There is trouble brewing at the government owned Belize Telemedia Limited. This afternoon during their lunch break, dozens of staffers, members of the Belize Communication Workers Union, assembled outside of the Esquivel Telecom Center, the company’s headquarters on Saint Thomas Street. They met for approximately thirty minutes to discuss a range of issues affecting workers […]
The Twenty-Seventh Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM concluded in Placencia on Wednesday. Much of the discussions during the three-day event centered around major regional concerns, including the issues of correspondent banking and the Zika virus. While those topics remained at the front of the agenda, the CARICOM Development Fund, […]
According to the economist, CDF’s directives come from sessions such as those recently held in Belize where keen attention is paid to the needs of lesser developed countries. Isani Cayetano “You’re in Belize on a working visit that goes along with the recent CARICOM Heads of Government, the intersessional meeting. Can you speak to […]
Police continue to search for a person of interest in the murder of Honduran national Johana Samantha Mendez Barrios. The waitress of Compadres Bar in San Pedro was cut to the throat inside her apartment on Tuesday morning at the Basil Paris Apartment Complex. Mendez Barrios sought assistance from her friend on the lower flat […]
An independent study shows that about six percent of newborns are not formally registered and that presents difficulties for the individuals later on in life, especially in accessing health care and education. But there is another side to that coin because a number of Belizeans in bordering towns are registered locally, as well as across […]
If you’ve visited the Vital Statistics Unit recently to request a birth certificate, a marriage license or even a death certificate then you would be quite familiar with the apparent chaos at the Hydes Lane office. The perennial complaint is that files are haphazardly deposited and employees of that department are largely inefficient in accessing […]
As we reported last week, Fruta Bomba Limited and Belize Food Packers are packing up and leaving Belize for other destinations. The exporters of Caribbean red papaya say labour costs are cheaper in places such as Dominican Republic, despite the many duty exemptions granted to the company. The company expects to take six months to […]
Earlier we told you about the rumblings at B.T.L., but that is not the only place where there is discontent. At news time, we are told that the executive of the Football Federation of Belize has been meeting all day on the future of its president, Ruperto Vicente. The executive is not happy with Vicente’s […]
Recent adjustments to the price per pound of Grade C rice and white sugar have prompted the Belize Bureau of Standards to strengthen market surveillance activities for Controlled Price Goods. A total of one hundred and fifty stores have been visited across the country. Of that number, thirty businesses were found to have been gouging […]
A mitigation plea was heard today for a sixty-four year old Honduran grandmother living in Belize for over twenty years. On February tenth, 2016, the grandmother was found guilty of human trafficking of a fifteen year old Honduran girl after the girl gave compelling testimony of how she was brought to Belize under false pretences and […]
The popular disc jockey, Disc Jockey James Busch of More FM, is in trouble with the law tonight. After two weeks of hospitalization, thirty-four year old Marlon Geovanni Chavez has made an official report to the Belize Police Department requesting court action against Busch, for what he says was a near death ordeal. This morning, […]
Women are living longer than men in Belize and life expectancy stands at seventy-five years. But elderly persons continue to be vulnerable. In fact, as it relates to pension, as much as sixty percent of the seenagers have no pension. This morning, the National Council on Ageing held a workshop which addressed a number of […]
We have been reporting extensively on the loss of correspondent banks which was top on the agenda of the Twenty-Seventh Intersessional Meeting which concluded in Placencia on Wednesday. The ‘de-risking’ by the US banks is affecting negatively critical services such as remittance transfers, credit card settlements and has the potential to severely impact the tourism […]
PM Gaston Browne’s mission is to knock at all doors including the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and the United States Congress. At the CARICOM inter-sessional, the Heads of government also agreed to write to the US President Barak Obama. Gaston Browne, Prime Minister, Antigua & Barbuda “Among the strategies that we are looking […]
Thirty-nine-year-old Dorian August; he’s the light technician at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts and has been working with the Institute for the past twenty-two years. But tonight, he is asking for your help. August was diagnosed some time ago with Arnold-Chiari; it’s a condition that is usually caused by structural defects in the […]
August needs urgent surgery which he plans to undergo in Merida. A first round of tests will be carried out next week and he is asking for your assistance. Dorian August, Needs Assistance “We’re leaving on Saturday—me and my wife—going to Merida to do some follow up tests. The reason for these tests now […]
A third winner was chosen this past Monday for the General Sales Tax Raffle. The raffle started last year with its first drawing on December fifteenth; there was another on January fifteenth and then February fifteenth. Belizeans across the country simply needed to request their GST receipts for purchases at stores. To every fifty dollar […]
As of February of 2016, twenty-two countries in the Americas, including eleven which are Caribbean countries and four which are CARICOM members have confirmed cases of Zika. Barbados, Guyana, Haiti and Suriname have confirmed cases of Zika since the virus spread to this region in 2015. This is why it is no surprise that Zika […]
