There’s dire economic news tonight. The warning came shortly after the nationalization of Belize Electricity Limited and today Standard and Poor’s officially decreased Belize’s credit rating. The foreign currency credit score was downgraded from a B to B minus. According to S&P, by acquiring a seventy percent stake in the financially distressed utility company, government […]
There is another murder in the City to report tonight, it’s the second for this week and it happened less than twenty-hours after the first. On Wednesday evening sometime around six, a gun man fired several shots fatally wounding twenty year old Justin Roches. He was getting ready to play a game of basketball at […]
There was another shooting in the city on Wednesday night, three hours after the murder of Justin Roches. This time the target was a minor. Shortly after nine, seventeen year old John Pascual was riding his bike when a man pulled out a gun and shot him multiple times. It happened in a St. Martins […]
Glenn Tillett has been a prominent member of the media for eons. He has worked over the past years as a radio show host and is a former editor and newspaper journalist. Tillett is also politically linked to the PUP’s Joe Coye, a former government minister. But it’s his family affiliation that resulted in the […]
During his sit-down with the media at Everyday Gourmet Restaurant on the Northern Highway, a police pickup stood by on hand as his attorney Arthur Saldivar and supporters such as Joe Coye, Moses Sulph, and Dickie Bradley arrived. In the presence of those supporters, he related that during his incarceration he had to be rushed […]
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday sent out one of its strongest releases, condemning government’s proposed ninth amendment to the constitution. The proposed bill intends to alter the constitution, thus enabling government to supersede the role of the courts to what the Chamber calls parliamentary supremacy. The Chamber’s position was explained today […]
The vendors at the Michael Finnegan Market are again bucking heads with the City Council; this time over food handler’s permits. According to the vendors, they received a letter informing them that they have until this Friday to obtain their permits. And while that notice is dated, July twenty-sixth, they claim it wasn’t delivered until […]
But the City Councilor with responsibility for the market, Philip Willoughby, maintains that the letter was delivered in July. He also emphasized that it’s an initiative of the Ministry of Health and not the simply the council, but that the vendors must comply with the notice. As for the conditions of the market, Willoughby told […]
A group of six Belize City fishermen appeared before Magistrate Albert Hoare today for a fisheries offence. On Tuesday evening twenty-three year old Victor Foreman Jr., Garrett Francis, Deshawn Terry, Kent Garbutt, Gregory Rhaburn and James Andrewin were busted by police on mobile patrol in the Conch Shell Bay area where they were found in […]
Two persons were charged today in connection with separate burglaries and believe it or not, the suspects are both women. Thirty-one year old Delker Silde Miranda was the first to appear before Magistrate Emerson Banner on a charge of Burglary. She was arrested after breaking into the apartment of her neighbor, Nora Williams, and stealing […]
International Living, an online and print magazine, has completed its latest special on Belize, which was compiled by Dan Prescher and Suzan Haskins. The two I.L. editors, have been coming to the Jewel for over twenty years, but their last two-week visit, gave them a more in-depth look at what the country has to offer. […]
Many people take for granted that because they have twenty-twenty vision, they have nothing to worry about. But the fact is that proper and timely eye care is a necessity to everyone; whether you have perfect eyesight or you use glasses. This week Healthy Living looks at how to protect your eyes and for those […]
