The St. Martin’s community was thrown into panic early on Tuesday night as the urban warfare intensified in the Old Capital. The area was cordoned off, residents were evacuated, the police top brass were deployed and the bomb expert was flown in from San Pedro. An unidentified man hurled a grenade at no less than […]
At news time, Police continue to look for suspects in connection with the hurling of the fragment grenade. If there would have been an explosion, the bloody aftermath of murdered women and children would have brought irreparable damage to the government’s initiatives such as Restore Belize and Operation Jaguar. But regular raids carried out by […]
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Our headline news tonight is about a grenade that was launched at a group of women and children. It didn’t go off but it threw the community into panic. In San Pedro, big guns from the region are in a conference on illicit trafficking, that’s the illegal trading, selling or dealing in specified goods, including […]
As we reported on Tuesday, the national executive of the People’s United Party met today at Independence Hall. Except or a few sparks that flew across the room, the executive approved the appointment of area representatives Mark Espat and Cordel Hyde as senior deputy leaders of the opposition party. Both were not present for the […]
Corporal Gavin Sanchez was shot several times and died at the San Pedro Police Barracks on March eighteenth, 2010. More than a year later, it is still not known whether the officer that pulled the trigger, Sergeant Paulino Reyes, will be held responsible for Sanchez’ death. The controversy surrounding the killing was compounded last October […]
In the Belmopan Supreme Court, arguments concluded today in the case of against interdicted police constable, thirty-six year old Manuel Hill for Abetment to Murder. Hill, who was stationed at the police formation in the Capital, was charged in 2009 and is accused of being involved in the murder of Taiwanese National, Hui Lin Chen […]
Up north, Sugar production at Tower Hill came to a grinding halt in mid-February. The shutdown came when a pair of turbines at the BELCOGEN plant was rendered inoperable. The faulty machinery was subsequently sent to Guatemala for urgent repairs and six weeks later the Belize Sugar Industries factory was back in business. But tonight […]
The results of the 2010 census are revealing on a number of issues. More people live in the village of Ladyville than in the town of Punta Gorda, there are more women than men, but more men are gainfully employed in the workforce but a staggering twenty-three percent of the population is jobless. Another interesting […]
The Minister of Education, Patrick Faber, made no comments on the developments in the church-state system when we caught up with him at the inauguration of a new education center, formerly the Venus Bus Terminal. A little less than two years ago, fourteen year old Dylan Ayuso, a second form Wesley College student, was found […]
Our friends at BelCaribe won’t provide the usual weather report today, but according to the twenty-four hour forecast from the Belize Weather Bureau, there were cloudy spells this afternoon and we can expect partly cloudy skies tonight and on Thursday morning. The sunny weather continues on Thursday with cloudy periods throughout the day. A few […]
In November of 2010 we told you the story of thirty-six year old Denroy Tillett, then acting Principal of the Belmopan Comprehensive High School, who was accused of sexual assault but later cleared of those charges in March of this year. But even after two months of being cleared of the charges, Tillett has been […]
On Sunday afternoon shortly after one, thirty-nine year old Louise Bailey was driving from Hattieville en route to the Agric Show in Belmopan when her mini-van suffered a blow-out and caused her to overturn between miles forty six and forty seven on the Western Highway near the Hector Silva Airstrip. Travelling with Bailey were nine […]
