After riding into office on a tidal wave of popular support, the U.D.P. City Council did not take long to realise that municipal governance has less to do with glory than with dollars and cents. Since March, Mayor Zenaida Moya has been badgering the P.U.P. central government for what she claims is the city’s fair […]
Belize Natural Energy is refraining from public comment regarding last week’s incident in Spanish Lookout except to say that the matter is currently the subject of an internal investigation. That was all we could get out of B.N.E. Communications Officer Daniel Gutierrez this morning, who also declined to elaborate on his employer’s apparent lack of […]
In the wake of the death of Commission Chair David Price, the investigations into the mismanagement at the Development Finance Corporation have faded into the media background. But tonight the commission appears to be headed back to the front page. Co-chairs Merlene Bailey-Martinez and Herbert Lord met on Tuesday to discuss their next move and […]
With the financially strapped Nova shrimp farm recently place under receivership, it is conceivable that over one half of the nation’s traditional shrimp production may be lost to the market. That would be a blow to an industry that was, as recently as just a few years ago, poised to become Belize’s number one foreign […]
And in another piece of economic news, Cabinet has approved the recommendation of the Wages Council for a hike in the nation’s minimum wage. The increase, to be phased in over three years, will raise the minimum wage to three dollars per hour for all workers by 2010. Currently the minimum rate for domestic workers […]
Three men have been detained by police in connection with the armed robbery of an elderly Belize City couple. Seventy-one year old Radiance Sutherland told police that around one-thirty on Tuesday afternoon she was home with her eighty-three year old husband and a family friend when a dark complexioned young man entered the house and […]
Two teenagers are tonight behind bars, charged with stealing two guns from a Belize City home. Fifty-seven year old Lindsay Belisle reported to police that sometime between four and six on Tuesday evening, a thief or thieves broke into his house on Mercy Lane and stole an iron safe. Inside the lock box were two […]
A Belize City woman has been fined a hundred and fifty dollars for “Permitting an Unmuzzled Ferocious Dog to be at Large”. Thirty-seven year old Juanita Uter pled guilty to the seldom heard of offence today and has until February tenth to pay up or in default spend one month in jail. The charges against […]
And speaking of strange offences, for the second time in two months, a Belize City man has been found guilty of Exposing his Person in Public. This morning Magistrate Roberto Ordonez sentenced Tibruce Street resident fifty-eight year old Robert Howard to three months in jail for the uncalled for act. According to court reports, on […]
On last night’s newscast we reported on the detention of a suspect in connection with the disappearance–and possible murder–of Janet Rivers Myvette. Today we are informed that the man in question–Allan Caceres of Sand Hill–has been released following two days of questioning. Myvette has been missing since December third.
It’s a pet project of the Police Department in an area more often associated with despair than upliftment. Today that effort received a financial boost from a familiar source. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting One year after the Yabra Community Policing Centre opened its doors to the public, the facility has been providing a number of services, […]
