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Body of missing Belmopan resident found on road
A taxi driver from the Belmopan area disappeared over the past weekend. The father of a four year old daughter went missing after a fare hired him on Saturday morning while he was stationed within close proximity of his wife’s stall at the Belmopan market. Jose Ummana’s wife says he had a habit of calling […]
KHMH says newborn died of heart failure
The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital today issued a very brief release on the cause of death of baby Lorena Bol who was born last Friday and died two days later on Sunday. The premature baby died (Quote) “of a latent congenital abnormality of the heart which was incompatible with sustaining life.” (Unquote) Punta Gorda residents, […]
Belize Waste Control will get funds owed by City Hall
Earlier this year, Belize City Mayor, Darrell Bradley appeared in court—not as a legal practitioner, but for contempt in respect of a garbage debt owed to Belize Waste Control to the tune of two point three million dollars. After several trips before Justice Michelle Arana, on June tenth, the Council was given approximately a month […]
Written on July 17, 2013 | Posted in Trials | No comment
WinBelize supports Gender Policy
The Revised Gender Policy 2013 has come under attack from various sectors, but today, the Women’s Issues Network better known as Win Belize came out in support of the policy. Win Belize says the National Gender Policy is founded on principles outlined in the Belize Constitution and in International Conventions and Agreements signed and ratified […]
Second murder acquittal for Gabriel Salazar
A San Pedro resident has been acquitted of a murder charge by Justice Denis S. Hanomansingh in the Dangriga Supreme Court. The murder occurred on September 12, 2009 at Johnson’s Store in Big Falls, Toledo District. Twenty three year old Gabriel Salazar was accused of the murder of Francis Johnson, the store owner, during a […]
Another deportee gets charged locally
Three alleged gang members who were deported from the US have been arrested and charged. Roger Anthony, who has said that he is the leader of the Ghost Town Crips, was arrested last Thursday when he was seen associating with reputed affiliates of the Ghost Town Crips Gang. He has been charged for Associating with […]
Team returns but FFB Executive still detained in USA
The Jaguars are back in Belize, but F.F.B. Vice President, Rawell Pelayo, is not. Pelayo was nabbed reportedly by the Drug Enforcement Agency as he passed through Houston on his way to Portland to join Team Belize for game one against the United States. That happened on July eighth, and since then the only confirmation […]
USAID gives cash stimulus to BDARRT, a disaster management group
A U.S. thirty thousand dollar agreement was signed today in Belmopan to provide support training to the Belize Disaster and Rescue Response, BDARRT. A team of volunteers will benefit from the training to strengthen their capacity to provide efficient services in times of disasters. The agreement was signed between the United States Agency for International […]
Wow! Awesome and amazing Superstar performances
Group B in Be the Next Superstar returns to the Bliss stage tonight bringing with them the hype and energy that characterized the group when they made their debut. Tonight, it’s going to be extremely competitive and nail biting for the bottom three who will perform in a knockout round. Only one will survive and […]
Belize 0 and Cuba advances with 4 goals
It was as though everything came to a standstill this afternoon around the country, when the Belize Jaguars took on Cuba, to watch Belize’s last opportunity to advance to the second round of the Gold Cup 2013. Anticipation for game three of Belize’s debut in the Gold Cup was best described as nervous, as either […]
Post game conference; Coach talks about shortfalls with Belize Jaguars
Immediately after the disappointing loss to Cuba, which dashed Team Belize’s hopes of qualifying to Round Two of the Gold Cup, Coach Ian Mork faced the media in the standard post-game press conference. Mork was subdued but still relatively positive as he looked not at the loss, but at what Team Belize will take away […]
Heart failure cause of death of newborn
The postmortem examination has been completed on the newborn that died early Sunday morning at the K.H.M.H. The infant was due on August eighteenth but the expectant mother, Elvira Ack, gave birth on July twelfth. The results have just been released and late this evening, hospital officials told Lawrence Bol that his baby died from […]
No to Gender Policy road show reaches Belize City
The pro-constitution anti-gender policy movement touched down in the city today, proclaiming the bold message NO TO UNIBAM…YES TO GOD. While the underlying theme has been the condemnation of homosexuality as an abomination, the focus has been on the gender policy. The government has committed to making amendments based on input from the church, but […]
More challenges revealed by IDB report on Belize’s education system
As we reported on Monday, the results of a recent study published by the Inter-American Development Bank on challenges being faced within the education sector indicate that Belize is underperforming in comparison with other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition to outdated instructional models and materials still in use, teachers rely heavily […]
Roaden Junior believes father was murdered
Seventy-four year old Glen Roaden Senior was reported missing last Tuesday. He was seen leaving his home earlier that day. But the family was clueless as to his whereabouts…that is until late Monday evening, when they were called out to a creek some one hundred and twenty yards off the Jane Usher Boulevard. The decomposed […]
No Justice for Stephen Buckley
Three years ago, Stephen Buckley was shot by the police paralyzing the left side of his body and unable to work. Buckley was promised assistance by the department, but that never materialized and these days, Buckley has been reduced to hustling on the street to take care of his family. There is little to come […]
Body of fisherman retrieved
On Monday night, we told you about the search being conducted for Edwardo Dominguez, a fisherman from the village of San Andres in the Corozal District. Dominguez was missing since Sunday morning when misfortune struck during a fishing trip to Bacalar Chico near North Ambergris Caye. The skiff on which Dominguez and another fisherman, Ryan […]
Though victim died, man found guilty of chopping fingers
A jury of six men and three women deliberated for hours to decide the fate of a fifty-five year old man accused of attacking another man. Romonio Garica was initially charged with Maim upon Alfredo Herrera but later indicted only for the Use of Deadly Means of Harm with Intent to Cause Grievous Harm. The […]
Written on July 16, 2013 | Posted in Trials | No comment
Yellow Man charged for beating up ‘Faada’ Henry
A pair of well-known U.D.P. members, thirty-one year old Brian Edward Audinett, better known as “Yellow man”, along with thirty year old Zone Inspector for the Ministry of Housing, Allan Dale Kelly, was jointly charged with six criminal offenses in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court earlier today. In a report to police, forty-four year old Phillip […]
Placencia Tour Guide Association says emphatic no to Norwegian Cruise Line
The ministerial sub-committee that rejected Norwegian Cruise Line’s request to develop Crawl Caye inside the Belize Barrier Reef was tasked to inspect another proposal by the cruise line company. Harvest Caye lies outside the protected zone of the World Heritage Site, but a potential development of the island could possibly interrupt local commerce on the […]
Restore Belize restores student confidence in English and Math
Summer is here and kids are out of school, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t learn. In fact, there are organizations which utilize summer months primarily to catch youths up on vital facets of education which they may not have grasped in the school setting. Two of those problem areas are reading and math, […]
St. Joseph Student impresses in Mexico art competition
A twelve year old Belize City student has been given the opportunity to tour parts of Mexico because of his participation in an international art exhibit. Ammon Segura, a student of Saint Joseph Primary School, loves to draw so he entered a competition that was devised by the Mexican government. Segura’s piece “Things not to […]
Fox Sports goes deep on location in Belize with the Jaguars
Belize’s journey to Gold Cup 2013 has been described as fairy tale, one in which the Jaguars, a la Cinderella, make their first public appearance to the big dance. The story is one that has been recounted in the local media since the national selection first qualified for the summer games during the UNCAF tournament […]
Another newborn dies in K.H.M.H.
Thirteen babies died at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in the first three weeks of May. An independent investigation by PAHO found that the babies were infected with the enterobacter cloacae. No one has taken responsibility and tonight, there is another disturbing report that a premature baby died at the hospital over the weekend. The […]
