A Belizean who was wrongfully imprisoned returned home today to a warm welcome and just in the nick of time for the New Year. Dennis Gonguez was on an excursion across the border in Melchor when he was detained by Guatemalan police and held for over a month. Gonguez says he was simply at the […]
Many have been left homeless in a spate of fires over the past week. In the latest, a police sergeant and her family were left out in the cold after a blaze swept through their house on Trinity Boulevard on Wednesday night. It is not a good way to start the New Year, for Sergeant […]
In an update to the murder of thirty-two year old Patrick Kerr, the results of a post mortem certify that the cause of his death was Acute Pulmonary Edema, due to multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and abdomen. Kerr was gunned down as he waited to have a hair cut at a barber on […]
A group of Cubans who washed ashore near Boca del Rio on Ambergris Caye in the early hours of Wednesday December twenty-ninth was cleared by the Immigration and Nationality Department earlier today to continue its journey across the Caribbean Sea. The seven Cuban nationals who drifted southwest to Belize in a makeshift vessel outfitted with […]
Henry Canton was terminated as the Chief Executive Officer of the Citrus Products of Belize Limited at an extraordinary meeting of the citrus growers on December eighteenth. Canton has maintained that the process was flawed. Today the Belize Citrus Mutual concurred with Canton, saying that the shareholder’s agreement signed between the Citrus Growers Association and […]
Five men were detained following a burglary on November twenty-sixth, but the man believed to be the mastermind, managed to escape from custody. Since then, Nelson Peters has been on the run but Ladyville police caught up with him on Monday. Today he appeared in court to be charged for the Burglary along with the […]
Just before noon, Denton Requena, his younger brother, Giovanni and their friend, David Sedacy, were committed to stand trial in the 2011 April session of the Supreme Court for a charge of attempted murder. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie after hearing submissions made by their defense attorney, Anthony Sylvester and prosecutor, Sergeant Egbert Castillo concluded that […]
There were one hundred and three murders in 2008 and the country cried out against the spike in violence. Well this year the criminals outdid themselves and that record was long surpassed. With one day to go in 2010, there are one hundred and thirty murders on record. As always, the majority of the carnage […]
The list of holidays for 2011 is now available. There are thirteen public and bank holidays, starting this Saturday with New Year’s. There is only one holiday in March, which on Monday, the seventh celebrated as National Heroes and Benefactors Day. Easter next year falls in late April, which means that Good Friday through to […]
There is a Creole saying that goes: When yoh think yoh have it bad, somebody got it worse. That saying applies to Leandro Roches Junior, a man who will admit that he has been through the system but that he has sought to reform his life. But as we found out in our visit with […]
Much like each new day brings a promise of things to come, each New Year brings the opportunity to leave behind things of the past and look ahead with a new commitment. It is the time of the year when many will make resolutions for the New Year. But are they kept? Healthy Living finds […]
