There is big news tonight coming out of the largest new industry in the west of the country. Santander, located in Valley of Peace in the Cayo District, recently started exporting sugar from its state of the art processing facility on twenty-thousand acres. The company employs eight hundred, and represents an investment of almost two […]
The stop order was not to close the factory down, but rather to give the company strict notice that it must act immediately to remedy what in some cases were deliberate breaches. On the Phone: Colin Young, C.E.O., Ministry of the Environment “There were four or five things if I can recall. One was […]
Has the Government of Belize made the huge first payment in the approximately four-hundred-million-dollar bill outstanding in the Arbitration Award for the B.T.L. nationalization? Today was the deadline as set by the permanent court of arbitration, and at four-twenty-five this afternoon, via text, Prime Minister Dean Barrow replied only – YES to the first payment. […]
Turning to crime…A shooting just after midnight on Tuesday on La Isla Bonita San Pedro has left two persons hospitalized; one who is fighting for his life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Around twelve-thirty a.m., thirty-year old Dwayne Hyde was shot to the abdomen by one of three men who followed him to his […]
The violence in the streets of the Old Capital continues. There was a shooting incident on Tuesday evening and fortunately no one was injured during the spray of bullets. Sometime around five p.m., Errol Flores reported that while riding a bicycle along Banak Street, he was accosted by another male person on bicycle. That individual […]
Last Wednesday, twenty-two-year-old Michael Lopez was slain in front of his home on Jones Street, a few hours after a pair of unrelated murders in the Old Capital. Immediately following the incident, two men riding on a motorcycle not far from where the shooting took place were detained by police for questioning. Not only did […]
Also in the crime blotter…On Monday, we reported on the shooting of Clifford Anderson in an alley off Neal Pen Road Extension in Belize City. The twenty-six year old was attacked on Friday night reportedly from behind and shot to the lower back, damaging his internal organs. He was in a critical condition following the […]
At around four o’clock this evening, a joint operation conducted by officers attached to the Special Branch and Quick Response Team in the Escalante area of San Pedro Town yielded an array of drugs. Police searched the residence of twenty-seven-year-old Juslyn Keoma Daniels, a Belizean waiter, and found five hundred and twenty-six grams of suspected […]
A victim of an alleged burglary has had the tables turned on her and ended up in lockdown. On Tuesday night, Ana Villacorte, an employee of B.T.L., arrived at her home in Maxboro, Belize District, to discover that her house had been burglarized. Villacorte, the common-law wife of attorney Arthur Saldivar, who is presently away […]
Villacorte says she believes that what has transpired is related to an ongoing custody battle with her common-law husband over the couple’s two children. They too are in the United States with Saldivar. Ana Villacorte, Common-Law Wife of Arthur Saldivar “No one has ever entered that house. Arthur has always visited the US and […]
Last Thursday we reported on the attempted murder of Eugene “Fat Back” Webster at his Los Lagos home off the Phillip Goldson Highway. Webster had been stabbed multiple times to the neck, back and arm, allegedly at the hands of his stepson, Michael Baptist. Well today, twenty year old Baptist was arraigned in the Belize […]
Since the start of the year, silt and filth accumulated in the Belize City Habour between the Fort Street Tourism Village and Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. But today, we found the harbor is back to norm with water flowing freely up to the seawall. For the past three weeks, dredging has been occurring […]
Earlier we told you about the fines being imposed against Santander for the breach of environmental compliance. The other sugar factory in the north is also facing its own challenges. ASR/B.S.I. confirmed today that there is a sharp deterioration in the quality of molasses. According to the company, it has confirmed a case of Maillard […]
The Crooked Tree causeway has been a source of constant consternation for residents of the community – just about every rainy season. Prior to recent seasons there has been some effort to raise the causeway well above the waters of the lagoon, but inevitably there is settlement, cracking and the path becomes treacherous. Well there […]
The Belize Police Department continues to ramp up its community policing efforts, primarily by going out and meeting people – finding out their concerns and just generally showing them a more human, approachable aspect of the Police. The murder statistics may not necessarily reflect the effectiveness of the initiative, but top cops countrywide swear by […]
There is always a clear differentiation between the north side of the city and the south side – sort of an assertion that bad things happen in the latter, while the former is a peaceful zone in the old capital. Yearwood says that it’s not necessarily that there’s no trouble in the north side – […]
Community policing initiatives were also ongoing in the south side of Belize City. Today, a team of officers from Eastern Division South visited the CET Site, a neighborhood within the Saint Martin’s area which remains somewhat of a hotspot for gang-related crimes. The vicinity of La Croix Boulevard has been the scene of several shooting […]
According to Senior Superintendent Dawson, the need for a checkpoint on La Croix Boulevard arises out of its distance from the nearest police substation, as well as the crime situation which is presently on the rise in the area. Isani Cayetano “How effective has that been in terms of arresting the crime situation and […]
The training workshop for regional Postal service personnel continued in Belize City today. We’ve reported comprehensively on it, but tonight there’s another angle. The Belize Postal Service has come under scrutiny in the past year after allegations of mail tampering, and two allegations of stolen money. We took the opportunity to ask Deputy Postmaster General […]
Softball, volleyball, football and basketball are the four disciplines that will be featured in the National Sports Council’s 2016 Summer Sports Camp. The annual activity will commence on Monday, July eighteenth from nine a.m. to twelve noon and will run for two weeks at the Roger’s Stadium in Belize City. National Sports Coordinator, Charlie Slusher, […]
