Before they were elected to office almost a year ago, the People’s United Party pledged to appoint an Ombudsman to investigate complaints from citizens who felt they were being abused or wronged by government ministries, town boards or police. At today’s meeting of the House of Representatives the government put forth their choice for the […]
As expected, the United Democratic Party voiced their objection to the appointment. Leader Dean Barrow says he was never consulted during the selection process, and that Paul Rodriguez is so well known as a P.U.P. supporter that the public will never get the impartial investigator they deserve with him in office. Dean Barrow, Leader of […]
Minister of National Security and Immigration, Jorge Espat today made a formal statement at the Meeting of the House of Representatives about the shooting death of Guatemalan Mateo Ramirez by a B.D.F. soldier in the village of Arenal on Saturday June 12th. The incident has led the Guatemalan government to request a full investigation. The […]
Also in the House today Minister of Human Development, Women and Youth, Dolores Balderamos Garcia presented a bill seeking stricter and more consistent penalties for child molesters and another making marital rape a crime under certain conditions. Dolores Balderamos Garcia, Minister of Human Development “We are similarly concerned about molestation whether it be of a […]
Belize Electricity Limited Chairman Robert Usher gave B.E.L. shareholders the details of the upcoming sale of B.E.L. shares by the Government of Belize at the sixth annual general meeting Thursday night at the Radisson. The government, which currently holds fifty one percent of the company’s ordinary shares and all the preference shares, will offer a […]
A private investigator was arrested and charged today in connection with the death of a man who was run over by a bus. Kirk Yard is accused of pushing forty year old Herman McKoy off a Novelo’s Bus on June eighteenth. McKoy, who was running with a group of men to catch the bus as […]
San Ignacio police are looking into a possible suicide in Spanish Lookout in the Cayo District. On Thursday the partially decomposed body of forty four year old Cornelius Reimer was found hanging from a rope tied around a beam inside the bathroom of his home. Reimer’s body was discovered by his brother, who had become […]
Tonight San Ignacio police are asking the public to help them find Melbert Guzman wanted for assault and attempted rape. According to the police on Thursday evening Guzman punched and bit his ex-girlfriend and tried to rape her. She put up a fight and Guzman is reported to have run off.
An arts and craft exhibition was held this week at the Bishop Sylvester Memorial Center to mark the end of St. John’s Cathedral Week. Primary school students showed off their arts and crafts which were exhibited last month in the Festival of Arts. According to St. John’s Lower School Principal, Joy Ross, several other Anglican […]
Tonight G. Michael Reid has what probably is the last word of the week on the final game of the semi-pro season. He also offers his congratulations to those who deserve it most. “When Jesus wowed the revelers with his water into wine routine, one guest at the bashment was heard to comment, that the […]
