Think football in Belize City, and three letters come to mind – M.C.C. Yes, the name originally belongs to a cricket club from London, but the patch of land they donated many years ago has been the cradle of football, despite many ravages. But now, footballers who use the pitch for recreational and training purposes […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of weekend sporting activities….]
Seven soldiers of an elite unit of the Belize Defence Force and a police officer are in custody tonight following the savage beating of an Orange Walk resident at his house in Orange Walk Town. The severity of the beating caused the puncture of his lung and kidney and led to his death within hours […]
Noe Sanchez was the other person attacked by the group of eight soldiers and a police officer. He told his story to the media, saying that as they were being beaten they were asked questions in Spanish and Creole. Sanchez observed that the officers apparently came prepared for a violent confrontation and left with the […]
As we said, eight law enforcement officers are now in custody and there is an ongoing criminal and internal investigation into Ariel Audinette Salazar’s death. There are also many unanswered questions as to what this group of men was doing at Salazar’s house because they were not acting within the scope of their authority. According […]
ACP Chester Williams says that the men didn’t get a directive from the commanders of the Orange Walk Police Station to go to Sanchez’s house that morning. He says that based on the report, the men acted criminally and out of order. Williams says that the file will be forwarded to the D.P.P. ACP […]
And while the Police Department has had its fair share of a black eye, ACP Williams says that the actions of the men are not indicative of the mode of operation of the unit. He says that the police department wants to assure the public, particularly the Orange Walk Town community, that there won’t be […]
This morning, a most vicious act was visited on the former Regional Commander of the Salvation Army, Major Errol Robateau. The churchman now owns a bus service in Hattieville Village which runs daily between Belize City and Mile seventeen on the George Price Highway. Just before dawn, as Robateau and a female employee were preparing […]
Tonight, Alaine Garcia, a resident of Hattieville, remains missing, and his family believes something bad may have happened to him. The former Belize City resident was last seen on Tuesday taking his children to catch the bus to school, but on his way back home, gunshots rang out. But his family says police made a […]
Is government broke? So broke that they may have to resort to issuing treasury bills just to pay salaries at the end of the month? Recent correspondence to C.E.O.s purportedly from the Financial Secretary Joseph Waight pointedly asks that each government ministry stop searching through their coffers for available funding and sending requests to the […]
The budget for the new financial year 2018-2019, is to be tabled in the House of Representatives on March ninth, that’s two days after the municipal elections. From what we know, the private sector was not consulted nor have other sectors, as has been the case in the past. But we do know that it […]
Still on the national budget, eagle eyes will be turned on Belmopan to see if Prime Minister Dean Barrow and his government have been able to live up to the promises made not only to Belizeans, but also to international stakeholders, to maintain a reasonable standard fiscally while following through on keeping the cost of […]
Senator Lizarraga went on to address another key area of concern in the Budget: what will be allocated to addressing the root causes of crime such as joblessness and lack of opportunities? Education and Finance typically dominate the budget pie, with much of that given over to salaries. The Government will also be mindful of […]
Tonight there is a sort-of-happy ending to Thursday’s story about the battle of the backboards at Buttonwood Bay Park. The “Kings of the Park” backboards installed and sponsored by area representative Kareem Musa have been returned. But they are a different color, according to Musa – green. Musa, who told us he paid a total […]
Information to our newsroom is that the supply of diesel fuel is running very low. In fact going into the weekend, gas stations are receiving only a limited amount and in some cases, they are rationed to a thousand gallons, which is less than the demand in normal circumstances. Diesel is sourced from PUMA and […]
He was previously accused, but later acquitted, of a murder. But twenty-three-year-old Akeem Augustine is back behind bars tonight, charged with the attempted murder of Emmerson Garnett and aggravated assault with a firearm upon Houston Apolonio with a deadly weapon, to wit, a firearm. Augustine is also further accused of dangerous harm and use of […]
Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Williams says she cannot offer bail to accused murderer Daniel Myvett, who is awaiting re-trial on the charge of murder. Myvett is accused of killing Nigerian national, Kabiru Olongundudu, a security guard working and posting at the Best Western Belize Biltmore Plaza, who was stabbed to death on the jobsite during […]
The re-registration of the voters list is long overdue and the government has said that it will take place after the municipal elections and before general elections in 2020. There are currently thirty-one constituencies nationwide with some far bigger than others in voting population. In the city, Lake Independence and Port Loyola are far bigger […]
An agreement was reached today between the governments of Belize and the United States on Cultural Property. The Memorandum of Understanding commits both governments to work together to fight the looting and trafficking of cultural material found primarily at archaeological sites. As part of the ceremony, the U.S. also returned a number of archaeological pieces […]
Florencio Mes, the last of the “Three Kings”, celebrated a milestone today. He turned eighty years old. He is the renowned Mayan Harpist who lives in San Pedro Columbia in Toldeo where he has been keeping the musical traditions of the Maya alive for more than fifty years. He had very little schooling but he […]
San Jose, Toledo residents continue to puzzle over the horrific discovery of two sisters hacked to death outside the village after attending a church service and visiting a family member. Bella Vista resident Wilmer Escobar has been charged with the gruesome double murder, which prompted the usually peaceful Maya to rise up in a ‘walk […]
There was a double murder on Wednesday night in the city in which the life of a twelve-year-old student was abruptly cut short on Pregnant Alley in the Mesopotamia Division. David Morrison, the Queen Street Baptist student was simply at the wrong place along with his mother and about to head home to Ladyville when […]
The gun violence was not contained to Pregnant Alley. Two more city residents were injured in a shooting in the Lake Independence area. Emerson Garnett and Houston Apolonio were on Police Street when they came under fire. Apolonio was grazed on the shoulder, but Garnett was hit multiple times and is in critical condition at […]
Police are tonight investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man in Orange Walk Town earlier today. It is alleged that an individual identified as forty-six-year-old Ariel Audinette was severely beaten by a team of men dressed in camouflage uniforms. It is not clear at this time whether the group is in fact part […]
Back to the city where even as police were processing the crime scene at Pregnant Alley, a fire broke just off Hyde’s Lane in the city. It started at a wooden house and quickly spread to another building before the Fire Department could contain the blaze. While Yolanda Ramos and Michael Rosado were not at […]
