In a few weeks, Traffic Manager for Belize City, Kevaughn Jenkins will be transferred to the Sanitation Department. He will be the new manager of that department, taking over the post of longtime city council employee and a staunch supporter of the United Democratic Department, Percival Murillo. Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner says Jenkins’ transfer […]
Last week we reported on the donation of a fully equipped ambulance by the Rotary Club of Edmonton, Canada in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Dangriga. The medical van was acquired as an addition to the fleet of vehicles for Southern Emergency Services located at mile ten in Dangriga. But tonight, there is a […]
Joy Smith says that based on the agreement, she is asking for sixteen thousand dollars owed to her for the work she put into the development of the EMT service provider because her documents and that of her husband were used for the licensing of the company. While Smith says she was paid for her […]
School children are now settling back in the classrooms so if you didn’t, it is still a good time to check their eyes for any emerging vision problems. There are many ways to detect that there are issues with your child’s eyesight. Can they read letters and numbers from a distance or are they reading […]
Seven days ago in the dead of the night more than one hundred purported gang members from the Mayflower/Banak and George Streets were detained and placed in c ells at the Queen Street and Raccoon Street police stations. The round-up happened within-hours of a proclamation of the controversial special public emergency zones in the two […]
The state of public emergency which has been effected in the George Street and Mayflower neighborhoods waives certain constitutional rights enjoyed by the citizenry of those respective communities. With the incarceration of almost sixty persons, will they also be denied privileges that have been extended to those on remand or convicted inmates? Those freedoms include […]
The Human Rights Commission of Belize late this evening issued a letter to the Commissioner of Police, seeking a report and status of prisoners held as a result of the State of Public Emergency. The Commission says that along with the Bar Association of Belize, it has been monitoring the implementation and the legal progress […]
As you’ve heard, the legal fraternity, including the Bar Association and the Human Rights Commission of Belize, has weighed in on the state of emergency that has been declared in parts of Belize City. Their position has resounded across the media in the days that followed the rounding up of gang members. But what about […]
Still on the State of Public Emergency, the Taiwanese Government has issued an advisory to its citizen living in Belize to exercise caution. The advisory was issued on Monday by Taiwan’s Bureau of Consular Affairs which advised its citizens to remain vigilant and pay attention to their own safety, avoid crowded places and stay tuned […]
Police have charged three persons in connection with Sunday drug bust. They are Peter Friesen Junior, a Blue Creek resident along with two Mexican nationals, Eli Figueroa Nunez and Azarias Manzano and are yet to be arraigned. The charges are importing drugs into Belize and drug trafficking, but according to the charge sheet, others will […]
While three persons are charged, Police Constable Norman Anthony was released sometime before ten p.m. on Tuesday, after being held in detention since Sunday evening in connection with the landing of a drug plane in Tres Leguas that night. Anthony is the officer in charge of the Blue Creek police substation which also has jurisdiction […]
The fourteen-million-dollar drug bust of a plane that came from Venezuela was achieved through cooperation from security agencies in the region. Today, the U.S. Embassy in Belize is commending Belize’s security forces for the cocaine bust. The U.S. Embassy says that the bust shows the important work Belize is doing to combat the transshipment of […]
More than eight hundred thousand Belize dollars was stolen from Kortobacco Belize Limited on Sunday in what could possibly be the biggest, well calculated and successfully executed heist in Belize’s history. Located at the Benque Free Zone, Kortobacco Belize Limited was broken into by four masked and armed men who were equipped with a blowtorch […]
According to investigators, the burglars that stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Kortobacco Belize building in the Benque Free Zone gained access into the compound from an opening on the western side of the zone. According to the C.E.O. of the Benque Free Zone, Al D. Sattler, the chain link fence that encompasses […]
There is an update to the story of a construction worker who was killed by a cement mixer. Eighteen-year-old San Carlos villager, Victor Hernandez has been charged for causing the death of twenty-one-year-old Jeffrey Hernandez. Victor was charged with manslaughter by negligence and was released on a ten-thousand-dollar bail on Friday. On Monday, September third, […]
For the past months, Caribbean and Latin America countries have been feeling the negative effects of massive amounts of Sargassum which have washed up along the coastlines. Tons of Sargassum have covered Belize’s beaches including those in San Pedro and in Placencia. The decaying Sargassum not only releases a foul odor, but also a hydrogen […]
Belizeans living in North and South Carolina in the United States are bracing for the impact of Hurricane Florence. Belize’s Ambassador to the U.S., Daniel Gutierrez, issued an advisory to Belizeans living in the area, stating that all Belizeans in the path of the incoming storm are to follow the directives pertinent to local and […]
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry has issued a release on the U.H.S. loan motion for ninety-five point six million dollars and increasing which was taken to the House on August thirty-first. The B.C.C.I. is critical of both sides of the House saying that neither had the intention to constructively resolve the decade-old debt […]
On Tuesday, CWU President Evan ‘Mose’ Hyde came out swinging against the Belize City Council accusing the council of union busting. The claim comes after the council denied CWU’s request to attend a meeting concerning issues raised by the cemetery staff, twelve which are members of the union. Today, the council issued a statement in […]
An anthology of poems written by Belizean American, Flora Emelda Anderson Chestnut was officially launched today at the Image Factory in Belize City. Quiet Moments; Rejuvenation of the Soul is the reflection of a Belizean woman who addresses social and political issues, life-changing experiences and Belizean history. The fifty-eight-page book of poems is published by […]
The issue of digital transitioning from analogue is taking place in many countries. It involves the conversion to a new system from analogue terrestrial to digital terrestrial. In the Caribbean, a few have made the switch while in the more populous Central America far more are migrating to the new system. This week, the issue […]
Police have confirmed late this afternoon that a senior officer has been placed on a five-day administrative leave beginning today pending further investigation into a huge cocaine bust over the weekend. He is Superintendent David Chi, who is the officer in command at the Orange Walk Police Station. Chi has been heading that formation for […]
The suspension of Chi and Anthony follows a fourteen-million-dollar drug bust on Sunday. A small aircraft originating from Venezuela was confiscated by police in the Tres Leguas area, Blue Creek where there have been multiple landings of bigger drug planes found abandoned. It carried an estimated one thousand two hundred and twenty-six pounds of cocaine. […]
Chief Executive Officer George Lovell, of the Ministry of National Security, says that the illegal landing of aircrafts in northern Belize prompted the police department to ramp up anti-drug operations across the country, particularly in the Orange Walk District. The success of this weekend’s bust was, in part, attributed to residents in the area who […]
Is Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie related to disgraced Police Constable Norman Anthony? It’s a claim that he categorically refuted during a press conference earlier today, admitting that while the officer is also from Lemonal Village, he is in fact a very distant relative of his wife. ComPol Whylie also spoke of the quantity of […]
