Police say he is the jealous lover who Thursday afternoon pulled up next to Raquel Requena’s taxi and fired a shotgun point blank to her head. Today thirty-six year old security guard Glenford “Bucket” Bermudez, a resident of Vernon Street, was formally charged for the murder, as well as the theft of the sixteen gauge […]
She did not suffer as bad a fate as Raquel Requena but another woman, a twenty-seven year old waitress of Belize City, has reported that her ex-common law husband broke into her house, sexually fondled her and threatened her with a knife. The incident occurred on the night of November twentieth and two days later […]
It was a major and highly distressing news story a year and a half ago and today the Belize City man found guilty of sexually assaulting a child was sentenced to fourteen years in prison. Thirty-five year old David Pavon was convicted of carnal knowledge on the testimony of a ten year old girl who […]
They have been accused of cracking down on small timers and letting the big fish get away, but this week Customs Officers put some hurt on the contraband trade in cigarettes. Based on a tip, they raided the Vernon Street warehouse of Chung Loong Shop where they found a quantity of Winstons with a market […]
Eight hundred and fifty-eight: that’s the number of domestic violence reports filed by Belizean women in 2006. And while we seldom hear of women killing or harming their significant other, in that same twelve months, one hundred and ten men also reported partner abuse. Gender-based violence is a year-round occurrence, but starting next week organisations […]
It didn’t exactly come as a shock but today the International Association of Athletics Federations voted to erase all of Marion Jones’ IAAF results dating back to September of 2000. The lost titles include her Olympic medals and World Championship titles and the annulment also applies to her teammates in various relays. In addition to […]
The lighting of the torch and a display by members of the Youth Cadet Service Corps this afternoon marked the start of Youth Week. This time around, officials at the helm say the focus is on substance. Kevin Cadle, National Youth Coordinator “We cannot give young people jobs but we could give them the employment […]
As Belize gets ready to fight its uphill battle in the eliminations leading to the 2010 World Cup, one of the embarrassments we face is the sad state of our football fields. When he briefed us on Wednesday, President of the Football Federation of Belize, Doctor Bertie Chimilio, said that for years it has been […]
We spend a lot of news time covering various conferences. Usually we’ll catch the opening and a bit of the first day’s agenda before moving on to more pressing stories. But the gathering that took place earlier this week on gender disparity in education is important enough to merit a second look. Rana Flowers, UNICEF […]
Last year a number of organisations, including Youth for the Future, launched a campaign against the sale of toy guns in Belize. The feeling was that the providing of such toys to children helped perpetuate a growing culture of violence. The realistic looking imitations also gave robbers one more way to ply their trade on […]
