Justice Adolph Lucas. A panel of nine persons deliberated for a little over an hour on Wednesday night and just before eight o’clock unanimously found Gonzalez […]
Belmopan Police are still on the hunt for a cold-blooded killer in that jurisdiction, for the brutal murder of Chinese bar owner Zhijuang Zhang on Saturday morning. Zhang was stabbed and slashed seven times, his throat cut by a man who entered the Sixty-Nine Bar in Teakettle through a window in the rear of the […]
On Wednesday, we showed you the images of Country Foods in Spanish Lookout engulfed in flames. At about three p.m., a fire spread to the warehouse from a nearby pit which contained burning garbage. The warehouse was used to store egg trays and packaging used for the safe transportation of products. Seventy-five percent of the […]
The S.S.B. loan to the Santander Group is a done deal – at least as far as approval is concerned. The application was made way back in October 2015, and following the recommendation of the Investment Committee, the Board of Directors of the S.S.B. approved it on January twenty-eight. That’s where it is at this […]
The People’s United Party today issued a press release on the S.S.B. twelve million dollar loan to the Santander Group. In the release, the Party states that one pressing question is why the people’s money is being sought by the company, instead of it going to the commercial banks. Four banks in Belize have already […]
The N.T.U.C.B. agrees that the approved, if not disbursed loan to the Santander Group is too risky. President Marvin Mora says that while the S.S.B. is looking at money, as an organization the union must look primarily at what is best for the workers. Marvin Mora, President, N.T.U.C.B. “The N.T.U.C.B.’s position will always differ […]
A high-level technical delegation from the region is currently in Belize. The group is finalizing a climate change framework in the wake of the Paris Agreement coming out of the Conference of Parties Twenty-One. The delegates are tightening the nuts and bolts of that agreement with specific focus on its impact on the region. On […]
Two men were busted with a sizeable amount of marijuana while Belmopan Police were conducting vehicle checks on Wednesday in Camalote on the George Price Highway. Travis Sutherland of Georgeville and Anthony August of Santa Elena were travelling to the capital when they spotted the police checkpoint at about four-thirty in the morning. The men […]
Police are on the lookout for two robbers who are operating in the city and impersonating cops. Within the past twenty-four hours, they struck twice. In the first incident, the wannabe cops hit Channel Broadcasting Cable just before midnight on Wednesday. A security guard at the cable company said he heard a loud bang and […]
The departure of Fruta Bomba is only the most recent of a series of bad news for Belize where industries are concerned. Since last year the country has been taking some hard hit, particularly in the area of agriculture. P.U.P. leader John Briceño says there’s a simple explanation for that – the Ministry of Agriculture […]
While Briceño says that the agriculture sector is taking a hit, the Ministry of Agriculture does not agree. Notwithstanding, late last year, Meridian Enterprises in the banana industry closed its doors, leaving over a thousand workers without jobs. In the shrimp industry, farms had to be closed down because of an infection. But C.E.O. Jose […]
Representatives from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital have been making the media rounds this week talking about the good things happening at the national referral hospital and there are many, including successful heart surgeries and a general expansion on the line-up of services now offered. But there is one issue that is not going down […]
The hospital’s large debt accumulated over the years, in part because patients often do not pay their bills. The K.H.M.H. has thus embarked on a campaign to tighten up on collection asking patients to invest in their health care. Augustine says that while government provides subsidy, it is still not enough to cover the wide […]
Chair of the Board of Governors at the K.H.M.H., is Marilyn Williams; who is an attorney and has health care experience as a nurse. Williams says that one of the challenges the hospital is facing is a huge debt that is crippling the institution. Marilyn Williams, Chair, Board of Governors, K.H.M.H. “The public’s perception […]
