The old Capital’s murder spree started on Saturday morning when a resident of Wagner’s Lane was brutally riddled with a barrage of bullets. Forty-four year old Joe Hamilton was murdered near his home. According to reports, Hamilton’s body was found at the corner of South and Plues Streets. He had sustained gunshot wounds to the […]
A father of two was the weekend’s fourth murder victim in the lawlessness that engulfed the streets over the weekend. Abner Rodriguez last saw his family on Saturday evening after six. Thereafter he went out with friends, and by midnight when his wife called him by cell for the second time, she got the horrific […]
While four murders were added to the rapidly growing list that now stands at a staggering thirty-three, charges have now been levied the murder of a Lebanese born woman. On Friday, police arrested forty-five year old Mark Anthony Diaz, a construction worker of Roaring Creek Village in Cayo for the Murder of Isis Nassar. The […]
As we said earlier, the four weekend murders sent the government scurrying for solutions. The police met in emergency over the weekend and this afternoon Prime Minister Barrow along with the ministers of police and defense, flanked by the top brass of the Belize Police Department, the B.D.F. and the National Coast Guard held a […]
In the public outcry on the escalating crime situation, there is a plea to implement capital punishment. According to P.M. Barrow, the death penalty is still very much part of the law; however, there have been cases where sentences have been lessened depending on the nature of the homicides. Again he reiterated the urgency to […]
Back to the prime minister’s press conference this afternoon. Undoubtedly the issue of preventative detention was initially met with protest from the Belizean public when the matter arose in 2010. When asked if retaliatory action taken by Belize City gangs is the result of measures taken by the Gang Suppression Unit, Minister of Police Doug […]
Another measure that the government is contemplating to fight crime, is to seek funding for equipment and training. Dean Barrow “I am committed to finding now additional money for the security forces; in particular the police department, for bullet proof vests, additional firearms and additional radios. I will get a costing from the minister very […]
There’s one more tragedy to report that occurred during the weekend of bloodshed, but the death of thirty-year old Ionie Westby was not the result of street violence. Ionie was killed in a horrific accident between miles nine and ten on the Western Highway. The Placencia resident was behind the wheel of a blue Ford […]
The price of fuel is consistently erratic. The pump prices have been anything but stable and last week Thursday’s changes were not the last. Sunday night the prices changed once again. While diesel remains the same at a whopping ten dollars and forty two cents a gallon, premium and regular are far from being acceptable. […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow went on an official visit to Mexico last October when he met with President Felipe Calderon. They agreed to expand the facilitation of trade and investment between the two countries and today a step was taken toward that goal. A contingent from the Association of Suppliers of Quintana Roo (ASQ) arrived […]
One of six workshops among African, Caribbean and Pacific countries is taking place at the Biltmore Plaza. Personnel involved in fisheries management from the ACP are reviewing the progress of numerous fisheries programs and the sustainability of the sector. Three million Euros or more than six point seven million Belize dollars will be spent in […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s this week’s rush of Sports Monday. Thirty-three of the rising stars in Belizean Cycling suited up for the 12th Annual Junior Cross Country Cycling Classic which blasted off from the Succotz Ferry to complete a 73.9 mile journey that would finish in front of Leslie’s Imports here in […]
A teenage girl is in stable condition after her boyfriend reportedly stabbed her in the neck and leg at his shack this afternoon. The girl, seventeen year old Stephanie Wagner suffered stab wounds to the left side of her neck and leg during a domestic dispute with her boyfriend, nineteen year old Linsford Baldwin. The […]
There hasn’t been a local plane accident since the tragic death of Sir Barry Bowen in February of last year, when his plane crashed near San Pedro. But this morning, a Tropic plane veneered off the runway of the Municipal Airstrip. On board were its pilot and seven passengers; luckily no one was injured. When […]
On Thursday, heavily armed police showed up at the junction of Faber’s Road with the Western Highway. They took eviction orders to a community of squatters ordering them to move forthwith. With guns on the ready, the police blocked access to their houses but finally as night approached the settlers were allowed back into the […]
You will know by now that last Saturday’s platinum artists were a no show as advertised for the concert featuring Shyne, the Music Ambassador and son of the P.M. The buzz was that the mega concert was a pre-release party for his latest album, where two surprise artists would perform. Thousands of persons paid fifty […]
Two vehicles collided head-on just before the lunch hour. The accident caused a traffic jam on the Northern Highway, in the area of the Haulover Bridge. One of the drivers, a Chinese national, was injured and had to the taken to the hospital for medical attention. The highway was eventually cleared and the damaged vehicles […]
Motorists are experiencing slight gas relief at the pumps this weekend after several consecutive price hikes over the past three months. The cost per gallon of premium and regular gasoline was negligibly reduced at midnight on Thursday by eleven cents, putting the new prices at eleven-forty and eleven-thirteen respectively. Diesel has seen a six cent […]
Earlier today we caught up with Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington, the Minister of Foreign Affairs at a CARIFORUM ministerial meeting. The subject of Marcel Cardona’s “constructive resignation” from the U.D.P. was raised with the Minister. The U.D.P. told Cardona on Monday following his outburst at the House last Friday that it will accept his resignation, but […]
Stevedores employed at the Port of Belize Ltd. say they are contemplating industrial action over what they are claiming to be a deliberate act of union busting on the part of its management. According to members of the Christian Workers Union, the company, owned by businessman Luke Espat, is attempting to box them out of […]
Five Foreign Ministers and senior officials from the seventeen countries that make up CARIFORUM, which includes CARICOM countries along with the Dominican Republic, are in Belize for the eighteenth meeting of the Council of Ministers. CARIFORUM is specifically the mechanism created in 1992 for cooperation between CARIFORUM and the European Union. During the meeting, the […]
Fifty year old Jeremiah Pott pleaded not guilty to a charge of Grievous Harm last Thursday, after a fight that landed his brother, Fedencio Pott in a coma. Jeremiah told the court back then that when Fedencio woke up, they would work things out since the incident happened while they were both drunk. But that’s […]
If you drove past stop lights at Cinderella Plaza or on Central American Boulevard this morning, you may have been wondering if the circus came to town. There were three men juggling each time the traffic lights turned red. The three men from Argentina are amateur jugglers, and they have been juggling for dollars, to […]
HL’s, a well known burger joint in the past decade, has wound up and closed its locations around the old capital. There have been several former employees that have worked along with the company for many years and they have been unsuccessful in finding employment in these hard times. Some of them are single mothers […]
The buzz last weekend was a major concert, involving Belize Musical Ambassador, Moshe Levi Ben David, also known as Shyne. That event turned out to be anti-climatic, but there’s another concert coming up this weekend that promises some positive entertainment for the youths. It’s the YC Gospel Concert and the featured performer is DJ Nicholas […]
