The lifelong friend and law firm partner of Prime Minister Dean Barrow, Rodwell Williams, was shot last Monday night in an execution style attack by two unknown assailants. Williams was flown to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami for treatment where tonight Williams is still in critical condition. Doctors remain vigilant at his side due to […]
A child was tragically killed on the Northern Highway this afternoon when he was knocked down just after leaving school. The ten year old student died when he was being rushed to the hospital. The vehicle, a white Hyundai van, was heading to Belize City when the student ran across the highway in Sand Hill […]
There’s a storm brewing at the University of Belize over reports that at least eight lecturers will not be returning to the classrooms upon reaching the retirement age of fifty-five. This has stirred commotion among faculty members who claim that the UB management will not be renewing the contracts of these lecturers once they reach […]
According to Tun, UB lecturers are finding themselves in a catch twenty-two where they are not necessarily being forced to retire but that the management is not renewing their individual contracts. Dr. Isabel Tun, Associate Professor, UB “We do not want for the university to lose people who are highly trained and at this stage […]
On Thursday we asked: Do you believe Restore Belize will be effective in ensuring safer neighborhoods? The persons who polled had mixed views about the effectiveness of the initiative to reign in crime. Fifty-seven percent of those persons who took part thought that Restore Belize will not be effective and forty-three percent voted in favour. […]
A jury of nine men and women today acquitted Lenny Benguche of two counts of attempted murder. But the jury was deadlock on a charge of maim and a retrial was ordered. The not guilty verdict was handed down late this evening following two and a half hours of deliberation. Benguche appeared unrepresented before Justice […]
Jeffery Flowers, the inmate accused of stabbing another inmate Kevin “Cowboy” Alvarez, was taken to court late this past Thursday and charged for wounding and using threatening words. Earlier in the day, Cowboy made an appearance at the office of the Ombudsman and complained to Ombudsman Cynthia Pitts that he was being treated inhumanely at […]
A tourist is claiming he was robbed and beaten and today police say a Belize City resident of Central American Boulevard is the man who committed the crime. Sixty year old Alain Jean Charles Isambert, of France, was ambushed by two men and robbed of his camera as he and his wife were on Southern Foreshore […]
Images of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico bring home the stark reality of the risks associated with offshore drilling. So far, damages have been estimated at about a billion U.S. dollars. The oil spill on April twentieth has caused a massive pollution of the waters and shores of the Gulf States. President […]
The Belize National Basketball team is preparing to head to the upcoming Centro Basket Tournament in the Dominican Republic in July. In light of a recent legal victory in the International Court of Arbitration for Sports in favor of members of the national team who played in the COCABA Games in Cancun last year, the […]
A new art exhibit is being launched tonight. It’s called Pronto. Pronto coincides with the celebration of fifteenth anniversary of the Image Factory art gallery. Pronto won’t feature the usual suspects, but the work of budding artists who are still being molded in school. The pieces on display have been created by Saint John’s College […]
The Corozal Community College Auditorium was packed today with students whose primary schools were represented at this year’s Annual National Coca Cola Spelling Bee competition. The twelve finalists hailed from throughout the nation’s six districts and it took what is called a sudden death round with only one word given to each of the remaining […]
Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is what’s happening Belize? This weekend it’s all about our grads and starting you summer off right! I’ll start you off with the bash I was telling you about last week. In Placencia on Saturday night there will be a party called how low can you go? This party type […]
