Former Employee of the National Bank of Belize is exposing irregularities at the financial institution that have left her in bad debt. Katrina Young resigned from the National Bank of Belize in 2015. During her tenure at the bank, Young successfully applied for two loans—one for her studies and another for a vehicle. As an […]
According to Young, if she did not keep her own records she would have had to pay a loan of fourteen percent. Young was given a bill of fifteen thousand dollars for late fees which she says are incorrect because she has all the receipts of her monthly payments. Katrina Young, Former Employee, National […]
Police officers were called on a group of Nazarene High School students this morning after they refused to leave from in front of the school’s compound in Belize City. The students were prevented from entering the compound and attending classes after it was deemed that their hairstyles were inappropriate. Tensions quickly rose and the school […]
In the remote village of Mabilha in the Toledo District, parents decided to keep their children at home for a second day in protest. They were up in arms that a request to have a teacher transferred from the school had gone unanswered for over a year. The allegations made against the teacher is that […]
Late this evening, the principal of Mabilha Government School confirmed that the management had identified a replacement for Angel Cal and has agreed to resolve the issue. Chairman Mateo Salam read an excerpt from a follow-up letter sent to management earlier this year. On the Phone: Mateo Salam, Chairman, Mabilha Village “This letter serves […]
A video of a fight between two men went viral on Facebook over the weekend. One of the men in the fight is The Guardian’s Editor and host of ‘Fus Ting Da Mawnin,’ Alfonso Noble. The other man, not as known as Noble, is Norman Castillo. He stopped by our studios to say that the […]
The mass re-registration exercise is over and the final tally for the number of applications received by the Elections and Boundaries Department is one hundred twenty-one thousand, four hundred and ninety-six. This is far below from the original target of two hundred thousand applications. During the first week of the re-registration exercise, sixteen thousand, six […]
There are health concerns in the remote village of Billy White. It is small village of about two hundred families in the Cayo District. The village is not often mentioned in the news, but we were called out there because there are serious concerns that the water used for daily routines is contaminated. Villagers say […]
Placencia Villagers are coming together to fight off the Sargasso attack. Like on the beaches of San Pedro, Placencia has been invaded by Sargassum. Besides the foul odor and unpleasant sight, the Sargasso produces a toxic gas which can cause health complications. It’s a problem that is putting the livelihood and health of the villagers […]
The annual flag raising ceremony was held at the roundabout near Pallotti High School on Saturday morning to officially kick off the September Celebrations. The brief ritual at the Flag Monument was attended by Mayor Bernard Wagner and his team from the Belize City Council. Here is an excerpt from his address. Bernard Wagner, […]
Chairman of the Sugar Control Production Committee, Doctor Carlos Itza, no longer holds the post of Sugar Cane Specialist and Sugar Cane Technical Assistant with the Sugar Industry Control Board. He was given his marching papers last week and was told that his contract will not be renewed because his post has become redundant. Prior […]
The Stella Martin School located on Princess Margaret Drive is preparing to add music to its programme for children with learning disabilities. It’s a welcomed addition for which the school principal turned to the Music Ambassador, Shyne Barrow. Earlier today a donation of music sheets and instruments were received by Principal Karema Oshon for the […]
This week Rotaract Club of Belize City donated over four thousand dollars worth of school supplies to one hundred and thirty preschool students for the new school year. The donation was made to the Presbyterian, Sunshine and Port Loyola Preschools in the City. On Monday, we stopped in for the handing over of the donation […]
There is controversy brewing over the results of this year’s carnival King and Queen Competition. The event was held on Saturday night at the Marion Jones Stadium. But when the results for the senior king category were announced, Belizean Jewel came out on top. Earlier today, the National Institute of Culture and History announced that […]
Track and field athletes Ashantie and Ashontie Carr have been accepted into the University of Technology in Jamaica to pursue higher studies for three years. There, they will earn their degrees, but also train and develop in their sport. While the girls have secured tuition and flights, they are yet to finalize their accommodations. They […]
It was a crazy weekend in which the blood spilled across the city and elsewhere. As many as seven persons were murdered beginning on Friday in one of the most violent periods. Aside from the homicides there were shootings, a home invasion, fatal traffic accidents and other acts of violence. The killing spree started in […]
The Hopkins community is stunned at the murder of Sherris Stringham, who by all accounts was well-liked in the village, where a memorial is being organized for later this week, pending the arrival of her relatives. A post-mortem conducted on Stringham’s decomposing body concludes that she died from traumatic asphyxia. Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph […]
As we said there were six murders in less than thirty hours in the Old Capital. It began on Friday afternoon when Shakedi Baizar was gunned down in an alley off Johnson Street near the Matron Roberts Polyclinic. That murder is believed to have triggered several other homicides in the city since his siblings are […]
Less than six hours after Shakedi Baizar was gunned down, a retaliatory murder occurred on Arlington Drive. Twenty-three-year-old Francis Pollard was shot several times while on Doris Books Crescent, a few minutes away from his house. Investigators confirmed today that the murder is gang-related. News Five’s Hipolito Novelo reports. Hipolito Novelo, Reporting Shots several […]
Victim number three, also on Friday night, was Daniel Lopez, a delivery man for Chon Saan Palace. The twenty-five-year-old was sent to deliver food at the corner of Basra and George Street in gang territory where street figures were mourning the murder of an associate, hours earlier. A gunman fired several shots in his direction, […]
Three murders on Friday and another three on Saturday. On Saturday morning, a guesthouse housekeeper found forty-year-old Allin Anthony Purtillo dead, covered by the hotel linen with his feet and hands bound with phone cord. Purtillo travelled from Independence to Belize City last Friday to officiate a softball game and checked into the Bayview Guesthouse […]
The unabated wave of gun violence over the weekend also claimed the life of a twenty-two-year-old resident of Pelican Street, who was shot and killed a short distance away from home and within hours of the gruesome discovery of a body at the Bayview Guesthouse. Investigators are still piecing together what may have precipitated the […]
In the wake of the violent weekend, grassroots organization One Struggle has been reaching out to grieving families in each of the affected neighborhoods. Led by former city councilor Philip Willoughby the distraught mothers turned social activists are making a bold effort at providing support for their inconsolable peers. This afternoon, they were at the […]
While processing the Pelican Street murder, fifteen minutes later, a school security guard was shot and killed while on duty. Orson Stephens was inside the Port Loyola preschool compound when his life was snuffed out. A single shot to his chest ended his life on the school’s veranda. The school authorities as well as his […]
Police confirmed today that Vildo Westby, wanted in the murder of Felix Ayuso, has been deported to Belize from Mexico. Westby was detained in Veracruz, Mexico in December 2017 for the murder of Ayuso, an activist from the island town of San Pedro. Ayuso was found stabbed multiple times inside his San Juan sub-division house. […]
