The entire country was plunged into darkness Thursday night shortly after six-thirty. About an hour and a half after power was restored two gunmen wasted no time in seeking out another of the remaining three Felix brothers. Twenty-five year old Ryan Bennett, also known as Ryan Felix, lays in stable condition tonight at the Karl […]
Ryan Bennett is the fifth of the Felix brothers to have been shot in the area of Port Loyola. Of the five brothers Tyrone and Faron have fell victim to gun violence. On April sixth of 2009, an older brother, Terry Felix and Edward Thompson were also shot while standing in front of Excelsior High […]
There’s another family grieving tonight. On Wednesday afternoon eighteen year old Anthony Matura was killed as he alighted a bus in Ladyville. Anthony was returning home from Belize City he was attacked and stabbed in the chest. He ran a few feet to another lane and died in the vicinity of the Ladyville Police Station […]
The Commissioner of Police, Crispin Jefferies, has been told by his Minister that his management approach is not effective and he is likely on the out way out. So on Thursday we asked: do you believe that the removal of Crispin Jefferies as Compol will curb crime? There was not a big difference in the […]
The statistics on out-of-school children are far from impressive; eleven thousand children are not receiving any form of education or training. Come this new school year, a programme attempting to improve the grim statistics will kick off at the existing Excelsior High School on Faber’s Road. The idea is to offer remedial and vocational courses […]
Brothers Mark and Gary Seawell have met another legal hurdle as a judgment handed down by Supreme Court Justice John Muria today paved the way for an extradition hearing to begin as early as August thirtieth. The siblings, who are on remand at the Hattieville Prison for drug trafficking and other offences, are fighting to […]
Tonight, Lavern Longsworth, the well-known court figure, who runs errands for employees of the Belize City Magistrate’s Court is in lock down pending a charge of Attempted Murder while her common-law-husband, David White is hospitalized. So what happened? Longsworth allegedly threw kerosene on White and then set him on fire during a dispute at their […]
There’s another court personality in trouble with the law. After an overnight in police custody, fifty-six year Roy Davis, a freelance court reporter and photographer, is out on a thousand dollars bail. Davis was arraigned in Magistrate’s Court for assaulting and harming Special Constable Wellington Welch. Davis was arrested at around two-thirty p.m. on Thursday […]
At two-thirty this afternoon, a jury of eight women and one man emerged from the deliberating room and announced that Bernard Pratt was guilty of four counts of carnal knowledge of an eleven year old girl. In trial Pratt denied that he had sexually abused the student, but the child’s sister testified that she had […]
A Mennonite infant has been diagnosed with a rare genetic disease, in fact it is believed that Justina Peters from the Shipyard community is the first person to be diagnosed with this condition in Belize. There is only ongoing research for treatment of the hereditary disease so the Peters family is traveling to Canada to […]
Seventeen students from Sutton Valence School in Southeast England have generously volunteered their summer to do charity work in Belize. The students are between the ages of fourteen and eighteen and will be doing everything from manual labour to jungle survival and water sports. It’s a big deal for the youths, not only for the […]
The only way you would not have known that there was a power outage on Thursday night was if you were in the deep jungle. That’s because the outage was nationwide and happened just as television viewers were about to tune in to the evening news. But according to the Belize Electricity Limited, it was […]
The annual Belize International Film Festival opens tonight at the Bliss with a big bang that includes a red carpet entrance. The yearly event features films from independent and well–known filmmakers. The lineup is interesting but it’s not only about movies. The week of events includes a series of workshops and seminars to help Belize’s […]
There is an abundance of summer camps taking place across the country. Some of them are well funded, therefore relatively cheap, and there are a few that might empty your wallet. The next camp we are highlighting lacks funding and is also free. The Port Loyola Summer Camp is offering over two hundred and fifty […]
The Football Federation of Belize announced earlier this month that the national team would not be competing in the Central American and Caribbean Games in Puerto Rico, because the facilities for that sport were unsuitable for the matches. But the rest of the games will go on and today a contingent of Belizean cyclists headed […]
It’s another busy summer weekend as the Old Capital once again comes to life with activities for the entire family. Entertainment host Safiyyah has a rundown of everything that’s happening from the film festival to the first fried chicken champ. Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is what’s happening Belize. Tonight marks the opening night of […]
