This Friday, a convention takes place in the Albert Division for the endorsement of Tourism C.E.O., Tracy Taegar-Panton as standard bearer for the U.D.P. Panton is to replace Minister of State Herman Longsworth who is not seeking re-election and is stepping aside for Taegar-Panton. But things are heating up on the eve of the endorsement […]
In other news on the U.D.P…..today, Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega and Ramon Cervantes Jr., the man who will contest him in Orange Walk North were in court. The DPM had not been showing up in court until today. He is suing Cervantes for libel, for causing the broadcast of a tape recording of a […]
There was another issue which Musa addressed when he exited the CJ’s Chambers. Rumours about very drastic changes within the executive structure of the People’s United Party have been making the rounds since municipal elections two months ago. And one of the names repeatedly mentioned in those reports is that of former Prime Minister and […]
A fire gutted a small house on Aloe Vera Street in Belize City just before noon today. The homeowner was not at home when she heard the dreadful news that her house was on fire. On the night before the fire, there were threats of arson. While Caroline Hamilton believes it is arson, the fire […]
A young girl died on Tuesday at the K.H.M.H., and it has resulted in a minor panic at the school she attended. Five year old Stella Maris student Veronica Cal took ill suddenly with flu-like symptoms last Thursday, and by the time she was admitted to the K.H.M.H. on Monday, there was nothing doctors could […]
An on-duty security guard of Guadalupe Street in Belize City is tonight recovering from a gunshot to the neck. Thirty-one year old Victor Hendy was shot as he stood watch at New Asia Restaurant on Vernon Street just before nine o’clock on Wednesday night. Hendy was taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and underwent […]
A Burrell Boom resident was to get married this weekend, but instead he will be behind bars for Sexual Assault upon a Child. This morning, twenty-one year old Jamel Seguro appeared in court before Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith seeking bail for the sexual allegation made against him. But this afternoon bail was denied and […]
But a twenty-one year old domestic of Santa Elena, Cayo District secured a five hundred dollar bail after she was allegedly caught by prison officials in possession of seventeen grams of weed. The weed stashed inside a five gallon water bottle, which she was carrying with her for a prison inmate. Twenty-one year old Danna […]
Eighteen-year-old Derrick Romero was shot and killed inside his yard by a lone gunman on Wednesday morning. He was shot multiple times when his attacker got off a bicycle, jumped the fence and entered the premises. The shooter asked for Romero by name and then proceeded to let loose on his target. Romero was mortally […]
A neglected street in the Port Loyola area got a much needed facelift this morning. Residents of the area joined P.U.P. standard bearer, Gilroy Usher Senior, in carrying out the cleanup campaign. But was it a case of politics? Usher Senior told Duane Moody that it’s about civic pride. Here’s that report. Duane Moody, […]
On April twenty-third, a retired English couple came forward in the media to vent their frustration with an ongoing land issue on northern Caye Caulker. The Higgins, Sydney and Anna, purchased a seafront property on the island only to find out sometime later that their access to the Caribbean Sea had been obstructed by another […]
Culture Uncovered is a mash-up of various mediums of visual art, a collection curated by Kenisha Gooding. Gooding is a fresh face in art circles across the city, participating in her first show earlier this year when she debuted several pieces at the Women in Art Exhibition. For her first major effort she has enlisted […]
May is Lupus Awareness Month. As a part of the commemoration people living with lupus, or ‘luppies’ as they are called, are trying to educate the wider public about this chronic disease. So tonight, on Healthy Living we sit down with Internist and Intensivist, Doctor Jorge Hidalgo to learn what it is like for people […]
