The sensational story involving the questionable sale of choice land between the Belmopan City Council and Chinese businessman Xin Ni continues to unravel. Tonight, the plot thickened because the Vice President of the Corozal Branch of the Public Service Union has come forward to say that the mailing address used in the dubious transaction is […]
On Tuesday, Mayor Khalid Belisle hosted a press conference during which he refuted claims made by the Public Service Union. When asked who from Simplex Design brokered the deal with CitCo, Mayor Belisle remained circumspect. He told reporters that he was purposely refraining from any name calling. So, the fact that a bogus address belonging […]
Police believe they have cracked the latest murder in San Pedro. Late this evening, a fourteen-year-old minor was charged for the execution of Cyril Jones, a thirty-seven-year-old BWS employee who was targeted at his home on Tuesday night. The minor is among several persons held since Tuesday after the deadly incident in the San Pedrito […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Warren Lewis became a free man on Wednesday night after he was found not guilty of murder. Lewis stood trial for the 2009 killing of twenty-two-year-old Albert Allen. After a three-hour deliberation, a jury of four men and eight women told Supreme Court Justice, Marilyn Williams, that they found Lewis not guilty of the […]
The Forward Operating Base at the mouth of the Sarstoon River is placed at a strategic location at Belize’s southernmost border with Guatemala. The post is manned around the clock by military and coast guard personnel who launch from the F.O.B. to conduct patrols upriver. On Wednesday morning, shortly before nine o’clock, a Belize Defense […]
The lifeless body of fifty-seven-year-old Francisco Sis, a farmer of San Marcus Village, was observed in the middle of the Southern Highway on Monday night. He had been fatally struck by a pickup truck driven by forty-seven-year-old Gregorio Choc. According to the self-employed resident of San Felipe Village, he was driving the Ford Ranger in […]
Well-known Belize City cabbie, Arthur Requeña, will be laid to rest on Friday. The taxi driver was knocked down and killed on Monday morning while attempting to cross the Philip Goldson Highway near mile two. He was fatally struck by a vehicle registered to the Belize Agricultural Health Authority, which was driven at the time […]
There was suspicious criminal activity involving a group of heavily armed men along the Coastal Road last weekend. This occurred on the heels of a sting operation by the police the B.D.F. and the coastguard at the start of November on the Coastal Road in which a Toyota Prado loaded with fifteen bails of cocaine […]
Senator Valerie Woods is away in Ukraine attending a meeting of Parliamentarians for Global Action, but when her name began circulating earlier today, in respect of a scam involving the Sittee River Wildlife Reserve, she found it necessary to come forward and clear her name. Woods, who was employed at the Belize Tourism Board in […]
Since Tuesday of this week, ITVET Orange Walk teachers have been on a sit-out. They have been showing up to school, but have not been teaching so the three hundred plus students have been sitting under a shed for the past two days. The sixteen teachers at the school say that they are not being […]
When the teachers emerged from the meeting, they were hopeful. They say they made some progress and that Ramirez-Smith documented their concerns. So, what happens next? The teachers say that they need some commitment from the ministry by Friday or the sit-out continues. The teachers are prepared to go the distance because it has been […]
Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner announced today that the council has been able to collect significantly more income due to the council’s efficiency in revenue collection, hard stance against political ‘hand outs’ and the determination to meet all bills on time. The Belize City Council hosted the media this morning to present its first eight-month […]
The P.U.P. Belize City Council has also made plans to address the city’s manhole problem. Mayor Wagner says that the manholes will soon be covered while the council embarks on several infrastructure ventures over the course of the next few months. Wagner also stated that social infrastructure is a major factor in the council’s plan […]
A three-day information gathering session continued today in Belize City. Climate change stakeholders, led by the World Wildlife Fund, are participating in a regional project which aims to mainstream climate related principles into marine protected area management and coast development policies. According to W.W.F. Climate Risk Management Lead, Ryan Bartlett, the project focuses on countries […]
In the north side of Belize City, there are the B.T.L. and Memorial Parks, two social recreation areas enjoyed by city residents mainly of the surrounding areas. The Belize City Council unveiled plans today to construct a Southside equivalent, the Ring Road Community Park. The park will be built in the Lake Independence Area near […]
The results of an international match this Friday at the Isidoro Beaton Stadium in Belmopan will determine whether the Jaguars will advance to qualify for Gold Cup in 2019. The Puerto Rican team is already here and the Jaguars will have to beat them to move up. If that happens, the national team will also […]
The Embassy of Mexico is honouring Belizean master artist Pen Cayetano with an exhibit which opened tonight for viewing at the Mexican Institute of Culture in Belize City. The exhibit will feature more than thirty artworks of Cayetano who at age sixty-five has been painting for almost five decades. He is a self-taught painter and […]
There was no lack of creativity and innovation at the annual Saint John’s College Junior College expo. Every year, the students get the opportunity to test and expose products and services. This year, there was a wide range of items, from sweets to jewellery and a product that opens up opportunities to put sargassum to […]
