For more than 6 years, the Belize Progressive Party has been writing to the Election and Boundaries office asking for a polling station to be placed in the Indian Ville area. This is due to the fact that Indian Ville has a voting population of over a thousand. The BPP thinks that it is unfair…
On Friday members of the Belize Territorial Volunteers were back to the village of Otoshxa for a village meeting. At the meeting the villagers were discussing the incursions by the Guatemalans into their village and Wil Maheia of the BTV was there to participate and to help decide next steps.At the end of the meeting the…
Belize Territorial Volunteers back to Otoxa for a community meeting, Toledo community College and ITVET held graduation, and World Ocean day this coming Friday.
On Sunday, April 14th the St.Vincent Block also known as Cerro, many Garifuna people celebrated Garifuna survival day. Garifuna survival day is when the Garifuna people arrived in Central America after being evicted from the island of St Vincent and the Grenadines by the British.
For weeks now many people have been calling our newsroom complaining about indiscriminate logging. Well it seems like there is no end in sight for the raping of Toledo rainforest because even though logging season is officially closed the logs continue to leave our district. We tried to get an explanation from the Forest Department…
One of the newest clubs to Punta Gorda is the Punta Gorda Rotaract Club. This is a Rotary Club Partner that is primarily ran by young adults in PG. After hitting the ground running in August, they have already reached one of their goals which was to provide aid to primary school teachers during this pandemic. Last week, printing…
The 2nd Annual Summer Fest 2019 plans are underway and the organizers are out and about asking the general public to contribute to this event for it to be successful. It is promised to be bigger and better. Be generous and contribute to this worthy cause.
In our last newscast, we told you that the Prime Minister of Belize was in Punta Gorda. Prime Minister Hon John Briceno, commenced his national tour in the south visiting various government departments. During his tour last week, he visited the Sarstoon Forward Operating Base and spoke to the BDF soldiers to listen to their…
Last week a graduation ceremony was held for eight teachers at George Town Technical High school. There were four teachers from Julian Cho Technical High school namely, Evon Lino, Pedro Ack, Denfield Rodriguez, and David Iche and four from Toledo Community College namely, Shirlene Casimiro, Allen Zuniga, Hilton Garbutt, and Mark Tillett. What makes this…
The annual observance of the International Day of Disabled Persons was proclaimed in 1992, by the United Nations General Assembly resolution 47/3. It aims to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and development, and to increase awareness of the situation of persons with disabilities in every aspect…
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