More traffic, more noise, more chaos and significantly less profits, as residents, businesses and tour operators are livid that the Belize Tourism Board is once again proposing a shakeup of the Fort George Tourism Zone. This afternoon, stakeholders, big and small, as well as residents of Fort George, convened a press conference where major concerns […]
The proposed three-hundred-dollar rental fee, according to retailers using CitCo’s booths, will further cripple their already weakened bottom line. Patricia Madril has been selling food within the zone for the past fifteen years and maintains that not only is the fee exorbitant, but it is also unreasonable. She says the new regime doesn’t take into […]
Late this evening, we got a response from Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley, who told News Five that there has been a deviation from the initial tourism master plan for the Fort George area. Not only does the Belize City Council support the concerns of residents and the local business community, it accedes that the […]
Did Barton Middleton act as an agent in the very lucrative visa services industry between 2011 and 2013? He has been accused of such by no less than Patrick Tillett, a U.D.P. insider, who told the Senate Special Select Committee that he paid Middleton some three thousand dollars per visa to take the applications into […]
The logjam between the Belize Police Department and the media has been broken. This morning, representatives of various media houses met with Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie and four jurisdictional commanders. The meeting came after several weeks of a boycott instituted by the media when communications, as well as the free flow of information, ground […]
A recent fire in the Ladyville community has brought into sharp focus the ongoing issue of illegal dumpsites that have been popping up through the village on the Philip Goldson Highway. Residents from the village and elsewhere have indiscriminately been disposing of their garbage anywhere there is an empty spot. Aside from being an eyesore, […]
In early January, PASA Belize Limited shut down operations at the solid waste transfer stations and sanitary landfill. All operations within the central corridor—from San Ignacio/Santa Elena to San Pedro and Caye Caulker—came to a grinding halt. The very real hazard of accumulating garbage was quickly averted as Solid Waste Unit took up the charge […]
As we told you earlier, solid waste management is everyone’s business and there is need for enforcement of the law, specifically as it relates to violation of illegal dumping and littering across the country. While it will take an interdepartmental approach to solving this perennial problem, the Belize Solid Waste Management Authority is planning to […]
Tonight, a San Pedro security guard in his mid-sixties accused of molesting an eight-year-old girl is a free man. Sixty-seven-year-old Jose Romero walked from the serious offense for carnal knowledge of the child when the alleged victim chose not to testify against him. Prosecutor in the case, Sherigne Rodriguez, called two witnesses to the stand […]
Another case of sexual abuse against a minor was disposed of in court today. After he was accused of molesting a child since the age of eleven, in August of 2013, police caught up with Mango Creek resident, Felicito Sho and charged him with rape. Today, however, the forty-three-year-old was freed. His freedom came […]
Twenty-five-year-old Saul Ortiz of San Ignacio Town is missing. Since earlier this week, he hasn’t been seen by his family and his mother reported him missing on Monday. Ortiz, if you may recall, was one of three men named in the murder of Coast Guard Aurelio Montero Junior. The Bullet Tree resident was discovered badly […]
Governor General Sir Colville Young will, in the next few hours, consider affixing his assent to the PACT (Amendment) Bill, General Revenue and Appropriation Bill and ten others brought from the National Assembly. Of these, only the PACT (Amendment) Bill was voted down by seven to six, with social partner Senators joining the Opposition to […]
Can the Government safely ignore the consideration of the Senate in deciding to pass on the PACT (Amendment) Bill to the Governor General? Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte refuted our suggestion that the advice, if not consent of the Senate, is as important as the deliberation of the House. He explained that the Senate may have […]
A single mother of six children was officially gifted with her brand new home today. The Port Loyola resident and her family were selected by the Hand in Hand Ministries to be a recipient of their programme. The family has faced difficult times living in house where flood affected them regularly and was impacting their […]
Norwegian researcher Marianne Karlsson today issued the results of her thesis project about adapting to climate change in two seaside fishing communities at either end of the country. A few years ago, working with the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, Karlsson spent time with the fishers of Sarteneja, Corozal District and Monkey River, Toledo District, […]
The new telephone directory was released today. The 2017 edition features a cover shot by renowned local photographer Tony Rath and was done in collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund. The publication, which has over the years evolved from just physical telephone listing to online and digital, also features multiple sections with information about Belize. […]
On Wednesday you saw the families affected by the Majestic Alley fire collect their cook tops and other donations to help them rebuild, in the wake of Friday’s inferno. Businesses and other local organizations have been teaming up with CEMO to assist the over fifty victims, who lost all their belongings in the mid-afternoon blaze […]
Since the beginning of the month there have been a number of activities across the country commemorating child stimulation month. The purpose of observing child stimulation is to create public awareness for those who have an interest in early childhood development – particularly for those children five years and younger because these years are considered […]
In Healthy Living tonight, we introduce you to a neonatologist. Now, neonatology is a medical field that is not common in Belize but it is certainly a specialized one. Doctor Elsie Constanza is perhaps the only practicing neonatologist in the local health system. She is a highly trained doctor who treats babies who are born […]
