There was another shooting in the Old Capital in which seventeen year old Clinton Pou of Jasmine Street was shot and wounded on the cheek and neck. The incident also has telltale signs that it is gang related. Pou was on Poinsetta Street walking toward Jasmine Street when he was targeted by a group of […]
A father and his son are alleging police brutality after police stormed their residence on Mahogany Street Extension and reportedly beat them up for no reason. The home of Nestor Galindo Senior and Junior was raided by police following a weekend shooting, despite the fact that no charges have been levied against them regarding the […]
A San Pedro resident is tonight in police custody for discharging a firearm in public… on two pit bulls. Thirty-three-year-old Byron Ashford Evans was today before the court to answer to a single charge of discharging a point thirty-eight revolver while on Tarpon Street in San Pedro Town. Evans has been in police custody since […]
Good evening, I’m Kaya Cattouse and this is Sports Monday. In the National Elite Basketball League, Game 1 of the finals took action on the Tigersharks home court in San Pedro. Let’s take a look at the first half of the ballgame. Darwin Leslie, Tyrone Edwards, Winston Pratt, Ashton Edwards and Michael Adams were […]
Gun violence has claimed the life of two men in fifteen hours; both murders are gang related as the city is gripped by a resurgence of gang warfare. At around ten-thirty this morning, a gunman opened fire on thirty-year old Tulio Caceres who was hanging out at Majestic Alley, considered hostile turf for the Taylor’s […]
The other victim of gun violence is twenty-two-year-old Kirk ‘Lenny’ Smith Junior who succumbed to gunshot injuries he received during an armed assault at a graduation party just after midnight on Sunday. Smith Junior was one of five persons wounded when gunfire erupted inside a packed hall at the Brown Sugar Marketplace, where friends and […]
The House of Representatives met this morning in the Capital. The sitting concluded shortly after two this afternoon. On adjournment, members from across the aisle on the Opposition side brought up a number of issues of national importance. The immigration scandal involving the illegal issuance of a passport and nationality certificate to a South Korean […]
The reappointment of Justice Samuel Awich to the bench of the Court of Appeal has been opposed by the Opposition and by the Bar Association which passed a resolution by consensus saying it had the appearance of bias because it came on the heels of a recent decision handed down in favor of the […]
The Puerto Azul development, the citadel of luxury in Belize…will it happen or not? Investors say it will, and they launched the project a couple weeks ago in Cannes. The conservation community has come out swinging asking for answers and transparency from the government following the appearance made by Minister of Investment Erwin Contreras and […]
The feisty Belize Grassroots Youth Empowerment Association, BGYEA, held a small, but significant rally last Saturday called Plant the Corn Rally. Today, it scored a first victory in the Supreme Court where Justice Courtney Abel handed down a decision quashing an injunction brought against the organization by the Government of Belize. BGYEA is determined to […]
While the executive of BGYEA is preparing to go back to its membership with good news, President Nigel Petillo was quite circumspect, avoiding the most pertinent question in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, to plant or not to plant the corn. Nigel Petillo, President, BGYEA “We’re glad that the court system worked […]
The government school in Crooked Tree had an impromptu celebration on Thursday when they learnt from News Five that one of their own, Ashton Tillett had placed first in the Primary School Examinations for 2014. A review shows that while the results are not all that impressive this year, the placement of government institutions has […]
Prices for butane gas have gone down by a dollar for the one hundred pound cylinder countrywide. We note that the domestic price of LPG distributed by Belize Natural Energy Limited is the lowest at one hundred and eight dollars at its depots in Burrell Boom, San Ignacio, Belmopan, Benque Viejo Del Carmen and Punta […]
Back to the House Meeting…Much has been said about the state of streets in Orange Walk Town. Last week the Orange Walk chapter of the B.T.I.A. wrote a letter to PM Barrow imploring government to step in and fix streets in the town. G.O.B. hasn’t responded officially, but today Prime Minister Dean Barrow told Orange […]
Former advisor to the Prime Minister, Alan Slusher has been formally appointed as President to the University of Belize. Slusher is the sixth president to be named head of UB since 2000. He replaces Doctor Carey Fraser who left UB abruptly in a swirl of controversy. In fact, there was turmoil at the university […]
Here in the city, at Saint John’s High School and Junior College, a new president has also been named. The Board of Trustees is appointing Andrew Lopez as new president to replace Jorge Espat who demitted office last Sunday coinciding with the commencement exercises held on that day. Lopez has taught at both the high school […]
New Horizon is back in Belize; a collaboration between local and US military forces. This year the focus is on health, and today the Western Regional Hospital, thanks to New Horizon, inaugurated a new psychiatric health ward. It’s an important addition to the facility which already offers a program in psychiatric health care. Mike Rudon […]
A team of talented, young Belizean artists, expressive in both spoken word poetry and the visual medium, has launched an art exhibition at the Image Factory. They are an eccentric bunch versed in spitting rhymes, as well as smearing paint on canvas. While the idea of not hanging up the individual pieces prior to the […]
Fans of boxing are in for a treat this weekend as amateur pugilists from Belize and Guatemala will do battle inside the squared circle at the ITVET Compound on Saturday evening. The Belize Boxing Federation has organized a series of matches pitting athletes from Belize City and San Ignacio against our neighbors in the west. […]
The anticipated results of the Primary School Exams were released this afternoon. Seven thousand two hundred and forty five candidates sat the exams and as has been the trend in the past years, the results show terrible weaknesses in Math, English and Social Studies. In math, a worrisome forty seven percent scored only E’s which […]
According to Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action, COLA, the Auditor-General’s report recommends that Elvin Penner, Director of Immigration Maria Marin and others be charged criminally for their roles in immigration corruption. That report was leaked to COLA earlier this week, and because of an upcoming court case, the organization is not disclosing it in […]
The Auditor General’s report also makes pointed reference to challenges regarding the lack of cooperation during their investigation. In fact, Director of Immigration Maria Marin is named with great prominence in the report – accused of, “blatant disrespect for the Auditor General’s office and lack of regard for the law.” The team stated that they […]
So while Minister Hulse says maximum cooperation, the Auditor-General’s team is saying they received anything but that. That’s actually par for the course where COLA is concerned. They were encouraged by no less than Prime Minister Barrow to pursue private prosecution, but when it came to getting support and assistance from government functionaries, they’re batting […]
There is tension tonight among the farming community of the Valley of Peace. As you know by now, the farmers lost their vegetables when the herbicide Roundup was used in aerial spraying. The company, Green Tropics, was fingered in the spraying but the company says it owns the land. On Wednesday, the farmers received an […]
The Joint Unions Negotiating Team, comprised of the Belize National Teachers Union, the Public Service Union, as well as the Association of Public Service Senior Managers, met with the Ministry of Finance this afternoon to finalize their salary adjustment. The fine-tuning of monthly wages works out to a six percent increase, retroactive to April of […]
