We touched on it briefly as a late breaking story on last night’s newscast, but today when I visited the scene of the crime I discovered that the shooting of two Chinese shopkeepers occurred not fifty feet from where police were rounding up local youths and not five minutes after the media left the area. […]
Meanwhile, police have responded to vocal accusations made by residents that their neighbourhood is being targeted for harassment. Sr. Supt Chester Williams “We continue to receive complaints from residents in the George Street area of the random sound of gunshots being fired within the George Street area.” Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting But it was not the […]
A teenager has been charged with murder following the death of a fellow prisoner in the Orange Walk police station. According to authorities, on Saturday afternoon, seventeen year old Eric Castillo and thirty year old Nelson Castellanos were two of six men detained in the station’s communal holding cell, but within hours, the older prisoner […]
Did a police officer overreact or did he genuinely feel threatened when he shot a suspect in the leg? That is the question authorities are trying to answer in an investigation ordered by Police Commissioner Gerald Westby. The incident unfolded this morning around twelve-fifteen in a dimly lit area of Benque Viejo del Carmen. Authorities […]
A Belize City man who pled guilty to knocking down an elderly woman has been fined for causing her death. According to court reports, thirty-six year old auditor Ian Skeen, originally charged with Manslaughter by Negligence, appeared for trial this morning but through his attorney, entered a guilty plea to the lesser charge of Causing […]
Prime Minister Said Musa is in Washington, D.C. leading a delegation of public and private sector officials to the heavily hyped conference on the Caribbean. The three-day series of meetings will hopefully outline a new long-term vision for relations between the U.S. and Caribbean region. In today’s afternoon session P.M. Musa made a presentation on […]
And looking forward to next week, Belize will be the venue for a number of high level meetings leading up to a summit of leaders from Central America, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico. Those discussions will be held in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye with the summits of SICA and the Tuxtla group both taking place […]
The case of the Toledo Maya claim against the Government of Belize for communal land rights continued this afternoon in the Supreme Court. At the start of the sitting, attorney for villagers from Conejo and Santa Clara referred to correspondence between Belmopan and the United Nations about land use by the Maya in the Toledo […]
As summer camp organisers start making the rounds to promote their programmes to the public, parents on a budget will be carefully reviewing their options. Among the choices this July is the third annual Eder Martin Alamilla art camp. According to organiser Ian O’Keefe, the three week event is designed to help underprivileged kids meet […]
Another outlet for artistic expression is being provided by the Belize Carnival Association in the form of its Summer Youth Camp. Association chairman Patrick Thompson says the kids will learn to make creative costumes which–this year–will be more modest than in the past. Patrick Thompson, Chairman, Carnival Association “What we are doing in this camp […]
You’ve seen the advertisements, but tonight in a bit of shameless self-promotion we’ll offer more detailed reasons why the 2007 version of Karaoke Television is must see TV. Mary Rhaburn Mangar, Producer “This year it’s not just KTV, it’s called Ultimate KTV.” Kendra Griffith, Reporting And the new name is the least of the changes […]
