Shyne Barrow’s abrupt departure as chief executive officer of the Belizean Society of Composers, Authors and Producers, BSCAP, on August tenth, is mired in controversy. Belize’s Music Ambassador has demitted office after only one year at the helm of the group, despite a considerable turnaround at the once dormant organization. His resignation succeeds a recent […]
Late this evening, BSCAP issued its release on the claims made by Shyne. The organization accepted his resignation, but goes on to call his comments to be “wildly inflammatory, misleading and inappropriate.” The letter states that since Barrow has been very vocal that the artists are his priority, BSCAP remains hopeful that he will reconsider […]
Residents of Las Flores, a subdivision of Belmopan, are demanding answers about a recent transfer of land to a resident of Belmopan by the Belmopan City Council. One Amy Anabella Chen of a Hummingbird Highway address sought transfer of Block twenty, parcel number 8713 in February and the transaction was completed a week ago for […]
It has been a less than stellar week for the Belize Police Department, as the men and women of law enforcement have been finding themselves on the wrong side of the legal system. Earlier today, a pair of officers was arraigned in the Punta Gorda Magistrate’s Court on a joint charge of extortion, after they […]
Police Constable Franklin Ramirez as well as Trevor Brown and Elorey Graham were all granted bail of six thousand dollars, plus two sureties of three thousand dollars when they appeared in the Belize City Supreme Court today to firearm charges. The men were busted on Monday when the Mobile Interdiction Team stopped a vehicle travelling […]
A daring robbery was reported at high noon in the Culture Capital, Dangriga, today. According to police, a single armed man walked into the Dangriga Sub-Treasury on Saint Vincent Street around twelve-thirty, having arrived on bicycle. The suspect used a sawed-off shotgun to hold up the cashier and a civilian who was doing business there. […]
There have been four murders in south side Belize City alone since the beginning of August, but unfortunately, no one has been charged for any of the crimes. The most recent homicide; that of twenty-three-year-old mechanic, Christian Velasquez, is the only of the four that has seen two persons taken into custody for questioning and […]
Belmopan police continue looking for twenty-two-year-old Angel Antonio Orellano, also known as Weche, in connection with the July thirty-first murder of twenty year-old Samuel Mendez, a Salvapan resident and security guard. Mendez was chopping grass at the yard of a relative when he was shot around seven-thirty a.m. He attempted to flee from his attacker, […]
Earlier this week, we joined youths from Belmopan on a tour of the Hattieville prison. The initiative was intended to discourage and deter young people from engaging in criminal activity. The statistics show that the prison population is made up mostly by Hispanics incarcerated for immigration offenses; in second place are crimes of dishonesty while […]
In political news….earlier this week, incumbent councilor for Belmopan, Anna Banner Guy, finds herself the odd woman out at the United Democratic Party convention scheduled for Sunday, August thirteenth. Guy topped the polls in the last municipal election and has been active among the city’s youth, but it appears she is on the outs because […]
Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood was summarily transferred from his post as a Media Relations Officer on Wednesday and is now preparing himself for legal action against the Belize Police Department. His abrupt removal from that unit has led many to believe that it is the result of him releasing a police report in which brothers Wasani […]
Magistrate Norman Rodriguez was back in court earlier this week. The interdicted magistrate appeared in the Dangriga Magistrate Court on Thursday for disclosure of the evidence the Crown has against him in the alleged rape of a woman. But that didn’t happen and the disclosure was moved to August twenty-fourth. That day is when the […]
Police were busy across the city on Thursday conducting searches within hotspots of the Old Capital. Now, it is a crime for anyone to be in possession of a bullet proof vest, but in a search through Munoz Alley, police discovered a Safari Land brand armor with serial number SLK-zero-two-five-three-seven. Over on New Road, a […]
There was the robbery of a Quality Poultry Products truck on Ysaguirre Boulevard, Hattieville. Around one p.m., thirty-six-year-old Otoniel Pech was along with Heraldo Chiac and Orlando Teul and when they arrived at Blessed Love Shop in Hattieville to make a delivery, they were held up at gunpoint by two men. One of the assailants […]
An attempt to create employment in the style of B.T.L. and, less successfully, Memorial Park, in Belmopan threatened to backfire except for Police’s quick intervention. Thieves struck at Independence Park on the central walkway in the capital on Thursday, targeting the solid mahogany doors on several of the booths. But the thieves were run down […]
In the wake of the disappearance of Teakettle resident Mark Mendez, who was found murdered in June, residents of the village got frustrated with the police’s response and set tires on fire on the George Price Highway, disrupting traffic for close to an hour. The department’s intent to investigate what happened provoked intervention from Cayo […]
An apparent bullet hole was discovered on Thursday in the glass window at an office of the Agriculture Department in Belmopan. It shares space with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Lands Department on Queen Elizabeth II Boulevard in the Cohune Walk area and some believe a message was being sent to the more powerful […]
Bus lines sparring over passengers? According to one video that has gone viral on Facebook that is what happened between two bus drivers from different companies. It appears that bystanders or passengers captured the heated armed exchange between the two men. As this cell-phone footage shows, the men are armed with machetes and are squabbling […]
The Belize Road Safety Project was established in 2013 in direct response to increasing numbers of fatal traffic accidents across the country. The near-fifty-mile stretch between the entrance to Belize City and the entrance to the Hummingbird Highway approaching Belmopan, along the George Price Highway, was selected as a ‘demonstration corridor’ for infrastructural improvements including […]
But how is Belize doing in terms of reducing the incidence of road traffic accidents and their causes? There are still far too many reported, with many fatalities. But according to the Belize Road Safety Project, incidents have continued on a path of reduction on the George Price Highway over the past four years with […]
CARIFESTA is the Caribbean festival of arts held every two years by CARICOM AND CARIFORUM countries to celebrate the best in Caribbean culture through music, literary arts, visual arts, theatre, dance and film. Over the years we have seen local musicians, dancers, visual artists others in the creative sector participate, but it has been a […]
The annual Back to School Trimming Drive is on its seventh year and once again primary and high school students from across the city are being invited to come out to Fabers Road on the weekend of September second to get a free haircut. The initiative is the brainchild of lifelong friends Edmund Staine and […]
According to co-organizer, Brian Dena, the annual event is made possible through donations from members of the public, as well the as efforts of volunteers who give of their time freely. Brian Dena, Organizer “This year we’ll be having it on the second and third of September. The second, which is a Saturday, we’ll […]
