Missing teen, Jaswant Brooks has been found. He was murdered and dumped in some shallow waters in a patch of mangroves off the George Price Highway. As we’ve reported, eighteen-year-old Brooks went missing on Monday morning after he left home and was later seen riding his bike on Police Street. His family has been searching […]
Twenty-nine-year old Alrick Carcamo was shot after eight o’clock on Thursday night but his lifeless body was not found until two years later in the south side of the City. Carcamo was visiting with friends on Racoon Street Extension when he was ambushed by a masked gunman. He ran for his life but succumbed on […]
Belize has been removed from the list of non-cooperative jurisdictions following a meeting of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council of the European Union which was held in Brussels today. The change came after the recent amendment to International Business Act as well as the promulgation of the Economic Substance Act of October. The government […]
The ruling United Democratic Party is gearing up to select its new leader and the process is causing a major rift within the party. Belmopan Area Representative John Saldivar is going up against the Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber. Faber launched his campaign in September with support from members of the party’s central executive and […]
Orange Walk North Area Representative Gaspar Vega continues to enjoy all allowances made available to him by the Government of Belize, despite no longer being assigned a portfolio. Since he was stripped of his ministerial responsibilities, amid a land scandal involving his son back in 2016, Vega maintains twenty-four hour police presence at his Clark […]
Opposition Leader John Briceño has also commented on the re-emergence of Gaspar Vega, his political opponent in the north. Vega appeared on Sunday in support of John Saldivar at Saldivar’s launch for the bid to the U.D.P. leadership. As we said there is speculation that Vega might be making a comeback and Briceño says he […]
At the Supreme Court this morning, the well-known former executive director of SATIIM, Gregory Ch’oc was called to the bar. Ch’oc gained national prominence for his work to promote the rights of the Mayas and his fight against oil exploration. His views to advance the indigenous people pitted him against the government to the point […]
In the courtroom of Justice Colin Williams, the case of forty-five-year-old Albert Martinez concluded. He was spared jail time after taking a guilty plea to the lesser charge of causing death by careless conduct in the fatal traffic accident that took the life of six-year-old Ashanty Pollard. Martinez who had originally been indicted for “manslaughter […]
After public outrage peaked, the Cabinet Secretary, Carlos Perdomo, on October-thirty first announced that the forty-thousand dollars debt owed by Joshua Perdomo, his son, had been paid. This is after the government wrote off the loan, citing that Perdomo could not be located. Perdomo was to return to Belize after his study leave, but did […]
And since the government was quick to write off the Joshua Perdomo loan, the People’s United Party is calling on the Barrow Administration to do the same for hundreds of financially challenged students. The P.U.P. points to the recent statement from the University of Belize where a hundred students are at risk of being de-registered. […]
On October twenty-sixth, a statutory instrument signed by Minister of Natural Resources, Hugo Patt was gazetted. Through that S.I., the government extended the most recent land tax amnesty. The amnesty gave landowners who owe land taxes time to settle their debts beginning December first. The S.I. extends the deadline to June first instead of April seventh, […]
Every Thursday, for the past year, Belize City youths have been converging at a community basketball court in Belama Phase Two for the Ball is Life tournament. The tournament, however, was suspended on Thursday night after a player realized that the basketball rim and backboard had disappeared. The rims and boards were removed by the […]
A parliamentary forum on Food and Nutrition Security for a Healthy Belize took place today in Belize City. Members of the Belize Parliamentary Alliance against Hunger and Malnutrition gathered to discuss policies and legislation to advance and achieve the objectives of the committee. The Ministry of Agriculture has launched school gardens in several schools across […]
In November, sports enthusiast and former footballer Carlos ‘Charlie’ Slusher was appointed a new director of the National Anti-doping Organization, NADO, which was suspended from the Regional Anti-doping Organization following the Brandon Cattouse fiasco. Since then NADO has been getting back on track and today a two-day workshop focusing on the goals of NADO concluded. […]
International Radiology Day is being celebrated today across the world. In Belize, the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, which counts for the largest number of employees attached to a radiology unit, commemorated the day with a display and a walk through of the facility. Now, imaging is a critical part for medical diagnosis and is done […]
Doctor Barnabe Carrillo also spoke on the misconceptions about radiology and the effects that it can have on patients. Dr. Barnabe Carrillo, Head Radiologist, K.H.M.H. “It’s real that some of the imaging techniques that we use involve radiation and then it can have a negative effect on the body if it is not used […]
The Saint John’s Cathedral Church at the end of Albert Street in downtown Belize City is a landmark structure, having been erected centuries ago. Over the years, the building has endured its share of wear and tear, but now the historic cathedral has received a much needed facelift. The Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation […]
Ground was broken on Thursday morning in the Billy White community, Cayo, where a new preschool will be constructed in the months ahead. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Patrick Faber, along with Cayo Central Area Representative Rene Montero, attended a brief ceremony at the proposed site where the kindergarten will be erected. It […]
As you may know by now, last March the Department of Environment announced that a phase-out of single use plastics and styrofoam. Once that phase out is over, there will be no importation of items and if you are found with those items in your possession you can be charged. As we’ve reported over the […]
Benque Viejo police received sixty-thousand dollars worth of surveillance cameras. The donation was made by a security tech company called Belize VU and the technology and infrastructure for the project was developed by its sister company called Alternative Networks. A total of fourteen cameras were handed over today to the Benque police which will be […]
