While the revelry was taking place down south in celebration of Garifuna Settlement Day, in the west a teenager lost his life in a dangerous stretch along the border. The victim is sixteen year old Esvin Ernesto Reyes who along with his father Estevan and mother Teresa set out along the Mopan River heading to […]
Up north another murder has been reported. A resident of the San Victor Village in the Corozal District was killed during a hit and run incident last Thursday. The driver of the vehicle has been charged with murder rather than manslaughter. According to police reports, the death was the result of an argument between two […]
Illegal logging activities continue unabated in the Chiquibul. This past Friday, the Chiquibul Joint Enforcement Unit, comprising of Friends of Conservation and Development rangers, B.D.F. and police personnel, surprised a group of loggers well inside Belizean territory in what is called the zone of influence. According to FCD which co-manages the area the group of […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow returned to the country on Sunday. The PM was in Miami where his wife, Kim Simplis Barrow is receiving treatment for breast cancer. Simplis Barrow was diagnosed with stage three cancer two weeks ago. She has been hospitalized at the Baptist Hospital where she has received a first round of chemotherapy […]
In Dangriga this morning a police officer was stabbed while on duty. The incident happened at the station and the accused is the ex-common-law of Delia Hyde. Kent McKenzie also known as “Ninja Mac” reportedly walked into the station armed and inflicted the stab wounds on Hyde who is hospitalized in the Southern Regional Hospital. […]
Aside from the murders in the West and north, there is another heinous crime to report this time in the south. A twenty-four year old domestic of San Pedro Columbia Village, Toledo, claims that her boss raped her on three different occasions. She has just reported the incident which allegedly happened on three consecutive days; […]
A four year old, Ethan Can was knocked down on Friday afternoon in the Village of Succotz. The infant one student was on the perimeter of his school grounds when he was hit by a vehicle driven by Andy Can, a resident of Succotz village. The infant who suffered a broken leg and injuries to […]
Jerome Flores, a paraplegic cyclist, completed his two-day ride from the capital to Dangriga on Saturday. Flores’ handlers estimated that the ride would take him six hours but when he rode into culture capital on Saturday, he finished in record time of five hours and ten minutes. Flores described his Garifuna Settlement Day Reef Ride […]
A security guard became a victim of robbery early this morning. At twelve ten a.m. Monday morning, twenty nine year old Randy Rodriguez was working the night shift at Sol Belize at mile two and a half on the Northern Highway. Two men, armed with handguns, entered the compound from the direction of the river. […]
Two foreigners received a shock when they became victims of a home invasion in Ladyville. On Sunday, fifty one year old Harold Hillger, a German with Belizean nationality reported that eleven that night, he was sitting at home with his fifty seven year old friend, Werner Woehrle, a German tourist, when two assailants entered the […]
Call centers have been growing in numbers as many overseas companies turn to the region looking for trained personnel. It is a relative new industry that has the potential of providing employment opportunities to hundreds of otherwise jobless persons. With unemployment hovering at close to twenty-four percent, BELTRAIDE has embarked on a program to train […]
The newly elected executive of the Belize Workers Union whose membership owns majority shares in the financially embattled Belize Sugar Industries Ltd. is tonight at odds with the company‘s administration over what it considers a deliberate act of union busting. On November eleventh, B.S.I.’s management reportedly issued a letter to its employees, including three recently […]
The situation in the citrus belt remains tenuous. Citrus growers are nowhere near getting paid for their produce because the Citrus Products of Belize Limited has been unable to draw down on millions of dollars it needs to meet payments. CPBL says some directors of the Citrus Growers Association (CGA) have not signed off on […]
In broad daylight on Saturday on Curl Thompson Street, a mother claims she was attacked by in the presence of her children. Sherlene Garnette says her attacker is the daughter of her common-law-husband. This morning, Alva Moody, a cashier was charged with aggravated assault and wounding Garnette with an ice pick. When twenty two year […]
Good Evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The semi-final round of the Belize District Female Football Competition got off with a bang yesterday at the Ladyville Football Field with all 4 teams seeing action. So we take you inside Game 1 of the double header that matched Caye Caulker Islanders and Hattieville […]
