They say justice is blind, but in the opinion of a San Pedro family, justice was nowhere near the courthouse this evening. Two years ago, a mother claimed that she saw an intruder in her home rape her eleven year old child. Both the minor and her mother testified against the accused during the trial. […]
Meanwhile, a fruit and vegetable vendor is clinging to life tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Early Sunday morning, Desidorio Garcia was attacked and badly beaten when he was heading to the market, where he worked for three years selling for a stall owner. The vendor originally lived at mile twenty-eight on the Hummingbird […]
In other tragic news, the B.D.F. lost one soldier and seven others were injured in a fatal accident in the Cayo District involving a heavy duty military vehicle. Shortly after eight Sunday morning, thirty-two year old Private Lucas Tek of San Benito Poite and seven other officers were returning to base at Camp Belizario after […]
The Finance Director of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, Carlos Perrera, whose name has been called numerous times during the ongoing Commission of Inquiry, took his seat today before the commissioners. Perrera was one of the persons that doctors and nurses had been insisting needed to be removed from duties when the scandal broke in […]
Perrera, who took over as Director of Finance in the early part of June of 2008, contradicted statements made last week by the hospital’s former Supplies Manager, Carlton Usher. Usher had claimed that Perrera, signed off on requests for duty exemption for items that were available at Central Medical Stores. Usher was fired after equipment […]
In last Friday’s House meeting in the capital, it was an all out shouting match between the current and former prime ministers. The recession and economic depression were the source of the verbal blows between Dean Barrow and Said Musa. The Fort George Area Representative said quite vehemently “The so-called stimulus package that the Prime […]
Turning to crime, a robbery victim was spared from becoming the latest statistic since he was able to protect himself and his attacker is instead hospitalized. The incident happened after midnight on Saturday on a dangerous part of Banak Street. The police department is withholding the name of the victim, but the culprit is twenty […]
A delivery man may spend Christmas behind bars after he was busted with a point thirty-eight pistol loaded with five live rounds. Nineteen year-old Ramon August was charged with Kept Unlicensed Firearm and Kept Unlicensed Ammunitions. August pleaded not guilty to both charges before Senior Magistrate, Dorothy Flowers. His arrest came as a result of […]
He is well known and highly respected in the community. His store, Simon Quan, on Queen Street in Belize City carries an extensive variety of goods at affordable prices. Today shoppers in the height of the Christmas Shopping Season may have noticed a black bow on the outside of the store. That bow has been […]
It is the largest eagle in the world and for years, Belize has been working in restoring the numbers of the birds in the country. And today after a week in quarantine, the Harpy eagle, Hope was released into the wild near Blue Creek in the Orange Walk District. Hope is the fifteenth eagle that […]
Building on the success of its Rock the Runway initiative, Continental Airlines today doubled its outreach program to deserving primary school students. Today two hundred primary school students between the ages of five and seven from twenty schools in the city received gifts from the organizers, Toys for Tots Program. The faces of the children […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Belize Bank Super League Tournament kicked off its championship series as San Felipe Barcelona hosted Texmar United of Independence up north inside Orange Walk yesterday. At stake is twenty-seven thousand, five hundred Belize dollars, a gold medal for each player off the winning team […]
