Also in the Supreme Court, the case of the breakaway cane farming group, United Cane Farmers Association (U.C.F.A) came up before Justice Oswald Legall. That association is still seeking to find a way to legally move forward in an industry that has been dominated by the Belize Cane Farmers Association (B.C.F.A.). The solicitor general and […]
Almost two years after a murder in early 2008, a second man has been charged. An armed robbery of the Sanabria family of Cotton Tree Village in the Cayo District ended in the horrific murder of a twenty-two year old woman. Mirna Sanabria was fatally shot on the neck on February twenty-seventh at her family’s […]
Two months after the heinous crime, two residents of the same village: twenty year old Nelson Gibson and twenty-six year old Sherman Anderson, believed to have been monitoring the family, were arrested and charged with Robbery. Gibson was also charged for Murder, Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Wounding on April twenty-eighth, […]
And in Belize City, a man is clinging to life tonight after he underwent surgery for injuries he sustained early this morning. Alex Goff of Carmelita Village, Orange Walk, was transferred from the Northern Regional Hospital to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he fell unconscious when he was injured on the head. Police say […]
Nineteen year old Alrick Carcamo was shot at last Friday morning on Caesar Ridge Road. On Monday, Patrick Bevans was charged with Aggravated Assault for the shooting. Today, six days after his near death ordeal, the tables turned and Carcamo is being accused of retaliating against one of the two men who he claimed shot […]
In an early morning search on the Southside of Belize City, police netted eighteen pounds of marijuana stashed away in three bags in a couple’s yard on Faber’s Road. Shortly after six a.m., police went to the residence of forty-one year old George Abraham, a former cyclist who now works as a collector at Dooney’s […]
Following the upheaval in October at the University of Belize, changes are apparently afoot in respect of two posts: the Financial Controller, held by Harry Lui and Human Resources Director, held by Yuri Monsanto. In respect of the office of the Financial Controller it was revealed in October that millions of dollars were not reported […]
The latest crime figures have been released. The good news is that in the month of October, hard crimes such as murders went down compared to the September numbers. The statistics also show a decrease in carnal knowledge, rape and theft. But don’t hold your breath because there was marked increase in the number of […]
And before an arrest is made for a crime, a proper investigation must take place. That investigation normally includes taking interviews from possible witnesses. But by the time the witness statements are written down, the investigative process had already taken into account details of the scene. The scene of the crime is a virtual ground […]
Turning to the highways, the zoning of bus routes was first introduced in October 2008. That solved some problems but created others like in the case of the northern zone, which is tied up in litigation over road service permits. But come Monday, there will be new changes in the schedules for the western runs. […]
And the Belize National Dance Company has been in existence for over fifteen years under the artistic directorship of veteran classical and contemporary dancer, Althea Sealy. The company is known nationally and internationally for its style of dancing—mainly Belizean folk style and modern dancing. Sealy says the company has a busy schedule putting off concerts […]
In other news, Bishop Philip Wright wed Carla Suite of Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday. The announcement was made officially today by the Anglican Diocese that Bishop Wright and Suite tied the knot at Saint Paul’s Anglican Church in San Fernando, Trinidad. Since the bishop was the groom, Right Reverend Rawle T. Douglin, a former […]
It’s been ten months since the Westerhaven crashed into the reef, causing substantive damages. Since then two other ships, the CaribeMariner and the Azteca also ran into the reef. Azteca settled out of court, but today lawyers for the government and for the Westerhaven argued before Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. Deanne Barrow is representing the […]
On Pan American Day, October twelfth, a brutal home invasion occurred at Freetown Sibun, in Hattieville Village. An elderly Canadian couple that migrated to Belize were held up at gunpoint and robbed. But while inside the secluded home, the burglar attacked the sixty two year old woman and raped her. Police say that when three […]
In another criminal matter before the court, a Corozal man who was accused in 2008 by an eleven year old girl of carnal knowledge walked free on Monday when the child could not remember the exact date when the incident supposedly happened. Twenty-one year old Alex Garcia was freed by a jury of nine in […]
And a Jamaican national who absconded in December of 2008 after he was busted with a stash of marijuana was today convicted and sentenced in absencia. Even though he is not in Belize, fifty-three year old Eric Mills received a three year jail term plus a fine of ten thousand dollars, in default, an additional […]
Marisol Elizabeth Perez died one hour after she was born on Sunday and her parents attribute the tragedy to hospital negligence. It is not an unfamiliar allegation and a check of our archives shows that Marisol was the seventh child to pass away under suspicious circumstances in this year alone. The incidents come from the […]
The news broke on Monday that Cabinet has decided to privatize the nightly Boledo and Sunday lottery. A contract is being awarded to Brads, located at the Farmers Market, a favourite hangout for various government ministers. Government claims that by outsourcing the local lotteries, revenues will be maximized from point nine million dollars to a […]
It slipped under the radar but last Friday during a caucus at City Hall two Councilors went at each other in a heated confrontation. It happened after Councilor Roger Espejo questioned a contractor about the amount of material being delivered for a project under Councilor Wayne Usher’s portfolio. Espejo asked if the Council was being […]
The Comision Federal de Electricidad from Mexico, last week announced it was canceling its firm contract for electricity supply to the Belize Electricity Limited, one of the biggest utility companies in Belize. B.E.L. responded saying that it had the capacity to fulfill the energy demand. According to its C.E.O., Lynn Young, the Mexican supplier has […]
In respect of its challenges with the Public Utilities Commission, Young explained that B.E.L. has not been able to sit down in the past year with the P.U.C. and that all issues are taken to the courts for settlement. Young also spoke of the report of an independent expert who found that the P.U.C. was […]
There was a huge cry from City residents last year for the City Council to do something about the deplorable conditions of Albert and Regent Streets in downtown Belize City. The main thoroughfares were a nightmare to drive on. Finally, this year in January, the two streets were paved by the Ministry of Works and […]
A baby girl was born at two o’clock on Sunday afternoon at the San Ignacio hospital. One hour later, she died and the parents are alleging that it’s hospital negligence. The young woman is a first time mother from San Ignacio and her husband claims he was kept away from his wife during the ordeal. […]
Last week Thursday we reported on the sudden death of five day old Alexander Russel Faber. The parents, Rudy and Judith Faber say their realized that Alexander had shortness of breath two days after his birth. And three days later he passed away at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. An autopsy began today but the […]
While the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital has been under the microscope because of allegations of negligence and corruption on the purchase of medical supplies, a new Medical Chief of Staff has been appointed. It went under the radar, but about a week ago Doctor Bernard Bulwer, a cardiologist, was named the new medical chief of […]
