Basketball Final Tops Sports Monday
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
Written on May 28, 2018 | Posted in Sports | Comments Off on Basketball Final Tops Sports Monday
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Brandon Hughes, 18, Charged with Murder of Oscar Rosado, 70
After spending a night in lock-down, eighteen-year-old Brandon Hughes was taken to court this morning and arraigned before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser for the murder of well-known businessman, Oscar Rosado Senior. Police are actively looking for two other suspects who remain at large. Hughes was picked up at his house on Aloe Vera Street and […]
Resolution Reached in Compre Standoff
Teachers and students were back inside their respective classrooms at Belmopan Comprehensive High School today, after a two-day sit-out effected by faculty and staff. The protest was led by fourth form teachers who were dissatisfied with the manner in which the school’s board of management went about addressing the issue of outgoing students who failed […]
Computer Glitch was Difference Between Pass and Fail
According to Smith, the disqualification of so many students was the result of a miscalculation in the school’s electronic tallying system. Those discrepancies were compared with manual averages derived by each teacher which showed that a majority of those sixty-six fourth formers were indeed passing. Senator Smith says that all the teachers and board members […]
Dwayne Davis Guilty of Manslaughter of Doctor
Back to the court…Thirty-seven-year-old Dwayne Davis on Thursday admitted to causing the death, though not intentionally, of fifty-two-year-old Doctor Ivan Enrique Garcia Gomez, a naturalized Belizean originally from Guatemala, in June of 2012. Davis pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter during his trial which began on May third. He told police that he […]
Windell Neal at it Again; Held for More Swindling
Twenty-three-year-old Windell Neal pleaded guilty to obtaining property by deception from the Belize Book Center. On April thirtieth, 2018, he’s accused of collecting one hundred dollars from manager Andrew Bennett after posing as a supplier from Carmelita Village in Orange Walk. He took a package to the center and told them that they had a […]
Policeman Walks from Unlawful Sex Charge
Thirty-five-year-old Rupert Thomas was released from a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse dating back to 2013. The Seine Bight resident, a police officer for nine years, was accused of raping a minor who was a month shy of her sixteenth birthday. But the now twenty-year-old complainant took the stand in the Dangriga Supreme Court and […]
Mia Mottley for P.M. as Red Tide Sweeps Barbados
In historic regional news, following a sweep of the country’s thirty seats in the House of Assembly by her Barbados Labour Party, Mia Amor Mottley was this afternoon sworn in as Barbados’ eighth Prime Minister and first woman to hold the post. Mottley took her oath in the presence of Governor General Dame Sandra Mason, […]
Written on May 25, 2018 | Posted in Featured,Miscellaneous,People & Places,Politics,Regional / International | Comments Off on Mia Mottley for P.M. as Red Tide Sweeps Barbados
Sapna Budhrani Holds Over as NICH President
A change at the top of NICH went under the radar, but tonight we can confirm that there is a new acting president of the statutory body. For the past two years, since former President Diane Haylock took up the appointment as Belize’s Ambassador to Taiwan, Director of the Institute of Creative Arts, Gregory Vernon […]
Written on May 25, 2018 | Posted in Miscellaneous,People & Places | Comments Off on Sapna Budhrani Holds Over as NICH President
Festival of the Arts Goes National
On the heels of the successful district festivals of arts, the national event opened this morning at the Bliss Institute and continues until Thursday of next week. The theme “Pathway to Peace; Creativity and Unity,” captures the spirit of the national festival in which over a thousand young students from the golden performances will be […]
Written on May 25, 2018 | Posted in Art & Culture,Education | Comments Off on Festival of the Arts Goes National
Chamber Attacks Fuel Taxes
Fuel prices went up again on Thursday for the umpteenth time this year, and the third in a month, with premium now selling at eleven dollars and sixty-seven cents per gallon. The Chamber of Commerce today issued a release on the hike calling on the government to immediately review and reshape its fuel tax strategy […]
Written on May 25, 2018 | Posted in Economy,Miscellaneous,People & Places | Comments Off on Chamber Attacks Fuel Taxes
A Protest Against the High Cost of Living
Last year, Moses Sulph’s Belize Leaders for Social Justice carried out a protest on the high cost of gas prices. While results were mixed as prices have gone up and down since and a third price hike in as many weeks just went into effect, Sulph is hoping for better luck with a protest that […]
University of Belize Unveils 4-Year Vision Plan
The national university, the University of Belize, this week unveiled big plans for the growth of the institution in the next five years, including introduction of more Bachelor’s-level programmes and the university’s first Masters’ programmes. Other aspects of the plan include infrastructural upgrades to the Belmopan campus—building labs for the engineering and the new biology […]
Written on May 25, 2018 | Posted in Education,Miscellaneous,People & Places | Comments Off on University of Belize Unveils 4-Year Vision Plan
How to Get a Good Job and Career
Want a job? There were at least seven hundred and fifty available at different levels of experience and pay scale today at Swift Hall on the compound of St. Martin de Porres R.C. School and Church. The first ever BELTRAIDE Career Fair united thirteen prominent employers in four different industries with hundreds of job-seekers in […]
Written on May 25, 2018 | Posted in Economy,Miscellaneous,People & Places,Social Issues | Comments Off on How to Get a Good Job and Career
Cuba, Belize Doctors Meet
On Thursday at the Inspiration Center, healthcare professionals from across the public and private sectors participated in the second annual Cuba and Belize Medical Symposium. Both countries share a unique partnership where health and medicine are concerned. That interest continues to see Belizeans completing medical studies in Cuba, as well as the Cuban Medical Brigade […]
Written on May 25, 2018 | Posted in Health,Miscellaneous,People & Places | Comments Off on Cuba, Belize Doctors Meet
Scotiabank Assist with Scholarships for South Side
The 2017 school year is winding down quickly, but the Belize Police Department and Scotia Bank are already thinking ahead to the next academic calendar. That partnership has seen the availability of as many as fifteen one-year scholarships to be offered to primary school students on the south side of Belize City. There are only […]
Written on May 25, 2018 | Posted in Miscellaneous,People & Places,Social Issues | Comments Off on Scotiabank Assist with Scholarships for South Side
Kids’ Outreach Program Continues With Ziplining Tour
Since his transfer to Belize City several weeks ago, Region One Commander Howell Gillett has been on a relentless outreach to at-risk youths across the south side of Belize City. That provision of community services comes in many forms, including taking busloads of children on trips to the rural parts of the country. One such […]
Written on May 25, 2018 | Posted in Miscellaneous,People & Places,Social Issues | Comments Off on Kids’ Outreach Program Continues With Ziplining Tour
Youths Talk HIV/AIDS
The 2017 report on HIV by the Ministry of Health is pending, but the 2016 statistical data shows that there were two hundred and twenty-five new infections reported for that year. One hundred and four persons died of HIV-related conditions in 2016. There is also an estimated three thousand six hundred and sixty-five persons living […]
Written on May 25, 2018 | Posted in Health,Miscellaneous,People & Places,Social Issues | Comments Off on Youths Talk HIV/AIDS
City’s Fifth Murder in 5 Days; Construction Worker Gunned Down on Dolphin Street
The unrelenting spate of gun violence in the Old Capital since last Saturday continues, as we open our newscast tonight with coverage of yet another murder. On Wednesday evening, a construction worker and his colleague became the latest victims of an armed assault as they walked along Dolphin Street sometime around six o’clock. Carl Tristan […]
City Resident Jose Zelaya Jr. Murdered in Corozal – But Who Did It?
Missing Belize City resident, Jose Zelaya Junior, was found dead on Wednesday afternoon in a cane field north of Calcutta Village. He had been missing for three days and his father believed that his son, who carried his namesake, had been kidnapped and killed as he traveled to Corozal to visit him. A postmortem conducted […]
Robbery Likely Motive for Death of Carlton Moreira
Police are seeking two persons in connection with Wednesday afternoon’s murder of Carlton Moreira in an alley between Banak and Mayflower Streets. While the area is known for both external and internal gang rivalries, Moreira was not known to be a part of that world. So speculation from both police and the family is that […]
Gangs’ Net Ensnared Luis Carlos Moh
On Wednesday, alleged gang leader Nicoli Rhys appeared in court, charged with the murder of taxi operator Luis Carlos Moh, who was found near Homeland Memorial Park on Monday dead of gunshot injuries. He had been called to pick up two persons in Belize City and take them to mile eight on the George Price […]
A ‘Comprehensive’ Sit-Out by Teachers over Final Grades
Teachers at the Belmopan Comprehensive High School are on a sit-out. Today when we travelled to Belmopan, we found most of them sitting out in the school compound and most students were left on their own. But teachers say they are participating in the sit-out because they are not satisfied with the school’s Board of […]
Written on May 24, 2018 | Posted in Education,Featured,People & Places | Comments Off on A ‘Comprehensive’ Sit-Out by Teachers over Final Grades
Daron Gonzalez Charged for Hopkins Murder-Arson
Police have arrested and charged twenty-one-year-old Daron Gonzalez for the crimes of arson and murder. Twenty-four-year-old Jorge Magana was killed over the weekend inside Flomon’s Guesthouse, which was then set on fire. But ACP Joseph Myvett today indicated that from their evidence, the arson was not because of the murder; the events were separate. […]
What Killed Rudolph Kelly?
Accident or murder? Police say it leans toward the former for now in the case of Rudolph Kelly, a landlord of Mile Eight on the George Price Highway who sustained two cut wounds and crashed while headed to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for treatment on Tuesday night. Today Crime Investigation Branch chief Alejandro Cowo […]
Written on May 24, 2018 | Posted in Auto Accidents,Crime,Featured | Comments Off on What Killed Rudolph Kelly?
