There is grave news tonight that affects the sporting associations. That is that the National Anti-Doping Organization in Belize has been suspended in the wake of the recent case against Brandon Cattouse. Doctor Michael Pitts sits on the Regional Anti-Doping Board, but he has failed to attend meetings for the past three years. For that […]
The Arthur Saldivar/P.U.P. saga continued today with a meeting between the political aspirant and the party’s national executive. Saldivar, who is desperately fighting to contest the P.U.P. Belmopan’s convention this Sunday, was invited to present himself before the national executive. The meeting was to hear a presentation from him on why he should be allowed […]
The meeting took place at the party’s headquarters on Queen Street where we found Saldivar waiting for the decision of the national executive. He says he is standing up for his right to contest the P.U.P.’s Belmopan Convention. Saldivar asserted that the P.U.P.’s Vetting Committee did not follow due process. Arthur Saldivar, Political Aspirant […]
The People’s United Party’s National Executive today also took a decision on whether it will support taking the territorial claim to the International Court of Justice. Recently, the P.U.P.’s Cayo South Area Representative Julius Espat and the party’s southern caucus have both said ‘NO’ to the I.C.J. This is in contradiction to the P.U.P. Leader’s […]
NICH President Sapna Budhrani remains in the hot seat after being called out in the media by Music Ambassador Shyne Barrow who threw her under the bus for her appointment as president while still retaining the post of administrator. This morning, a meeting was held to discuss the allegations made, the result of that discussion […]
The prices for a gallon of premium gasoline increased at midnight on Tuesday. It went up by ten cents putting the new price at eleven dollars and seventy cents. The price for regular fuel is ten dollars and ninety-nine cents after increasing by three cents last week. Diesel fuel remains unchanged and sells for ten […]
Classes are set to begin next week at Gwen Lizarraga High School, where as we reported on Tuesday night, the new academic year is full of challenges and uncertainty. All indications are that a number of teachers will not be making it back in light of a record low enrollment of students. It means that […]
The Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts was bursting at the seams on Tuesday night for the grand finale of KTV, the Remix, even as social media lit up and viewers at home tuned in for the reveal of who would take home the ten-K grand prize. Five worthy finalists took to the stage to […]
A young football athlete from the south is the first Belizean to be accepted in a prestigious and renowned football academy. Sixteen-year-old Jardehl Muschamp plays a forward position on the field and in early August, he was one of three persons chosen from a group of sixty-eight footballers from twenty-seven different states in the U.S. […]
On Tuesday morning, the Muschamps received the great news that Jardehl was also selected for a partial scholarship to attend the football academy in Arizona. That financial assistance is to the tune of twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. That is just over one-third of the total money he needs. So the family has since launched […]
For the fourth consecutive year, Programme for Belize has awarded scholarships to high school students. Six students were selected based on their needs, determination to complete a secondary education and are from communities which buffer the Rio Bravo Conservation Area. Programme for Belize’s mission is to protect the Rio Bravo’s biodiversity. The goal is to […]
Marine debris can be found in any ocean of the world, along coastlines, beaches, rivers and other waterways. It is a growing problem for both humans and marine life, around the world and right here in Belize. Scientists have estimated that there are over five trillion pieces of plastic marine debris alone. Just a little over […]
Belize Sugar Industries Limited has acquired a tugboat valued at one point two million Belize dollars. The tugboat now renamed “Shuga Pride” will be used to transport sugar one hundred and twenty-two miles up the New River, down the Caribbean, and to the deepwater port. The purchase of the tugboat is in line with B.S.I. […]
The Open Government Ecosystem in Belize is a system that encourages direct and constant communication between governments and citizens so as to promote transparency and democracy. In essence, the approach should help to define public policies and management practices based on openness, accountability, and easy access to public information. For several months, the project is […]
Trinidadian Gospel Artist Blessed Messenger is in Belize for a free concert in Roaring Creek Village on Thursday night. The concert which is being put on by the Hearts of Christ Children’s Ministry and the Bay Area Community Church will feature a stellar line up of local gospel artists, including messNJAH. The concert kicks off […]
For four years, a cloud of uncertainty hung above thirty-three-year-old Marsha Gillett as to whether or not she would be spending time behind bars. But tonight, the Belize City resident is breathing many sighs of relief as she was freed of all charges. In 2014, Gillett was slapped with eighty-five counts of theft after being […]
The Burn Victim Mercy Fund has stepped in once again to assist a minor who received severe burns to the body last week. Before midday today, four-year-old Unique Ramclam was transported by BERT ambulance from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital to the Phillip Goldson International Airport where she will be taken for further medical assistance […]
Belize produces rice, but today, a donation of ten thousand bags of rice was made to the Ministry of Human Development, Social Transformation and Poverty Alleviation through the Taiwan Rice Donation for Humanitarian Relief project. Five shipping containers filled with twenty-two pound bags of grain were presented to Minister Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez at the Port […]
