Registration to vote in the November general elections is ongoing; the closing date is expected to be known once the date for elections is announced. So there is a frenzy at offices around the country. This morning long lines snaked outside the Election and Boundaries offices in Ladyville. Medical students mostly from India were lining […]
And today – the Commissioner also took some time to answer questions in respect to the investigative team to be assembled to look into the senate special select committee report. Public hearings took place for more than a year looking into the immigration department where visas and nationalities were issued illegally left, right and centre, […]
A Belize City family remains quarantined at a facility in Cayo after holding a family gathering on Friday night in Belize City. Present at the gathering was Pashwan Stuart who was about to celebrate her sister’s twenty-eighth birthday when her brother arrived. Her brother is COVID-19 positive, and according to Stuart, he was told to […]
The two minors who were arrested for the shooting of police constable Wilbert Chi have been released. A third person, a twenty-year-old man, remains in police custody. Chi was shot while he was on a motorcycle on Ebony Street in Belize City. Hours after the shooting, police officers descended at the barracks on Ebony Street, arresting […]
Since the curfew was lifted, there has been a string of crimes, including murders over the past several days. Today, the press asked Commissioner of Police about this. He says that while several of the officers on the ground were occupied with locating PC Bernard Ical – they are now back but that the department […]
A member of the Belize Coast Guard died on Monday night in Toledo. Twenty-year-old Anthony Pop was reportedly exercising near the Swasey Bridge on the Southern Highway when an eighteen-wheeler truck knocked him down and crushed him. He was transported to the Southern Regional Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The driver of the […]
The Maya Leaders Alliance appeared before the Caribbean Court of Justice today in a protracted legal matter involving the Office of the Attorney General. This most recent hearing was for both parties to provide an update on the implementation of the Consent Order which was entered into on April twenty-second, 2015. As part of the […]
Prior to today’s hearing, both parties appeared before the C.C.J. on June third for a similar session. They succeed mediation proceedings last year during which a draft land tenure policy was being undertaken. Despite affirming a landmark ruling handed down by the Supreme Court in June 2010, the issue of communal land rights remains before […]
Ministerial son, Jumoke Castro, has been released from government services. The Public Service Commission had been deliberating for some time, the matter of Castro. Earlier this year in January, Jumoke posted ugly threats against the wife of Pastor Wade from Plus T.V. The post did not find favour in the public domain and Jumoke was […]
International Literacy Day was commemorated today and its focus was teaching and learning in the COVID-19 crisis and beyond, as well as the role of educators and changing pedagogies. In Belize, the Ministry of Education reached out to the media to see how a partnership with reporters and broadcasters can help in the delivery of […]
During the discussion this morning, it was pointed out by the reporters in attendance that perhaps the biggest deterrent to literacy in the technological era is the excessive use of shorthand and abbreviation. Here’s a snippet from that conversation. Isani Cayetano, Reporter, Channel 5 “One of the biggest challenges that I see with younger […]
This year’s national celebrations will be held virtually due to the COVID pandemic and the fact that gatherings are limited to ten persons. On Wednesday night, the Ninth Night Virtual Bram will be held. The virtual event starts at nine o’clock in the night and will feature an array of performances from Belizean artists and […]
Fear, worry and stress are normal responses to perceived or real threats, and when we are faced with uncertainty or the unknown. In that context, it is normal and understandable that people are experiencing fear amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with the fear of contracting the virus, there are significant changes to our daily lives […]
According to psychotherapist Juliet Simmons, there are a number of factors that influence suicidal ideation or thoughts among men, including their present employment situation or financial constraints. Juliet Simmons, Psychotherapist “So these are definitely factors that would contribute to suicidal ideation: the unemployment rate, the financial stress that people are having. So these are […]
There was a collective sigh of relief across Belize today when it was confirmed that Police Constable Bernard Ical was safe and alive. Ical found his way back to the Machaquila outpost this afternoon after two o’clock. Teams from the police and B.D.F. as well as civilians set out in search for the P.C. who […]
Criminals were on a rampage over the weekend; three men were killed in separate incidents and there was further violence in the City and elsewhere. On Sunday night, death came knocking at the door of twenty-five year old Dellin Dougal. Dougal was at home on Mckay Boulevard when two gunmen walked upon the steps of […]
There was a second murder in Belize City. A mechanic was shot while inside his vehicle on Santa Barbara Street on Friday night. Thirty-seven year old Edwin Vanegas was murdered after he left a party in the Port Loyola area. Police say he had an argument with another man and was shot and killed as […]
The third murder for the weekend takes us to Hattieville, where O’Neil Ferguson was murdered inside his home in the Village. Ferguson’s family describes him as a giving and friendly person but there was someone who wanted him dead. Ferguson was shot several times on Friday night and his girlfriend was also injured during the […]
There is another COVID related death to report tonight; the person is a male in his seventies. He succumbed earlier today at the Northern Regional Hospital so there are now sixteen COVID deaths since the start of the pandemic in Belize. The latest samples today identified forty-six new cases putting the total number of cases […]
The Orange Walk District is reporting the highest number of COVID cases. In the most recent samples, as many as seven employees of the Orange Walk Town Council was tested, that is more than ninety-five percent of the employees in the department. The first case was identified last week; this was followed by six additional […]
Still on COVID 19; a Belize City family was detained on Friday and sent to quarantine in San Ignacio. Pashwan Stuart says that she along with a few family members were at home on Aloe Vera Street getting ready to celebrate her sister’s twenty-eighth birthday when her brother showed up. The problem here is that […]
Tonight two minors and a twenty-year old are in detention following the shooting of police constable Wilbert Chi. It happened on Ebony Street in Belize City on Sunday night when Chi was traversing the area. The minors were picked up during a police raid at the barracks on Ebony Street. But their mother says that […]
A twenty-six-year-old woman of Santa Elena Town is fortunate to be alive tonight after a gunman fired several shots at her home. Debbidee Clarke reports that around seven-thirty on Sunday night she heard a loud noise in her house and when she realized the sound was from gunshots being fired she ran to get her […]
And this information from the courts: Claim Number fifty-eight of 2020, brought by Belize Brewing Company, Limited against Erick Ernesto Villalta DBA Mountain Cool, was settled in the Supreme Court of Belize. The claim was brought against Villalta due to his marketing and distribution of water in bottles branded with the Crystal Water logo and […]
It was the first day of school today and instead of children donning crisp uniforms and new back packs, parents lined up at the different schools to pick up learning packages. The COVID 19 pandemic has changed the traditional way of teaching and students will now be taught at home and virtually. To get them […]
