The urban violence and abuse of children has prompted UNICEF to speak out. The U.N. organization issued a release this afternoon highlighting the responsibility of adults to protect children and encourage them to grow. Children, says UNICEF, have been tragically hurt and some have lost their lives due to gun violence, physical abuse and sexual […]
On Wednesday night, Belize City became a war zone. In a matter of hours five people were injured in gun violence and another lost his life. A minor, the third to be caught in the mayhem in one week, was also wounded in the madness. Around nine o’clock on Wednesday night, Jermaine Carr was gunned […]
There is more scandalous information tonight about the hustle in the Ministry of Natural Resources known as the hot bed of corruption. A past P.U.P. administration in 1998 repossessed eighty-one acres of land in separate parcels in the Privassion Enclave area of the Mountain Pine Ridge and on North Ambergris Caye. The land was acquired […]
Briceño, himself a former Lands Minister, says the seventy-one million figure paid out for land compensation is more than three times the amount paid out under his Ministry in eight years in charge. As for why the land was taken back, Briceño says there were separate issues at play. But he notes that none of […]
The P.U.P. also wants Anthony “Boots” Martinez’s head on the chopping block. Since early this week, there have been reports about the alleged rip off at the Ministry of Works where he was the principal. On Wednesday he insisted he had nothing to do with allegations by his former caretaker Kirk Lamb that he, Martinez, […]
The P.U.P. leader placed full blame on Prime Minister Dean Barrow for not following through on his repeated promise to stamp out corruption. He insisted that nobody knows for sure what has been going on even though Martinez appears to be showing a conspicuous increase in wealth from ten years ago. And that, he said, […]
Kirk Lamb has re-emerged to counter some of the accusations and questions raised by his former boss, Anthony “Boots” Martinez, on Wednesday. Today he told reporters that while he may have well signed “contracts” to build and repair houses for the Southside Poverty Alleviation Project as confirmed by the Ministry of Works, he never actually […]
The murder of Jermaine Carr on Neal’s Pen Road was preceded by two other shooting incidents in Belize City on Wednesday evening. The first incident involved well-known George Street figure Nicholi Rhys, who was grazed in the head by a bullet when a lone assailant fired on him. Rhys was lucky to have escaped with […]
The attempt on Rhys’ life prompted swift retribution by his affiliates across town shortly afterwards. Twenty-one-year-old Aaron Avilez was leaving from a barbershop on North Front Street around seven-thirty when he was assailed by a gunman on foot. The shooter reportedly walked up to him and let loose a volley of shots, injuring him to […]
A robber got away with ten thousand U.S. dollars on Wednesday evening after he held up a businesswoman in Belize City. Police say that the woman was heading home for the day when an armed man held her up in the Golden Bay parking lot. There are no surveillance cameras in the compound and while […]
There has been a recent trend of men accused of murder seeking bail. It was previously thought that murder, except in rare circumstances, was the one charge immune to bail, but there have been two recent successes, one of which later led to an acquittal. Twenty-five year old Tyrone Meighan of Banak Street and twenty-nine […]
The open debate on the taking of photographs by officers conducting stop and search exercises continue in the public domain, as well as within government. The issue has been raised on several occasions with senior members of the Belize Police Department and, despite a roundabout response; the matter has not been addressed formally. That was […]
On Wednesday, the National Trade Union Congress of Belize, N.T.U.C.B., issued a terse release soundly criticizing the Government of Belize for the delay in the visit of an UNCAC team of experts. The umbrella organization disparages the island nation of Tuvalu, one of two countries, including Haiti, providing specialists to conduct an evaluation and assessment […]
A fire in Belize City has left a family of nine without a roof over their heads. The homeowner and her baby were asleep when the fire broke out inside an unoccupied bedroom. The pair narrowly escaped the inferno that completely destroyed their home. Single-mother Monique Dennison says that a man was spotted in her […]
There will be a special meeting of the Cabinet in Belmopan this Friday, where members will get the first look at the 2018-2019 General Revenue and Appropriation Bill, also known as the budget. It is then scheduled to go before the House of Representatives next week, March ninth. In confirming the announcement, Deputy Prime Minister […]
Last year’s budget for the Ministry of Education was around two hundred and seventy-seven million dollars, about twenty-eight percent of government’s total fiscal expenditure. This year’s, according to Minister Patrick Faber, it is about the same. But while he is not expecting any significant cuts, the Deputy Prime Minister says the ministry is trying to […]
Earlier this week, Leader of the Opposition, John Briceño, revealed that what is left of the education budget is being raided, with Cabinet approval, to attempt to curry favor before elections. Parents are going to schools asking for letters so they can take it to their U.D.P. area representatives. The payments are then said to […]
There are more pre-schools and pre-schoolers in Belize than ever before, and the demand for early socialization, especially in a society vulnerable to impression from outside, is consequently greater. But the Ministry of Education believes that children’s greatest role models are their parents, and they hold the key to how the rest of the child’s […]
Our eyes play a vital role in our quality of life. However, even though our vision is so important to us, we don’t make the time to check-up on them. In fact, we usually wait for something to go wrong before we do. The general rule is that every person should get an eye exam […]
