By now you probably know two things about the COCABA championship for men held in Cancun, Mexico last week: one, Team Belizean Heritage finished second and two, Team Mexico won a squeaker after a questionable flagrant foul was called with the score tied and only twenty seconds left on the game clock. For many people […]
While the success of Team Belizean Heritage in Cancun won the hearts and support of most Belizeans it also served to re-ignite the discussion about dual-nationality and even the validity of the latest constitutional reform being proposed by the Barrow administration. Under the seventh amendment to the Belize Constitution, government is recommending that persons with […]
Marion Jones won five medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She won the hearts of Belizeans when she showed how proud she was of the Jewel by pulling out the Belizean flag as she made a victory lap. There were plans to transform the National Stadium into the Marion Jones stadium. But […]
In news of a legal nature, the London Court of International Arbitration has made an interim ruling in the proceedings regarding a UHS debt which involved ten million dollars granted by the Government of Venezuela to the Government of Belize in late 2007. Although the Government has already received the ten million dollars from the […]
One of the architects of the Belize Constitution passed away this Saturday at his family home. Vernon Harrison “VH” Courtenay, or Sir Harry, as he was affectionately known, was an outstanding Belizean patriot, well known for service in public life. Courtenay, an attorney by profession and a member of the oldest and prestigious law firm […]
It doesn’t come up in your everyday conversations, but the Belize Health Information System (B.H.I.S.) is the topic of discussions at a three day workshop being held at the Princess Hotel. Twelve nations, including Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica and the Eastern Caribbean Countries, have converged in the Jewel to learn about the development of […]
It’s the place where people meet on Saturday morning either for an early morning gossip or best deals on fresh produce, or both. But the Queen’s Square Market was temporarily relocated in July for the construction of a bigger, better facility through a loan from the Caribbean Development Bank. Marion Ali was there for the […]
But that was not the only “write-off” that the Minister of Housing, Michael Finnegan, mentioned today. Finnegan made public that he has submitted a proposal to cabinet that the poorest of the poor—meaning those who absolutely cannot afford to pay—outstanding debts at the housing department be forgiven. Michael Finnegan, Minister of Housing “Yoh see all […]
Police are investigating a shooting incident which occurred at the Esso Ramon’s Service Station at mile two on the Northern Highway on Saturday at twelve-ten a.m. and left two persons injured. Ignacio Reyes, a security officer, reported to Police that three male persons arrived in a grey Mazda car and made their way onto the […]
Belize City police are investigating a home invasion that occurred on Saturday night. Linsford McKenzie and his girlfriend were at home when around eight-forty p.m. five men entered their home. One of the men was armed with what appeared to be a nine millimeter pistol. He demanded that the couple hand over their jewelry. In […]
Twenty-nine year old Jamil Flowers was initially detained on Friday along with his grandmother, seventy-six year old Olive Dawson of Biscayne Village. They were both charged in connection with a point two-twenty-three rifle and four live rounds of ammunition discovered in their home during a police search. But only Flowers was charged today. Dawson was […]
A farmer from Maskall Village accused of rape and harm against his ex-common-law-wife faced an additional charge of Breaching a Protection Order from the Belize Family Court today. But that was not what sent him to jail, it was the alleged rape of his ex-wife that landed the thirty five year old behind bars. His […]
A sixty year old Salvadoran man of Scotland Halfmoon Village is behind bars allegedly for having sexual relations with his fourteen year old daughter. While the incident was reported only last week the girl claims that her father has been having relations with her since she was eleven. The father appeared before Magistrate Tracy Sosa […]
The investigation into the death of the twenty-one month old baby, Jaydan Guy, is almost complete. The toddler choked on a red kidney bean on July twenty second at the family home in Belmopan. His parents rushed him to the Western Regional Hospital and that led to an arduous journey to Belize City where he […]
In addition to conditions at the regional hospitals and the H1N1 flu, Dr. Pitts as Director of Health Services also has another health problem to attend to. Break bone Fever or Dengue is a problem that is endemic to Belize. Whenever it rains, the water that settles becomes a potential breeding ground for the Aedes […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re certainly very privileged to present to you this package of Sports Monday. The nation was riveted by the 2009 COCABA Basketball Championship as it was staged at Cancun, Mexico last week where in four days Belize beat Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama and Costa Rica despite the attempt to force […]
