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Today’s press conference started with a focus on Belize City Council matters, and the matter on the top of that list is the political future of Mayor Darrell Bradley. Earlier this week, Bradley was still uncertain whether he would run for a second term in office or would throw his hat into the ring in […]
Written on June 11, 2014 | Posted in
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Since its grand introduction on the French Riviera a few weeks ago, to coincide with the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, the Puerto Azul development project, a proposed multimillion dollar tourism initiative to be established within the Lighthouse Reef Atoll, has raised more questions than answers. The conservation community has come out hard against the proposed […]
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The thirty million dollar Belize Municipal Development Project was the focus of a workshop in Belmopan today. The BMDP was rolled out a year ago, and so far there have been continuous discussions; today municipal authorities from all over the country were invited to discuss the outcome of the Municipal Development Planning Initiative, which is […]
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The Belize Tourism Industry Association, Orange Walk Chapter, on Tuesday in a release complained about the bad state of streets in Orange Walk Town. While works are currently underway on fifteen streets under the responsibility of Kevin Bernard and his Town Council, two main thoroughfares, the Philip Goldson Highway and the San Antonio Road are […]
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Kenrick Williams, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a minor in 2004, will remain incarcerated at the Belize Central Prison after a panel of judges at the Court of Appeal upheld his conviction. Williams appeared before the bench today where attorney Phillip Palacio argued on his behalf to have the sentence quashed. […]
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Full scale gang warfare continues unabated in Belize City; nine persons have been shot in three days. The latest casualty is twenty-seven year old Rafael Cruz. He was shot four times this morning in broad daylight on Vernon Street. The two gangs at war are George Street and Ghost Town, and this latest round of […]
Written on June 10, 2014 | Posted in
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As we said, on Sunday night, a pair of gunmen stormed a graduation party at the Brown Sugar Mall and indiscriminately let loose a volley of shots at a number of unsuspecting guests. While most were able to scramble to safety, five persons, including Kirk Smith Junior were injured. Smith Junior was shot in the […]
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The shooting incident this morning involving Cruz, an associate of Roger Anthony, is believed to have been retaliatory. When we posed that question to him, Anthony said he cannot ascertain a connection between the two events. The safety of his workmen, it would appear, is being threatened by the series of events, but Anthony says […]
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The other shooting in the city today happened less than seven hours after the near-fatal attack on twenty-seven-year-old Rafael Cruz gunshots rang out near a residence on Victoria Street. Shortly after three o’clock this afternoon, a lone gunman emerged on the scene and opened fire at his quarry. Fortunately, the bullets flew wide of their […]
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The Auditor-General’s report on corruption in immigration is out…well technically it’s been out since March twenty-first, almost three months ago…sent to the PM and to the Ministry of Immigration. But it has been kept under lockdown. And now it’s out…and we mean really out. COLA today issued a press release revealing that it has gotten […]
On Monday night, we showed you part one of an exclusive interview with Christian Ebanks. Ebanks, who also goes by the name Floyd Ebanks Jurado, is wanted in Ecuador for the 2011 murder of Alejandro Martín Teófilo, which occurred on Puna Island in the Guayas Province of his country of birth. While Ebanks was unable […]
On May twenty-ninth, manager of Cavetubing.bz Vitalino Reyes Junior was badly beaten at the Long Island Bar in Belize City. Six employees of Yhony Rosado’s Cavetubing.com, a competitor, have since been arrested and charged by Police for the assault. Rosado maintains that his employees are innocent and none of them touched Reyes. Still, the twenty-three […]
Lavern ‘Antichrist’ Longsworth appeared in the Court of Appeal this morning along with her attorney Godfrey Smith. Longsworth was previously convicted for the murder of her common-law-husband, David White, after she threw gasoline on him and lit him on fire. Today, Smith made a submission on behalf of his client for the charge to be […]
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Earlier today, a father was before the court to answer to a single count of sexual offense, referred to as a sexual assault, upon his eight year old daughter. According to the child, she was molested by her father in late May. The father is a well-known person and a public officer who lives in […]
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In November, near the end of an unusually prolonged and intense rainy season, Prime Minister Dean Barrow presented what he called a muscular plan, a plan on steroids. It was a seventy-six million dollar infusion of cash to address the deplorable conditions of the national road network. One of those deplorable stretches is the Phillip […]
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The National Bank of Belize, a state-owned lending institution in the country, has a new logo. The design is the brainchild of a first form student at Ladyville Technical High School. After pondering the concept for several days, Douglas Ortega, along with his art teacher, came up with an outline that best embodies what the […]
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A decision by the Supreme Court in a longstanding dispute within the executive of the Belize Ex-Services League has been handed down by Justice Courtney Abel. The administration, led by president Bernard Adolphus, has been at loggerheads with its affiliates over use of the lower flat of its Belize City premises on Newtown Barracks. Despite […]
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The 2013/2014 sugar cane crop season was two months delayed due to a bagasse impasse. Both B.S.I. and the B.S.C.F.A., representing cane-farmers, agreed to start the crop in good faith, with a commitment that the quantum of bagasse payment to farmers would be finalized by the end of the season. That season is now winding […]
An important symposium is ongoing at the Biltmore Plaza in Belize City about an issue that has significant impact on many sectors. It is about climate change and it is the focus of discussions by a wide range of stakeholders including the Belize City Council. OCEANA and the National Climate Change Office in Belize are […]
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Turning to some sporting news, Belizeans got a crash course on poker when business man Bob Badih Bou Nahra made it to the World Series of Poker’s November Nine Final Table in 2011. Bob is once again gaining grounds in the preliminary events leading up to the WSOP’S FINAL table. The 2014 Games are being […]
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There was a spate of shootings in Belize City between Saturday and this morning. A total of eight persons were wounded to varying degrees. At a graduation party held at the Brown Sugar Mall on Sunday, as many as five persons were injured after they crashed the party of a student, who is the daughter […]
Written on June 9, 2014 | Posted in
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The spate of shooting started on Saturday. Around nine-forty-five p.m., twenty-eight year old Sigmond Trapp and twenty-five year old Anthony Scott were injured at the corner of Amara and Kut Avenues as they headed towards Euphrates Avenue in south side Belize City. A black Ford Escort car drove up to Trapp and Scott a block […]
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Five hours later, sixteen-year-old Corine White was targeted near Newtown Barracks on Sunday morning. The teenager was reportedly in the company of her boyfriend and another person inside a green vehicle heading in the direction of Calle Al Mar, when they came under gunfire. At about three-thirty a.m., a lone gunman emerged on the scene […]
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Christian Ebanks, who also goes by the name Floyd Ebanks Jurado, obtained Supreme Court bail last Friday. He was arrested and charged in May after the Gang Suppression Unit raided the Belize City house he shared with his recently wedded wife. The GSU found an unlicensed nine millimeter pistol hidden in a stove. Ebanks is […]
Following his arrest in May, it became known that he was listed as Ecuador’s most wanted in 2011 for a murder in the Guayas province. Ebanks confirms that there are allegations against him at his country of birth and explains why he changed his name in Belize. Christian Ebanks, Charged for Firearm Offences “There […]
