It languished in development limbo for over a year, but as of ten o’clock this morning, mammoth Carnival Corporation and local company Belize Ports Limited–with the government’s enthusiastic blessing–have signed the deal for a new fifty million U.S. dollar cruise terminal in Belize City. This evening at a hastily called press conference attended by Minister […]
Police have detained one suspect and are looking for two more after a shooting on Jane Usher Boulevard in Belize City Tuesday night. Thirty-nine year old John Augustine reported he was walking towards his home on the Boulevard and had just approached the intersection with Levi Slusher Street when he was attacked by three men […]
Almost two weeks after a pair of robbers entered the Income Tax Department and made off with fourteen thousand dollars, police have arrested Belize City residents nineteen year old Kenroy Espinoza of Hibiscus Street and twenty-three year old David Longsworth of Sittee Street and charged them with the crime. Espinoza has been charged for robbery […]
Investigations into two other Belize City shootings earlier this week have led to the arrest of a pair of suspects. Sixteen-year-old James Tucker was charged with attempted murder, dangerous harm, and deadly means of harm after he was identified as being the person who fired at shopkeeper Shi Xian Mei during a robbery attempt Saturday […]
After deliberating only two hours, this evening the twelve-member jury in the Brenton Lewis trial found Lewis not guilty of the murder of Marlon Budd in 2003. Supreme Court Justice Michelle Arana, however, instructed them to consider a lesser charge of manslaughter and they retired to deliberate again. At this hour they are still sequestered […]
A man appearing in the Supreme Court today under police guard became enraged when he was informed there would be a second hearing of his arson charges after the first trial ended in a hung jury. Emerson Elijio was before Justice Michelle Arana when the prosecutor, Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Taitt, informed the court of the D.P.P.?s decision. […]
On last night’s newscast we told the story of a Belize City mother who confessed that she no longer has the ability to control her twelve year old son. It’s not an isolated incident and today I looked into what programmes are available to deal with what appears to be a growing problem. Fermin Olivera, […]
When Belize City hosts a visiting musical star, chances are it’s a dancehall artist from Jamaica. Well, this weekend the old capital goes Latin. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It is the second time that thirty-nine year old Rossy War, the well-known South American singing sensation, has been to the country, but it is the first time […]
Hurricane Emily may have been all bluster and no breeze for Belize, but she did succeed in keeping some fancy wheels off the highway that would have been rolling towards Old Belize and the Rotary Club’s New and Antique Car show on July seventeenth. Well, the fundraiser for the Gift of Life programme has been […]
