OCEANA Concerned About Environmental Clearance Given for Port of Magical Belize channel5belize.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from channel5belize.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Paul Lopez
“While this was happening, was she still breathing, or did it appear as if she had already passed away?”
Kalia Staine
“She still mih the breath, she stop breath when time she mih the ovah deh the look fuh guh cross.”
Venecia had been living on Antelope Street Extension in Belize City with her sister Beverly and had not visited home for the past two years. She had come to spend Easter weekend with her mother.
Beverly Staine
“Venecia come home over fuh enjoy himself, nuh come mek no problem with nobody. Knowing that this mih ah be my sister last. I can’t even guh eena my house. You know weh I do fuh sleep? I had to pick up my sister pillow hug it up, just fuh smell ah. I can’t sleep.”
Feb 1, 2021
Belize Port Authority Requests that Port Projects be Suspended
The Belize Port Authority wants all port development projects suspended immediately. Chairman of the Belize Port Authority Retired Major Lloyd Jones has written to Chairman of the National Environmental Appraisal Committee, Martin Alegria, informing them that approval has been given to develop a national port policy. The policy is to de-clutter the port landscape and to guide the national port development agenda moving forward. Chairman Jones writes that the initiative is not expected to take more than four months. And until a national port policy is finalized, the Port Authority asks that all proceedings related to any port development be suspended. Just recently, environmentalists voiced their opposition to the development of Port of Magical Belize on the south coast of the Sibun River. In the letter, Jones tells Alegria that the Belize Port Authority Act empowers the minister to grant licenses f