A Tropic Air flight carrying Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber and Immigration Minister Godwin Hulse plunged into the Caribbean Sea in Placencia shortly before nine o’clock this morning. Reports are that upon taking off from the Placencia Airstrip, the left landing wheel made contact with a passing vehicle that had managed to bypass the barriers. […]
As personnel from the Civil Aviation Department and Belize Airports Authority began their investigation into the incident, the management of Tropic Air and the Government of Belize issued separate releases on the mishap. According to the airline company, the aircraft clipped a vehicle at the end of the runway as it was taking off, which […]
A British woman was stabbed to death sometime this week in Ladyville and it wasn’t until her landlady made a check at her apartment that her advanced decomposing body was discovered. Michelle Anison was stabbed several times and her vehicle is now missing, according to Police. There are not many details on this latest killing, […]
Two men from Punta Gorda Town were today acquitted in the Supreme Court of Justice Denis Hanomansingh of a charge of murder. Twenty-four-year old Albert Valentine and a seventeen-year-old minor were charged in the death of taxi driver Antonio Rodriguez, originally from Elridgeville, on December fifteenth, 2015. Rodriguez’s body was found with multiple stab wounds […]
Thirty-three-year-old security officer Glenford Brown was picked up by police on October fifteenth, following a shooting incident outside of the Ramada Belize City Princess Hotel and Casino. Brown reportedly discharged a sawed-off Mossberg shotgun in an attempt to disperse a crowd of patrons who were involved in an altercation while leaving from Club Elite. Instead […]
As we told you on Thursday, P.U.P. Leader John Briceño will go into the national convention unchallenged with a few changes to the National Executive, ratified during yesterday’s meeting at Independence Hall. While the projected date for the convention is January twenty-eighth, it has to be approved by the regional caucuses since it was a […]
And speaking of politics, the People’s United Party is licking its chops at the prospect of a potential United Democratic Party implosion after ten years of dominance at the polls. With Prime Minister Dean Barrow set to retire after three terms and more than three decades in government, the next leader of the U.D.P. is […]
It has been less than two weeks since the People’s United Party introduced its slate of eleven Belize City candidates for the City Council, which the United Democratic Party has held since 2006. The team is already hard at work campaigning on the ground, hoping to convince Belize City voters to go a different route […]
Acting Prime Minister Patrick Faber told reporters on Thursday that he has yet to personally receive a letter sent two weeks ago by Leader of the Opposition John Briceño, which asked to look into the contracts tendered out by Belize Infrastructure Limited, of which he is co-chair. Briceño called for extensive details of who got […]
On Thursday, Leader of the Opposition John Briceño spared no quarter in his condemnation of Immigration Minister, Senator Godwin Hulse. He said he considered it hypocritical of Hulse to attempt to lay blame for the failures of the Immigration Department solely on public officers. But as a new set of allegations dogs the Department, Briceño […]
It appears the Caye Caulker Airstrip project will go ahead with Social Security Board funding, albeit reduced. The Belize Airports Authority is said to be receiving between three-point-five and four million dollars to re-do the runway with hot mix. The original seven-million dollar project, awarded by tendering to Imer Hernandez Development Company Limited, also called […]
There is bipartisan support for an extended investigation of Belize Jungle Experience Limited. The company is already being audited by the Supreme Audit Institution concerning monies paid for the training of German soldiers in Belize’s jungles between 2015 and 2017. For the year 2016, some thirty-six B.D.F. staff members were involved in the training under […]
It has been several years since the Belize City Council completed a mammoth undertaking to concrete as many streets as it could have, using monies that were floated through a municipal bond. Its agreement with the utility companies is that they are individually responsible for all repairs should the need for underground work arise. While […]
The Mexican Embassy is celebrating with the Garinagu of Belize. The nineteenth is two days away, but tonight the Embassy is hosting an event at the Mexican Institute in Belize City. They have collaborated with the National Garifuna Council and Luba Garifuna Museum to share the culture with the wider public. Diego Sapien of the […]
The event kicks off at seven tonight and features an exhibition that shows the art, history, clothing, tools, instruments and leaders of the Garifuna Culture. Sapien says that you can expect food, drumming and an educational presentation from tonight’s Garifuna Settlement Day celebration at the Mexican Institute. Diego Sapien, Officer in Charge of Cultural […]
