It has been nonstop for Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers, who is still on maternity leave and returns to work early in November. This past Monday, the Mayor was a guest on Open Your Eyes, during which she touched on her battles at City Hall and with her party. Moya Flowers maintained she is not “meek […]
When she appeared on Open Your Eyes on Monday morning, it seems the mayor did not start her morning right and what she said struck a chord because today a statement purportedly written by her ally, Financial Director Dwain Davis, was being circulated to media houses. Davis, along with the mayor, has been charged with […]
Sunday morning’s accident on the Northern Highway ended the life of Kendra Smith Flowers. Smith, a newlywed, along with her husband of five months, were on their way from Los Lagos to Belize City to visit family when the vehicle veered off the road and into the Belize River. That happened at ten a.m., and […]
Sunday’s fatal accident also called into question, the state of the nation’s highways. The vehicle run-off into the Belize River occurred near a section of the highway that is being upgraded. Road conditions have become a concern and a priority of drivers who travel north and many people believe that if there were crash barriers […]
A Belizean has been found dead in neighboring Chetumal. His body was found on Sunday afternoon in a pool of blood and had multiple wounds. According to reports in the Mexican press, a woman spotted the body near a business named “Flores Magicas” located on Heroes and Lazaro Cardenas avenues. Mexican authorities say the driver’s […]
Cost of living is up. But just in case you weren’t sure about the inflation figures, a release from the Statistical Institute of Belize confirms an overall increase in price of goods and services. The Institute reports that the overall price level rose by point eight percent between May and August of this year. The […]
We have reported recently on the most unusual impasse between the Attorney General and the Judiciary. The Prime Minister for the most part appears to agree with the stance taken by the A.G. on many issues that have irked the judiciary. Today, we came across another report, this time involving the judges of the Court […]
The K.H.M.H. Commission of Inquiry was established when the three commissioners were sworn in at the Supreme Court on July thirtieth. But since then, little has taken place because from early August representatives from the Auditor General’s Department have been working on the audit of the national hospital. But that work is yet to be […]
The cost of dialysis treatment is exorbitant in Belize. Currently one dialysis treatment costs five hundred dollars and patients regularly require three treatments, weekly, a staggering sum for patients to come up with on a weekly basis. Well, a U.S. based organization has donated dialysis machines and organized an effort in a part of Africa […]
In court, the murder trial of sixteen year old Faron Leslie Felix got underway today. Felix is the son of Therese Felix, who in life became the poster girl against crime after the young man, was violently and gruesomely killed near his home when he was ambushed by gunmen who waited for him behind a […]
And a Belize City based businessman is a victim of deception and according to police, the culprit who managed to swindle over two thousand dollars in goods from him, is Vinoda Kannan Sigamani, a resident of Dangriga. The goods: hundreds of pairs of shoes. This morning, Sigamani appeared in front of Senior Magistrate, Dorothy Flowers […]
A shooting at Roaring Creek Village has left two men hospitalized. Sometime around eleven this morning, twenty-seven year old Dane Matute and eighteen year old Errol Gabourel were both in the Another World Area in the village resting after playing basketball when several shots were fired towards them from nearby bushes. Matute received injuries to […]
Chicago police have a half kilo of heroin in their possession and it might be linked to Belize. Thirty-seven year old U.S. citizen, Ryan Jaime, was busted with the package on Tuesday and was arrested in Country-Club Hills. The drugs were wrapped in plastic and hidden between two children’s books and a photo album, with […]
The Tropical Gaming Offices on Queen Street experienced a new record today…not for the size of the prize money of the Lotto, but the sequence of numbers and the number of winners. Before Saturday’s draw, the lotto prize had never been shared between more than two persons… so imagine the surprise when that amount was […]
Channel Five’s geek squad normally scours the internet for international news about Belize. In the past couple months, they’ve found a Belizean charged with attempted murder, reports on Belize’s high crime rate in the Economist Pocket world in figures, and indications of poor investor confidence in the Oppenheimer report. Well tonight they’ve found something else, […]
Things have simmered down between the faculty and students of the University of Belize and its board of trustees. The increment freeze for the faculty and staff has been removed and the discussions of tuition increase that would have affected students in 2010, postponed. Following a meeting between the representatives of the Board of Trustees […]
