A group of Belizeans returned from a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu competition with a trove of medals over the weekend. Nine competitors travelled to Cancun to participate in the South Eastern Regional No Gi Tournament under the Prevail Combat Club. The Belizeans competed against a number of experienced Jiu-Jitsu athletes, but they returned with eight gold medals, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of weekend sporting activities…]
After years of negotiations with the Government of Belize, developer Michael Feinstein has finally gotten the green-light to proceed with the construction of the Stake Bank Cruise Ship Docking Facility. The last we had heard of the proposed project was that there was a back-and-forth between Feinstein and Minister of Tourism Manuel Heredia Junior in […]
There have now been four murders in Belize City in as many days, and seven so far in the month of August. At news time Thursday evening, twenty-six-year-old Windell Gibson of Lawrence Avenue, Belize City, lay dead in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital of multiple gunshot wounds. He was shot as many as eight times […]
As if police did not have enough on their plate to deal with this week, another shooting was reported near downtown Belize City. The officer in charge of the Crimes Investigation Branch for Belize City, Superintendent Alejandro Cowo, shares details. Supt. Alejandro Cowo, O.C., CIB, Belize City “There was a shooting this morning at […]
The body of eighteen-year-old Crevan Cardinez was recovered from the shallow waters in front of the Sir Barry Bowen Municipal Airstrip on Thursday morning. Cardinez, living in Belize City but originally a resident of San Lorenzo area, Orange Walk Town, Orange Walk District, was brutally attacked inside a boat on Wednesday, stabbed multiple times and […]
Police are also chasing leads in at least one other murder reported this week. Around two o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, the body of a man was discovered some three hundred and thirty feet off the road between miles three and four on the George Price Highway. It has since been identified as that of twenty-five-year-old […]
The Belize Chinese Association is not happy with G.O.B. They have had to fork out thousands of dollars after they requested a visa waiver for The Chinese Blind People Performing Arts Troupe. The group was denied a waiver for entry into Belize to do a performance at the Bliss. The inspirational group with different abilities […]
Last Wednesday, Minister of Human Development Anthony Martinez and Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte met with U.S. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein as part of a roundtable seminar on trafficking in persons organized by the Human Trafficking Institute. It comes on the heels of the State Department’s report which leaves Belize at Tier Three, as one […]
One finding of the report that clearly rankles the Barrow administration is the references to trafficking-related complicity by government officials, including those at high levels. Try though he might, Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte said he could not get the U.S. officials he spoke to in Washington to reveal who those persons might be. But while […]
The Government of Belize remains at an impasse with several companies seeking enforcement of various arbitral awards due them after judgments made in U.S. courts. It maintains the position that Belize’s highest court, the Supreme Court, and to a lesser extent the Caribbean Court of Justice, have maintained that the awards cannot be enforced, but […]
The Cuban Embassy hosted a farewell event for students who are leaving Belize to pursue studies in Cuba. The students were selected from a pool of about seventy applicants to form a part of this y ear’s cohort of the CUBA-CARICOM programme through which Cuba provides scholarships to citizens of its sister nations of the […]
The Museum of Belize and Houses of Culture concluded an annual summer program for children in Belize City earlier today. The camp ran for a month and a half and saw participants learning how to weave baskets, among other skills. A majority of those children are from the Dorothy Menzies Childcare Center. This morning, reporter […]
The Eastern Division South held the closing for its annual Great Summer Programme. Fifty youths from the south side kicked off the programme on August seventh and it ended on August twenty-fourth with certificates and prizes. The program started four years ago with an aim to engage youths who are at risk of getting involved […]
We begin tonight’s newscast with a third murder to report in just over twenty-four hours. Gunmen executed the attack with precision in broad daylight through Lindos Alley late this afternoon around four-thirty. Dead is one Windell Gibson, while Keron Santos continues to fight for his life at news time, at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. […]
A team of divers from the police department, the coastguard and civilians gave up the search for an unidentified body on Wednesday evening, following a report of foul play in the waters just off Princess Margaret Drive. While the incident unfolded in plain view a short distance from the shoreline near St. Anthony’s Trading Company, […]
Meanwhile the body of a man found off the George Price Highway on Wednesday has also been identified as a Belize City resident of a Neal’s Pen Road Extension address. Was twenty-five-year-old Linton Wilshire taken from his house, his throat slit and then his body dumped off the George Price Highway? And is his murder […]
After twenty-four hours on the run, accused murderer Jevon Belizaire has been recaptured by Belize City police. The twenty-four-year-old suspect fled from custody on Wednesday morning while being allowed to use the restroom at the Raccoon Street Police Station. Belizaire is alleged to have shot and killed Ryan ‘Fish’ Thompson on Sunday night on Neal’s […]
A pair of brothers is awaiting arraignment in San Pedro after being charged for one of two recent homicides on the island. Jose Armando Marroquin and Sarbelo Marroquin have been charged for the brazen murder of Scott Charles on the night of August sixteenth. Twenty-four-year-old Charles was inside his house in the Bay Side area […]
Today, former residents of San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, David and Anke Doehm, are charged with child cruelty in the death of thirteen-year-old Faye Lin Cannon almost two months ago. The teenager’s body was found in a condo at a north end hotel on the island, showing signs of physical and sexual abuse, including a large swelling […]
A Belizean-American couple and their visiting friend were read drug charges after a police search of their Caye Caulker cabana on Tuesday afternoon. Twenty-four-year-old Sloane Breaux; his wife, twenty-three-year-old Catherine Martinez; and thirty-five-year-old Christopher Shroyer, were jointly arraigned before Acting Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer for possession of utensil used for smoking controlled drugs, specifically a […]
Embattled businessman John Zabaneh has been cleared of the kingpin designation that was given to him and two others, including Dion Zabaneh, by the United States Treasury a few years ago. According to the former banana grower, his family has virtually lost everything in the wake of being blacklisted. His once thriving agribusinesses, Maya King […]
In order for Zabaneh to move on with his life, he now has to rebuild his businesses from the ground up. He says the ordeal has also taken a significant toll on his elderly mother whose Maya King banana processing company he had been managing. On the Phone: John Zabaneh, Businessman “We were reduced […]
The United Democratic Party’s Belize City Council convention is set for Sunday morning at the ITVET grounds from ten a.m. to five p.m. It is headlined by the race to succeed Mayor Darrell Bradley, between incumbent councilors Dion Leslie and Philip Willoughby, and whether any of the incumbent councilors, a total of eight, will lose […]
We caught up with Leslie at the basketball court on Flamboyant Street in Lake Independence constituency, where residents were hard at work laying plants and cleaning up the neighborhood’s basketball court. Residents told us they wanted to see more of their representatives at work and today aspirant Dion Leslie and a few helpers swung through, […]
