Three men are still at large after a shooting and machete attack on San Pedro, Ambergris Caye yesterday evening which may have been drug related. David Jeron and Raymond “Peanuts” Smith told police they were clearing land around five thirty Wednesday evening, in the Boca del Rio area when Smith was attacked by two men […]
A resident of Las Flores, Cayo District has been charged with murdering his brother in a fight on the night of June 18th. Witnesses told police Pablo Choc pushed his brother Consesto and he fell and hit his head on a rock. Consesto was rushed to the Belmopan Hospital but he died the following morning […]
The Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by Raymond Flowers who was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for the death of prison inmate Marcus Melendez in March of 1997. Flowers was accused of assisting Julian Bush suffocate and then hang Melendez with a sheet in their joint prison cell. Bush […]
In court news, the Court of Appeal has also upheld the death sentence of Norman Shaw who was convicted of the murder of Fitzgerald Mantock and Rudolph Bermudez in Dangriga in July, 1996 during a drug deal. Shaw had maintained that he had acted in self-defense when he shot Mantock but evidence presented in court […]
Its been twenty years since the laws passed by the National Assembly were compiled and published in volume form. In order to add all the new acts, remove those which are no longer in force and incorporate the supplemental pages published in 1990, Dr. Nicholas Liverpool has been appointed Law Revision Commissioner. He will produce […]
Houses are being built all over Belize in a variety of ways, by the owners, by the government, by contractors, by the Mennonites, by Center for Employment Training students, and now by Habitat for Humanity Belize. But their program is unique in that it’s a “one good turn deserves another” approach with owners helping each […]
The Belize Family Life Association, which is well known in Belize City for providing information and reproductive health services, is working with the Ministry of Health to take their programs into rural communities. Today community leaders from three districts met at the Radisson Fort George to look at the areas which need the most attention […]
The rest of us usually envy teachers for their long summer vacations, but more and more teachers are using this time to improve their skills. A workshop concluded today at Wesley College on the subject area that lays the foundation for a child’s overall success in school: reading. As Arreini Palacio reports those who participated […]
