It is the countdown to the 2015 national elections and within twelve hours, one hundred and ninety-seven thousand voters will head to the polls for the most important elections. On the eve of the elections today, the People’s United Party got its long anticipated and actually demanded look at the proxy register. That demand came […]
The back and forth between the P.U.P. Secretariat and the Elections and Boundaries Department has been ongoing, caused by serious allegations made against that department and against Chief Elections officer Josephine Tamai. Tamai has dismissed it as political mischief, but P.U.P. Secretary General Myrtle Palacio, who is a former Chief Elections Officer, says that it […]
On the eve of the 2015 national elections, the Belize Council of Churches has come out swinging in an attempt to stay above the political fray. Led by Reverend Roosevelt Papouloute, the churches today held an unprecedented press conference in Belize City reacting to an online report written by Chrisbert Garcia on Belize Breaking News. […]
In support of the Council of Churches, Pastor Howell Longsworth, of the Belize Evangelical Association, also calls to question the recklessness by the reporter on the social media site in attacking the leadership of the church for what is political mischief. Howell Longsworth, President, Evangelical Association “My concern is that the desperation of some […]
By this time on Wednesday the polls will have closed and counting will be taking place to determine who will form the next government. The U.D.P. is asking for an unprecedented third term because they say that the best is yet to come. The P.U.P. says that power has been vested in one man for […]
The death toll went up by one in San Ignacio where as recent as Sunday morning; a Guatemalan national was stabbed to death as he exited a popular nightclub. That murder was followed by another this morning when a twenty-six year old resident was killed in a drive-by shooting in San Ignacio. Darwin Guerrero was […]
Also in San Ignacio, there was a near-rumble on Monday night following a standoff between supporters of both mass parties in front of the Center for Employment Training. Reports are that the United Democratic Party took control of the area outside that station, cordoning it off with flags and red and white cloth on both […]
Across the country, final preparations are underway before the opening of polls on Wednesday morning. Among the many responsibilities the police department is tasked with is citizen security. Officers from all formations of law enforcement will be working overtime to ensure that voters are safe and that the peace is kept throughout the process. In […]
A lso on the crime blotter…just before midnight on Monday, shots rang out on Magazine Road, in proximity to the Raccoon Street Police Station in the city. Another youth had been shot on the eve of the General Elections. Pitter Street resident, twenty-three-year-old Nigel Augustine was targeted by a single gunman, who approached and opened […]
Tonight, a Belize City resident is accused of having unlawful sex with a foster child from a child care home in the City. Nineteen year old Guillermo Silva, of Antelope Street Extension, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court before the Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith this morning. A fifteen year old girl claims that […]
At the Port of Belize, business is back to normal where stevedores had been demonstrating for retirement benefits since Friday night. Late on Monday, a number of benefits were agreed to including salary increases and pensions. As we reported on Monday, the management of PBL met with the Christian Workers Union in an extended session […]
There has been escalating tension in the days leading up to the 2015 General Election. There’s the vandalism of signs, aggression by supporters from both parties and then there are criminals, who take the opportunity to rob or burglarize homes during these events. But on Wednesday as residents make their way to the polls to […]
Youth entrepreneur Crystal Samos is the recipient of a pair of regional awards, following a recent trip to Grenada where she participated in a competition for young businesspersons. Samos is recognized for astutely marketing the beauty product Carpe Diem, a chocolate scrub. She won the 2015 Female Entrepreneur of the Caribbean and also received an […]
On Sunday morning, police officers attached to Precinct Four of the Belize City Police Department responded to the scene of a fatal traffic accident on the Phillip Goldson Highway, just past the Haulover Bridge. Lying dead on the ground, a short distance from a motorcycle laid the body of one of their own, thirty-eight year […]
Good evening I am James Adderley and this is sports Monday. Verdes FC returned to its PBL schedule yesterday inside the Norman Broaster Stadium looking to re-establish its national dominance after a rather disappointing exit from CONCACAF Championship League play. The Belize Defense Force was the obstacle to be faced, a team looking for a […]
