The Berkeley Street area in Belize City has quickly become a hotspot in the Old Capital. There have been several shootings and a murder in recent days. At about six o’clock on Wednesday night, there was another homicide. Twenty-five year old Mark Anthony Rhamdas was executed as he rode his motorcycle in an alley where […]
The second murder in the past twenty-four hours took place in the west and police needs the public’s assistance in identifying a man who was badly beaten and found at the Cayo Welcome Center with head injuries on Saturday. Police believe that he had been partying and was intoxicating prior to the violent attack on […]
On Wednesday’s newscast we brought you the story of nine year old Katerin Michel Perez, a student in San Pedro who was badly burned in an accident in her home on Good Friday. A network of Good Samaritans, here and abroad, worked a miracle to get Katerin and her father, Jose Roberto Perez, flown out […]
A senior employee of the Belmopan City Council, in fact the head of the Engineering Section, is out of a job with absolutely no warning. Javier Novelo was a head of section, responsible for inspecting and signing off on payment for Council contracts. All indications are that he was an exemplary worker. So why was […]
The Belize City House of Culture and Downtown Rejuvenation Project – it’s been dubbed revolutionary by its creators, the Government of Belize and the National Institute of Culture and History. The plan is to take downtown Belize back to the days of old when the area was a small colonial settlement on the Haulover Creek. […]
According to Musa, any search for identity or preservation of identity will not come from renovations to structures or a museum embracing colonial days. Instead, he says the fifteen million could be much better spend on our people, equipping them with the tools to move forward, and not backward. Yasser Musa, Former President, NICH […]
This morning, twenty-nine year old Special Constable Juan Moralez was all smiles when a charge of Wounding was withdrawn from him since his wife, the alleged victim, requested no further court action. Moralez’s wife, Betzabe, took the stand before Magistrate Ladonna John saying that on the day she made the report she was angry because […]
A Ghanian citizen who is a pastor was busted at the P.G.I.A. for attempting to enter the country with another person’s passport. Forty year old Wilberforce Sintim Kwako was found in possession of an altered passport which contained a five-year U.S. visa. Kwako was detained on Tuesday morning after he arrived on an Avianca flight […]
Magistrate Hettie Mae Stuart is to decide next Wednesday, April fifteenth, on a charge of loitering in a public place filed against radio personality and activist for the People’s United Party, Albert Vaughan. The charges were brought following protests by workers for Belize Maintenance Limited in August of 2014. While covering the arrest of forty-one […]
At this time, thirteen families are facing eviction from a privately owned property adjacent to landfill on the Lake Independence Boulevard. These families had been evicted twice before and the property was sold to a Chinese businessman three years ago. The businessman has requested them to get off the property by April fifteenth or face […]
The Institute of Social and Cultural Research through NICH is in the process of gathering data on historical events. The Belize History Association was formed to engage persons from all walks of life from across the country to add to the collective data about the country. But the association needed a trademark, a logo that […]
But with the official logo finally completed, what’s next for the Belize History Association? Giovanni Pinelo, Research and Education Officer, ISCR “The input from artists, the input from oral historians, community historians, academics and all persons is crucial to the success of the association and in particular to the benefit of understanding our history. […]
The Salud Mesoamerica Project is a partnership between both public and private sectors including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Carlos Slim Health Institute, Spain’s Cooperation Agency for International Development, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Ministries of Health in eight Mesoamerican countries including Belize. The initiative focuses on improving maternal and child […]
Whether you’re an active or not so active person, anyone can fall victim to exercise related injuries. Spraining an ankle, pulling a muscle or knee and shoulder injuries are the more common workout injuries. Luckily, there are ways to avoid them. Tonight in Healthy Living, veteran fitness instructor Ed Williams tells us how. Marleni […]
