A twenty year old student from the IT-VET in the west has been shot and killed. His family heard gunshot blasts around midnight but did not imagine that Jorge Agustin was the target. He had visited with his mother on Sunday night but she woke up to the horrible news early this morning. Agustin’s body […]
The ninth amendment by which government proposes to alter the constitution to give parliament supremacy is the hottest topic of discussion in most quarters. Public consultations are scheduled to commence on Wednesday, but already a number of organizations including the Bar Association and the Chamber of Commerce have weighed in, objecting to government‘s position to […]
Commissioner of Police Crispin Jeffries was involved in a traffic accident last Friday; he was unscathed. It happened at about one-forty at the junction of Fabers Road and the Western Highway. Commissioner Jeffries was in his Isuzu D-Max pick-up, coming from Hattieville to Belize City. According to Jeffries, a red and black Meilun motorcycle driven […]
There’s another disturbing case of child molestation to report tonight and the victim is a ten year old girl. Thirty-eight year old Salvadoran national, Jose Cortez, is celebrating his birthday behind bars after being charged this morning with Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature. Cortez was detained on Sunday following a report by the minor […]
Two brothers, who have had a charge of drug trafficking hanging over their heads for more than two years, walked free today. Stephen and William Leiva were charged in February, 2009 with drug trafficking for over sixteen pounds of marijuana that was found at their business, Amelia’s DVDs, which was located on the Northern Highway. […]
The Cayo District is trailing the Belize District when it comes to violent crime. And though murders are the hallmark of misconduct in the Belize District, assaults on United States citizens are on the increase in the Cayo District. Three disturbing incidences have gone under the radar in the past month. The first incident was […]
The proposed ninth amendment to sections sixty-nine and two of the constitution should go back to the House of Representatives in October following ninety days of public airing. This Wednesday night, the first round of consultations will take place in the nation’s media center. It begins at seven o’clock at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall […]
On Open your Eyes this morning, Dickie Bradley quoted verbatim the controversial proposed amendment to section sixty-nine of the constitution. The new subsection says that “for the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the provisions of this section are all inclusive and exhaustive and there is no other limitation whether substantive or procedural, […]
Dickie Bradley also said that the executive of government should not cast any aspersions on the Supreme Court. Richard “Dickie” Bradley, Attorney “It is so—let me try and find words—it is so very wrong for the leader of our country, for the prime minister to attack the chief justice on a decision that he made. […]
The Belize Female Junior Volleyball Team has been in Costa Rica since Friday representing the Jewel at the Central American Female under-eighteen Volleyball Championship. The young team has been fighting against more experienced and older players from the region. According to the President of the Belize Volleyball Association, the first game was against a formidable […]
Plane crashes are not frequent occurrences in the Jewel. The latest tragic accident involved business tycoon Sir Barry Bowen and a family of four in San Pedro a year ago. This week the department, with support from COCESNA, is hosting a training course on the organization, conduct and control of a civil aviation mishap. The […]
The World YWCA holds it international council meeting every four years to assess the work of the different country branches and to elect board members. The World Council Meeting and International Women’s Summit was attended by at least one thousand members, representing over a hundred countries. This year’s agenda included the presentation of the first […]
Two Belizean students also received prestigious awards today. Aretha Sabal and Devon Paulino were selected over students from across the Caribbean, who applied for the Sir Arthur Lewis Award for Indigenous People. They have each received scholarships to pursue bachelor’s degrees at the University of the West Indies in Cave Hill, Barbados. According to Jane […]
La Reina De La Costa Maya 2011 was selected on Friday night in La Isla Bonita. Eight contestants from Central America and Mexico vied for the crown and strutted their stuff in traditional costumes, swimsuits and evening gowns. But it took more than physical beauty to make it through the question and answer section. The […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this portion of Sports Monday. With the Alamilla’s/Ministry of Education and Belize Bank Bulldogs already into the semifinal round of the 2011 Interoffice Basketball Competition, 4 teams took the Civic Centre Friday night looking for the final 2 available spots. We caught up with the shootout between […]
A third confrontation between Belize Defense Force Soldiers and Guatemalan loggers in the past fourteen days took place on Thursday making the unwelcome intrusions into the vast expanse of the Chiquibul National Park, commonplace. The frequency with which border patrols have been threatened by the illegal tree cutters in the area, is also sounding alarm […]
There’s more opposition to the proposed ninth amendment to the constitution and its coming from the People’s United Party. The P.U.P. is the most recent organization to come out against the amendment. While the P.U.P. acknowledges the government’s power to entrench control of utilities in the constitution, it says that the remainder of the bill […]
In defense of the ninth amendment, the government this week released a series of ads attempting to change public opinion. But still, public concern grows. On Wednesday the business community also asked the government to withdraw the amendment. Today the President of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Kay Menzies, explained why the business […]
Still on the ninth amendment, we asked our viewers earlier this week: Do you agree that your rights are being eroded if constitutional amendments are unchallenged in the courts? The rejection of the proposed bill is evident in the results of our online poll. Seventy-four percent of the persons who voted said yes; that’s a […]
In June of this year the Investment Committee of the Social Security Board approved a fourteen point nine million dollar loan request by Nature Fresh Belize Limited. Nature Fresh is a company owned by the Mena Group which also owned Fresh catch, a tilapia farm that was taken over by its creditors last year. The […]
The office of the Prime Minister announced this afternoon that he will be traveling to Los Angeles, California on personal time. PM Dean Barrow leaves this Saturday and will be away for a week during which the DPM Gaspar Vega will be acting as prime minister. Barrow returns on the thirteenth.
Scouting has been around for decades; it is one of the oldest movements that started back in 1907 in the United Kingdom. In Belize, it is celebrating a century of existence this year. To mark the milestone, the local Scout Association is spending a week at Camp Oakley, its national training and camping ground. The […]
The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital this afternoon issued a release on its policies in respect of the morgue. Earlier this week, the family of Sydney Richards and Roy Enriquez complained that they had not been allowed to witness the autopsies conducted on the bodies of both men. Richards was shot and killed on the corner […]
On Thursday night we told you about the city’s latest murder and shooting. Soon after the newscast, another city resident was shot in the face and is still hospitalized tonight. Sometime after nine o’clock, twenty-three year old stevedore Troy Bowen, was socializing with a female on Black Orchid Street in the St Martin’s De Porres […]
Belize City patrol police stopped a robbery in progress on Thursday night and apprehended the assailants, one is sixteen years old and the other is seventeen. Around eight-thirty on Thursday night, twenty-six year old Yilan Guan, owner of ‘MK Fast Food’ was inside her business when two men entered and demanded money. Guan told police […]
