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Missing cocaine certification and tainted blood; that’s what police are investigating in the case of the Director of Press Office Dorian Pakeman, who is now on unpaid leave. Dean Dawson, a resident of Gardenia, Belize District was killed in a traffic accident on March thirtieth 2016 on the Phillip Goldson Highway. The vehicle that hit […]
The missing information is one thing, but police also confirmed today that there was tampering with the blood sample for Dawson that was sent for testing at the National Forensic lab. Somewhere and somehow, ethanol was injected into Dawson’s blood. Police are also looking at this angle and suspect personnel from the scenes of crime. […]
A minor was murdered in the wee hours of the Tenth of September. From all accounts, seventeen year old Deandre Nembhard was not the intended target, but happened to be at the wrong place. He was on his way home on Nutmeg Street, Belize City, when he stopped at a friend’s house; that decision cost […]
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Rural Eastern Division Police are also looking Jessie Mejia; he is wanted for the chopping of the Tejeda brothers over the weekend. According to police, Mejia and the siblings were in an altercation on Sunday morning and Mejia pulled out a machete and chopped the brothers on the hand and face. They were both rushed […]
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The student body, as well as the faculty and staff of St. Joseph School, is tonight mourning the sudden death of a promising young athlete. On Friday evening, twelve-year-old Daemon Garcia, a member of the school’s basketball team, was practicing along with his teammates when he unexpectedly collapsed. The standard six student was immediately rushed […]
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The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry today confirmed that it has officially reversed its position and is now joining the social partners, as well the Opposition, in the call for a Senate Select Committee to investigate the Special Audit of the Immigration and Nationality Department. The decision was taken on Thursday and preceded a […]
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The letter from the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry is crystal clear. On Thursday, as we reported, a decision was taken by its executive that the private sector would support a Senate Select investigation, in line with its vote on August thirty-first. Our report was fact-checked with various sources and confirmed but somehow, the […]
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The United Nations Convention Against Corruption is yet to be endorsed by the Government of Belize. Despite the Barrow Administration not having signed on to the agreement, UNCAC, as it is otherwise known, remains a key feature in the Chamber’s ongoing anti-corruption campaign. ‘Break the Corruption Chain’ was officially launched on September third to coincide […]
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The release of an O.A.S.-commissioned report, following a forensic investigation into the shooting death of fourteen-year-old Julio Rene Alvarado Ruano, has vindicated the Belize Defense Force and that has outraged the Guatemalans. The B.D.F. was prematurely accused of fatally wounding the Guatemalan minor in the Chiquibul Forest in April. While the report has since cleared […]
In his press conference on September first, PM Barrow also went on record to dismiss the notion of the business senator as the chair for an investigation into the immigration scandal during the period 2011 and 2013. While the Cabinet will revisit on Tuesday the issue and the P.M. has said he would now not […]
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The Council of Management of the Belize National Teachers’ Union met this past Saturday to receive reports from the ten branches concerning the emergency membership meetings held on Thursday. The Union, along with the Association of Public Service Senior Managers and the Public Service Union, is considering a proposal from the Government to delay the […]
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Four days after a stabbing death on the island of San Pedro, a fisherman has been charged with murder. Thirty-two year old Linden Kelly, originally from Dangriga, was arraigned in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court this afternoon before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith for the fatal stabbing of thirty-two year old Elton Polonio which took […]
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Maria Alamilla, a resident of Kelly Street in Belize City, came to our studios today. Her worry is that children, specifically those going to the nearby primary school at Ephesus Seventh Day Adventist, run the risk of getting electrocuted while walking through the alley adjacent to her house. According to Alamilla, the wind and rain […]
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It was first actually celebrated only more than a century ago, but the Battle of St. George’s Caye has become one of the two pillars of the September Celebrations – the other being Independence Day. This past Saturday saw Belizeans converge at the Memorial Park for the official ceremony and other assorted bells and whistles. […]
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Rebecca Rath was crowned the newest Miss Belize and, after ten years, will represent the country in the Miss Universe Pageant to be held on January thirtieth in Manilo, Philippines. Rath, a twenty-three year old of Dangriga, won a number of awards this past Saturday at the pageant including Top Model, Beach Body and People’s […]
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National football champions of Belize, Police United Football Club, have been off to a rough start in their maiden CONCACAF Champions League appearance. They lost four goals to nil to Honduran giants Olimpia in their first game and three to nil to Mexican club side Pachuca on the road after holding them to a scoreless […]
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Social media has been abuzz with numerous comments and shares over the past few days, following the posting of a video purportedly showing a security officer at the Corozal Free Zone snorting a suspected narcotic substance. The amateur video has since gone viral, prompting us to place a call to the management of the free […]
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The Belize Territorial Volunteers have announced the first-ever Sarstoon Island Eco-Challenge event for Saturday, September seventeenth. The expedition leaves from Barranco village pier to race to Sarstoon Island and back. Participants can race in any of three categories – kayak, canoe and dory. First prize is one thousand dollars; second prize, five hundred dollars and […]
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Ambassador of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to Belize, Benjamin Ho, on Saturday delivered a donation from his government to Belize’s Lawrence Sylvestre, Chief Executive Officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Starret Dickson Greene, Representative of the Organization of American States. Credible sources tell us that the amount is two hundred thousand U.S. […]
