A Memorandum of Understanding was penned today for the rehabilitation of the Gulisi Museum. The museum, which is located in Dangriga, is the home of Garifuna cultural heritage. The M.O.U. between NICH and the National Garifuna Council gives way for the restoration with financial backing from the Belize Natural Energy Charitable Trust. Here is News […]
A wave of shootings and murders over the past month culminated with a grenade explosion that killed a minor just before the New Year. Most of the violence is believed to be the casualties of street wars between rival gangs from George Street, Kraal Road, Supal Street, St. Martins and South Side Gangsters. The leaders […]
While the gangs have agreed to a truce, there is still the lingering fear that grenades will continue to pop up in the city streets. Police have arrested and charged their main suspect in connection with the latest grenade blast two weeks ago that claimed the life of fourteen year old Rudolph Flowers. That explosive […]
While the British Forces do their best to secure their weapons cache in Belize, the shockwaves from a verbal explosion by Foreign Minister Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington while at the Organization of American States headquarters in Washington, are still agitating the public. Members of the opposition and others have called on the Prime Minister to remove […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow said today that his Foreign Minister is safe at home and that he did not intend to remove Wilfred Elrington from Cabinet for his use of the word artificial in describing the established borders between Belize and Guatemala. But the Prime Minister conceded that Elrington should have perhaps apologized for his […]
Still on the issue of the border dispute, Senator and former Foreign Minister, Eamon Courtenay, on Tuesday outlined a best case scenario of seven years before the Belize/Guatemala dispute would see the light of day at the International Court of Justice. That timeframe was based on upcoming election cycles in both Belize and Guatemala, which […]
Another hot button issue which has provoked the ire of the public was the decision to grant visa waivers to Israeli nationals. Israel is known is to be a top supplier of arms to Guatemala which is claiming as much as fifty percent of Belizean territory so that move set off a flurry of condemnation. […]
Maxboro is a small but growing community located off the Northern Highway near mile sixteen. But the two hundred residents or so are all but at peace. For the past two years thieves have made the community their playground and now residents are making their appeal public. Marion Ali reports. Marion Ali, Reporting These four-footed […]
Forty six year old Floyd Budd, who says he is homeless and cannot feed himself, was sentenced to six years in prison for burglarizing the Valumed Phamacy. When he appeared in front of Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning, Budd also said he thinks jail is the best place for him because he will have three […]
The long arms of the law finally caught up with thirty-one year old Marlon Moya after almost a month on the lam. Police detained Moya because he allegedly broke into a house in Hattieville on December twelfth 2009. Moya allegedly abused an eleven year old girl while in the house and stole a DVD player […]
Thirty-eight year old Garrison Nicholson is known in Burrell Boom as a horse trainer. And it might sound like “rake” for Boledo, but the father of two children is going to jail for two years for stealing two doors. In his hearing this morning, Nicholson pleaded guilty to Theft and claimed that the hard times […]
Two teenagers were killed in separate incidents when grenades exploded on Mayflower Street and more recently on Kraal Road. It is known that eighteen of twenty-four grenades have not been located since they went missing from the British Forces armory. So when calls were made today to the Ready Call Centre that grenades had been […]
