This week, Rein Paulsen, Director of FAO’s Office of Emergencies and Resilience, along with Adoniram Sanches, FAO’s Subregional Coordinator for Mesoamerica, visited Haiti to support the incoming FAO Representative, Pierre Vauthier, in bolstering international cooperation and raising awareness on the dire humanitarian situation on the
Police are investigating the death of sixty-one-year-old Ubaldo Guzman, after he was chopped to death on Thursday night. Guzman had been drinking at home in Santa Elena when an argument between him and his drinking companion turned violent. Reports are that Guzman attacked the other
An investigation is underway into the circumstances that resulted in the mysterious death of a man who was in police custody in Belmopan. Twenty-six-year-old Daniel Cal was detained on September sixth after being found in possession of a stolen motorcycle. While in lockup, he began
Tonight, the Belize Police Department has one of its own in custody, following a shooting incident shortly after midnight on Friday. Twenty-nine-year-old Jeneah Arzu, a police officer attached to the Prosecution Branch, was at home on Trinity Street when her boyfriend, Kendale Nunez, arrived at
On Thursday afternoon, fifty-three-year-old Ana Chanim and another unnamed woman were injured when a piece of concrete fell on them at the Novelo’s Bus Terminal here in Belize City. Chanim was rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after the cement fragment injured her right
For the first time since the construction of the National Assembly Building, the parliamentary proceedings are being held at another location so that the building can be renovated. The George Price Centre for Peace and Development will for the next twelve months, be the venue
Taiwan has been Belize’s diplomatic ally since October eleventh, 1989, and Belize has benefited from Taiwan’s friendship under both U.D.P. and P.U.P. administrations. Today, Prime Minister John Briceño presented a motion to celebrate our two countries’ thirty-fifth anniversary of those ties, a motion that got
During a break for House Committee matters, the media got an opportunity to speak with Barrow and asked him to explain his refusal to support the thirty-fifth anniversary of Belize-Taiwan relations. He said, as he had blurted out in the House, that Taiwan has basically
With all the internal wranglings in the U.D.P. over the past few months, the Opposition has whittled to the point where the seating arrangement in the House of Representatives has also been changed. Today the media noted with interest that the Leader of the Opposition,
Before the day was done, Prime Minister John Briceño chided the United Democratic Party on how their internal rifts have resulted in a weak opposition. He encouraged the members on the other side to deal with their differences and to – in his words –
