Youths Creating Talent is hosting a one-month free of cost summer camp for children on the south side at the Cumberbatch Field. The grassroots organization says that they have received overwhelming registration for the programme and are asking for the business community’s support to put on the programme for the children. The camp’s coordinator Justin […]
Professional violinist Cindy Burgos left the country today for a European Tour as part of the Orchestra of the Americas. Burgos, who has been playing the violin since she was twelve years old, is the only Belizean who was selected to experience the musical intimacy of playing before thousands of people in four different countries […]
A constitutional case has finally brought relief to a minor whose liberty was breached by the Gang Suppression Unit. Six years ago, on July six, 2012, then fourteen-year-old Brhea Bowen was arrested by the Gang Suppression Unit while at a summer camp. On that same day, the G.S.U. searched her home on Lacroix Boulevard in […]
An emotional Brhea Bowen exited the court room of Supreme Court Justice Shona Griffith along with her mother, Romie Anthony, saying she hopes that she can put the nightmare behind her. Brhea Bowen, Claimant “All these years I have not really thought of it. I have talked about it but it is not something […]
It did not go well today in court for Brandon Cattouse. Since April twenty-sixth, 2018, the elite cyclist has been on a provisional suspension from riding after he tested positive for E.P.O., recombinant human erythropoietin. E.P.O. is frequently used by athletes as a performance-enhancing drug. Today, in the Supreme Court Room of Justice Sonya Young, […]
According to Attorney Darrell Bradley, an arbitrator from Spain has been selected by the Regional Anti-Doping Organization to oversee the proceedings; that person has since been in contact with the three parties involved. Now, this is not the first instance in which a Belizean athlete has tested positive for a banned substance and there are […]
A jury was still deliberating this evening in the court of Justice Colin Williams for a verdict in the case of Rudolph Smith Junior, charged with rape and aggravated burglary. Smith is accused in an incident that occurred in November, 2011, at a house on Berkley Street. At the time, a fifteen-year-old girl claimed that […]
A minor in Dangriga says that he was unjustly shot by a police officer. According to the family of seventeen-year-old Cameron Smith, on Sunday morning sometime before seven o’clock, an officer on patrol appeared to have signaled at him; he gave the officer a nod and continued on his way. Shortly after, while on the […]
The People’s United Party has further postponed its Belmopan convention to the end of August amidst a legal challenge mounted by one of its very own, attorney Arthur Saldivar. Saldivar, who was barred from applying to participate, is seeking an injunction to stop the convention until the court can decide whether or not the P.U.P.’s […]
At this afternoon’s brief, the party chairman said that the postponement of the Belmopan convention should not be interpreted as any acceptance or recognition that Saldivar’s claim has any sort of merit. But Usher conceded that Saldivar is now allowed to apply and so does not see the need for further court action. Henry […]
A training programme by the Israeli government that started with controversy, ended quietly today in Belmopan. For a week, the police department and civilians received training from the Israeli instructors on best practices in community policing. The concept is one that is already being implemented in crime infested areas, but it is the instructors that […]
The controversial training in community policing has come and gone successfully. Fifteen men and women, some of them police officers and the others civilians employed in various areas of the public and private sectors, will now be able to move into various communities armed with the knowledge of building stronger relationships. The course was not […]
Deputy Commissioner Chester Williams, an advocate of strong community relations, credits the Israelis for their success in that area of outreach, despite what has been said by detractors of the initiative. Chester Williams, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Operations) “As much as there may be critics out there, the Israelis are one of the best […]
A request for O.A.S. observers during the re-registration process has been ignored. That request was made by Opposition Leader John Briceño to Prime Minister Dean Barrow in a letter dated the thirtieth of May. Briceño wrote to the PM saying that for the process to be transparent, it would be best to invite an O.A.S. […]
A resolution to appoint four members to the Election and Boundaries Commission will be tabled before the Senate on Thursday, almost a week after the re-registration exercise commenced. The four persons to be appointed are Phillipa Griffith Bailey and Naima Barrow of the U.D.P. and Orlando Espat and Magali Marin of the P.U.P. But the […]
On Monday, P.U.P. Leader John Briceño accepted the resignation of Julius Espat as deputy party leader for the west. Espat who has criticized Briceño’s leadership told News Five that the post has become ceremonial and is unable to carry out his functions. P.U.P. Chairman Henry Charles Usher told the press that the party and Espat […]
A fire completely destroyed a plywood home in Belize City on Monday evening. The occupant was not at home at the time of the incident and by the time she arrived at her house, the fire had completely destroyed everything. Fire officials are investigating the blaze and say that while the cause has not been […]
There were also two house fires in San Pedro. The first one happened in the early hours of Sunday in the San Pablo area. The wooden home was wiped out completely and the owner, who is out of the country, lost everything. The second blaze happened this afternoon around one o’clock on Pescador Drive where […]
It’s finally here, this summer’s hottest show begins at eight-thirty tonight live from the Bliss so head out and get your seat. Season two of KTV, the Remix, promises to bring you all the excitement and fun that you have been waiting for. You have seen the auditions of forty hopefuls, well the judges have […]
Fifty-year-old Melvin Locke left his family and home on Sunday night for a routine game of dice in the Backatown area of Dangriga which he is known to frequent. The handyman, who is also called “Pack Bread,’’ didn’t return home alive. Just after midnight, he was executed as he and others were engrossed in a […]
There have been developments in the murder investigation of seventeen-year-old Warren Rudon who was shot and killed in Belize City on Thursday night. The teenager was fatally injured in an armed assault during which he was shot once in the head as he walked along Lovely Lane around seven-thirty p.m. Earlier today, the police department […]
Three Guatemalans escaped from the Belize Central Prison in the early hours of Sunday morning. The men, all charged with illegal entry into the Chiquibul National Park and firearm offences, were on remand when they broke out between one and three-thirty on Sunday morning. Police say they have set up checkup points to try and […]
We’ve been reporting on the growing number of robberies at businesses and residences on the north side of Belize City. Over the weekend, a well-known couple was targeted on Saturday night in a home invasion at the residence of seventy-two-year-old Solangel Arguelles on Baymen Avenue in Belize City. Miss Soli of Florasol and her husband […]
The last re-registration of electors took place in 1997. Another should have followed ten years later, but the law was amended for it to occur fifteen years later, which should have been in 2012. The process has been postponed twice since then, but this morning it got underway countrywide in anticipation of next year’s ICJ […]
A Special Sitting of the Senate is schedule to take place on Thursday. Four resolutions will be tabled including the appointment of members to the Election and Boundaries Commission. Those persons are Phillipa Griffith Bailey, Naima Barrow, Orlando Espat and Magali Marin. They will serve for a period of five years retroactive to May first, […]
