Coming out of the ongoing controversy is the fact that grain growers in the south are being paid considerably less per pound of rice than their colleagues in the Orange Walk District. That point was made earlier today by activist Wil Maheia. He contends that farmers in Toledo are being paid thirty cents per pound, […]
While there is controversy over rice, consumers are up in arms over the price of sugar, which is also locally produced. The Bureau of Standards has been hard at work following up official reports of price gouging where local plantation white sugar is concerned. Based on a long-standing request from cane-farmers, G.O.B. approved an increase […]
The Christmas holidays are upon us, but for the Sanchez family of Belize City, there is little to look forward to. Last Friday, their belongings were destroyed when a fire spread through their house on the King’s Park area. With nothing left except for the clothes on their backs, the family is attempting to rebuild […]
There were two arrests in the armed robbery of Santiago Castillo Limited which took place last Friday in Belmopan. Twenty-one year Edvik Guerra of Santa Elena, Cayo, and twenty-three year old Leroy Myvette, also of the Cayo District, were charged with the armed robbery of a San Cas employee, Lester Wagner, who was counting money […]
Tonight, an ITVET student is on remand at the Belize Central Prison accused of sexual abuse of a fourteen year old girl. He is twenty-year old Kristoff Myvett. It is alleged that Myvett abused the minor on September twenty-eighth, 2015 in Belize City. Myvett appeared before the Senior Magistrate, Sharon Fraser today and was represented […]
Two sisters who claim they found a cop’s ATM card on the street are home free from a charge of theft. Twenty-two year old Chelsea and twenty-one year old Monique Martinez along with a third person, Ervin Zelaya, settled out of court with Corporal Bonifacio Rash. Zelaya was charged with eighteen counts of theft and […]
Mercy Care Centre, HelpAge Belize, Salvation Army, HOPE Toledo, Belize Red Cross Society are among several organizations that provide care for elderly persons in Belize. This morning in the City, the spirit of Christmas was present at the Sister Cecilia Home where the residents were having a jolly good time with an unusual set of […]
Twenty-seven persons have completed courses in home care giving and wait staff and are ready to enter the workforce. Their training was held at the ITVET and was organized by numerous agencies including PAHO, the Ministry of Health and BERT. Duane Moody was present for the ceremony and has this report. Duane Moody, Reporting […]
There have been four murders in the Corozal District this year, but that count went up to five as a result of a stabbing on Saturday night when a village dance was taking place in Paraiso. Twenty-two-year-old Alberto Briceño was stabbed multiple times by a pair of siblings who were known to be his friends. […]
There were other serious crimes committed over the weekend. In San Pedro Ambergris Caye, police have arrested a deliveryman after he allegedly took a woman to a remote area of the island on his motorcycle and raped her on Friday. The thirty-four year old victim was allegedly looking for employment when twenty-three year old Arlen […]
And from rape to attempted rape, also on San Pedro, Police have arrested and arraigned a teenage male after he was positively identified by two of his victims. Salvadoran Fabio Hernandez Cuellar, an eighteen year old construction worker, is suspected to have brutally beaten a seventy year old woman as she walked home on the […]
There is also a report of sexual abuse from the south. The incidents happened back in November, but are only being reported in the police blotter. Three young boys, two who are twelve years old and one who is eleven years old, allege that they were sexually assaulted by a seventeen-year-old relative. Their mothers say […]
Turning to politics….At news time, there is only one confirmed name in the leadership race for P.U.P. Party Leader. The deadline is Tuesday, December fifteenth, but John Briceño was officially nominated today via letter to PUP Secretary-General Henry Charles Usher. Briceño’s nomination included endorsement signatures from the executive committee chairmen of four constituencies in Orange […]
On December eighth, an American dentist was detained in San Pedro after his name came up in the most bizarre story. Doctor John Hall had already been granted a license to practice in Belize when reports surfaced that he had injected semen into the mouths of several patients in North Carolina, U.S.A. We hadn’t heard […]
A shipment of rice is sitting at a Guatemalan port and is scheduled to be unloaded at the Big Creek port this Thursday. At least that is the plan of businessman Jack Charges of Xtra House who says he can bring in the staple at a lower price to retail locally. But there is a […]
The Mennonite community of Blue Creek, in Orange Walk District, is the largest producer of rice in the country. Considering significant investments that have been made in the industry to date, a lot is at stake for farmers in the north. According to Stanley Rempel, Managing Director of Circle R Products, the Belize Agro-productive Sector […]
A Belizean woman who was convicted in the U.S.A. for human trafficking and later deported to Belize appeared in court on Friday to answer to a charge of Failure to Report to the Police and was slapped with a fine of five hundred dollars. Yanira Mojica was fined after pleading guilty in the courtroom of […]
The investigation into the home invasion at the house of the Lebanese Honorary Consul continues to unfold. Today police say they made seven more arrests over the weekend, five directly related and two related indirectly to the home invasion in Burrell Boom on December third. By our unofficial count…including these arrests eighteen persons have been […]
And while the Police hunt up lawbreakers on the outside, two who were already on the inside at the Belize Central Prison are looking at possible jail time. Routine Police searches at the prison over the weekend let to the arrest of two employees of that facility, a guard and a cook. Sr. Supt. […]
There was a significant heist last Friday in the capital city, and it happened in the parking lot of the Belize Bank. According to reports, two Santiago Castillo deliverymen in their work truck were in the lot when they were approached by a man with a gun who approached them and demanded the day’s take […]
There was also a string of shootings in the Old Capital over the weekend. The unrelated incidents began on Friday evening shortly after five o’clock when twenty-four-year-old Kyle Chaplin came under gunfire while inside a vehicle on Cran Street. It is reported that he was in the company of a pair of men when an […]
Twenty-four year old Juan Carlos Martinez is on the lam tonight after escaping from the San Pedro Police station on Sunday afternoon and police on the island are seeking the public’s assistance in his recapture. Martinez was transferred to the island from the Belize Central Prison for an aggravated burglary offense, but he managed to […]
The Cayo Police formation spent some quality time on Sunday – not in training and not on operation, but in Church. According to Deputy Commander Reymundo Reyes, he felt that the Department needed all the blessing that it could get as they head into the Christmas season, and that’s why on Sunday officers marched proudly, […]
‘Tis the season to be jolly and across the country, Christmas concerts and parties for children are being organized by numerous organizations as well as personalities. On Saturday, the Governor General, Sir Colville Young, held his annual Christmas party for one hundred sixty children at the YWCA in Belize City. Aside from participating in great […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The 2 finalists for the 2015 PLB Football Tournament emerged over the weekend so we take you to the F.F.B. Stadium inside Belmopan where Police United and the Placencia Assassins met in game II yesterday to determine who would move on to money time. […]
