At Tuesday’s special sitting of the Senate, President Lee Mark Chang announced his resignation as head of the upper house to pursue his political ambition of representing the United Democratic Party as a standard bearer going into the November 2020 general elections. His candidacy in Caribbean Shores, however, is contingent upon a victory at an […]
The Integrity Commission has appointed new members to serve a two-year term retroactive to January first. The seven-member taskforce is comprised of Armead Gabourel, Wilmot Simmons, Lisbeth Delgado, Nestor Vasquez, Claudet Grinage and Zoe Roberson-Zetina, and is chaired by Deshawn Arzu-Torres who was appointed on June first, 2018. The Office of the Integrity Commission was […]
In other government news, Minister of State in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Angel Campos has been reassigned as Minister of State in the Ministry of Human Development, Social Transformation and Poverty Alleviation. His new assignment took effect on Tuesday.
One of two motorcycle drive-by shooters was arraigned before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts-Anderson today for Sunday night’s armed attack on Pelican Street. Tareek Smith is charged with six counts: two each for attempted murder and use of deadly means of harm, as well as dangerous harm and wounding. His accomplice remains at large. Smith, a […]
A twenty-five-year-old man, Kendale Greene, has been remanded to prison after being accused of shooting Ronald Michael and two others on Sunday morning. Greene was arraigned this afternoon on four indictable offenses. He was charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm upon Michael’s common-law-wife Allane Usher and Christopher Hyde. He was additionally […]
Three persons, including a minor are recovering from chop wounds after they were reportedly attacked by a man they know. Police report that on Monday evening around six-thirty, forty-eight-year-old Victor Tzub and twenty-four-year-old Adan Rodriguez Melgar were at their home in San Roman Village, Stann Creek District, when a man they know attacked them with […]
There was a brutal attack on an elder taxi operator in the west. Sixty-eight-year-old Jose Roca of Arenal was attacked with a knife and cut to the left hand and under his chin by two men who caught his taxi from the Benque Viejo Bus Terminal to the western border. According to Roca, his attackers […]
The data on fisherfolk in Belize is out….today at Radisson, the Coalition for Sustainable Fisheries held a press conference to release the findings of data received from the Belize Fisheries Department through the Freedom of Information Act. The idea is to have government put in place a policy to phase out the use of gillnets, […]
Tourism Minister Manuel Heredia Junior will be heading to Cancun, Mexico next week for a meeting with other CARICOM members to discuss the issue of sargassum. The regional meeting will look at a plan to address the problem, which researchers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico say 2020 is going to be the worse […]
At noon on Saturday, hundreds of Belizeans created symbolic barriers against offshore oil drilling to commemorate the BP oil spill of 2010. It is part of OCEANA’s 2019 Hands Across the Sand initiative and today, Communications Director, Alyssa Carnegie shared some comments on the success of the activity which happens simultaneously across the world. […]
Consolidated Water Belize Limited, the sole utility in San Pedro that provided potable water to thousands of homes and businesses on the island of Ambergris Caye, was acquired by Belize Water Services Limited in February. Following the acquisition, BWS has been working hard to improve services offered to residents of La Isla Bonita, investing millions […]
A mother and son are accusing the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital of negligence. The mother, Maureen Staine, says she will also be suing the hospital after her son Steven Staine was discharged days after he was involved in a serious motorcycle accident in Belize City. At that time, Staine says doctors assured the family that […]
His mother, Maureen Staine, is furious because, she says, the doctors at the K.H.M.H. assured her that, following x-rays which she did not see, her son was well. Additionally, Staine says her son did not receive adequate service while being hospitalized. Voice of: Maureen Staine, Mother of Accident Victim “He just said everything is […]
The 2019 season of the National Elite Basketball League is in its finals and as fans predicted, the Belize Hurricanes is in the running for the trophy and the championship title once again. Now, it is an interesting finals series because both the Hurricanes and the San Pedro Tigersharks have won the title twice. This […]
An exhibition showcasing the art work of students in the Belize District opened today at the Mexican Cultural Institute. For the second year, the Belize District Education Center partnered with the Mexican Cultural Institute and the National Institute of Culture and History, NICH, to highlight the creative art pieces of children from preschool to tertiary […]
