A woman was shot just before eight o’clock on Tuesday night. Thirty-four-year-old Ambrosa Bernardez of a North Creek address was not the intended target in an ongoing gang feud. She was sitting with friends at the entrance of an alley in Queen Square when a gunman fired shots in their direction. He missed his target, […]
Grayson Cadle remains in a critical condition tonight in the hospital. He is the twenty-one-year-old who was burnt to seventy percent of his body when a butane leak inside his neighbour’s apartment sent off an explosion on Monday evening after four. Cadle has since been placed in an induced coma. According to his mother, Marianne […]
But the road to recovery may be long for Grayson Cadle. And that is why his best chances may be at an overseas medical facility for burn victims. According to Marianne Cadle, they are working with Yvette Burks of the Burn Victims Mercy Fund to get him to the U.S. But while costs and logistics […]
Former four-term city councilor Phillip Willoughby took up the post of Operations Officer with the National Emergency Management Organization in April, following a stunning defeat of the United Democratic Party’s slate in the March seventh municipals. Willoughby landed the job with NEMO just a few weeks after the election loss and was touted as having […]
The Belize Territorial Volunteers is not happy with Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington for comments he made in an interview last Thursday, July fifth, while speaking at a ceremony where the United Nation Development Programme and the US Government announced technical and financial support towards the I.C.J. campaign. When asked about the I.C.J. campaign, Elrington said […]
Attorneys for the Government of Belize are fighting yet another lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court by the indigenous Maya community of southern Belize. The claim brought against the Office of the Attorney General was first reported in April 2016 and has to do with a sixty-acre swath of land in Jalacte Village that was […]
Two women and a man were sent to the hospital on Monday evening after an explosion at an apartment building in Belize City. A faulty butane cylinder in one of three apartments on the lower flat of the building at the corner of Mopan and Mahogany Streets caused a leak and when a stove was […]
There are questions on whether the explosion could have been avoided? Well, according to the fire officials, having a butane cylinder inside a house is a hazard and even more so when the tank is corroding or faulty. Monday’s explosion in a residential area could have been disastrous. Today, Station Officer Orin Smith warns about […]
The location of the fire at the corner of Mopan and Mahogany Streets sits directly across from Brown’s Gas Depot. Had the fire not been contained, it could have proven dangerous. Station Officer Orin Smith explains the dangers of gas depots within residential communities. He says that Brown’s has been there for a very long […]
Five days after he was shot to the head in a home invasion, American expat Clifford Kirk, died this morning in a Baltimore hospital in the United States. Kirk and his wife had been coming to Belize since the 1980’s and years ago they settled in Ambergris Caye. Last week Thursday, a group of armed […]
The Belize Solid Waste Management Authority, a statutory body, has recovered all of its assets that were crow-footed during a writ of execution carried out on behalf of Vision Architects on June twenty-ninth. At the time, all of the office’s equipment, including furniture, appliances and vehicles, were seized for auction. The crow-footing succeeded a twenty-one-day […]
According to the Solicitor General, an appeal has since been filed, challenging the outcome of a lawsuit in which the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Vision Architects. Despite the expiration of the twenty-one-day period, Hawke says there is the likelihood of permission to be granted for an appeal out of time. Nigel Hawke, […]
Former four-time U.D.P. city councilor Phillip Willoughby is one of four candidates running in Port Loyola to represent the ruling party as standard bearer in the 2020 general elections. Along with Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, former Deputy Mayor Dean Samuels and Shane Castillo, Willoughby was preparing for an upcoming convention in that south side constituency. […]
Tonight, three persons are the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after a fire broke out inside a home on the corner of Mopan and Mahogany Streets in Belize City, dangerously close to Brown’s Butane Gas Depot. Around four-thirty this evening, a loud explosion was heard coming from the lower flat of a two-storey concrete house, after […]
A Belize City man from Racecourse Street, who was shot just after midnight on Sunday, died hours later at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Twenty-two-year-old Emerson Talbert and two other persons were playing video games, a favourite pastime, when he was executed. The group was at a house on Cemetery Lane when Talbert was ambushed […]
A U.S. expat Clifford Kirk remains hospitalized in the United States where he was flown to for emergency medical treatment following an attack on his life. Kirk’s house is located about ten miles from San Pedro and last Thursday, he was gravely injured during a home invasion. Today, a trio of alleged robbers was taken […]
No one has been detained, but police on Sunday afternoon made a massive bust of drugs, firearms and ammunition for the AK forty-seven rifle in northern Belize. The police proceeded to the village of Chan Chen which is located off the Philip Goldson Highway and not far from the northern border, an area known for […]
Two months later, police have cracked the murder of Jason Sutherland which occurred on May third. Twenty-nine-year-old Sutherland was in his yard on Cemetery Road when he was shot by a man who monitored him from a nearby store. Veris Ventura, a resident of Hopkins is facing murder charges after police picked him up a […]
There are two issues that appear to be in conflict and are consuming the national debate on the ongoing re-registration. There is the issue of how the law treats Belizeans living overseas and the issue of Guatemalans who can register and vote. BUFERHD, a group representing Belizeans living abroad, has written to the Prime Minister […]
Another bone of contention relates to naturalized Guatemalans who are allowed to re-register and vote. The group says that allowing them to so do is in violation of the constitution of Belize. Minister Godwin Hulse also commented on that matter. Godwin Hulse, Minister of Immigration “With respect to registering people who were former Guatemalan […]
Twenty-five-year-old Akeem Vargas was shot multiple times early on Thursday night as he headed to his Wagner Lane’s house. He is the first murder victim in the city in seven days in an area that has been relatively quiet for years. A gunman emerged near Simon’s Alley and opened fire; two bullets hit the young […]
Sixty-year-old Clifford Kirk is on his way to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland in the U.S. for medical attention following Thursday’s shooting in San Pedro. A local non-profit called “Triple R” short for ‘Rickilee Response and Rescue’ works with Charity Air to help transport victims and coordinate transfers for extreme emergencies. Kirk was shot […]
A system has strengthened to become the first hurricane for the 2018 season; Beryl is not heading this way and expected to weaken before landfall. But on Thursday evening, a freak storm damaged at least one house in its direct path. It happened during the downpour in Ladyville caused by two tropical waves crossing over […]
Belize signed on to the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, UNCAC, on December ninth, 2016, becoming the hundred and eighty-fourth signatory to that agreement. Earlier this year, a scheduled visit by a team of experts from Tuvalu and Haiti to conduct an assessment of the country was postponed at the eleventh hour, eliciting sound criticism […]
Despite the disparaging remarks made by the N.T.U.C.B. against the island nations of Tuvalu and Haiti back in March, a meeting with the UNCAC representatives has also been scheduled. According to Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, he is steering clear of the consultations in order to avoid the perception of influence by his office. Michael […]
