Elsewhere in the City, the Gang Suppression Unit removed a twelve gauge shotgun loaded with ammo. The weapon was wrapped in a cloth in the lower flat of an abandoned building at Simon’s Alley. The GSU also found an additional round of twelve gauge cartridge in a plastic bag and a ski mask which the […]
Summer is winding down making way for the new academic year. The back to school prep work is not limited to parents and students; the educators also have their hands full getting ready to return to the classroom. Managers and teachers from IT-VET campuses across the country participated in a weeklong workshop in Belize City […]
The Lions Quest was piloted in Belize some six years ago and to date the program has been introduced to over sixty primary and high schools country-wide. Over fifteen teachers took part in the second of seven workshops that will be held in Belize City. The two day event focused on life skills training provided […]
It was announced two weeks ago that fifteen Belizeans were granted scholarships to pursue degrees at Mexico’s School for Technical Professional Studies (CONALEP). In return, twenty-five Mexican nationals have been awarded scholarships to study English at the University of Belize’s Regional Language Center in Belmopan. The students arrived on Wednesday and will be studying in […]
San Pedro has been overflowing with visitors for the past week since activities for the Costa Maya Festival began last weekend. But the most anticipated event is coming up within minutes and it will draw an even bigger crowd to La Isla Bonita. It’s the festival is the Reina De La Costa Maya Pageant. Eight […]
There’s dire economic news tonight. The warning came shortly after the nationalization of Belize Electricity Limited and today Standard and Poor’s officially decreased Belize’s credit rating. The foreign currency credit score was downgraded from a B to B minus. According to S&P, by acquiring a seventy percent stake in the financially distressed utility company, government […]
There is another murder in the City to report tonight, it’s the second for this week and it happened less than twenty-hours after the first. On Wednesday evening sometime around six, a gun man fired several shots fatally wounding twenty year old Justin Roches. He was getting ready to play a game of basketball at […]
There was another shooting in the city on Wednesday night, three hours after the murder of Justin Roches. This time the target was a minor. Shortly after nine, seventeen year old John Pascual was riding his bike when a man pulled out a gun and shot him multiple times. It happened in a St. Martins […]
Glenn Tillett has been a prominent member of the media for eons. He has worked over the past years as a radio show host and is a former editor and newspaper journalist. Tillett is also politically linked to the PUP’s Joe Coye, a former government minister. But it’s his family affiliation that resulted in the […]
During his sit-down with the media at Everyday Gourmet Restaurant on the Northern Highway, a police pickup stood by on hand as his attorney Arthur Saldivar and supporters such as Joe Coye, Moses Sulph, and Dickie Bradley arrived. In the presence of those supporters, he related that during his incarceration he had to be rushed […]
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday sent out one of its strongest releases, condemning government’s proposed ninth amendment to the constitution. The proposed bill intends to alter the constitution, thus enabling government to supersede the role of the courts to what the Chamber calls parliamentary supremacy. The Chamber’s position was explained today […]
The vendors at the Michael Finnegan Market are again bucking heads with the City Council; this time over food handler’s permits. According to the vendors, they received a letter informing them that they have until this Friday to obtain their permits. And while that notice is dated, July twenty-sixth, they claim it wasn’t delivered until […]
But the City Councilor with responsibility for the market, Philip Willoughby, maintains that the letter was delivered in July. He also emphasized that it’s an initiative of the Ministry of Health and not the simply the council, but that the vendors must comply with the notice. As for the conditions of the market, Willoughby told […]
A group of six Belize City fishermen appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare today for a fisheries offence. On Tuesday evening twenty-three year old Victor Foreman Jr., Garrett Francis, Deshawn Terry, Kent Garbutt, Gregory Rhaburn and James Andrewin were busted by police on mobile patrol in the Conch Shell Bay area where they were found in […]
Two persons were charged today in connection with separate burglaries and believe it or not, the suspects are both women. Thirty-one year old Delker Silde Miranda was the first to appear before Magistrate Emerson Banner on a charge of Burglary. She was arrested after breaking into the apartment of her neighbor, Nora Williams, and stealing […]
International Living, an online and print magazine, has completed its latest special on Belize, which was compiled by Dan Prescher and Suzan Haskins. The two I.L. editors, have been coming to the Jewel for over twenty years, but their last two-week visit, gave them a more in-depth look at what the country has to offer. […]
Many people take for granted that because they have twenty-twenty vision, they have nothing to worry about. But the fact is that proper and timely eye care is a necessity to everyone; whether you have perfect eyesight or you use glasses. This week Healthy Living looks at how to protect your eyes and for those […]
Just after eight o’clock on Tuesday night, a stevedore, Sydney “Smokey” Richards Junior was shot and killed in one of the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods. The young man was heading home but diverted to pick up food when two men approached him on bicycles. One pulled the trigger and delivered the fatal shots, one to […]
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has issued a stern release, asking Prime Minister Dean Barrow to withdraw the proposed Ninth Amendment to the Constitution. The Chamber warns that the proposed Amendment creates a very dangerous situation, which is not contemplated by the Constitution. It allows the Legislature to have absolute power to […]
The British Caribbean Bank is going to the Caribbean Court of Justice based in Trinidad and Tobago seeking an injunction in respect of the hugely controversial proposed Ninth Amendment. The bank is also seeking a declaration that the re-acquisition on June twenty-fourth of Telemedia is void. The Court of Appeal back on June, twenty-fourth ruled […]
The preliminary inquiry in the case against La Cabana Bar owner, Mike Menjivar, concluded today. The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is only pursuing charges against, Menjivar, after his wife and housekeeper were freed last Thursday. This afternoon, Prosecutor Lucio Shal argued that there is sufficient evidence against Menjivar in the statements provided […]
On Monday, police raided the Belize City house of radio talk show host, Glenn Tillett. They reportedly found computers that had been stolen from the Embassy of El Salvador in Belmopan. Tillett and his family were at home at the time and were detained for questioning. Tillett, however, had to be taken to the Western […]
The fleet of buses of veteran operator, Froylan Gilharry, remains parked at his company’s garage in Corozal Town tonight. His fifty-eight employee were sent home in mid-June when the Transport Department re-scheduled a number of runs across the western and northern zones soon after the conflict among bus operators and government over runs granted to […]
Also in court, a father and son who admitted to stealing oranges from a farm in La Democracia Village, which is managed by Ray Olgadez, have been slapped with a huge fine. According to forty-eight year old Santo Tzul and twenty-three year old Jose Luis Shol, they intended to sell the twenty sacks of oranges, […]
After murder victim, Sydney Richard’s body, was taken to the morgue, the family, already distraught were upset that they were denied requests to witness the post mortem examination. There are questions surrounding Richards’s murder as well as that of another man who lost his life in less threatening circumstances. On Tuesday night, fifty-one year old […]
