There was a double homicide in the Corozal District last Friday. Two farmers were shot and killed in a cane-field in the outskirts of the village of Paraiso. As they investigate, police are perplexed at the murder and have no motive yet. The families of Rogelio Rancharan and Enrique Tayun are also searching for answers. […]
Police are investigating a weekend fire in City. A small house belonging to Arturo Pasos went up in flames on Saturday afternoon. Pasos lived alone in his wooden house off a London Bridge in the Lake Independence area. When Arturo arrived on the scene it was to find the Fire Department putting out the last […]
This morning, the final case management session for the claim of Curtis Swasey against Belize Telemedia Limited (B.T.L.) and M.M.R. Belize Productions, creators of the television game show Mek Mi Rich, was held before Justice Courtney Abel in the Supreme Court. Trial in the matter has been set for December third, 2015. Businessman Swasey claims […]
The Minister of Labour, Godwin Hulse, last Friday, blamed the local media for inciting the international coverage of the story of the rat that bit a baby in the incubator at the Western Regional Hospital. The video of the huge rat running around in an incubator also spread quickly on the internet as soon as […]
The National Trade Union Congress has plenty on its plate to deal with and among the myriad of issues, is the current situation involving Ray Davis. The President NTUCB, Marvin Mora contends that because of the political infiltration that is dividing the unions, they have been unable to move past the removal of Davis as […]
The National Fire Service is the recipient of a generous donation of equipment from the United States Government. This morning, U.S. Ambassador Carlos Moreno was on hand for the delegation of the items which include over two hundred flame retardant suits. The initiative, says Ambassador Moreno, is part of a wider effort to increase disaster […]
Any news about police breaking down doors and barging into peoples’ homes unannounced would practically be a non-story – not because it is right, but because it is basically an everyday occurrence. Evadne Scott, who lives on Raccoon Street Extension isn’t prepared to just accept that and move on. She claims that over the weekend […]
Scott took to the airwaves, and her story caught the attention of Commander of Eastern Division South Chester Williams. Williams today told us that Scott has gotten her apology, and officers have reportedly been told to exercise more care and discretion. Sr. Supt. Chester Williams, Regional Commander, Eastern Division South “I had visited the […]
Tonight there is little progress in the tragic death of twenty-nine year old Nolberta Sanchez. The mother of four died at the K.H.M.H. after giving birth to a healthy child and then undergoing what the family claims was a hopelessly botched hysterectomy at the Western Regional Hospital. Last week, the Ministry of Health brought in […]
Security guard Frank Baldaramos passed away last week, and he is scheduled to be laid to rest today. But there’s a big problem. His family says that they don’t have the money to cremate him, since they were depending on the normal fifteen hundred dollar burial grant from Social Security. They say that the S.S.B. […]
Negotiations between the Christian Workers Union and the local management of the soon-to-be dissolved First Caribbean International Bank are set to commence on September twenty-eighth. In a lengthy, mediated session on Tuesday evening, both parties agreed to maintain confidentiality over details of those discussions. At the heart of those talks is the financial wellbeing of […]
The police department has been on meet and greet initiatives for some time now and today Eastern Division South and North officers were out in the community meeting with residents in an effort to address crime. While officers were in Apollo Street, Urban Avenue, Beltex Avenue, and surrounding areas of Belama, across the bridge, on […]
The Belize Hospital Symposium 2015 commenced today at the Biltmore Plaza in Belize City. The event is the first of its kind in the jewel and was organized by Sagicor and Diversified Life Solutions (Belize) Limited. The two-day conference seeks to bring medical professionals, insurance agents and other stakeholders to the discussion table to look […]
But does Belize have the adequate facilities in place to deal with health conditions that are on the rise? According to Vice President of Group Insurance for Sagicor Life Inc, Patricia Brathwaite-Marshall, the purpose of the symposium is not to demean Belize’s health system, but to ensure that insurers as well as stakeholders in the […]
Three days short of a year, on September twenty-fifth, 2015, Belizean Tourism Police Special Constable, Danny Conorquie was murdered as he stood watch at the Caracol Archeological Site in the Chiquibul. The eighteen-year-old Georgeville resident was shot to the head by a group of men, believed to be Guatemalan bandidos, who illegally entered Belizean territory. […]
Independence Day was officially celebrated on Monday in the capital Belmopan with all the traditional pomp and ceremony. Apart from ogling the “who’s who” in government and society, including foreign dignitaries invited for the occasion, the highlights are always the addresses by the Leader of the Opposition and the Prime Minister. Over our years of […]
The address by P.U.P. Leader Francis Fonseca was brief and unlike previous years, there was no pointed criticism of government over critical issues. Fonseca seemed pensive as he spoke about the lessons learned from thirty-four years of Independence, but more importantly, what lies ahead. Francis Fonseca, Leader of the Opposition “What will we make […]
Fonseca also pointed out the critical importance of reform, though he wasn’t taking overt jabs at government. In fact, he seemed to be looking at both the P.U.P. and the U.D.P., who between them have each governed for seventeen years post-Independence. True development calls for qualitative change, not only of the economy but of the […]
The Sarstoon – actually the wider picture of Belize’s sovereignty – has been a hot-button issue in past months. Relations between Guatemala and Belize are not at the best point due to several incidents on the Sarstoon. There is the detention of Belizeans by Guatemalans in Belizean territory and also tense encounters between the military […]
After three hours of meaningful discussions which concluded at about six this evening, the deadlock between the Christian Workers Union and the management of First Caribbean International Bank has been broken. Both parties met in mediation with Labor Commissioner, Ivan Williams, and according to CWU President, Audrey Matura-Shepherd, the session was productive. Employees of FCIB […]
The recent passage of the Vesting Act to enable the buyout of FCIB calls to question the timeliness of the negotiations between the union and the management of the bank. Following the lengthy meeting, Matura-Shepherd told the media that had the prime minister acted in good faith, the ensuing action by employees of FCIB could […]
Rats and snakes at the Western Regional Hospital….even the international media has been covering the scandalous state of affairs of the hospital. Today, it was about the hospital’s laundry found on the highway. But back to the rats…on Friday, you heard the Minister of Health pointing fingers at Hospital Administrator, Bernadette Seaver, and Regional Health […]
The letter was issued to the vendors on Friday following a notice that the hospital administration was requesting a meeting with them. That meeting never happened and they were in fact served with the eviction letters, which were signed by Senior Health Inspector, Mark Bernard, and copied to the Belmopan mayor, the Belmopan area rep., […]
As we reported on Friday, the Belize Communication Workers Union, in a scathing release issued following the settlement of the B.T.L. nationalization, soundly criticized the Barrow administration, as well as the management of the telecommunications company. The BCWU also lashed out against the prime minister’s son, Anwar Barrow, who chairs the executive committee of B.T.L., […]
Matura-Shepherd also gave an update on negotiations between the CWU and Port of Belize Ltd. with respect of a collective bargaining agreement for waterfront workers. While the CWU president admits that there has been no management-union agreement since the port changed ownership years ago, she says that discussions thus far have been amicable. This succeeds […]
