It has not been a good week for the Police Department; one officer has been charged with Abetment to Murder, three more may face charges in connection with the same incident, the murder of a Chinese National in Orange Walk Town. Another is under investigation in the death of a twelve year old girl in […]
For years Chinese nationals have been coming to Belize from the island of Cuba and then making their way to greener pastures in the north. And it seems that business is brisk in the multi-country ring. The last chartered flight arrived in Belize on Wednesday with a group of seven men and one woman. They […]
A case in the Orange Walk Supreme Court ended today with a father of seven being sentenced to jail for Incest and Aggravated Assault. To protect the identity of the minor, we cannot reveal his name, but Justice Herbert Lord stipulated a sentence of four years for incest and three for the aggravated assault of […]
In another disturbing case from the north, twenty year old Eder Pott of Corozal, appeared in the Orange Walk Supreme Court today to face charges of an Unnatural Crime against an eight year old boy. But Pott instead pleaded guilty to the alternative charge of Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature and after mitigation pleas […]
Tourism-related operations at the Fort Street Tourism Village were on track this morning, despite news that a security guard lost his life there just before daybreak today. By the time the gates opened for visiting cruise ship passengers, there was nothing to indicate that the location had been the scene of a shooting. Police say […]
Belmopan police are about to detain and question once more, a volunteer special constable in connection with the unresolved death of a young girl. The twelve year old girl had gone missing and her remains were discovered on Tuesday night in a ditch close to a dump site off a dirt road in Cotton Tree […]
We have reported from time to time about the war in the transport industry between local bus companies and now there is another battle developing, but this time with regional bus lines that may have greater implications in the tourism industry. This week the Ministry of Transport held a public consultation in Belize City with […]
Belize Natural Energy is the only oil company to extract and export commercial quantities of petroleum from Belize’s soil. It is estimated that from 2005 to 2008 B.N.E. earned three hundred and thirty-four million dollars. On July sixteenth, 2008, Prime Minister Dean Barrow introduced the windfall tax from which the government would share fifty-fifty any […]
In news on the diplomatic front, four ambassadors presented their credentials to the Governor General of Belize, Sir Colville Young today. This morning at the Belize House, Mohammed Al-Allaf of Jordon; Ernesto Justo Lopez of Argentina; Francisco Miranda Ortigas of the Phillipines and Maria Del Carmen Diez Orejas of Spain all delivered greetings from their […]
Australia is known for having the largest barrier reef but in the Americas we like to point out that Belize has the largest living barrier reef. That has been the main sales pitch of the tourism industry for decades but it turns out that our reef is in as much danger of dying as Australia’s. […]
Still on environmental news, the Second Caribbean Community Conference on Climate Change ended this week in St. Lucia with Secretary General Edwin Carrington calling for the expedition of the Climate Change strategic and action plans. The draft plan developed by the CARICOM Climate Change Centre here in Belize, is awaiting endorsement from the Council for […]
Point of Order is the newest publication that will be released joining the growing number of local books. Authored by a Belizean writer, it is an anthology of thirty-two poems and four short stories. It addresses prevalent issues within the society as well as personal experiences. According to teacher, poet and author, Ivory Kelly, she’s […]
There is a saying that if there is deprivation of food, the body feeds off of its own fat. That is the case for a seven year old minor who, for the past two and a half months, has been literally living off of his own body nutrients. This is because on January eighth of […]
