A man identified as twenty-seven year old Juan Carlos Castillo was brutally murdered in the village of Buena Vista in the Cayo District. Castillo’s body was discovered this morning and it is believed he was killed sometime between Monday morning and today. Police are putting together the facts of this latest murder in the Cayo […]
Earlier this year the sugar industry was brought to its knees over the issue of a core sampler. That situation reached boiling point on February second, when farmer, Antanacio Gutierrez was killed during a protest at Tower Hill. The industry is once again in trouble and caneros are angry over a decision on how millions […]
Meanwhile, a breakaway group, United Cane Farmers, comprising farmers from the two northern districts are being represented by attorney Hubert Elrington. Elrington plans to file documents seeking an injunction by the Court on Wednesday morning. He has been working with United Cane Farmers for some time and has a unique perspective about the QIP. Elrington […]
Speaking on radio and then on television last week, Prime Minister Dean Barrow disclosed that something “dramatic and final” will have to be put in place in respect of Government’s ongoing entanglement with Telemedia. And according to the Prime Minister, the time was fast approaching to cut the Gordian knot. While the P.M. also disclosed […]
The second fire at the city dump site continues to emanate toxic smoke which, depending on the wind, spreads into the city, much to the chagrin of residents who have to endure this nuisance. There is still no time frame as to when the fire is expected to be completely extinguished, but at a late […]
The cost of fuel at the pump increased on Monday by sixty cents per gallon, but there is a bit of good news to report in respect of butane prices. Government announced today an immediate decrease of three dollars in the price of a hundred pound cylinder of butane. Belize City and Corozal residents will […]
A Belize City businessman is hospitalized after he was allegedly involved in a drug deal gone bad. He is thirty year old Marvin Isaac Moguel and police investigations have so far revealed that he was with another businessman, fifty-five year old Charles Daniel of Los Lagos, when he was shot. Moguel and Daniels were in […]
A US citizen visiting Belize is out of much more cash than he planned to spend when he went out to eat on Monday evening. Sixty-nine year old Phillip Hikey of Oregon U.S.A, reported to police that he parked his rented Toyota Prado at a restaurant on Marine Parade Boulevard from six p.m. to six-forty-five, […]
The Belize Centre for the Visually Impaired is holding its Annual General Meeting at the Image Factory Art Gallery tonight. If you’re wondering about the venue, the event is being held at the art gallery because there will also be a photographic display of B.C.V.I.’s work, compiled by international photographer, Marie Triller. The event has […]
Turning to news from the region, there is trouble brewing in neighbouring Guatemala that can have a debilitating effect on the government of President Alvaro Colom. According to reports some thirty thousand persons have signed petitions calling on the president to step down and the capital has been plagued by several demonstrations staged against Colom. […]
