The ongoing battle between the Belize City Council and Central Government may have been off the front pages for a few weeks but it doesn’t mean that the two have buried the hatchet. The latest dispute centers around the payment of VAT. A number of CITCO’s creditors have discovered that bills paid by City Hall […]
Another potential embarrassment is now in the making on Central American Boulevard, where motorists are being treated to the installation of two new sets of traffic lights. The new computerized signals, going up at the junctions of the Boulevard and Mahogany Street and Vernon Street have been purchased from a Dutch Company, which is supervising […]
In crime news, police have moved quickly to bring drug trafficking charges against four people who were busted in an anti-drug operation on Tuesday. Adolfo Zetina, Ernesto Acosta, Aldo Trejo and Alvaro Trejo are jointly charged with the offenses of supplying controlled drugs and conspiracy to commit drug trafficking. Additionally, Ernesto Acosta and a fifth […]
While police successful apprehended a group of alleged drug traffickers in the north, in Cayo a pair of cops almost got run over in their attempt to apprehend two suspects. A police patrol on the Western Highway in Santa Elena Town early Wednesday morning spotted a parked vehicle belonging to Charles Trapp. The police say […]
The Mennonite farmer whose vehicle knocked down and killed an eight year old girl in Blackman Eddy Village on Tuesday evening has been charged with a number of traffic related offenses. Forty- seven year old Otto Reimer now faces charges of driving without due care and attention, manslaughter by negligence and causing death by careless […]
Regional police prosecutors will be sharpening their court room skills this weekend. The Drug Control Legal Training Program, to be held June twelfth to the fifteenth at the Fiesta Inn, will have the participation of forty-one prosecutors from Jamaica, Barbados, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Cayman and Belize. The program, which is funded by the United […]
Medical authorities say that while there may not be a large-scale outbreak of cholera in the Cayo District, they have confirmed one case involving a seventeen-year-old young man from Benque Viejo del Carmen. It is believed the man may have fell ill after he came in contact with food from across the Guatemalan border. One […]
This year the accounting firm of Pannel Kerr Forster is celebrating it’s golden anniversary and as a part of the festivities they have given something back to the community. The firm sponsored a walk-a-thon from Ladyville to Belize City on April twenty-fifth, which brought in over eleven thousand dollars. This money was handed over to […]
It was a quick pick ticket that won Saturday night’s lotto draw. Corozal Town’s Maria Oliva bought her numbers last week Friday, as she normally does, but this time the result was slightly out of the ordinary as the ticket was worth sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. After giving Government its fifteen percent share of […]
Members of Belize’s business community will be hoping for similar luck tomorrow morning as they meet with Prime Minister Manuel Esquivel to discuss the heavily debated new tax bill. The meeting, scheduled for 9 a.m. at the Biltmore, will be the first time the P.M. has discussed the matter in a public forum and may […]
If there is one issue in Belize that is sure to ignite the passion of citizens it is the question of land. And as we found yesterday on a trip to Dangriga, there are some passionate citizens who have very definite concepts of what belongs to whom. Patrick Jones reports. As she walks along an […]
