The Inspiration Center, also the brainchild of Kim Simplis-Barrow, founder of the Lifeline Foundation, is scheduled to open its doors to children with disabilities in January 2014. Construction, according to the Special Envoy for Women & Children, should be completed by November. The second annual Inspiration Telethon was held in Belize City a few weeks […]
The United Belize Advocacy Movement (UNIBAM), the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender advocacy organization has taken its case to the court to have section fifty-three to be amended to legalize consensual sex between two adults of the same sex. UNIBAM and the gender policy, which supports other genders outside the male and female equation, have […]
A second pair of siblings is missing from the south. The Rash children went missing in August 2010 and they were never found. Tonight Independence Police are on the lookout for two children who have been reported missing by their parents. Jairo and Fanny Romero disappeared from the small village of Cowpen in the Stann […]
And even as they launch a manhunt for the missing siblings, Police are also investigating the murder of a Guatemalan national yesterday evening. Isaac Gutierrez, an employee of Mayan King in Southern Belize, was viciously chopped across the neck, allegedly by another employee, in his home on the Mayan King workers’ compound. Police believe that […]
Last week, ten Belizeans were deported from the U.S. after completing their sentences for crimes committed in that country. Another deportee is currently facing time behind bars for crimes in Belize. After being deported to Belize thirty-nine year old Francis Ramos, had lived with the aunt of thirty-three year old Michael Young. That bond between […]
Today, the second policeman alleged to be involved in the shooting death of O’Neil Anthony Jones in February 2010 walked out of the Supreme Court a free man. PC Lazaro Catch was charged with Abetment to Murder after a Jamaican national identified as O’Neil Anthony Jones was shot in the back and killed as he […]
The Sarstoon Temash Institute of Indigenous Management (SATIIM) will be hosting a press conference on Tuesday, to discuss a claim filed in the Supreme Court of Belize by SATIIM and the buffer communities of the Sarstoon Temash National Park. Executive Director Gregory Ch’oc is currently visiting the buffer communities of Barranco, Midway, Sunday Wood, Conejo […]
The thirtieth weekly drawing of the Sunday Lottery Draw was an unusual one, as in the middle of the drawing there was a malfunction of the automated lottery and jackpot machine. Introduced earlier this year, the machine had no hiccups during the first prize, twenty-one-fifty-eight, but the third digit of the second prize was skipped […]
The big news tonight is about the Chiquibul Symposium which was held in Belize City today, and we’ll get to that in a few. But first to the issue of rosewood, which burned furiously before settling to a slow simmer. Remember how exporters including the brother of the Deputy Prime Minister were allowed to sell […]
And from rosewood to the symposium on the Chiquibul National Park held in Belize City by the Friends for Conservation and Development…it signifies the launch of an intensive campaign to raise countrywide awareness of the value of this little known and understood mother lode of natural resources. The primary target of this focused campaign is […]
A team of ten men returning from the United States was received at the Phillip Goldson International Airport this afternoon. The group was not the remaining members of the Belize Jaguars who stayed behind following elimination from the Gold Cup tournament; instead, they are ex-convicts who have served time in the US penal system for […]
Thirty year old Elvira Ack and her husband thirty year old Lawrence Bol are both mourning the loss of their first child. Forty-eight hours after giving birth on Friday, July twelfth, her baby girl died. It was traumatic not only for the parents but for a country that is still waiting for justice following the […]
The habeas corpus application hearing of drug suspect Mark Seawell was adjourned for the umpteenth time this morning in the courtroom of the Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. In his previous appearance on July twelfth, the Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin noted that Seawell’s attorney Arthur Saldivar was not acting with the urgency the hearing merits and […]
The last murder in the city occurred eleven days ago when twenty-one year old Jamal Anthony Neal was gunned down on July eighth. Today, a University of Belize student, Jedd Burgess of Tibruce Street located in the Saint Martin’s de Porres area, Belize City, was taken to court for the homicide. Burgess, who was unrepresented […]
Another man is on remand for an alleged indecent assault upon a minor. Edilmiro Oliver appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court to answer to a single charge of aggravated assault of an indecent nature upon an eight year-old girl. The incident allegedly occurred on July first, 2013 and Oliver is said to have touched […]
Earlier this month, News Five reported on the presence of Mexican military planes in Belizean airspace. At the time there were persistent reports that on June thirtieth at least three planes with Mexican markings had flown as far down as Dangriga within Belizean territory. Lindsay Garbutt of the Department of Civil Aviation did not confirm […]
A Belizean, who has been missing following the murder of his girlfriend, is currently on INTERPOL’s wanted list. The International Criminal Police Organization, INTERPOL, is an intergovernmental organization facilitating international police cooperation. On September twenty-third 2011, nineteen year old Maritza Janet Santos was murdered inside the home of Michael Silva. Officers who arrived at the […]
During the Jaguars time in the Gold Cup Games played in three U.S. cities, the Football Federation of Belize suffered a slight embarrassment when one of its players was denied entry and sent back to Belize because on a previous trip to the U.S., he stayed longer than the time prescribed on his visa. But […]
Aggrieved families believe that there is a pattern of excessive use of force by the Police. There is the well-known case of Stephen Buckley, who survived two shots to the head and was left paralyzed on the left side of the body. Then there is Ryan Lozano from Ladyville who was shot and killed at […]
The third case occurred on May tenth when Punta Gorda resident, Rasheed Elijio was shot and killed by Police as he allegedly attempted to escape custody. That officer-involved shooting and two others are among the files which were sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions for advice. Last week, Cheryl-Lynn Vidal responded in scathing fashion, […]
The police department has confirmed that a cab driver who went missing on the job has been murdered. Forty Five year old Jose Maria Aguilar Umana disappeared on July seventeenth. At four-fifteen on Wednesday afternoon, his partially decomposed body was found in the “new housing area” off the George Price Boulevard in Belmopan City. How […]
Fifty-year-old Charles Bucknor, a carpenter of a Belize City address, remains tonight on lockdown at the Belize Central Prison after being denied bail for committing the crime of aggravated assault of an indecent nature upon a twelve-year-old girl. It is reported that on Tuesday, Bucknor performed oral sex on the minor. In court today, Bucknor, […]
After a heartbreaking loss to Cuba on Tuesday afternoon, which crushed their hopes in the first round of the Gold Cup, the players of Team Belize returned home early this morning from Hartford Connecticut where the last game was played. The Jaguars failed to qualify to the second round after consecutive losses to the USA, […]
Coach Ian Mork did not make it back…it is not because he is leaving the team, but because he stayed in the U.S. to deal with personal matters relating to his family. The players, however, were glad to be home today, but the lingering blues from Tuesday’s game against Cuba were evident. If you were […]
There are reliable reports coming out of Hartford, Connecticut that things got a little heated in the locker room after Cuba defeated Belize four zero because emotions were running high. And even as the players got on the bus back to the hotel after the game, the disappointment in the outcome of the game was […]
