After years of negotiations with the Government of Belize, developer Michael Feinstein has finally gotten the green-light to proceed with the construction of the Stake Bank Cruise Ship Docking Facility. The last we had heard of the proposed project was that there was a back-and-forth between Feinstein and Minister of Tourism Manuel Heredia Junior in […]
There have now been four murders in Belize City in as many days, and seven so far in the month of August. At news time Thursday evening, twenty-six-year-old Windell Gibson of Lawrence Avenue, Belize City, lay dead in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital of multiple gunshot wounds. He was shot as many as eight times […]
The body of eighteen-year-old Crevan Cardinez was recovered from the shallow waters in front of the Sir Barry Bowen Municipal Airstrip on Thursday morning. Cardinez, living in Belize City but originally a resident of San Lorenzo area, Orange Walk Town, Orange Walk District, was brutally attacked inside a boat on Wednesday, stabbed multiple times and […]
Police are also chasing leads in at least one other murder reported this week. Around two o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, the body of a man was discovered some three hundred and thirty feet off the road between miles three and four on the George Price Highway. It has since been identified as that of twenty-five-year-old […]
The Belize Chinese Association is not happy with G.O.B. They have had to fork out thousands of dollars after they requested a visa waiver for The Chinese Blind People Performing Arts Troupe. The group was denied a waiver for entry into Belize to do a performance at the Bliss. The inspirational group with different abilities […]
Last Wednesday, Minister of Human Development Anthony Martinez and Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte met with U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as part of a roundtable seminar on trafficking in persons organized by the Human Trafficking Institute. It comes on the heels of the State Department’s report which leaves Belize at Tier Three, as one […]
One finding of the report that clearly rankles the Barrow administration is the references to trafficking-related complicity by government officials, including those at high levels. Try though he might, Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte said he could not get the U.S. officials he spoke to in Washington to reveal who those persons might be. But while […]
The Government of Belize remains at an impasse with several companies seeking enforcement of various arbitral awards due them after judgments made in U.S. courts. It maintains the position that Belize’s highest court, the Supreme Court, and to a lesser extent the Caribbean Court of Justice, have maintained that the awards cannot be enforced, but […]
The Cuban Embassy hosted a farewell event for students who are leaving Belize to pursue studies in Cuba. The students were selected from a pool of about seventy applicants to form a part of this y ear’s cohort of the CUBA-CARICOM programme through which Cuba provides scholarships to citizens of its sister nations of the […]
The Museum of Belize and Houses of Culture concluded an annual summer program for children in Belize City earlier today. The camp ran for a month and a half and saw participants learning how to weave baskets, among other skills. A majority of those children are from the Dorothy Menzies Childcare Center. This morning, reporter […]
The Eastern Division South held the closing for its annual Great Summer Programme. Fifty youths from the south side kicked off the programme on August seventh and it ended on August twenty-fourth with certificates and prizes. The program started four years ago with an aim to engage youths who are at risk of getting involved […]
