The body of a Gardenia resident was found before the crack of dawn between miles nineteen and twenty on the Philip Goldson. It took some time before John Ortiz could be identified and as much time for police to determine if a hit and run had caused his death or if Ortiz had been murdered. […]
Police in Rural Eastern Division have one person detained for the murder of John Ortiz, and in Belize City, police also believe they have arrested and charged the men behind the murder of twenty-nine year old Mark Jones last Thursday. Two face charges – nineteen-year-old Deandre Adolphus for the murder itself, and thirty-three-year-old Bruce Reneau. […]
Meanwhile, police are yet to crack the murder of Felix Ayuso, whose body was found last Thursday at his house in San Pedro. That is because the suspect is on the lam; still yet, police say they have enough evidence to lay charges. On Friday, we reported on the brutal killing of the forty-three year […]
There were two shootings in the Old Capital which has seen a spike in gun-violence since the start of 2017. On Saturday, a man was robbed and shot in the city off Jasmine Street in Saint Martin De Porres. Sometime before midday, thirty-year-old Jovanie Sutherland was working with a co-worker when two men approached him. […]
In the other shooting, thirty-one-year-old Eletero McKenzie was shot to the right calf and chin on Friday evening. Sometime after six p.m., Police visited the K.H.M.H. where they observed McKenzie suffering from gunshot wounds. Investigations reveal that he was standing behind a fence on an alley off Amara Avenue when two men on separate bikes […]
A fire completely destroyed a family home in San Pedro over the weekend. A father and his two sons were not on the island when the blaze claimed their home and all their possessions. The owner of the house hasn’t ascertained the value of the property lost, but nothing was insured. Today, we met the […]
Today was set for trial in the case of Geovannie Brackett, President of Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action (COLA); Perry “Sticks” Smith, the founder of the Days of Healing organization; as well as thirty-year-old Clayburn Pascascio, twenty-three year old Adrian Avaloy and two minors, ages seventeen and sixteen. But it did not happen due […]
Chair of the Executive Committee of Belize Telemedia Limited and company C.E.O. Anwar Barrow has begun his final week in that capacity, as he leaves office on February tenth, 2017. In a statement released today, the state-owned company says that it continues to recruit a new C.E.O. and has appointed chief financial officer Ivan Tesecum […]
The Public Service Union is to meet with representatives of its membership in the Immigration Department on Tuesday in Belize City. It comes amid reports that up to twenty clerks of the Department were planning to stage a “go-slow” today, protesting plans to promote a female employee. This is despite the officers’ belief that they […]
The Government has once again extended its offer to bondholders for a renegotiated 2038 Superbond. On Friday, it announced that the offer remains open until this coming Friday at five p.m., New York time. When it was opened in January, the original Consent Solicitation Offer included a reduction in the interest rate to four percent […]
Three weeks ago the controversial Puerto Azul project for a massive luxury resort and hotel complex in the Lighthouse Reef Atoll unravelled. Seven persons were arrested including chief developer Domenico Giannini, while nearly thirty-nine million Belize dollars in property and financial assets were seized. Belizean government officials have been scrambling to reassure the public that […]
Pistolesi contacted us to tell the previously unknown story of investors in the failed project who were “sold a dream” by Giannini and his cohorts, and offer his help in rehabilitating Belize’s international image as a result of association with this scandal. Pistolesi says that the images generated by Giannini of the Blue Hole were […]
A twenty-five-year-old woman of the Ladyville area was raped and police have arrested and charged a Jamaican national for the alleged crime. Today, twenty-year-old Andre Knight was taken before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith on single charge of rape. At the arraignment, Prosecutor, Inspector Egbert Castillo, who is aware of the mental state of the […]
Today, the Belize Audubon Society hosted twenty-one tour guides, who successfully completed a first ever advanced level bird watching training program. Bird watching is a growing attraction of the tourism industry and over four hundred thousand visitors to the Jewel in 2016 were birders. The training was funded under the project of Strengthening Bird-based Tourism […]
According to Lizama, Belize is prime and ready to cater to the birding tourism market. The pilot training will see the Belize Tourism Board partner with the Audubon to continue programs for the tour guides. There were a total of twenty-one participants of which two are women. But according to tour guide Vladimir Rodriguez, the […]
It’s the month of love and for those brides to be, an event by Confetti on Saturday turned out to have all the ingredients for the perfect wedding. It started with an expo in the morning where couples were connected to companies representing all goods and services for that special day. In the night, a […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. {Feature on weekend sporting highlights….]
