The National Meteorological Service is keeping a watchful eye on an area of low pressure that is forming over the eastern Caribbean Sea, several hundred miles south of Puerto Rico. According to Chief Met Officer Ronald Gordon, there are several models being followed, including one which indicates that the system will gradually head west towards […]
According to the Chief Met Officer, while the system is being monitored, Belize is not in any emergency. Should the system become a threat to the country, the National Emergency Management Organization, NEMO, will be activated and a state of emergency will be declared. On the phone: Ronald Gordon, Chief Meteorological Officer “The bottom […]
While Belize is monitoring a possible tropical depression that can form in the eastern Caribbean Sea in the days ahead, Jamaicans are recovering from an earthquake that shook the island nation this morning. The epicenter of the seismic activity that measured five point six on the Richter scale was located roughly ten kilometers south of […]
The American Sugar Refinery/Belize Sugar Industries Limited (A.S.R/B.S.I) issued a press release today, informing of a record cane price that was distributed to all the cane farmers’ associations with whom it conducts business. The price of eighty-six dollars and twenty-eight cents per ton of cane is a new record for B.S.I. The last record high […]
But while the profit margins are bigger this year for cane farmers, there are quite a few areas where those added funds could be used to improve the quality of the cane they produce. Chavarria encouraged the cane farmers to give consideration to putting the profits to use so that the problems they face collectively […]
There has been a lower supply of over a hundred and sixty-four thousand metric tons of sugar. Chavarria says that the drought in 2019 impacted the 2020 crop significantly, but they believe the lower supply also had more than one contributing factor. Another reason was that some of the fields needed to be replanted. But, […]
Today in the High Court, Justice Farnese ruled in favor of a mother and daughter who brought a constitutional claim, following a charge of attempted murder that was initially leveled on the pair. Ormencia Pou and her mother, Irene Budd, filed the claim after their brother was deemed unfit to stand trial due to his […]
Land disputes go back thousands of years to settle differences over territories and land masses. Not much has changed, in that we still see countries invading their neighbour’s occupancy on claims that they settled there first. The conflict between Laguna Village, a Maya community and its next door neighbor, Yemeri Grove, a non-Maya community, goes […]
During the last week of April, Belize joined countries and territories of the Region of Americans to celebrate the Twenty-first Vaccination Week in the Americas and the Twelfth World Immunization Week. It was used to emphasize the significant role that vaccines play in protecting individuals and their loved ones, as well as highlighted the importance […]
During cancer awareness month, there was an observation to suggest that more young women were being diagnosed with cancer. Doctor Natalia Largaespada Beer says that the Ministry of Health and Wellness has been recording this data. Seventy percent of cervical cancer cases are in women between the ages of twenty-five to fifty-nine. It is caused […]
Are people still catching COVID? There have been reports of active cases, but the patients are exhibiting mild flu-like symptoms. Today, during an interview with Doctor Natalia Largaespada Beer, she says that positive cases are low and that people are still accessing the vaccine. Here’s an update from Doctor Beer. Dr. Natalia Largaespada Beer, […]
On Friday night, we were at the airport for the arrival of the STEM team from Pallotti High School that won gold at the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow Challenge in Panama. Today, the school held a motorcade for the team to celebrate the victory. We visited the high school to learn more about the all-girl […]
Today, fifty-three students at Excelsior High School in Belize City were recognised as leaders and inspiration to their peers. It is the institution’s student leadership program that seeks to motivate and inspire students to do better and excel as one of the best high schools on south side Belize City. A ceremony held this afternoon […]
Belize’s former prime ministers, Said Musa and Dean Barrow, are calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. A joint press release states, “We, the only two living former Prime Ministers of Belize, are sickened by the horrific toll in human life caused by the unspeakable, continuing tragedy in Gaza. Hamas’s killing of Israeli civilians and […]
The 2023 Belize International Music and Food Festival failed to turn a profit, despite significant monies from the public purse that were invested in the mega concert and food expo at the end of July. It’s been several months since the two-day event was held here in Belize City but, unlike last year, the Belize […]
Goodnight and welcome to another edition of Sports Monday, I am Paul Lopez. “Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward”. That is a quote from Vernon Law, former MLB athlete. And, on Friday night, the experienced champions Tuff E Nuff got a lesson from Belize Water Service in […]
