Last week, the Government announced that it will phase out single use plastic bags and Styrofoam products. It is big news for the country and a first for the region. The move comes at a time when an initiative is being rolled out by the Solid Waste Management Two Project where residents are being encouraged […]
Various organizations are doing their part in calling for an end to the violence against children. Over the weekend, Light Our Hearts organized a parade and rally in the city. Families who have lost their loved ones joined the event endorsing prayers as a powerful tool to ease the grip on the pain of losing […]
There are more boots on the ground from the police department and the Belize Defense Force, following an eruption of gun violence among rival gangs on the south side of the city. But over the weekend that didn’t bring any security or peace, instead all hell broke loose on Mayflower Street where the Gang Suppression […]
Deputy Commissioner Chester Williams, whose instructions were to deploy the Gang Suppression Unit into Mayflower Street, has deferred an official comment on the incident. In the aftermath of the madness, however, he took to social media to explain his decision for unleashing the GSU on Ghost Town. According to the Operations Commander, several events involving […]
Just before the mayhem on Mayflower, there was another shooting that could have had dire consequences and could have been catastrophic. The Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is in crisis undergoing works for a damaged roof and is offering only fifty percent of its usual services, but it has not been spared of pervasive gun violence. […]
There were a total of three murders recorded over the weekend; two in rural Belize District and one in the south. In Lord Bank’s, Ladyville, twenty-eight-year-old Justin Emmanuel Orellana was found by a family member shot dead on Sunday morning inside his home. Residents say they heard shots being fired in the wee hours of […]
A sixty-four-year-old businessman was beaten to death with a barstool in the Sunset Park Community on the George Price Highway. According to police, they were called out to the murder scene after nine on Sunday night where they found Guerrero dead outside in the yard. Unconfirmed reports are that there was a woman along with […]
A Guatemalan national was the third murder victim for the weekend. Thirty-six-year-old Mario Oddulio’s body was discovered in Trio Village, about four miles from the junction with the Southern Highway. Around five on Sunday evening, police were called out to the scene where they found Oddulio’s body dressed in only boxer shorts. The already decomposing […]
The new managers of the Belize Civic Center, Apex Events Services Limited, and its parent company Apex Events Services LLC of Florida, have apparently agreed with Government on a guarantee of around eight hundred and fifty thousand to a million dollars annually to maintain the facility and ration out its use. Above that figure, there […]
Just in time for Easter and for the first time in recent memory, there is a uniform increase in fuel prices. The latest price increase takes effect at midnight tonight, just before commuters take to the highways for the Easter break. The additional General Sales Tax on kerosene has not come into effect, but prices […]
There is a report that as many as one hundred and thirty boxes of limes were imported today from Mexico, without a proper Pest Risk Analysis. The lime, however, reportedly remains with customs at the Santa Elena border because of strong objections to the importation. It follows from a report last week that the fruit […]
The violence over the weekend was not confined to Mayflower Street or the murders. Five persons were injured in three separate shootings in the city, for which three victims have been treated and discharged and another remains in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. A few hours after the pandemonium in Ghost Town, […]
Berkeley Street resident, Fabio Paredes remains in a critical condition inside the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital receiving treatment for gunshot injuries to both of his legs following a shooting at the corner of Kelly Street and Hunter’s Lane on the north side of Belize City. Police believe that the shooting is a result […]
Two hours before the shooting of Paredes, police were processing the scene of yet another incident on Central American Boulevard. An argument between a Lebanese businessman and his employee did not end well when he took out his licensed firearm and shot the truck driver. But although Felicito Cho was injured to his wrist and […]
There was a fatal road traffic accident in Toledo over the weekend. Just before midday on Saturday, forty-nine-year-old Guatemalan Jose Maas Cac was knocked down and killed in Bladen Village. Police say that Cac was seen staggering across the Southern Highway after he got off a scooter. Thirty-three-year-old Elisabelia Gilharry was driving her car along […]
On Friday, C.I.B. detectives picked up and arrested nineteen-year-old Alejandro Lauriano in the village of Rockstone Pond on the Old Northern Highway. He and another man known by the nickname “Peanuts” were sought for the double murder of sixty-four-year-old Theresita Flowers and seventeen-year-old Delcia Blanco, who were fatally shot inside a home on Tibruce Street […]
Belize City police, despite having arrested and charged Alejandro Lauriano for the murders of Theresita Flowers and Delcia Blanco, are in pursuit of another person believed to have been an accomplice in the deadly shootings. Blanco and Flowers were dispatched in a hail of bullets on March seventeenth inside their mobile home on Tibruce Street. […]
It was a tragedy that provoked much social commentary. Seventeen-year-old Shenaine Reyes, previously known as Shenelle Reyes, was fatally shot in the chest in November of 2010. The third form student of Sadie Vernon Technical High School died on the spot after a friend showing off a sawed-off shotgun to a group discharged it and […]
Late Friday evening, Prime Minister Dean Barrow wrapped up a marathon two days of debate over the 2018-2019 General Revenue and Appropriation Bill in the National Assembly. He opened the first part of his address by responding to allegations concerning the state of affairs at Belize Telemedia Limited. During his Budget presentation, Prime Minister Barrow […]
The Prime Minister spent a few minutes of his closing statement listing key investments either underway or coming soon that he says will prop up the Belizean economy. From a Four Seasons Hotel in Caye Caulker to agricultural projects in Cayo and Stann Creek District, the Prime Minister argues that there is no shortage of […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow has described his 2018-2019 budget as one of consolidation. A point of pride, he said, is that the hallmarks of his administration, such as the pro-poor programs have not been touched. As for infrastructure, he offered a counter to the Opposition’s suggestion that people can’t “eat” streets and drains. Prime […]
Members of Saint John’s Credit Union Limited no longer need to travel deep into the heart of Southside to do business at the Basra Street office in Belize City. In addition to its branches in Dangriga and Belmopan, the credit union today established a new office on the Philip Goldson Highway, sharing space with UNO […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
The budget debate continued today in the House of Representatives in Belmopan as members of parliament made their contributions and up to news time, the debate continues. But we begin tonight’s newscast with troubling news from one of the main economic pillars, that is, the shrimp industry in the south. Last November, the Statistical Institute […]
The Budget Debate winds down later this evening after a wrap-up by Prime Minister Dean Barrow. Once again absent was former Deputy Prime Minister and Orange Walk North area representative Gaspar Vega. But business continued, and during the debate this afternoon, Minister of Health Pablo Marin issued his first public statement on the matter of […]
