On the eve of the expected testimony at the Senate Special Select Committee of whistleblower on visas Alvarine Burgess, Minister of National Emergency Management and Transport and Belize Rural North area representative Edmond Castro has confirmed via press release this evening that he has been notified of the U.S. Embassy cancelling his diplomatic and tourist […]
Deshawn Ramirez – she is the woman who was charged with her husband’s murder on Monday and remanded to prison. But tonight she is free, after the murder charge was withdrawn and Deshawn was released from custody. On Friday night in Seine Bight, Deshawn and her husband Glenn Ramirez Junior were engaged in a confrontation […]
While Castro is in the news tonight for the cancelation of his visa, Minister of Defence John Saldivar is pushing back heavily against claims of misuse of Coast Guard assets to support his Belmopan Bandits sporting teams, which is being investigated by the U.S. Embassy, which gifted the vessels. Following a statement by his Cabinet […]
This morning, the body of a man was found floating in the Caribbean Sea near First Avenue in the Bay of Corozal Town. The person has since been identified as forty-three-year-old Anthony Pasos, a resident of the Santa Rita community in Corozal. A postmortem exam conducted this afternoon confirms that Pasos died as a result […]
The plot thickens in the Miss Belize saga. Twenty-four hours ago, Miss Belize Rebecca Rath appeared to be stripped of her title by pageant director Opal Enriquez. Her family had come out strongly against Enriquez’s management of the run-up to Rath’s appearance at the Miss Universe pageant in January and Enriquez hit back on her […]
Elrington and Malik take the position that the May twenty-sixth release was not authorized and nothing in it is official, and that as far as they are concerned Enriquez has resigned and her position is vacant. Elrington told us that he could shed no light on the reason for the two-thousand word release, as the […]
The hassle of applying for Belizean citizenship, in some cases several years in the making, has paid for a handful of immigrants who have found their home in the Jewel. From as far away as Turkey and Bangladesh, they have traveled to Belize and decided to stay. The swearing-in ceremony got off to a late […]
After years of back and forth, visitors to Harvest Caye will finally be able to enjoy the natural wonders of the peninsula. Local tour operators and other stakeholders had been agitating to benefit from the tourism boom in the south. Beginning today, passengers of Norwegian Cruise Line are being transported on a new pier to […]
Thirty-three-year-old fudge vendor Glenford Tillett has been charged with littering after a run-in with police on Saturday. However, he was discharged of the offense by Magistrate Carlon Mendoza. Tillett was sitting in front of Chinese grocer Lina’s Store on Mahogany Street when a police mobile arrived. He was sitting on a cardboard box and police […]
Sixty-five-year-old grandmother Martha Parchue returned to court today on a charge of theft for shoplifting in a popular supermarket. Parchue is accused of stealing Celebrity brand boneless chopped ham valued at seven dollars and fifty cents from off the shelf at Lucky Star Supermarket on Central American Boulevard. The store owner told police that Parchue […]
In addition to illegal operation in Belizean waters, Guatemalan fishermen have been guilty of several offences, including use of gill nets and other illegal methods to capture fish. Recently they have been using another method: constructing traps in the sea made from mangroves. Mangroves serve a particular purpose in the ecosystem as the spawning ground […]
Three weeks ago it was reported that the village of Otoxha has been dealing with a takeover of acres of territory by Guatemalan farmers seeking greater pastures. The farmers left a mile-plus-long trail from Guatemala into Belize for easier access to their ‘conquered’ territory. The matter has officially been reported to the Belize Defence Force’s […]
If you were thinking of pursuing music studies in Belize, you will now have a chance to do so. For the first time a local school is offering a degree programme for students to study music. The programme will officially start in the upcoming school year. For S.J.C., the road to realizing this new programme […]
Caribbean Motors in Belize City today hosted a special donation ceremony by the Saint Paul Lutheran Church of Fort Worth, Texas and the Central American Lutheran Mission Society, in association with the Inspiration Center and Guatemalan organization Hope Haven. Ninety wheelchairs, special-built in the U.S., are being handed over this week to first-time users, giving […]
Thirty-one-year-old Belizean Olympian athlete Kaina Martinez has completed her track career at Texas A and M University-Kingsville. She had three top finishes in the 2017 NCAA Division Two Outdoor Athletics Championships in Florida over the weekend. Martinez, who is from Seine Bight in the Stann Creek District, placed second in the one hundred meters with […]
Over five thousand persons put on their walking shoes and trekked the nine-mile walk from Ladyville to Belize City in the annual Cancer Walk. Saturday’s walk saw families and friends of persons afflicted by cancer join in the efforts to build awareness about the disease. It is also the biggest event to raise funds for […]
