The political thermometer is heating up on both sides of the political divide and if you were downtown today you’d have thought that the People’s United Party was staging a rally at the Battlefield Park. It wasn’t, but one of its own was protesting against the party leader. Leonard Chavarria Jr. has been on the […]
Although a good education was the focus of all involved in Friday’s dispute at Sadie Vernon High, the teachers and the administration clearly have not found a suitable middle ground in working towards that goal. Over three hundred students were sent home while the teachers complained of several injustices including the firing of two teachers. […]
According to the United Nations, nearly two point five million people from one hundred and twenty-seven countries are being trafficked around the world. The annual revenue derived from trafficking in persons is estimated to be in the billions. It is a brisk trade and victims are often sorted into categories of bonded labor, forced labor […]
A Chinese grocer is tonight lucky to be alive after being grazed over the head by a bullet during an armed holdup on Saturday night. Forty-five year old Jian Liang Li, proprietor of Liang Kee Fast Food near mile two and half on the Northern Highway, was the victim of an attempted robbery when a […]
Earlier we told you about Leonard Chavarria’s woes with the P.U.P.; on the other side of the political fence, Mark King was home safe. You will remember him as the whistle blower against Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya, and more recently, he took a swipe against the UDP for rejecting his application to run as […]
A police pursuit on Saturday morning caught the attention of many onlookers at the busy intersection of St. Thomas and St. Joseph Streets. It happened close to midday and a number of police officers were involved. But up until late this evening, there have been no official reports by the police in their daily blotter; […]
The second accident over the weekend was on the Western Highway between miles two and three. Twenty-six year old Braulio Esquivel, a bus driver of Belize City, was travelling in a 2000 Nissan Frontier pickup from Fabers Road towards Western Avenue at about three forty-four on Sunday. A green Jeep Grand Cherokee heading in the […]
Prejudice and victimization are strong words coming from the teachers of Sadie Vernon High school in describing the current relationship with the school’s administration. By ten thirty this morning, the administration sent home the entire student body of over three hundred students while the teachers complained of two hard working co-workers who were fired, in […]
The Sadie Vernon High School drama is far from over. According to the teachers, next week they will hold a formal press conference in which they will detail many instances of questionable decisions made by the administration. And in the interest of education, they will also discuss how to re-establish the integrity of the school […]
While education is the cause of distress at Sadie Vernon, a tool on which most teachers and students use on a daily basis, is the cause of a deep knife wound. Twenty-three year old Elizabeth Martinez remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight following a near fatal stabbing incident across from her home […]
If you can make it to Sunday without heading to the pumps, you can save some cash because the prices of fuel are going down at midnight on Saturday. The decrease is minimal and the prices of premium and regular will remain above ten dollars but every penny counts when you are trying to make […]
You can’t have strength and vigor without mental health; that was the general sentiment among nurses and representatives from both the private and public health sectors this morning. They came together for the launch of a countrywide training program to equip community nurses to care for mentally challenged patients. The course was made possible through […]
To be of sound mind you must also be of sound body. Mental health is improved and balanced with physical activity. And one of the most physical sports in Belize is improving the outlook of its younger members while promoting sportsmanship in a competition that is attracting local and foreign talent. The Shotokan House of […]
The 2008 plot to kill a Belize City businessman and the kidnapping of his family members made many in the business district tighten the security measures at their establishments and at their homes. The cold blooded details are just coming to light. After over two years behind bars, the Supreme Court trial for five of […]
Belize City police are tonight seeking two male suspects whom they believe carried out a daring late evening shooting on Wednesday. While there were no fatalities twenty-six year old Derrick Clarke and fifty-six year old Rose Arnold were both struck a number of times as they stood on Wagner’s Lane. The gunmen, police say, drove […]
The continued stability of the sugar industry has been the center of debate in political circles as well as on the hallowed and fertile ground that the caneros of Orange Walk and Corozal have tilled for generations. But the speculation on how the owners of Belize Sugar Industry will obtain the millions of dollars needed […]
The need for new financiers is not the only issue that B.S.I. is tackling. The disrepair of turbines at the BELCOGEN Plant has shut down production in what is expected to be a very successful year for cane farmers. Carballo said that the repairs are going on schedule. Via Phone: Belizario Carballo, Finance Director, B.S.I. […]
The wave of crime throughout the country has resulted in an abundance of studies, plans, documents and well intended workshops to curb violence. But the latest initiative by the Ministry of Police and Public Safety is actually not geared towards the male participation in violence, but towards you, the driver and the cyclist. According to […]
San Pedro is an ideal location for skydiving and the activity has taken root on the island for the past few years. So when we saw Tsunami Skydivers hovering above the island today it was no strange sighting. But we learned that the skydivers from the US are not only in Belize for a bird’s […]
Recently the British government announced that it is downsizing its troop numbers at BATSUB Headquarters in Price Barracks at Ladyville. Over a hundred of the one hundred and sixty local employees will lose employment over the year. But while locals who work at BATSUB are about to receive their final pay slips, the civilian employees […]
Twenty-three year old Harrison Jacobs, a resident of San Pedro was today charged with the murder of Francis Figueroa, also known as Bejohn Wade, which occurred on the island in November, 2010. Jacobs, who was captured in Belize City, was arraigned in Magistrate Court number five on a single charge of murder. The body of […]
A brazen, late evening shooting near downtown Belize City has landed two persons inside the emergency room at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. As many as twenty-one shots were discharged on South Street at its intersection with Wagner’s Lane. When the smoke cleared in the area also known as Jump Street, two victims lay on […]
Lavern Longsworth, also known as Anti-Christ, is facing a murder charge tonight. On July fifteenth, 2010, during a heated argument at her home on Castle Street, Longsworth threw kerosene on David White, her common-law husband and set him on fire. Initially, the now single mother of three faced an attempted murder charge, but since White […]
It’s a month and a half into 2011, and already there are eleven murders on record. While in the courts, four murder cases have fallen apart; leaving a total of six accused killers free to roam the streets. In three of those instances, the trials ended in a nolle prosequi because witnesses were too afraid […]
For the second time in one month, a tourist has lost her life while on a water expedition in Belize. This time the deceased is an eighty-three year old who died after she fell out of a canoe into ten-foot deep waters during a caving expedition in the Cayo District. The accident occurred around twelve-thirty […]
