A contingent of Belizean athletes left Belize without fanfare and are currently in Honduras where they are competing in the U-15 CODICADER games in Tegucigalpa. The local team is taking on mighty players from Central America in various disciplines and is putting on a big fight. Earlier today, Kenrick Gordon bested other athletes from the […]
A phalanx of police officers descended on LaCroix Boulevard this evening before making its way into Holy Emmanuel Street where they broke off into individual groups to introduce themselves to residents in Gungulung. We haven’t been invited to join the police department on its weekly Meet and Greet for quite sometime and today we accompanied […]
Gungulung is well-known for the feuding gangs within that neighborhood and policing the area has been a quite challenge. According to the top cop, while the Special Patrol Unit focuses on enforcement, the Conscious Youth Development Program has been working to deter youths in that community from gang activity. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police […]
The family of Kevin Hyde of Hattieville, Belize District is still coming to terms with his untimely and senseless killing on Monday evening. Hyde, a forty-seven-year-old security guard employed by City Hall, was waiting for a bus when his life was ended in proximity of the police station. He was to report to work, but […]
Kevin Hyde was waiting on a bus so he can report to work at City Hall. He was under the bus shed in Hattieville village under the nose of the police and a police checkpoint. Unfortunately, the checkpoint was dormant but officers were inside the station when shots rang out. The Hyde family in Hattieville […]
A Belmopan resident is clinging to life tonight at the Western Regional Hospital where he was rushed to on Monday night. Forty-four-year-old Brian Chavarria was shot by a person he knew well. It is reported that the mechanic was hanging out with friends at his shop on Sinsonte Street in the Capital after nine o’clock. […]
A man was shot earlier this afternoon in Belize City. He is the third shooting victim in the past twenty-four hours. It happened at around three o’clock on Amara Avenue near the bus terminal. Residents say they heard the sound of multiple gunshots and later saw a man on the ground. The victim is said […]
A nine-year-old girl was killed inside her home in the village of Unitedville, Cayo. At the time of her killing, the other person in the house was her mother, Emily Ico. The death of the child is baffling police and it is yet to be determined if any charges will be levied against Ico for […]
According to Edwardo Ico, a psychiatric evaluation will be conducted on Emily to determine her mental health. Ico lives in Sarteneja Village, Corozal. He was only able to see Emily briefly last Friday, but says that he remains in contact with his son-in-law who is keeping him abreast of what’s happening. Ico says that he […]
The passage of a new piece of legislation which paves the way for the formation of the National Gas Company, via a public/private partnership to regularize the liquid petroleum gas industry, is being met with skepticism and concern in certain corners of the business community. Earlier today, the Belize Business Bureau, a productive sector organization, […]
On Friday, a number of write-off motions, including the waiver of a forty thousand-dollar debt owed by Joshua Perdomo, were brought before the House of Representatives. Joshua is the youngest son of former Minister of Police and present Cabinet Secretary Carlos Perdomo; he was granted study leave to pursue a Master’s Degree in Forensic Genetics […]
There is a criminal complaint against Brian “Yellow Man” Audinette, the macebearer in the National Assembly and a well-known U.D.P. stalwart. Following Friday’s house meeting, People’s United Party Dangriga Standard Bearer Louis Zabaneh reported to Belmopan police that he was approached by Audinette who repeatedly hurled insults at him about being a thief. According to […]
The 2019 academic year is less than two weeks away and while students are busy preparing for back-to-school, educators have commenced the process of renewing their teaching licenses. The move follows an initial request by the Ministry of Education several weeks ago for teachers to extend their permits. At the outset, the call was met […]
According to B.N.T.U. National President Elena Smith, while the process of renewal is underway, a discussion is yet to be had with the Ministry of Education to iron out further details, particularly where it concerns the expiration of the five-year teaching license. Elena Smith, National President, BNTU “At some point there would have had […]
Also speaking on the meeting and what came out of it is Chief Education Officer Doctor Carol Babb. According to Doctor Babb, teachers who had full licenses will not be required to indicate evidence of any Continuous Professional Development hours. Doctor Babb says that these teachers will automatically receive their licenses. Dr. Carol Babb, […]
A home invasion at the property of a well-known businessman fell apart this morning in court. As many as nineteen persons were charged initially for the home invasion at the house of Sarkis Abou-Nehra in Burrell Boom after a group of men from the city stormed into his premises, stole a number of items including […]
Belize City resident Sherwin Santos, accused jointly with a fifteen-year-old minor of robbing New Fortune Restaurant in July of last year, is tonight serving a three-year jail sentence. The term was imposed on him when he changed his not guilty plea to guilty before the Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser. The duo was charged with the […]
The House sitting on Friday was chock full of write offs. Aside from debt write-offs, a general pardon has been granted by G.O.B. to a handful of landowners who are considerably behind on land and speculation taxes. The amnesty, which is the third such exercise since the United Democratic Party took office in 2008, continues […]
In responding to Hyde’s criticism, Prime Minister Barrow says that the vast amount of properties acquired by the so-called big landowners took place under the tenure of the People’s United Party. Likewise, he says that there is a process in going about reacquiring land and that oftentimes that series of action is frustrated by legal […]
The grand finale of the hottest summer television show gets underway at the Bliss auditorium at eight-thirty tonight. The event starts with a red carpet affair featuring the finalists and other guests. Now, we all know who is left standing: Orelle Castillo, Maureen Budram and Jenny Lee Cruz. After proving themselves at various genres, the […]
Children First and Last Belize, C-FAL, today awarded nine scholarship grants to students of Salvation Army Primary School in Belize City. The organization’s mission is to help children to realize their educational and health goals. Students from infant two through to standard five received one thousand dollars each plus school bags with school materials. Principal Evadney […]
Sixty Belize City students today were recipients of scholarship grants courtesy of PricewaterhouseCooper. PWC, through a partnership with the Ministry of Education, has been financially assisting students for almost a decade. This year, the students received one thousand dollars for them to follow their dreams. According to Chief Education Officer Doctor Carol Babb, the schools’ […]
A man was murdered down in a brazen late evening shooting today in Hattieville Village, Belize District. Forty-seven-year-old Kevin Hyde was sitting at a bus shed along the highway in the village when two men pounced on him, one of which released a barrage of bullets. Hyde, a security officer at the Belize City Council, […]
The unexplained death of a nine-year-old girl was baffling police authorities, but late this evening, it was confirmed that the Danielle Hall was killed by manual strangulation. The child was found dead by her father inside their home in the village of Unitedville in the Cayo District. The child’s father was called to the house […]
A Salvadoran farm hand who worked at the Marie Sharp farms in southern Belize was hacked to death on the eve of his birthday. The forty-five year old, according to all accounts, was well-liked in the village of Hope Creek where he has been living since he made Belize his home. Kelvin Guerrero Hernandez was […]
