The Senate met for part of the day in Belmopan to consider the Seventh Amendment to the Constitution that went through its second and third reading in the House on Friday. The most controversial part that dealt with persons holding dual nationality to sit in the House or Senate was stripped from the bill. But […]
A nineteen year old resident of Camalote Village is tonight clinging to life after being shot in the head by a minor. The family of Ahmad Nah has reported that he was shot in the head from close proximity with a pellet gun while at a friend’s house over the weekend. He was rushed to […]
We have been following the legal battle between a civilian and the government over a property in Benque Viejo del Carmen. The trial inched one step closer to completion today when the trial judge, Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh, headed west to visit the location in question. Last month Benque Viejo businessman, Samuel Bruce, got an […]
The government’s attorney, Priscilla Banner, argued that the motive for acquiring the land is reasonable since it is for the improvement of education. But Musa countered that Benque Viejo is well-endowed with land and taking over Bruce’s was not necessary. As for Bruce, he says that he had gotten the verbal consent of Area Representative, […]
Parliamentarians from both sides of the House got into feisty debate over corporal punishment last Friday. While the debate in the Senate was less emotional, Senators from across the aisle raised concerns about the removal of corporal punishment in the classrooms and sided with the union asking for more time to put in place an […]
While the images of last Friday’s protest are still fresh in everyone’s mind, things have quickly swung around at the Ministry of Education, which has now appointed a task force to identify an alternative approach to disciplining students. And while the task force will have all the relevant agencies involved, what comes out of it […]
As we reported, the Education and Training Bill was passed by the Senate today. The man who steered the controversial Bill in the House last Friday, was the Minister of Education Patrick Faber. Faber was both emotional and controversial as he took on one of his predecessors as well as a union leader during his […]
But there is one constituency the Minister will need given his political ambitions. That’s the unions who are vex, in fact downright angry, with him. And that bad blood just got hotter today when Faber reiterated that at least sixty percent of the teachers are not trained and that some were ignorant. And like his […]
A farmer who stabbed a fourteen year old girl from Caye Caulker multiple times in 2004, today pleaded guilty to use of deadly means of harm with intent to cause unlawful wound. In April 2004 at the age of eighteen, Eber Guerra, a father of a three year-old girl, was accused of trying to kill […]
He was kicked out of high school in January after he was charged with Attempted Murder for a stabbing incident on Fabers Road that landed one man in the hospital. Today Mark Usher Junior was back in court and it seems he’s changed his weapon of choice because this time he is charged for allegedly […]
A distraught mother and her sixteen year old daughter reported to police that on February seventh two women stormed their home and beat the minor brutally. Two sisters, Shantel and Sherae Robateau, have been named as the culprits and while they may have won that fight, the battle is now before the courts. Twenty-six year […]
There were two earthquakes today in the same general area in Central America. And while they were not strong enough to cause any major damages, they moved the earth enough to raise some brows. But as Marion Ali found out, this week has been a pretty busy one. Marion Ali, Reporting Their magnitudes were not […]
There is no shortage of information on the prevention of HIV/AIDS. Unfortunately, there is an abundance of new cases being diagnosed each year. A national assessment is being conducted that seeks to find the short falls and improve the country’s national response as it relates to HIV. It is the third biennial assessment under the […]
Back in April 2009, a large crowd gathered at the City Center for the launch of Mission Miracle or Operacion Milagros. But by the end of that month, the Influenza A H1N1, which was introduced then as “swine flu”, posed an international threat and the mission was put on hold. Well, the Embassy of the […]
