On Tuesday night we told you about an attempted robbery in Orange Walk at New Hong Fua Supermarket located on the Corozal Road. Shortly before three o’clock yesterday evening four men, two armed with firearms entered the supermarket and attempted to rob the establishment. Owner, fifty three year old Guoqui Chen told police that one […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow during his quarterly press conference last week openly stated that he would be dissuading supporters of the ruling United Democratic Party from participating in a referendum to ban offshore oil exploration. Barrow’s position came after Oceana in Belize garnered the seventeen thousand votes necessary to trigger the referendum. Oceana’s Vice President […]
During this graduation season, there are often jitters and bouts of nervousness experienced by students as well as their families. Graduations are considered important milestones, especially when children are transitioning to adolescence and high school. Unfortunately, there is a twelve year old child in Esperanza Village in the Cayo District that has been banned from […]
A new writer has been added to the growing list of published poets. The Factory Books product line is proud to include seventeen year old University of Belize student, Bastien Cantareul. The youth’s collection, called Citizens of Decadence, is filled with forty poems of pure, though dark, emotions. Cantareul shared some of his poems at […]
From poetry to a local musician that easily blends in with the crowd. Dan Man is currently working on a new album but the funds are not easy to come by. Dan Man is actually selling copies of a song he recently recorded, a song that will be on that album. But unlike most musicians, […]
At news time tonight, the Belize National ‘A’ Team Selection, is getting ready to play against Montserrat on Wednesday. The group of nineteen athletes, led by goal keepers Shane Orio and Woodrow West, is in Trinidad where they will play Montserrat at the Ato Boldon Stadium in the first of a home-away series to qualify […]
Cabinet met today in Belmopan. One of the issues that it dealt with was a loan of fourteen million dollars, recommended by the investment committee of the Social Security Board to a company Nature Fresh Belize Limited, which was formed after Fresh Catch, owned by the Mena Group, went into receivership. According to a Cabinet […]
A ten-year old school boy of the Hummingbird Community was hit and killed by a Hilux pick-up truck at mile twenty-six on the Hummingbird Highway on Monday afternoon. The female driver of the vehicle, Martha Flamenco, is from the neighboring village. She was detained and released and charges, if any, will be determined by the […]
There was an attempted robbery at a store in Orange Walk earlier today. The details are still sketchy; however, it appears that New Hong Fua Supermarket, located on Corozal Road, was targeted by at least two thieves. While the store was not robbed, one of the assailants jacked a businessman, thirty-three year old Adan Awe, […]
At least three attempted murder cases fell apart last week when witnesses refused to cooperate and today an accused murderer was set free under similar circumstances. The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions entered a Nolle Prosequi in the case against twenty-three year old Marvin Bradley because the witnesses refused to come forward with […]
It’s the beginning of the summer months and from the looks of it, the days ahead are likely to get hotter as militant citizens take to the streets. Another demonstration being spearheaded by Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action is planned to take place in Belize City this Wednesday morning. Organizers are billing it as […]
Government’s proposed take-over of Belize Electricity Limited has been in the headlines since last week. But how will the government come up with the money to buy Fortis’ majority shares (seventy percent) in the utility company? Government has been making pre-payments of four million dollars monthly for its utility bill, covering a period up to […]
Belizeans for Justice was established as an NGO in March 2010 and has since transformed itself from what began as a support group for grieving mothers to an organization championing a wide range of other social ills. The group was founded by Yolanda Schakron whose nephew Christopher Galvez was shot and killed a few months […]
A memorandum of understanding was signed this afternoon by the Belize City Council, vendors at the Michael Finnegan Market and residents of Bocotora Street. The MOU follows a week of unrest among wholesalers and retailers at the market. Last Tuesday an association was formed by wholesalers who elected Alvin Hyde Jr. as its president. The […]
Dr. John Gough was accused of brutally beating a sixteen year old boy in February 2010, reportedly over a relationship with his teenage daughter. That case ended with Gough being exonerated and his neighbor, Egbert Nicholson was convicted of Wounding. But the family of Carlos Zelaya Junior is still seeking justice and has now filed […]
Also in court, a fifteen year old male student of Belize City claims that he was sexually abused by a twenty-four year old man. The Social Services Personnel have intervened in the case and, based on the child’s report, led police to detain Kareem Hamilton, a resident of Morter’s Alley. The minor alleges that in […]
Another of Belize’s sporting teams will be playing at the international level. The National Under Sixteen Basketball Team is in Mexico City tonight where the boys, along with coach Fred Garcia, are preparing to play matches against other Central American countries. We caught up today with Paul Thompson, the President of the Belize Basketball Association, […]
Mega Bingo today made the largest cash payout ever given in Belize’s gaming history. Players and viewers watched as the jackpot rose to two hundred nineteen thousand five hundred and seventy three dollars. When the winning ball was called last Wednesday, it was presumed that a Burrell Boom resident had won since the ticket was […]
Season two of our reality TV show, From Yes to I Do… Channel Five Will Follow You premiered last week with five couples hoping to win the wedding of their dreams. This season we’ve raised the bar and the contestants will have to earn that dream wedding in exciting competitions. Tonight the contestants will do […]
The body of twenty-seven year old Englebert Reynolds remains at the morgue at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight following a vicious slaying at the start of the weekend. On Friday night, shortly before eleven o’clock, Reynolds was riding his bicycle near Waight Street when he was penetrated with an economy of rounds which found […]
The other murder victim was twenty-nine year old Mauricio Cawich, a father of six children in Xaibe Village, Corozal. Initially his passing was recorded as a possible accident, however, Cawich is a known trouble maker and was said to have many enemies. He was last seen alive at around twelve-thirty a.m. last Friday morning. His […]
And though there are two murders since Friday, there is a third person that lost his life during the weekend. Shortly before nine-thirty on Friday night, twenty-three year old Giovanni Baiza was driving his motorcycle from Belmopan to Los Tambos Village behind Spanish Lookout in Cayo. He never made it as he lost control and […]
A daring, mid-afternoon heist at the Belize Medical Associates on Saturday has netted a pair of robbers over eleven thousand dollars in cash and checks. The robbery also landed an employee in detention pending the outcome of a police investigation. Two armed men entered the building’s main office on Saint Thomas Street shortly after two […]
Fortis, the parent company of Belize Electricity Limited has issued a release today on the current state of B.E.L. Fortis, which is headquartered in Canada, pointed out that it has not received any purchase proposal from the government of Belize. Fortis holds seventy percent of B.E.L., which accounts for less than two percent of its […]
The press release from Canada also said, “Fortis owns Belize Electric Company Limited (BECOL), a non-regulated hydroelectric generation business that operates three hydroelectric generating facilities in Belize.” That description of BECOL is one that the Prime Minister squarely disagreed with today. He says that BECOL is a public utility provider over which there is a […]
