The exercise should have taken eight to ten weeks, but it took five and a half months to get to the seventy-nine thousand households across Belize - and then six more months to compile the information. And it was all presented today - the good, ...
"For the past 5 years we are doing this at Bird's Isle venue and this year we had 300 children and for the 5th year the Belize City council has co-sponsored this event. When Cleon approach me in 2006 and he spoke to me about basketball, ...
And now to the story of the police operation this morning in Belize City. It was staged between 4:00am and 10:00am, with the Special Branch, CIB, CIU, ADU, Patrol Branch, Traffic, Violent Criminal Apprehension Program and the Belize Defense Force ...
And before we leave tonight, we remind residents of the Belize district about a major, district-wide power outage scheduled for tomorrow morning. It starts at 5:00 am - with a three hour outage which will affect the entire Belize district. ...
Ten days ago we told you about the onion situation - where local farmers can't sell their onions, and they're blaming the Belize Marketing and Development Corporation as the local onions rot. And, at the same time, the BMDC - which imported onions from ...
Two weeks ago we told you about Thomas Donahue, a US Citizen on the FBI's most wanted list who was caught in Corozal. A release form the US Department of Justice says that the 44 year old has been indicted after a search at His apartment on February 24 ...
Belize City Police have yet to make an arrest for the stabbing of Elvis Rhamdas, 41, a fisherman of Central American Boulevard, who is on life support at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. He was viciously stabbed at ...
Glendford Bucket” Bermudez, 44, a former Belize Defence Force soldier, was found guilty in the Belize Supreme Court on Wednesday evening, April 27, of murdering his estranged common-law-wife Raquel Requena, 40, almost four years ago. ...
The dismissal of civil rights activist Moses Sulph from the Public Service earlier this month appears to have become a public relations disaster for the Government of Belize. Sulph, the President of Citizens Organized for Liberty ...
Mrs. Aracely Vasquez of Rockstone Pond in the Belize District is the Woman Farmer of the Year. Mr. Fernando Orellana of Bomba Village in the Belize District is the Junior Farmer of the Year. Senior Farmer Mr. Edgar Tzib is a good example of a ...
Plunkett, who neighbors describe as a hardworking family man and the father of three, became this year's 42nd homicide victim in Belize. A neighbor used the family to rush the bleeding man to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. ...
The United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM)'s challenge of the constitutionality of the law which criminalizes “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” goes before Justice Michelle Arana in the Belize Supreme Court on July 13-15. ...
Earlier in the Spring, ocean currents brought water north from Belize, past the resort towns of Tulum, Playa del Carmen, Cozumel and Cancun, until they ran out of coast and curled northwest around the tip of Cabo Catoche to form eddies that spun up ...
"Since the last population census was conducted in the year 2000, people have been taking rough guesses of what the number of persons living in Belize has been. Those figures have ranged anywhere from three hundred thousand to three hundred and fifty ...
Guest speaker at the opening of the Show, Senator Godwin Hulse noted that despite having some of the best agricultural lands, Belize has been maintaining a huge trade deficit for decades now. This he explained sees Belize exporting about four hundred ...
A taxi driver of the Belcan Taxi Service in Belize City is lucky to have survived a vicious attack as he made his way to take a passenger who hired his service. According to reports, fifty three year old Leroy Reid was stationed at the Belcan taxi ...
A US national who faced weapon and ammunition charges in Belize ended his life yesterday. “Police here indicate that American citizen James Scott Meinke who is in his mid 40s was taken to Punta Gorda Magistrate Court yesterday where he faced charges ...
A team of thirty-two professionals are in Belize through the efforts of Hands International, a California based non profit organization that gathers teams of medical professionals and travels to places where there are special needs and provides ...
If there is one thing for sure, the oldest cycle race this side of the Atlantic, the Holy Saturday Cross Country Classic, is here to stay; and Belize cycling fans will hold on to their Cross Country with pride, and hopes and dreams, “no matta what”. ...
In that regard, FC Belize owner Lionel Welch revealed today that his team is severely handicapped, as they are also being denied the opportunity to practice on the MCC Grounds. The BPFL is affiliated to the FFB, but Welch insists they are an autonomous ...
The Belize Coast Guard had been looking for him and today, he was discovered by a group of children swimming in the Old College Area. Amandala understands that Brown was the boat driver of a 22-foot skiff that was taking a group of 13 other passengers ...
A report carried widely in the US media over the past weekend titled, “Drug gangs muscle into new territory: Central America”, indicates that the drug plane that landed here in Belize last November, in the record drug bust of cocaine valued at roughly ...
Channel 5, a sort of British television station in Belize, will be broadcasting all the pomp and pageantry of the wedding, and it is quite possible that other media in Belize will do the same. Internationally, the value of the goodwill generated ...
Belize does not have “standing” national selections. These things are hurriedly thrown together a few weeks or so before whichever game is to be played, and the media are enlisted to hype the prospect of success when the preparation fundamentals have ...
In a bizarre story reaching our news desk tonight, yet another US fugitive was nabbed in Belize today, following a police raid that reportedly unearthed a stash of an unlicensed gun and ammo in Punta Gorda. Whereas the usual fate of such persons is ...
Some Toledo farmers are up in arms over a media announcement made yesterday, Wednesday, by Roque Mai, managing director of Belize Marketing Development Corporation (BMDC), that they will be accepting about 2 million pounds less rice this year than they ...
Around 4:40 Wednesday evening in the Supreme Court before Justice Herbert Lord, former soldier in the Belize Defence Force (BDF) and security guard, Glenford “Bucket” Bermudez, 40, was found guilty of murder by a jury of nine women and three men after ...
Belize Telemedia Limited (BTL) is suing 11 defendants, including former BTL chairman Keith Arnold and the parent company of Channel 5 – Great Belize Productions, for just over $10 million in damages because of the detachment of Katalayst Development ...
Belize is a land smooth and green, like a bedsheet tugged flat, with an embroidery of palm trees that only wrinkle and bump the landscape. We were staying on Caye Caulker, a tiny island just south of the larger, more famous and resort-crammed Ambergris ...
The first confirmed data from the Belize 2010 Census released today shows that the population of Belize is now estimated to be at over three hundred and twelve thousand compared to the figure of two hundred and forty thousand in the year 2000. ...
If they check the police at the police station - he is not on it because he don't mess with no one and I could swear for him and you could ask anybody around Belize that know him - knows that he is a hard working person and he don't give . ...
28 year old Scotsman Sean Newall is in Belize, one stop on a twenty- five thousand mile bicycle expedition. He plans to visit all 72 countries in the Commonwealth Group of nations in four years. The end of his epic journey is timed to coincide with the ...
At the end of their stay, an unlikely switch of the two newborns has not only triggered a ….but the incident could possibly ..become…costs Belize's …hospital . 27 year old Najat Zuniga was one of two women who checked into the KHMH last Monday, ...
"Twenty nine year old Kenyon 'Babunchi' Plunkett is the forty second murder victim for the year. The broad daylight homicide just before midday happened in this alley off Lakeview Street. It is right in front of Plunkett's workplace near Mikes Motor ...
Officials from the Belize Port Authority, the Department of the Environment and the Fort Street Tourism Village are assessing the damage of what is termed as an oil leak near the Fort Street Tourism Village this morning. “The news broke like hot lava ...
Belize as a founding member of the Mesoamerica Project has benefitted from the construction of the New International Bridge at the northern border built by Mexico, and has obtained funding from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration for the ...
Because the government operated Poly-Clinic and the island do not have an approved surgical and child birth facility to handle such emergencies, the only other option was to air lift the distressed mother to Belize City. ...
The final count indicates that Belize's population has increased by two point six five percent. The count has reached three hundred twelve thousand, nine hundred seventy one people from two hundred forty thousand two hundred four in the year 2000. ...
The Belize Red Cross today received a grant of sixty thousand Belize dollars to fund a project titled, “Hurricane and Flood Mitigation Micro-projects for Four River Valley Vulnerable Communities”. The funding was made possible by the US Agency for ...
The University of Belize is partnering with the Caribbean Learning Network to develop a national research and education network for Belize. Selwyn King is the Head of the Office of Public Information at the University. “It is designed to chart the way ...
Scientists from the region are in Belize for a three day workshop to share research data that impact climate change. Dr. Kris Ebi – Head, IPCC Tech Support Unit “This is the first time the IPCC has held these kinds of regional meetings and we are ...
In January 2000, Conteh became the Chief Justice of the Belize Supreme Court. In 2008 and 2010, Conteh authored two decisions affirming the common law doctrine of aboriginal title and the existence of Maya customary land tenure in the Toledo District ...
CITES also found that Mexico's legal protections are effective and adequately enforced, as are similar laws in Belize and Guatemala; and that there is a large enough captive population of the species to satisfy all domestic and part of the ...
The Belize Cycling Association will participate in the Pan American Championships, which are scheduled for May 1-8, 2011, in Medellin, Colombia. The following riders: Shane Vasquez, Ron Vasquez, Darnell Barrow, Byron Pope, Marlon Castillo, ...
The 77th Belize City senior female softball competition regular season started on Wednesday April 27, 2011, at Rogers Stadium the home of softball in Belize. This year's prestigious Belize City competition will feature four teams namely; ...
The Belize Bank Super League competition continued over the last week with four games across the country. On Saturday April 23rd, at the Toledo Union Field in Punta Gorda Town, the home team Paradise/Freedom Fighters blanked the visiting Orange Walk ...
The Belize Cycling Association sponsored its biggest one-day event on Saturday April 23rd, 2011, where some 133 riders participated in the historic 83rd Annual Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling event. The Annual Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling ...
On Friday April 22nd Christians from across Belize and the world for that matter, began the observation of Easter; where time is taken out to acknowledge the crucifixion, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's perhaps the most important ...
On Tuesday, April 26th, and Wednesday, April 27th, the ministry of Public Service held workshops and consultations on the plan to develop a National Information and Communication Technology system for the government of Belize. ...
That attempt has been done through political ads where he presumes to be championing the cause of the Belizean people and through GQ-like pictures of himself in some pensive posture appearing in the Belize Times. He's also gone so far as making ...
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...
The Mexican Embassy, under the “Escuelas México” Program invites all children in Belize between 8 and 12 years old to participate in the 15th Children Painting Contest, with the theme “How do you imagine Tourist Destinations in Mexico? ...
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...
The play-offs feature: Montserrat v Belize; Anguilla v Dominican Republic; US Virgin Islands v British Virgin Islands; Aruba v St. Lucia; and Bahamas v Turks and Caicos. The winners will join the remaining 25 higher-ranked teams from the region in the ...
A Belize City man who was charged with two separate counts, one involving an aggravated assault upon a minor and another of a grievous harm upon a woman was denied bail and remanded to the Belize Central Prison when he appeared in Magistrate's Court on ...
Every single year, the Superbond demands that the government of Belize make two payments, one on the 20th of April and another on the 20th of August. The next payment coming up in four months time will see the government coming up with $32990266.66. ...
Bartley who is a mother of 2 and a domestic of #4015 Oleander Street in Belize City was represented in Court by Arthur Saldivar. She is due back in court #1 on May 24th. Reports by police indicate that sometime around 1:15p.m. on Sunday April 24th, ...
The Development Finance Corporation of Belize has made available 3 million dollars for sugar cane farmers in the northern part of the country for the improvement of their crop. The program was launched on Wednesday April 20th at the Escuela Secundaria ...
Tonight a 16 year old Belize City resident is in the KHMH - on life support after he was shot this morning, collateral damage in a neighborhood gang dispute. But the victim Trevor Neal is not a part of any gang; he's a working teenager, ...
The GG is accompanied by Lady Young to the event which will be held on Friday 29th. April. The wedding takes place at 11:00 British Time, which means 4:00 am in Belize. For the sake of royalists and romantics, it will air on Channel 7.
"I've just had a text message from the Chairman of Telemedia, last night, telling me that he's now received, a firm offer if you will, from the group of Argentinian Investors that had made a couple of visits to Belize, that they had sent a draft letter ...
Puck and his common-law-wife 18 year old Maricarmen Zul Castro, a Mexican were taken to the Corozal Police Station where the drugs weighed in at 21 pounds, which has a street value of about two hundred and fifty thousand Belize dollars,if it is real. ...
Racquel Bermudez, a taxi driver and mother of 7, was shot to death around 1:30 pm on November 22, 2007, on the Burrell Boom/Hattieville Road between the round-about and Belize Central Prison. She was driving her car coming from prison when Bermudez, ...
Scientists studying the effects of climate change on small island states are being hosted in Belize for the next two days, as they share their findings on this Global phenomenon impacting small economies like Belize and sister nations of the Caribbean ...
Will sanctions be lifted form the Football Federation of Belize? As we told you last week, under pressure from the Sports Council, the FFB finally sent in its registration information as it is required, by law, to do annually. ...
Belize was no exception. Relief organizations fundraised for the rebuilding effort, while the government did its part, sending dozens of BDF soldiers to assist in both peacekeeping and reconstruction efforts. Now for the second time in a year, ...
A shooting incident this morning on West Street in Belize City has left a teenage boy in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial hospital. The victim has been identified as sixteen year old Trevor Neal. The incident happened around seven twenty ...
She was driving her taxi car coming from Belize Central Prison when Bermudez who was coming from the opposite direction swerved his blue car into her path and caused her to stop. Bermudez then got out of his car with a shotgun in his hand and shot her ...
Farmers claim that the market was over saturated with onions after the Belize Marketing and Development Cooperation imported onions from Holland around the same time they began their harvests in the earlier part of this year. ...
Standing firm on its motto through its official union song, “Solidarity Forever”, the Belize National Teachers' Union, BNTU, commenced its forty-first Convention at the Father Marin Parish Hall in Dangriga. Teachers hailing from across the country and ...
The Belize Marketing and Development Cooperation say they will be limiting their purchase of rice from Toledo Farmers this year. According to Managing Director, Roque Mai, in a meeting held with farmers on April first, they agreed to buy the same ...
Thirty soldiers of the Belize Defence Force Light Engineering Company were deployed enroute to Haiti yesterday as part of providing much needed humanitarian assistance to the people and the Haitian Government. Chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel David ...
Elvis Rhamdas, a fisherman of Belize City was seen lying on the ground in a pool of blood with a dagger in the back of his neck. Rhamdas was rushed to the KHMH and tonight he is on life support. According to police Rhamdas was ...
"For example about Friday evening about 5:30 pm while conducting a patrol in the river right in Belize City here, our patrolling unit came across a vessel and was about to board the vessel, the vessel did not comply and sped off, we set chase; ...
The first bag weighed in at almost 80 pounds while the second, weighed 58 pounds, a total of just over 137 pounds - with an approximate street value of more than twenty five thousand Belize dollars. The marijuana is believed to have been smuggled in ...
Over the long Easter weekend, many Belizeans took to the waters - but one group of fourteen city dwellers headed to Bannister Caye ended up having to be rescued by the Coast Guard after their engine failed and their captain was lost at sea. ...
My husband Tom and I sat in the running van, straddling the border between Belize and Guatemala, waiting for our guide George to complete the paperwork in the concrete immigration building. As he jumped in and shifted gears, George warned us it would ...
“Twenty-nine year old Kenrod Brown, was the captain of a boat trip that left Belize City enroute to Bannister Caye on Easter Sunday morning but they never reached. According to Aaron Tillett, who was on the boat with his cousin, the deceased, ...
48-year-old Lucilla Bartley a domestic worker residing on Oleander Street was charged with the murder of Osborne “Fish” Williams when she appeared in court today. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie did not take a plea from her because the offence is ...
One of the main focus about our party is the love for Belize, to have Belize with all its territorial integrity intact. we do things across the country so people can know that we are not a party that is going to focus all its energy in one area like ...
In the past 10 days, police have taken 5 handguns off the street. Last night they did themselves one better: they found a loaded, fully functional AK-47, that's the kind of machine gun that the BDF uses! The find was made during a joint ...
For some, the long Easter weekend means time for deep, reflective prayer, for others, it means going to Cancun or Playa, while others will travel to all corners of Belize, and some will stay at home, glad for the rest. But whatever you do this Easter, ...
We are Belizeans, after all we are representing Belize and we are going to give the people what they are asking for; love in our music." "This tour is really hard. Financially it has been a struggle, unfortunate we are not getting any support any at ...
Saldivar also commented on the situation with the Football Federation of Belize. As we reported a week ago, that body was blacklisted by the National Sports Council because it failed to register as required by law. But, today's news is that the mighty ...
COLA, The Public Service Union, and, now, the Belize National Teachers Union have all demanded the reinstatement of Moses Sulph. Sulph - who worked at the General Registry was terminated two weeks ago. No reason was given and none was required since he ...
55 year old David Harley McLain was expelled from Belize after being found in the Corozal district some time in late March. He was expelled from Belize on March 31st and arrested by US authorities when he arrived in Houston. McLain's crime? ...
Flowers was deported from the United States to Belize twice in 2001 and 2006. Another very interesting item coming out of the US court is that on April 19, 2010 Flowers was shot in the head, shoulder and hand in Murray, Utah. He survived but that's no ...
CAYE CAULKER, Belize, April 20, 2011 — A welcoming December day filled with island pleasantries lays ahead with an exhaustive list of things to do, and while choices can take you back to the mainland for tree top zip-lining or exploring Mayan temples, ...
Official information channels of the Belize Police Department have been deafeningly quiet about the Gang Suppression Unit's raid on James “Raindrop” Swan's home near Mile 1 on the Northern Highway which was carried out from 4:00 to 10:00 Monday morning ...
The National Cricket Team of Belize won third place by winning three of their matches, and losing two in the International Cricket Confederation Americas Division tournament held in Suriname last week. Panama had the same record of 3 wins and 2 losses ...
The girls of Centro Escolar Mexico won the Northern Regional Championship of the Association of Tertiary Level Institutions of Belize, at a tournament hosted by Corozal Junior College at the CJC campus in San Andres, Corozal district on Sunday, ...
An investigation by The Reporter this week has revealed that Belize's major electricity provider, Belize Electricity Limited, has been overlooking hazardous conditions of electricity supply to villagers in the Bella Vista area of ...
The two men who have been identified as 35-year-old Linsbert Godoy, a resident of #32 Nargusta Street, Belmopan and 32-year-old Herbert Matute, a resident of #7649 Price Street in Belize City, were released on bail of $10000 each when they both pleaded ...
The riders will make a turn around the Columbus Park and head back to Belize City where they will end at Marine Parade. This year there are around one hundred and thirty riders registered for the big event. An additional twenty to thirty foreign riders ...
The Easter Holiday is here and families across the country are preparing for trips abroad or to other parts of Belize. It is one weekend where many families will be out of their homes and spending time with other family members and more than likely ...
The Police Department in conjunction with other law enforcement agencies continues to target "known criminals from the Mayflower, George Street and Queen Charlotte" areas of Belize City. It is part of their effort "to suppress criminal activities ...
By S Coward Community Action for Public Safety Programme (CAPS) which is aimed at efforts that will reduce youth involvement in major violent crimes in Belize City; and an Integrated Water and Sanitation Programme for the Placencia Peninsula - to ...
Police arrested and charged Middleton for keeping an Unlicensed Firearm and ammunition. Police also found a Luger 9mm pistol with magazine and five live rounds of at an abandoned lot on Queen Charlotte Street, Belize City. It turned out to be a firearm ...
Gilbert Domingo, Chairman - Hattieville "The evening when this thing supposed to happen I was around in the village and I met her earlier that day in Belize City and we talk and it was no big deal. For some reason she said there was a thing ...
The meeting was held in the City Center - the most decrepit and run down public facility in Belize. Months ago, the Mexicans promised to repair it or build a new one. So which will it be? We qustioned the Prime Minister who was the one who asked ...
The prime minister and the minister of works were there - except hthey said it's not about politics: "Poor people, particularly the people of Southside of Belize City merely require a chance and they will be surpassingly productive, surpassingly good ...
Going that way, it poses no threat to Belize, and may pose no threat to any land mass at all, but, as an outlier, it bears watching and could be an ominous precursor of what forecasters say will be an active hurricane season.
Belize's Jade Head is one of the most well-known masterpieces of pre-Colombian Mayan art - but jade, generally, was the most precious of stones to the Maya. You've seen the masterful creations, but what about the people who made them? ...
The Belize National Teachers' Union has joined other organizations in asking for the reinstatement of Moses Sulph to his post. A release from the BNTU says Sulph's termination is a clear sign of union busting. The union says it advocates the sharing of ...
The event is considered one of the biggest shows in Belize every year and thousands flock to the grounds for the two day celebration. Eugene Waight is the Chairman of the National culture and Trade show committee who told us more. ...
13-year-old Chelsey Orosco of Belize City has been reported missing. Sandra Flowers reported to police that on Monday morning she went to work and when she returned her daughter was not at home. Chelsey is of Creole descent, brown skinned, medium built ...
Over 300 youths joined the Belize City Council and Roses Classic International in dedicating their Easter holidays towards positive activities. The youths will participate in the 5th annual Roses International U-18 Basketball Tournament. ...
In adherence to the relevant legal frameworks and with respect for the national sovereignty of the countries involved, a high-level meeting on the Mexico-Guatemala-Belize border was held on April 15th at Mexican Navy headquarters in Mexico City. ...
Last week the President of FIFA visited Belize and basically told the Ministry of Sports to get out of the affairs of the Football Federation of Belize. The federation is being investigated by the Sports Investigations Committee which was commissioned ...
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...
He also has one count of of unlawful possession of Belize Police Department accoutrements being 2 pairs of Police number 1 working uniforms with 8 buttons, two police belts, one police cap with star, one black polo shirt with police marked on the back ...
The Police Department continues its crack down in areas in Belize City and on Tuesday morning they were back in the George Street area where they busted an area resident with alleged crack cocaine being hidden inside a man's sock. ...
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...
There is not a single legitimate investment in Belize that can yield more returns on the dollar than an investment made in Belize Telemedia Limited. The company has a long history of basically 'over performing'. It is likely that the fascination that. ...
Court prosecutor, Sgt. Carol Tucker indicated to the court that the men will be tried summarily in the Belize City Magistrate's Court on their next court appearance set for July 22. Godoy pleaded not guilty to the two counts of extortion while Matute ...
NADO's representative in Belize, Patrick Henry, explained that the drug testing started in Belize in 2008 and continues at the request of the Belize Cycling Association. Of the races that are conducted by the Cycling Association, they request which ...
At that tender age, a brother 9 years older than she was, raped her on the roadside, as they were going to visit their mother at Grace Bank in the Belize District, said Small. At the root of a big tree, she sat and cried, refusing to walk any further ...
Activist Moses Sulph was fired from his post as a date entry clerk the General Registry 11 days ago - and since then he has been silent. Sulph says he has spent the time consulting with his union, being strategic rather than emotional. ...
Belize consumes an estimated ninety thousand pounds of onion per week. But right now it might be a little more because today when we checked at the Queen Square market, onions were selling for one dollar a pound and only 20 dollars for a fifty pound ...
In July of 2010, we first told you about the case of alleged play-play policeman, 21 year old Aaron Wilson. He was accused of doing a whole bunch of craziness, and somewhere in there was the report that - while dressed in uniform - he picked up a ...
The Gang Suppression Unit came up with three guns over the weekend - and this morning they descended on George Street. An early morning search of an abandoned building on George street yielded a magazine for an M-16 machine gun, loaded with twenty five ...
The project is the brainchild of Belizean American Cleon Hyde - who has partnered with the Belize City Council to make the event an annual one. "It's a two-week tournament. We have kids between the ages of 9 and 18 year-old. ...
According to the spokesperson for the Belize Bureau Of Standards, only two scales have been verifies so far countrywide. We have learned that those scales are for two companies that sell only BNE butane. But, all the other importing companies, ...
The incident occurred on April 16, 2011, at approximately 2:48 pm, at the Customs Excise Department in Belize City. Both Godoy and Matute had only been employed as customs officers for two months prior to this incident. According to police, Wetekamm ...
The managing director of the Belize Marketing Development Corporation (BMDC) is claiming that the local farmers started producing ahead of schedule and that the wholesalers are driving the price down. On the other hand, the chairman of the Corozal ...
Aaron Wilson, 21, of Belize City, who is most familiar to the public as an impersonator who is accused of falsely assuming the identity of a police officer, was today found guilty on two of four non-indictable charges in the #1 Magistrate's Court. ...
The prosecution today formally recorded its intention not to seek the death penalty, based on its research of the established legal principles and guidelines regarding capital punishment in Belize. Among those cases are Patrick Reyes v the Queen (2002) ...
They have been unable to market their product because, according to one of the farmers, Max Hernandez the Belize Marketing and Development Cooperation has imported a large amount of onions saturating the market. “The center of this problem is ...
“15 of the most high energy gang members and affiliates from one of the most challenging areas of Belize City have been taken on by the Ministry of Works. They will be dispatched to jobs in the rural areas of three different districts. ...
The Government of Belize and the Inter-American Development Bank has signed two loan contracts each in the amount of five million US dollars for the financing of projects. The monies will be used for the Community Action for Public Safety Programme or ...
The Public Service Union of Belize today called for the reinstatement of Moses Sulph to his post as a data entry clerk at the general registry in Belize City. Sulph who was employed as an open vote worker was fired on Tuesday of last week. ...
When the Social Security Board announced last November that it would spend fifty million dollars to purchase ten million shares in Belize Telemedia Limited, PUP activist, Glenn Tillett, said he was outraged. He filed an action in the Supreme Court, ...
Fires in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and Central America The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured fires burning in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras ...
Right now I am writing this from South Water Caye in Belize, so this entry is going to be decidely less “Deep” than the normal posting at DSN. Unfortunately I'll also have to submit it to Kevin after I get back stateside since there is no internet here ...
American Jules Fred Weterkamm was all set to retire in Belize. So when he arrived at the Phillip Goldson Airport on April sixth, like all those foreigners seeking to retire in Belize, he should have gotten all his property brought in duty free. ...
A James bus conductor was held at gunpoint and robbed in front of a bus load of passengers. It happened on Friday around midday. According to the conductor - Ernest Mangar, when the bus stopped by Rogers Stadium to let off passengers, two young men got ...
And while those youths were playing basketball on one side of Sugar City, over on the other side, Love FM was holding its sixth annual Band Fest. With over twelve competing bands, more than twelve hundred participants and spectators from across the ...
Caroline Westby, you've heard her on the radio, seen her on this newscast a number of times, and more recently, she was featured in one of those I am Belize profiles. So we shouldn't have to say that her credentials are impeccable. ...
Murder number 37 for 2011 is not just another statistic, not just another old beef turned into blood on a street corner; the victim is an 84 year old - former Prim Minister George Price's younger brother, Samuel Price. Price lived alone at a home at ...
"So now these mines are used in training in Belize." "Yes these mines have been used in Belize. At the moment we do not have any of these mines, so we don't have any of these mines in the BDF, so we don't have them." So, again - NO LAND MINE WAS FOUND ...
The Belize Telemedia National Under 15 and under 17 Championship was held in Orange Walk Town at the Sports Complex. The Championship is the culmination of a massive national under 15 and under 17 tournament in every district where over 70 teams ...
