There was a spate of shootings in Belize City between Saturday and this morning. A total of eight persons were wounded to varying degrees. At a graduation party held at the Brown Sugar Mall on Sunday, as many as five persons were injured after they crashed the party of a student, who is the daughter […]
The spate of shooting started on Saturday. Around nine-forty-five p.m., twenty-eight year old Sigmond Trapp and twenty-five year old Anthony Scott were injured at the corner of Amara and Kut Avenues as they headed towards Euphrates Avenue in south side Belize City. A black Ford Escort car drove up to Trapp and Scott a block […]
Five hours later, sixteen-year-old Corine White was targeted near Newtown Barracks on Sunday morning. The teenager was reportedly in the company of her boyfriend and another person inside a green vehicle heading in the direction of Calle Al Mar, when they came under gunfire. At about three-thirty a.m., a lone gunman emerged on the scene […]
Christian Ebanks, who also goes by the name Floyd Ebanks Jurado, obtained Supreme Court bail last Friday. He was arrested and charged in May after the Gang Suppression Unit raided the Belize City house he shared with his recently wedded wife. The GSU found an unlicensed nine millimeter pistol hidden in a stove. Ebanks is […]
Following his arrest in May, it became known that he was listed as Ecuador’s most wanted in 2011 for a murder in the Guayas province. Ebanks confirms that there are allegations against him at his country of birth and explains why he changed his name in Belize. Christian Ebanks, Charged for Firearm Offences “There […]
On Saturday, representatives of the Belize Grassroots Youth Empowerment Association, BGYEA organized a ‘Plant Di Corn’ rally at Battlefield Park in Belize City. The grassroots organization is protesting an injunction from G.O.B. which prohibits them from planting corn in the buffer zone at Harmonyville. The rally also provided the stage for the emergence of the […]
The rally on Saturday was held just two days after the formation of a group called the Rod of Correction, or ROC. BGYEA is a part of that group, along with the unions and other organizations. The turnout at the rally wasn’t huge in terms of numbers, but that might have been asking too much […]
Turning to politics…The convention for the Cayo Northeast constituency was hotly contested over the weekend. Four candidates placed their names on the ballot to replace former minister of state, Elvin Penner, who disgraced himself in the passport scandal that broke in September 2013. Penner’s expulsion from the U.D.P. left the field open for Sunday’s convention. […]
Will Mayor of Belize City Darrell Bradley run for a second term of municipal office? That’s the question that he’s been asked much more than a few times in recent months. We can report tonight that he is still not sure, and seems to be in no real hurry to decide. According to Bradley, he’d […]
The second sitting of the Court of Appeal for this year was held today and the bench, which included President Manuel Sosa, Justice Minnett Afiz-Beltran and Justice Samuel Awich, handed down a significant decision in favor of the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions. The D.P.P., Cheryl Lynn Vidal, appealed for a leave of […]
In May, an undisclosed amount of rosewood went missing from the Savannah Forest Station. It was later discovered that the rosewood, confiscated during April operations in the south by the Forest Department, was sold off at a highly preferential price to the brother of Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega. Government is remaining mum on official […]
As we told you, BGYEA took centre stage at the rally on Saturday. The group is fighting for the right to plant corn in about sixty acres designated as a buffer zone in Harmonyville. Government is just as adamant that the buffer zone is to remain, in its words, pristine. BGYEA had located an investor […]
The discussion between Valley of Peace farmers and Green Tropics is ongoing, but from all accounts there has been little progress. Ministry of Agriculture testing has indicated that damage to hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of crops was a result of spraying done by Green Tropics. Green Tropics has rebutted by claiming that the […]
The hurricane season kicked off on June first, and today the City Emergency Management Organization, CEMO, held a press conference at City Hall. While one purpose of the conference is to send the message that CEMO is prepared and ready to deal with any occurrence, another is to make it crystal clear that Belize City […]
While shelters are ready, they should be a last resort. CEMO has also worked on an elaborate and comprehensive evacuation plan. According to Mayor Bradley, that evacuation in the event of a natural disaster takes everything into account, including the ongoing municipal street-works. Darrell Bradley, Belize City Mayor “In the event of a hurricane, […]
Good evening! I’m Kaya Cattouse, welcome to this week’s edition of Sports Monday. In the National Elite Basketball League we see game 3 kick off at the Sacred Heart College Auditorium where the Western Ballaz hosted No Limit. Matthew Young of No Limit wins the tip but apparent that’s the only thing that the […]
