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Former CitCo Director of Finance passes away

Dwain Davis, the former Director of Finance for the Belize City Council, has passed away. Davis suffered a massive stroke on November fifth after he left the Magistrates’ Court in Belize City. He was taken immediately to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where he was placed on a ventilator. The stroke was identified as hemorrhagic […]

Dwain Davis’ attorney says case against mayor may fail

But now that Davis has passed away, what does this mean for the prosecution’s case against Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers, Kiran Bhudrani and Kiran Vanjani who were also criminally charged? According to Davis’ former attorney, Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, the case will probably fall apart. Richard Dickie Bradley, Former Attorney for Dwain Davis “In terms of […]

Boat accident claims life on La Isla Bonita

Meanwhile, in Ambergris Caye a boatman lost his life in open sea when his vessel, the Right Now from the Sueño del Mar, was involved in a boat accident. The thirty-three year old was returning to La Isla Bonita at about six-thirty when in the area of White Sands Cove, it collided with a water […]

Body of senior citizen found

And Orange Walk police have not ruled out foul play in the death of a woman. Sixty-two year old Elena Bennett was found dead on a chair outside her house. The discovery was made around midday today in the Black Water Creek area of Trial Farm. There were no signs of violence on the body, […]

Fire leaves single mothers and children homeless

Two Belize City families headed by single mothers lost everything in a midday fire today. The six persons have, for the time being, moved in with relatives and friends after the blaze gutted their home located on Neal Penn Road. The fire started in a bedroom of one of the wooden apartments sometime around twelve-thirty […]

OCEANA makes waves and opens office in Belize

There are environmental groups that lobby for protection of national parks, animal life and even the reef. These Non Governmental Organizations often lack funds and survive on a shoe string budget. But OCEANA is not the run of the mill N.G.O. It was founded in 2001, and has since opened offices in Europe and the […]

Former Colombian president speaks on Belize/Guatemala dispute

Former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria spent the weekend in Belize as a member of the board of OCEANA directors. Gaviria is known in Latin America as a conflict mediator and a defender of human rights. He served two terms as Secretary General of the Organization of American States and visited Belize in that capacity. Gaviria […]

Michael Quan freed of arson charge

This afternoon a jury of five men and four women deliberated for little less than three hours and then acquitted twenty-eight year old Michael Quan of Arson. The decision was unanimous and Quan walked out of the court of Justice Michelle Arana a free man. One year ago, a van belonging to Kingsley Estelle was […]

Gun disappears from on duty cop

But what really transpired at the Yabra Police Booth when an on-duty officer’s nine millimeter pistol allegedly disappeared? On Saturday morning, police constable Castillo Cal reported that his service revolver was stolen from inside the Yabra Police Booth between the hours of one a.m. and seven a.m. The officer reported he was clueless as to […]

Woman plunges into 40 foot well but survives

Earlier in the newscast we reported on a female found dead, but there is some good news coming from Orange Walk today. A woman luckily is safe and sound after a terrible experience this morning when she slipped and plunged forty feet into a well in the Trial Farm area while she was reportedly trying […]

No visa requirements for Belize and Israel

The number of Israelies visiting the Jewel is few, but according to the Belmopan, a visa waiver will increase this number. This morning in the capital, Israeli Ambassador to Belize, Mattanya Cohen, and Belize’s Foreign Minister, Wilfred Elrington, signed an agreement that will no longer require travelers to acquire visas to enter the two countries. […]

Football, table tennis and cycling in weekend sports

Good evening I’m James Adderley rolling into the world with this segment of Sports Monday. The Belize Bank Super League kicked off its playoff round with the divisional elimination this weekend as Kraal Road, leader of the South Zone, hosted the number four seed from this division, Cayo South United. Despite dominating Cayo South during […]