The murders of Junior Triminio and Christopher Calderon remain unsolved, despite investigators impounding a vehicle believed to have been used in the flight of their killers. The deadly shootings took place in Orange Walk Town on Sunday, August nineteenth as the pair was socializing a short distance away from where a football tournament was being […]
There was a late evening shooting today. Just before six o’clock this evening, the security guard at the law offices of Courtenay Coye was shot and rushed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Early reports are that two men drove up in a car before opening fire at security guard Lazarus Jeffords, who was hit […]
The People’s United Party will not have to deal with Attorney Arthur Saldivar anytime soon and that’s because the second lawsuit he filed against the party was thrown out in its entirety this afternoon. After a four-hour hearing session, Supreme Court Justice Courtenay Abel dismissed Saldivar’s application for an emergency injunction, he was seeking, to […]
The Belmopan convention proceeds this Sunday as planned with Weizman Patt, Michelle Rodriguez and Oscar Mira. So is this the end of the Arthur Saldivar/P.U.P. saga? There is a default judgment pending with respect to his first claim in which Saldivar sued the party for two hundred and ninety thousand dollars in special damages. In […]
There was a robbery today in Caye Caulker, but quick police action helped to capture the two thieves and recover the stolen items shortly after the incident. It happened around two-thirty this afternoon at the Caye Caulker Gas Station that is located on Back Bridge Marina on the island. Fifty-year-old pump attendant Luis Choc was […]
Siblings Anthony and Jamie Archer perished on impact during a deadly road traffic accident along the San Antonio Road in the Toledo District on the evening of July twenty-fourth. The brothers were along with two other young men inside a Toyota Corolla when the driver of the vehicle lost control and overturned multiple times before […]
The top brass of the Belize Coast Guard headed today to Bacalar Chico, a national park. The occasion was the groundbreaking ceremony for a forwarding operating base at the strategic site, which is the nearest point between Belize and Mexico near the bay of Chetumal. The area has mushroomed into a hotspot for drug trafficking […]
It is the furthest island point east of mainland Belize and the country’s oldest protected wildlife site that is famous for diving and birding. Half Moon Caye Natural Monument of Lighthouse Reef Atoll is located fifty-five miles east of Belize City and is known as the home of the boobies. It attracts thousands of tourists […]
NICH President, Sapna Budhrani, has come under fire for her performance, or lack of it, at the job she took over in April. Earlier today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture Patrick Faber held a press conference to discuss the future of the Municipal Fair on September Tenth. We’ll share that with you later […]
But has the musical ambassador lost his place in challenging the appointment of Budhrani by the DPM, who is a senior member of the United Democratic Party, which he wants to represent in Mesopotamia? Faber points out that Shyne too was appointed as musical ambassador, but that he doesn’t work in his ministry. Patrick […]
The Regional Anti-Doping Organization has suspended Belize’s National Anti-Doping Organization. This happened on August fourteenth, following another absence by Belize’s rep Doctor Michael Pitts at a meeting of the Advisory Board in Cuba. According to the official letter that was copied to Minister of Sports Patrick Faber, this is the third consecutive time that Doctor […]
Minister of Education Patrick Faber confirmed today that a number of teachers will not be returning to the classrooms at Gwen Lizarraga High School. That high school, which falls within his constituency, has been consistently plagued by internal problems and the enrolment numbers have plunged; so much so that only three hundred and thirty students […]
Gwen Lizarraga High School remains in disarray, despite a new school year kicking off on Monday. That disorganized state is due in part to a protracted issue involving Principal Lorna McKay who has been benched while the Teaching Services Commission adjudicates a matter brought against her. Doctor McKay refutes allegations of financial misappropriation during her […]
Turning to crime…a twenty-four-year-old woman is the latest victim of an aggravated burglary which happened during the predawn hours of this morning. The young lady, a legal assistant employed by a well-known P.U.P. area representative, reported to police that she awakened by a strange noise inside her apartment shortly after three o’clock. When she got […]
Investigators have not recovered any of the money stolen from seventy-nine-year-old Harold Williams at his home on Monday afternoon. They have, nonetheless, made significant inroads in catching up with one man whom they believe was the mastermind behind the robbery of the elderly Kings Park resident. Forty-one-year-old Eugene Tillett has been arrested and charged with […]
There is grave news tonight that affects the sporting associations. That is that the National Anti-Doping Organization in Belize has been suspended in the wake of the recent case against Brandon Cattouse. Doctor Michael Pitts sits on the Regional Anti-Doping Board, but he has failed to attend meetings for the past three years. For that […]
The Arthur Saldivar/P.U.P. saga continued today with a meeting between the political aspirant and the party’s national executive. Saldivar, who is desperately fighting to contest the P.U.P. Belmopan’s convention this Sunday, was invited to present himself before the national executive. The meeting was to hear a presentation from him on why he should be allowed […]
The meeting took place at the party’s headquarters on Queen Street where we found Saldivar waiting for the decision of the national executive. He says he is standing up for his right to contest the P.U.P.’s Belmopan Convention. Saldivar asserted that the P.U.P.’s Vetting Committee did not follow due process. Arthur Saldivar, Political Aspirant […]
The People’s United Party’s National Executive today also took a decision on whether it will support taking the territorial claim to the International Court of Justice. Recently, the P.U.P.’s Cayo South Area Representative Julius Espat and the party’s southern caucus have both said ‘NO’ to the I.C.J. This is in contradiction to the P.U.P. Leader’s […]
NICH President Sapna Budhrani remains in the hot seat after being called out in the media by Music Ambassador Shyne Barrow who threw her under the bus for her appointment as president while still retaining the post of administrator. This morning, a meeting was held to discuss the allegations made, the result of that discussion […]
The prices for a gallon of premium gasoline increased at midnight on Tuesday. It went up by ten cents putting the new price at eleven dollars and seventy cents. The price for regular fuel is ten dollars and ninety-nine cents after increasing by three cents last week. Diesel fuel remains unchanged and sells for ten […]
Classes are set to begin next week at Gwen Lizarraga High School, where as we reported on Tuesday night, the new academic year is full of challenges and uncertainty. All indications are that a number of teachers will not be making it back in light of a record low enrollment of students. It means that […]
The Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts was bursting at the seams on Tuesday night for the grand finale of KTV, the Remix, even as social media lit up and viewers at home tuned in for the reveal of who would take home the ten-K grand prize. Five worthy finalists took to the stage to […]
It is not the first time that we have covered the administrative woes at Gwen Liz High School. Tonight, there are reports that a number of teachers are to be affected in what is being called a restructuring exercise due to a dwindling student enrollment. There are some three hundred and thirty-five students and as […]
A Belizean teenager was killed over the weekend in Chicago. Seventeen-year-old Darnelle Flowers, left Belize seven years ago, but he and his sixteen-year-old classmate, Raysuan Turner went missing on Friday. On Sunday, a search party, including family and officers attached to the Chicago Police Department, combed the area and soon later, the Flowers’ mother received […]
