The Ramirez and Villanueva families are breathing easier tonight now that their two loved ones, rangers Luis and Elroy, have been located in the Chiquibul Forest. At about now, Ramirez, we are told, is being transported to the Loma Luz Hospital in Santa Elena, Cayo. The rangers went missing on Monday evening, after setting out […]
A man was arrested and charged today for the shocking double killing of two sisters in the south, eleven days ago. Police say that twenty-one-year-old Wilmer Alexander Escobar of Bella Vista Village has been charged for killing Josephine and Crecencia Oh. Unconfirmed reports are that Escobar confessed to killing the young women and that he […]
There’s another murder arrest. One month after the vicious killing of twenty-six-year-old Errol Gabourel Smith, Devon Brooks of Cotton Tree village has been charged with his murder. On December twenty-seventh, the body of Gabourel, also known as “Rabbit,” was found in the Belize River outside of Roaring Creek. Gabourel was an ex-con seeking a new […]
Meanwhile, twenty-nine-year-old John Martinez was acquitted of murder before Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas today. He was charged with the February 2013 murder of thirty-seven-year-old Ernest Savery in Ladyville. Savery had been shot once in the abdomen while crossing the street from his home to his girlfriend’s residence in the village. Crown witness, Martin Teul […]
On Tuesday night, eleven months after he was elected as the president of the United States of America, Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address in Washington D.C. Following disparaging remarks about small and developing nations and countries such as Haiti, El Salvador and others in Africa as ‘shithole countries,’ the U.S. […]
In respect to the suspension of U.S. visas for temporary workers that came on the heels of the Belize vote at the United Nations, the U.S. representative says that each country is assessed separately. In the region, there are countries that have had no success with convictions for human trafficking, but unlike Belize, have not […]
The thirty-three members of the Organization of American States’ Permanent Council – Cuba and Venezuela aside – met in session in Washington this morning to hear from the Belizean and Guatemalan foreign affairs ministers on the status of the Belize-Guatemala claim as it reaches flashpoint. The O.A.S. has established a Peace Fund to regulate activities […]
On Tuesday, we told you about Belizean Denea Joseph who has been living in the U.S. for seventeen years, but is one of one point eight million illegal immigrants who were taken to the U.S.A. as children and remain protected under its Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. The Trump Administration says it will wind […]
Now, the State of the Union address is not one that receives extensive local coverage, but as they say, when the U.S. sneezes, Belize catches a cold. President Trump’s address contained matters that are consequential, especially on immigration. The controversial construction of a wall on its border with Mexico as well as limiting the green […]
Belize Water Services Limited has maintained the same rates for water supply since the last full tariff review by the Public Utilities Commission in 2015. But the Commission decided to initiate an Annual Review Proceeding in which BWS proposes more than one hundred and seventy million in investments, particularly in San Pedro, but no change […]
Is faulty wiring the cause of an electrical short at the newly built Civic Center? It is reported that personnel from the National Fire Service responded to a call on Friday night that sparks and smoke were seen coming from an area of the building where a light had blown out. On Tuesday night, another […]
The Statistical Institute of Belize report for December shows both imports and exports down. Belize imported goods valued at one hundred and sixty-seven million dollars or zero point nine percent down when compared to imports in December 2016. According to the S.I.B., this drop in imports resulted from reduced purchases of light fixtures, plastic lab […]
The Public Utilities Commission, or more specifically its members past and present, say they feel hard done by in recent media coverage of a set of documents which purport to show rampant spending since the beginning of John Avery’s tenure as chairman in 2008. Avery today presented what he says is the final independent audit […]
As has been reported, Flowers wrote what is called a “letter of representation” or “management letter” to the P.U.C. to query certain matters based on information given to him. Avery says that the final audit report indicates that several of the issues raised by Flowers, including the matter of credit card purchases, donations and the […]
Avery took particular offense to the spreadsheet listing payments to past and present members of the Commission – a total of four and a half million dollars in nine years, of which he is said to have collected a total of one and a half million, covering salary, travel expenses, gratuity for meeting appearances. Except […]
The Public Utilities Commission bought thirteen and a half acres of property intended to become the P.U.C.’s headquarters at mile four on the George Price Highway in 2011. They paid Thomas Shaw a total of nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars, an average of seventy thousand per acre. That is a price considered similar to […]
The Ministry of Health today received equipment that will assist in the testing of samples to detect various diseases common to Belize such as dengue. The technology is valued at seventy-five thousand dollars and will assist the ministry to promptly deter epidemiological incidents. The gifting took place in Belize City where representatives from various agencies […]
The City Council recognized twenty-five persons with certificates today after they received training for five weeks in either computer software or Caribbean legal system. Staff of the City Council, police officers, and other partner organizations participants received their certificates from Mayor Darrell Bradley who shares that this kind of training serves to empower employees to […]
Students from all over Belize gathered at the SCA Auditorium to learn more about the opportunities for higher-level education in Belize and overseas. The Ministry of Education says it wants more students to consider tertiary education and so they hosted a one-day expo to promote educational programmes, career paths as well as local and international […]
Last May, the National Assembly approved, via motion, a line of credit offered by the Caribbean Development Bank to the Development Finance Corporation for forty million Belize dollars or twenty million U.S. dollars. The national development bank has gotten on its feet after being re-established in 2009 and is once again advertising itself as a […]
There is word tonight that two park rangers are missing in the Chiquibul. The rangers, Elroy Alvarado Villanueva and another who has been identified as Luis Ramirez, set out from their base at the Caracol Archeological Site in the Chiquibul looking for a vegetable known as chib. That was since Monday afternoon and the duo […]
A BelAm retiree residing in Burrell Boom, Belize District, perished in a fatal traffic accident on Monday afternoon. Seventy-seven-year-old George Young was heading to Burrell Boom when he collided into an eighteen-wheeler truck carrying a bulldozer and driven by businessman Anselm Gillett. About a mile and half pass the dump site on the Boom/Hattieville road, […]
For a few days last August, the beating of university student Kevin Brown on Ambergris Caye on the night of August sixth was all anyone would talk about. Brown was hit with a fire extinguisher, causing him to go unconscious, and kicked about, all because of a piece of jewelry. Police stumbles and fumbles led […]
Now to another sensational case, the December twenty-eighth murder of Fareed Ahmad in Hattieville. News Five confirmed last week that police had met with Ahmad’s family to go over recently obtained phone records. This was intended to help the investigation by addressing two prevailing theories about Ahmad’s death inside his vehicle, for which Woman Police […]
At the time of the January eleventh meeting between members of the Ahmad family and Police personnel in Belize City, they expressed their remaining displeasure over the rounding up of its members back in 2016 by the Special Branch of the police department. As many as twenty persons including pregnant wives, young children and grandparents were […]
