A family of eleven in Mahogany Heights is tonight homeless after the place they called home was gutted by fire this morning. Sometime around five a.m., Elstwin Willoughby, his wife and their eleven children and grandchildren were the victims of an inferno that is believed to have been deliberately set. But was the fire retaliatory? […]
It has been a little over a week since a devastating fire in San Pedro virtually leveled an entire block near the heart of the downtown area. The inferno gutted several buildings leaving as many as eighty-eight persons displaced. Since then there has been a concerted effort by various government and non-governmental organizations to assist […]
Tonight, Roaring Creek resident and teacher, twenty-eight-year-old Jodine Gill and her thirty-year-old colleague Dania Portillo remain hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, recovering from varying degrees of injuries sustained during a traffic accident last Friday at mile thirty-five on the Hummingbird Highway. Just after four o’clock, Gill lost control of her 2004 Nissan X-Terra […]
At five-thirty this evening, the administration of the Belmopan Comprehensive High organized a vigil at the school compound as a remembrance for Escoto. Residents, as well as former students, are asked to wear white and bring candles to share in the memories of the Spanish teacher. Vice Principal Guzman and English Lit Teacher Ysela Logan […]
With the start of the 2016 CODICADER Games less than three days away, final preparations are being made to ensure that Team Belize maintains the best chance of excelling in the regional competition. That being said, the National Sports Council is busy tying up loose ends logistically, both for the visiting teams, as well as […]
The cheque was presented to the National Sports Council by Communications Director William Neal. According to Neal, ASR/B.S.I. decided to make a contribution towards the initiative primarily because it will go a long way in terms of its impact on Belize’s participation in CODICADER. William Neal, Communications Director, ASR/B.S.I. “Generally, ASR is one of […]
The opening ceremony for CODICADER 2016 will be held at the Marion Jones Sporting Complex on Thursday evening and is being organized by the National Institute of Culture and History. Representatives, as well as other members of the respective national teams began arriving in the country on Monday, ahead of the launch of the games. […]
CARICOM Heads of Government are currently in Georgetown, Guyana for the thirty-seventh Regular Meeting. In addition to regional matters up for discussion, Belize will also be handing over the chairmanship of the prestigious body to the Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit. Just as it was when CARICOM heads of government met in Placencia in […]
Today, thirty-eight-year-old Elario Elijio walked out of Supreme Court a free man after four years on remand for the death of John Myers in 2012. Elijio and Myers were drinking together on Mahogany Street when Elijio allegedly punched Myers in the face, causing him to fall and hit his head on the pavement. The prosecution […]
A female Police Officer is tonight recovering from injuries she received when a group of persons assaulted her. WPC Tracy Stevens was doing extra duties at the Blue Angels Nightclub in San Ignacio over the weekend when she got into an altercation with a young woman who wanted to get inside. That altercation led to […]
Albert Genitty, a phlebotomist employed at the NHI clinic in Port Loyola, will spend three years behind bars after he was convicted today of sexual assault of a customer at the lab. Genitty was accused of inappropriately touching the woman, twenty-seven, when she went to the lab to do a battery of tests in 2015. […]
More than six months after he was charged for a sensational home invasion in Burrell Boom, Paul Jex Junior is back behind bars, charged with rape during that same incident in December, 2015. Jex Junior had been charged with at least eight other persons for a robbery at the home of Sarkis Abou-Nehra. Abou-Nehra and […]
School is out and summer camps are in. Across the country, various organizations are hosting recreational events for children who are presently on vacation. Over the next few weeks we will be covering a myriad of summer camps in everything from swimming to basketball and everything in between. Tonight however, we’ll look at an annual […]
