In February of 2015, the Founder of World Famous Hummingbird Highway Tamales, Bertha Lisbey passed away at age seventy-eight. But business continued as usual as her daughter, Aurora carried on the tradition at the well known location. But less than a year after, tragedy struck once again because on New Year’s Eve, the popular shed […]
Even in death, controversy seems to surround Pamela Bennett. Late this afternoon, police were summoned to the businesswoman’s residence where irate members of her family were gathered. Their bone of contention is that attorney Audrey Matura-Shepherd, along with someone considered a stranger to Bennett’s siblings, had entered the house on Caesar Ridge Road and removed […]
So far we have reported on the road fatalities, murders and other crimes. But there is some good news that prompted celebrations over at the K.H.M.H. The birth of babies is always a joyful occasion, so when we headed out to the hospital to meet 2016’s firstborn; we also had opportunity to meet the proud […]
A special constable attached to the Orange Walk Formation of the Police Department is tonight in a stable condition at the Northern Regional Hospital after he accidentally shot himself in the foot, while in hot pursuit of an escaping prisoner. Just after six this morning, Special Constable and Prisoner Warden Lenardo Bol and several other […]
In his New Year’s Address, released on Wednesday, Prime Minister Barrow acknowledged that the landscape in 2016 will be different than that of 2015, and a significant feature of that change will surely be spending. At least where government expenditure is concerned, 2015 was a time of plenty because there were four elections, including the […]
Don’t go all melancholy just yet though. Government has successfully campaigned on massive infrastructure works, and Prime Minister Barrow says that for the most part, that will continue in 2016 and beyond. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “There is enough that we have set aside from the PetroCaribe days of plenty, to complete the countrywide […]
An investment agreement between Belize Electricity Limited and the Social Security Board concludes today, ending a three-year preference share purchase. In 2012, S.S.B. infused much needed capital into the cash-strapped utility company by purchasing ten million dollars in stocks. As part of the agreement, S.S.B. was also able to acquire five million dollars in debentures […]
As we approach the final few hours of 2015, it is with the news that at least at this hour there have been no murders reported on the Southside of Belize City for the month of December, and only eight in the last six months. Those are unprecedented statistics, and a stark contrast to early […]
Interestingly, the decline in violence was not a result of strong-arm tactics by the Police, nothing to do with the infamous GSU breaking down doors and bones. Apparently, it’s quite the opposite. According to Commander of Eastern Division South Chester Williams, community police was able to achieve what no show of paramilitary force ever did. […]
At eight o’clock tonight, we will be revisiting the ten most impacting news stories of the past year. Indeed, 2015 was an eventful calendar which included four elections, massive overnight flooding in the city, a string of related murders in the Cayo District and a tragic fire at the Princess Royal Youth Hostel. Despite the […]
But don’t take Williams’ word for it, or be impressed by a title bestowed by a random media house. He says that the statistics don’t lie, across the board, and are testimony to the effectiveness of the new style of policing he brought to the previously violent Southside. Sr. Supt. Chester Williams, Commander, Eastern […]
At midnight on Sunday, the pump prices of fuel spiked, thanks largely to G.O.B. increasing import duties on Premium, Regular and Diesel. That import duty increase, tacked on to an increase in acquisition costs, led to Regular fuel going up to a controlled price of eight dollars and fifty-two cents in the city. But even […]
A fire on Antelope Street Extension has left a single mother and her two children without a roof over their heads. On Monday night in Belize City, a pair of unsupervised children playing with matches started a fire inside the room of Geneve Armstrong. The inferno damaged most of her household items and the mother […]
At end of day Tuesday, three persons were missing in the Belize District – a sixteen-year-old female from Los Lagos, a sixteen-year-old female from Ladyville and a twenty-two-year old Guatemalan female from Vista del Mar. In at least one of those cases being handled by Ladyville Police, there is some good news. Guatemalan Mindy Espino […]
Today, the officers of the Eastern Division South conducted their final meet and greet exercise for 2015. We’ve followed the Police through some of the notorious hotspots in the city as they’ve tried to get the community in an interactive frame of mind. This afternoon, we caught up with them on Albert Street and they […]
It isn’t exactly mainstream news or a riveting item, but Chester Williams has been named the man of the year by the Amandala Newspaper. Williams returned from law school earlier this year and was placed in charge of the very volatile Southside of the city, always an iffy prospect with the very active gangs which […]
An overgrown area of Roaring Creek Village, often used by criminals to escape the reach of local authorities, has been cleared by Belmopan police. After a recent shooting incident during which the suspect evaded capture, Superintendent Howell Gillett wasted no time in organizing a task force of inmates from the Belize Central Prison to spearhead […]
International Yoga Teacher Yogi Charu is in Belize to schedule trainings for Belize City youths to become yoga teachers in their communities in 2016. Charu, who’s based out of New York, was born and raised in Belize City before learning the skills and techniques of the Hindu spiritual discipline. He is partnering with Michelle Williams […]
So how will the initiative get the youth to participate? Well that’s where Days of Healing and its Executive Director, Perry “Sticks” Smith comes in. With the organization’s assistance, a total of fifteen youth yoga instructors will be chosen for the course which starts in July of 2016. Perry “Sticks” Smith, Executive Director, Days […]
The vicious attack of ninety-three year old Patrick Grant over the Christmas holiday weekend has sparked outrage. Several organizations including HelpAge Belize along with its sister N.G.O.s under the National Council on Ageing, today condemned the acts of violence against elderly persons. The NCA release says that, “since October of this year there have been […]
According to Bulwer, only a small percentage of the elderly population in Belize currently receives direct support services from organizations such as HelpAge; the others, in most cases, have been left neglected. Bulwer asserts that violence against older persons is underreported and there is need for government to put in place policies to protect this […]
There is tentatively good news for Cuban migrants stuck in Costa Rica following a SICA meeting held in Guatemala on Monday. According to reports, an agreement has been reached for an undisclosed number of Cubans to be flown out of Costa Rica to El Salvador, and bussed from there to Mexico, and then on to […]
For years, there have been efforts to preserve all aspects of the Garifuna culture. In 2010, a trio of Garifuna activists, including Roy Cayetano, Canon Jerris Valentine and Cassian Nuñez, decided to initiate an annual competition as a way of motivating the formation of wanaragua camps and improving the quality of performance. This resulted in […]
At midnight on Sunday, officially, pump prices for diesel, regular and premium fuel increased – diesel by eighty-one cents a gallon, regular by ninety-seven cents a gallon and premium by seventy-two cents a gallon. The thing is…world oil prices continue to trend downwards, resulting in lower fuel costs worldwide…but not in Belize. So what’s the […]
The release from government states that acquisition costs are expected to decline significantly in the coming weeks, in line with declining world oil prices. Pump prices are, consequently, expected to stabilize – below nine dollars for premium, below eight dollars for regular and below six-fifty for diesel fuel. In a fuel aside, we note that […]
