Port of Belize and C.W.U. at Odds; Cargo Ship Sits by Idly
A cargo ship with as many two hundred containers, waiting to be offloaded for delivery to customers across the country, remains docked at the Port of Belize Limited. The vessel [...]
A cargo ship with as many two hundred containers, waiting to be offloaded for delivery to customers across the country, remains docked at the Port of Belize Limited. The vessel [...]
Ted Peralta is the new chief executive officer at the Port of Belize Limited. He says that the Christian Workers Union decided on its own to go back on an [...]
With every passing hour that the stevedores remain inactive revenue is being lost. According to the C.W.U. president, dockworkers are not responsible for the stoppage. Additionally, Hyde says that the [...]
Prior to Peralta taking over as C.E.O., agreements involving the Port of Belize Limited and the stevedores had been entered into and discussions were had on the financial implications for [...]
Going back to the initial agreement between the stevedores and their employer, C.W.U. president ‘Mose’ Hyde says that because that arrangement was not workable, they approached the shipping agent directly [...]
The Port of Belize maintains that the C.W.U. is attempting to hold the country ransom by its actions, but is the company also playing hardball by effectively splitting the members [...]
Two persons lost their lives in separate shooting incidents over the past twenty-four hours. The first is a murder that was recorded on Wednesday night in Dangriga. A thirty-five-year-old father [...]
A man reportedly drowned at around one-thirty this afternoon, following a shootout between two groups near the Pueblo Nuevo Ferry. The man who drowned was reportedly along with one of [...]
Twenty-four-year-old Tehje Vaughan was granted bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars by Justice Nigel Pilgrim for the charge of manslaughter by negligence in the shooting death of her [...]
Around eleven a.m. today, a fire broke inside a wooden structure in the Lake Independence area of Belize City. Firefighters responded to the distress call and a short while after [...]
Founded by Rosita Baltazar and a troupe of dancers in 1990, the Belize Dance Company is a cultural preservation organization that showcases Belize’s many ethnicities in classical, contemporary and traditional [...]
Earlier today, the work of artists and their talents received tangible support from the Belize Society of Composers, Artists and Producers, BSCAP. The agency introduced a documentary entitled “Song Creation: [...]
We are less than a month away from the start of the rainy season and today at the NEMO Headquarters in Belmopan, a two-day workshop commenced on the implementation of [...]
A group of Mexican businesspersons from the Quintana Roo area have planned the first Bel-Mex business conference for May eighteenth and nineteenth in Belize City. Similar to previous joint Mexico-Belize [...]
It was fifty years ago, in 1973, that the Caribbean Community, CARICOM, was established under the Treaty of Chaguaramas. Belize’s membership took effect in May 1974. The Treaty of Chaguaramas was [...]
Former C.E.O in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, David Gibson shared how CARICOM leaders came to Belize’s support in order for the country to gain political independence in 1981, effectively [...]
May fourth has been recognized annually as International Firefighters’ Day since 1999. It was established following the death of five firefighters in a bushfire in Australia and the day is [...]
On Wednesday, we reported that with the Boledo frenzy temporarily suspended, the Scratch and Win game is an alternative that some people may decide to try. Last night, Scratch and [...]