Tonight there is grim news in the offshore industry. Indications are that Choice Bank, an offshore bank operating from Belize City, is winding down due to a cash flow crisis involving the prepaid card component of its international banking business. After ten years in operation, the banks website claims it is the largest international bank […]
A few days ago, the Social Security Board issued a demand note for payment of outstanding contributions to the Belize City Council collected from employees, but not paid by the former Darrell Bradley administration. On May fifteenth, City Hall received the letter from the S.S.B. saying that for the period November to December 2017, an […]
But who was responsible for making the payments to the S.S.B.? That, says Deputy Mayor Oscar Arnold, was the responsibility of Candice Miller, the former City Administrator, who was initially placed on suspension for dereliction of duties before she was dismissed earlier this month. Arnold says that the Finance Department is verifying if contributions for […]
The Deputy Mayor questions the priorities of the previous administration given the fact that this outstanding payment lingered while the then-U.D.P. council put off a free concert in February. The concert cost City Hall one hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars, almost three times the amount owed to the S.S.B. The Deputy Mayor confirms, however, that […]
Despite the back and forth on whether there would have been a teachers’ day celebration, today the event went on without a hitch. Teachers from across the country congregated in the city to celebrate their day. While, it was expected that some six thousand teachers would be in attendance, the showing was not quite close […]
On Monday, we reported that there would be no docking of salaries for teachers who rallied in Belmopan on March twenty-second. The Belize Association for General Managers of Pre and Primary Schools issued a release announcing that teaches would get their salaries for the day, and as we told you, said that the Belize National […]
We have been reporting on the wide-ranging efforts of the humanitarian organization; RET International, in putting a dent on the reports of gender-based violence and trafficking in persons among other social issues. Today, it hosted a consultation in collaboration with the National Women’s Commission Department of Youth Services and Attorney Cynthia Pitts, to make information […]
A Toledo family is in mourning tonight after a freak accident in the village of San Pedro Columbia, Toledo. Ten-year-old Emilda Che, also known as Edna, was with her grandfather in the yard this morning. He was cutting down a tree and did not notice her, but the trunk fell on her. She died after […]
On Thursday, the case of Leader of the Opposition John Briceño versus editor of the Guardian newspaper Alfonso Noble was called in the Supreme Court, but was adjourned. Briceño was seeking an interim injunction against further publication by Noble in relation to a story posted on Facebook last month that tried to link the P.U.P. […]
On Tuesday, former Prime Minister Said Musa got the ball rolling by publicly condemning the unnecessary deaths of over sixty Palestinian nationals, including children, and thousands of injuries caused by confrontations at the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip. And on Wednesday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow joined in. Today, an official statement from the Ministry […]
A twenty-year-old hospital attendant of Belize City was arrested and charged with drug trafficking. On Thursday night, just before eight-thirty, members of the Mobile Interdiction Team were on patrol in the Faber’s Road area when they stopped and searched a backpack that Travane Trapp was carrying. Police discovered a little over seven and half pounds […]
There was also a drug bust up north in Orange Walk District. On Thursday just before five in the morning, the Quick Response Team conducted a search at a house belonging to Jerry Vasquez on San Juan Alley, Orange Walk. That search led to the discovery of three thousand one hundred and fifty grams of […]
There is an update to the arson in Belmopan where the body of a man was discovered on Tuesday. As we told you British national Bruce Davidson is believed to have been killed and his house on Jordan Ranch Road off the Banana Bank Road, set on fire to conceal the murder. His vehicle, identified […]
At the close of 2016, the Belize Police Department introduced a youth mentorship programme aimed at youths at risk in some of the most troubled areas of Belize City. It produced more than one hundred graduates six months later, but the violence continues to engulf both adults and the most vulnerable of the youth population. […]
The youths will have the opportunity as part of the programme to see more of Belize than they ever have, as most of them have only rarely if ever left Belize City in their young lives. But Deputy Commissioner Chester Williams says they will have to earn it through active and meaningful participation every Saturday. […]
Deputy Commissioner Williams also discussed the successes of the first cohort of mentees, one hundred of whom graduated about a year ago. He says they learned critical skills to survive in a torrid time for youths across Belize City. Chester Williams, Deputy Commissioner (Operations) “I must say that the first cohort we had, we […]
The Belize District Festival of Arts got underway on Tuesday with over one hundred performances in dance, drama, song and even poetry at the Bird’s Isle. Two days later, high school students got the opportunity to perform in the same genre as the young students from primary schools. Though gifted with varied skills, the performers […]
Music Week climaxes this Saturday night at the Civic Center in Belize City. The line-up of local artists has been impressive, but on the last night of the event, a number of well-known hip hop performers from the U.S., including Desiigner, will be taking the stage in the benefit concert in honour of Fareed Ahmad, […]
