It appeared that there was a ceasefire on murder cases, but today in the nation’s favourite tourism destination, jealously was at the heart of the latest murder case, when an enraged former common-law husband turned on another man who he thought had relations with his ex. The incident occurred in the San Mateo area, one […]
There was a lot of activity at the Port this morning when word reached land that a container on a cargo ship headed for Belize was leaking hazardous material. This morning the crew aboard the Westerhaven informed their agent in Belize that a barrel in a container consigned to Belize Natural Energy had somehow sprung […]
We have not heard much from them since the change of government in February, and today in the court of Justice Minnet Hafiz, the case brought by the Association of Concerned Belizeans against the government continued. This morning Attorney Lois Young, representing A.C.B., the Medical and Dental Union, Senator Godwin Hulse and the N.T.U.C.B., argued […]
The Belize Court of Appeal will be hearing a number of cases in its current session which began yesterday. Today the Court dismissed an appeal by thirty-five year old Mark Cardinez, who has been convicted of rape and sentenced to eighteen years behind bars. Cardinez, who appeared unrepresented, appealed his sentencing on several grounds: that […]
In another case before the Appellate Court, the decision in the appeal of convicted murderer Louis Gentle, a.k.a. “Louie Ganzie”, which was heard yesterday, will be delivered in the next session of the court. Ganzie was convicted of the murder of his ex-common law wife Takeisha Sutherland and is serving a sentence of life imprisonment. […]
And the Court of Appeal upheld the appeal of thirty year old Dean Hyde who was convicted of the murder of sixteen year old Dual Wagner Jr. on August seventeenth, 2007 and sentenced to life. A conviction of manslaughter was substituted for murder and Hyde was sentenced to twenty-five years. Hyde’s attorney, Simeon Sampson, appealed […]
And in Magistrates’ Court, thirty-two year old Paul Faber, the brother of the Minister of Education, was fined five hundred dollars after he pleaded guilty to the possession of five point nine grams of cannabis. Magistrate Aretha Ford gave Faber until November tenth to pay the fine. If he defaults on payment, he will serve […]
Two brazen teenagers from Corozal Town reportedly held up an elderly man at the Santa Elena border and made away with fifty pesos, the equivalent of ten Belize dollars, and an additional twelve dollars in cash. According to Ernesto Pech, the incident occurred at about two-thirty yesterday afternoon at an open lot in the border […]
Zenaida Moya won her place back on the U.D.P. ticket as mayoral candidate for the March 2009 elections but that does not mean she is out of the woods. The bitter and personal campaign against her mounted by her own councillors, exposed gross financial mismanagement at City Hall. Auditors were called in and last Thursday, […]
When the United Democratic Party came to power in February, one of their first decisions was to put a hold on the issuance of land titles and leases for transactions occurring between 2003 and February 2008. According to government, it wanted to conduct an audit of the Lands and Surveys Department to look for wrongdoing […]
If all goes according to plan, by next April the picturesque village of Crooked Tree along the Northern Highway, which is recorded as the oldest settlement, will at last be catching up and will benefit from a new water system. Construction was launched today after funding of more than one point four million dollars was […]
Crooked Tree will shortly have a new water system, and while that is clearly a necessity for the community, there is another urgent need that is yet to be delivered. It has to do with infrastructure. When it rains, like it has been doing this week, access to the village is difficult because of the […]
Truancy officers in charge of monitoring school attendance and school wardens responsible for the safety of school children are engaged in a two-day training programme. The Truancy Unit and Quality Assurance Development Services of the Ministry of Education are hosting the programme in which more than eighty officers are participating. The venue is the campus […]
There are billiards clubs, tennis clubs, football clubs and the most recent craze are car clubs. There were no such clubs in Belize until recently, when a group of men with a passion for cars and car stereos formed the Dynamiq and Xclusive Car Clubs. Today, two of the seven members of Xclusive Car Club, […]
You would have had to be in Siberia, not to know of the number one entertainment show, Duets, that airs every Tuesday night live from the Bliss on Channel Five. Hosted by William Neal, the show has run for fourteen weeks and the grand finale is next Tuesday when one couple will walk away with […]
