Tonight, there are additional details being shared about the deadly chopping incident that claimed the life of seventy-one-year-old Porfiria Morales. The elderly woman was hacked to death by a neighbor on Saturday morning, following a brief exchange of words while Miguel Angel Gomez was reportedly trimming the hedges outside of his home. According to Morales’ […]
Police have arrested and charged a minor with last Monday’s stabbing death of Carl Kevin Lamb, Junior on Antelope Street Extension. The seventeen-year-old is charged with murder in the presence of his mother. Lamb was attacked by a group of young men last week Monday as he walked on an unnamed street in the area. […]
Former Belize Defense Force soldier Albert Moreira was the last person to see his ex-wife alive before she went missing in October 2018. Several days later, the badly decomposed body of Felina James was discovered along the Coastal Road approximately two and a half miles from La Democracia Village. Not far from her corpse was […]
Since travel restrictions have been lifted, there has been an increase in tourist arrivals to the Jewel. In an update, the numbers have been up to almost ninety percent of the pre-COVID figures and it is believed that the upcoming high season for the industry will see those numbers return and possibly surpass 2019 figures. […]
Over the past two weeks, the Ministry of Tourism and Diaspora Relations has been actively attending high-level meetings with regional leaders and tourism counterparts in the Caribbean, as well as engaging with Belizeans living in the U.S. In the Cayman Islands, a delegation of senior officials from the Ministry of Tourism and Diaspora Relations, headed […]
What about the recent meeting with Belizeans living in the diaspora? Minister Mahler says that the meetings in New York and Washington D.C., for which Prime Minister John Briceño was present, explores the opportunities available from Belizeans living in the diaspora for the socio-economic development of the country. Anthony Mahler, Minister of Tourism & […]
The Minister of Civil Aviation and senior officials from his ministry are still in Montreal Canada attending the forty-first Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization Sixth Plenary Meeting. During his address today, Minister Andre Perez emphasized on Belize’s plan to improve its airspace. This follows recent discussions to advance Belize’s aviation industry as a […]
This is only a first step that will include a feasibility study and seeking investment partners. And so for this Belize air cargo hub to be realised, the ministry is turning to countries that have successfully explored this aspect of the aviation industry. Andre Perez, Minister of Civil Aviation “We have had talks with […]
It’s a popular restaurant and nightspot where tourists and locals visit in Hopkins Village for the best food and cold drinks. But in June of this year, Ella’s Cool Spot was intentionally burnt down. Though momentarily fazed by the incident, the owner regrouped and decided to muster whatever courage, and money, she had left to […]
If you’ve noticed the construction of new food stalls on Mahogany Street and the digging up of that stretch of road between Lake-I Baptist Church and the nearby police precinct, that’s because works are underway to transform that main artery into a commercial hub for food vendors. The idea, according to everyone involved, is to […]
And, still in Lake Independence, residents of Holy Emmanuel Street, those living in the Gungulung area, can now enter and leave the neighborhood without having to traverse London Bridges. The Belize City Council was in the area today assessing work that is presently being undertaken with assistance from Lake-I Area Rep Cordel Hyde and the […]
On Monday, Minister of Rural Transformation, Oscar Requeña delivered the keynote address virtually at the Fourth Urban Economy Forum in Toronto, Canada. Requeña posited that the events of the last couple years, including COVID, the war in Ukraine, the impacts of climate change, high fuel prices and cost of living have forced us to rethink […]
According to Minister Requeña, the Government of Belize recognizes its role in creating the enabling environment for local and urban economies to thrive. He said that with the support of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center, the government recently took on an initiative to develop a concept paper. This is for the advancement of a […]
As we have reported, the Belize Supreme Court granted the Belize Bus Association judicial review in a case it is bringing against Floralia and the Department of Transport. B.B.A. is contending that there are improprieties in relation to Floralia’s entry into to the public transportation system. We caught up with Minister of Transport, Rodwell Ferguson […]
And, as we have told you the Minister of Transport has set a deadline for December to allow members of the Belize Bus Association time to present their plan of action for mandatory upgrades to their fleet of buses. The deadline has caused quite a stir among bus operators, but Minister Ferguson says those operators […]
Senior officers in the Belize Police Department will be receiving training in leadership and management skills over the course of the next two weeks in Belmopan. Senior Officers Development Training kicked off this morning with its first cohort of commanding officers. Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says the training was developed to increase the efficiency […]
The National AIDS Commission (NAC) is encouraging Belizeans to be prepared and always saddle up, through the launch of its Behaviour Change Communications Campaign. The campaign was launched on Monday, to promote correct and consistent condom use, as well as available services, including Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), H.I.V. self-testing, and Hepatitis B vaccines. A release from […]
Last week, we took you inside the Belize International Institute of Neuroscience on University Drive, to find out more about their E.E.G. technology and the good it is doing for brain patients. Tonight, we take a look at a second of medical equipment at BIN that is helping Belizeans to address a number of conditions […]
