A brutal murder has taken place in the Corozal District. This evening, all hopes of finding sixteen year old Elia Gonzales alive were dashed as the teenager’s body was found near the municipal water tank on the feeder road that connects Concepcion and Libertad villages. On Tuesday evening, the Gonzales family of Libertad became concerned […]
Convicted murderers Leslie Pipersburg and Patrick Robateau are tonight on death row. At approximately eleven-forty this morning Justice Troadio Gonzalez handed down sentences for the two men declaring that the “brutally committed” and “heinous” murders were incomprehensible and he could find no good reason to temper justice with mercy. Justice Gonzalez then told each man […]
In other crime news, two Orange Walk men have been arrested and charged with drug trafficking, following the discovery of almost eight pounds of cocaine. Twenty-nine year old Manuel Pelayo Junior and twenty-seven year old Alfonso Aviles were taken in by police after a search of Pelayo’s house on Tuesday turned up the prohibited powder. […]
Judging from the number of complaints about police behaviour, it’s clear that some additional training in public relations is not a bad idea. According to Assistant Commissioner of Police, Maureen Leslie, the recent donation of a laptop computer by Tenchtronics and a projector by FedEx and Western Union will make those upcoming training sessions more […]
And while police officers get to sit through PowerPoint presentations, the Youth Cadet Corp will be receiving some much needed funds from an upcoming event in Miami. This morning the Vice President of the Belize Florida Cultural Park Fest Foundation handed over a plaque and a promise to Police Commissioner Carmen Zetina in appreciation for […]
Days after it was confirmed that Jeffrey Prosser’s Innovative Communication Company has purchased seventy-eight percent of Belize Telecommunications Limited, details of the agreement are still hard to come by. Amidst speculation that the public may not like the fine print, Prime Minister Said Musa today offered little more information about the deal, preferring instead to […]
It’s been simmering just below the news radar for quite some time, but today the apparent collapse of Belize’s national basketball programme took on a very public face. The occasion was a poorly attended press conference at the Belize City Centre Conference Room where a pro-tem committee headed by Fred Garcia Junior attempted to discuss […]
It is not one of those diseases that get much publicity in Belize, primarily because of the successful containment and control programmes implemented by the Ministry of Health. But tuberculosis is an ever present, and potentially deadly infectious disease. Today, the National Tuberculosis program hosted an open day in the parking lot of the Karl […]
There are too many workshops, planning committees and seminars, and not enough work being done in Belize. That’s just one of the latest findings from the civil society organisations of Belize. Armed with U.N.D.P. funding and following a series of consultations, today SPEAR presented the P.M. with the study, which will hopefully improve mechanisms for […]
It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about the Guatemalan claim to Belize, and while the O.A.S. sponsored facilitation process has disappeared into history, the dispute was very much on the minds of scholars today at the Princess Hotel in Belize City. Day three of the Higher Education Conference sponsored by the University of […]
