It is political season and around the country both the incumbent U.D.P. and the opposition Peoples United Party, are on the campaign trail for the March fourth poll. As the election heats up, the buzz words of transparency and accountability are resonating as audits of town and city councils are still pending and accusations of […]
And in Belize City today, the mood was different as the U.D.P. City Council slate kicked off their street campaign at the party headquarters. While the weather did put a damper on their outdoor activities, incumbent Mayor Zenaida Moya and her team of ten did not let it stop from moving forwarding with their launch. […]
We reported last Wednesday that the P.U.C. was delaying the implementation of the amendments to its 2008 Final Decision… and today they issued an official release saying just that. According to the P.U.C., the delay is so as to undertake a public consultation and it is inviting interested persons to send in written comments. The […]
A vegetable vendor from Succutz Village in the Cayo District is dead, the victim of a brutal murder that occurred in Melchor de Mencos, Guatemala. There are many questions still unanswered for the family of the victim. According to thirty-one year old John Cal’s family, Cal had finished vegetable sales for the day and was […]
A Belize City cab driver was shot in the early hours of Sunday morning by a passenger in his own car. At about twelve-forty a.m., forty-eight year old Clive Smith was driving on Albert Street, when he was approached by a young man who asked him to be taken to Tigris Street. Upon reaching at […]
In another shooting, a dispute over parental rights escalated into a shootout between one of the parents and police officers. Twenty-two year old Kimberly Westby, of Nurse Findley Crescent in Belize City, was asleep in bed with her husband when they were awakened by an argument in their home. After leaving her bedroom, she found […]
Yet another Belize City resident is hospitalized due to gunshot wounds. According to twenty-one year old Clifton Flores, on Saturday afternoon he was riding his bike on West Canal, heading to South Street when another man on a bicycle fired several shots at him. Flores was hit in the right shoulder, elbow, leg and knee. […]
Two American tourists had their vacations cut short after suffering heart attacks in San Pedro Ambergris Caye. Early Sunday morning fifty-nine year old Randall Eldon Daris, a guest at the Hotel Del Rio, began complaining to a family member of chest pains. San Pedro police and a doctor were called out but when they got […]
In news from the courts, Cecil Gabourel was on trial last week for the murder of his wife, Carol, and had pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of Manslaughter. But there was a twist in his case today when, before sentencing, Justice Adolph Lucas entered a plea of not guilty based on Gabourel’s version of […]
Police have made an arrest in last Tuesday afternoon’s armed robbery of Marlin’s Restaurant. One of the men police believe is responsible for the crime is thirty-one year old David White of Castle Street in Belize City. This morning White appeared in Magistrates’ Court where he was arraigned on four counts of robbery; three counts […]
A brazen Belize City man tried to pull off a robbery and rape inside a bar but he was unsuccessful. And when nineteen year old Abel Anthony Arana, an unemployed man of King Street, appeared in court he was slapped today with five offences: Attempted Rape, three counts of Robbery and Keeping a Prohibited Firearm. […]
In other court news, this morning thirty-three year old Anthony Major was arraigned on charges of Burglary and Theft. Major pleaded not guilty to the crimes, but the Prosecution represented by Sergeant Kenneth Magdaleno objected to bail on the grounds that the career criminal has two convictions for Escape and Theft. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie […]
Customs Officers throughout the country took time today to celebrate International Customs Day. This year’s theme has particular relevance: Customs and the Environment: Protecting our National Heritage. And one way in which the department plans to go green is by eliminating most of the voluminous paperwork generated in their trade. Its Plans for the Customs […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley with this package of Sports Monday. Inclement weather prevented Wednesday night’s back match between Valley Renaissance and Barrio Fino Corozal which subsequently forced the postponement of the Belize Bank Super League playoffs openers which had been set to blast off over the weekend. However, Valley Renaissance and Barrio Fino did […]
