There is a disturbing report coming in from the west where two men attempted to abduct three girls—ages nine, ten and eleven—from El Progresso, seven miles village in the Cayo District. At news time tonight, the minors along with their parents are with investigators inside the San Ignacio Police Station providing formal statements as to […]
Tonight, seventeen-year-old Erwin Paulino Rodriguez was laid to rest at Eternal Garden Memorial Cemetery on the George Price Highway following a short graveside service. The last faint hopes of his family were dashed on Saturday afternoon. His mother Silvia was called by police to the seashore behind the Port of Belize, to the rear of […]
As the October session of the Court of Appeal opened today in Belize City, in Belmopan, attorney Franz Parke was sworn in as the new justice to the court. The ceremony was without fanfare and just as well because there has been strong opposition to the appointment on the grounds that Parke is not qualified […]
The Imer Hernandez Development Company Limited has already begun construction on the stretch of Fabers’ Road between Central American Boulevard and the George Price Highway. For that approximately one-mile stretch of road, they will be paid handsomely – almost eight million dollars to reinforce the road bed and put in sidewalks and drains to the […]
But before it gets to that, COLA has engaged Kareem Musa to write to the C.E.O. in the Ministry of Works, Errol Gentle, along with Minister Rene Montero and Contractor General Godwin Arzu, under the Freedom of Information Act. Musa seeks a look at the specific contract to Hernandez, the selective tendering process employed by […]
The People’s United Party issued a statement today condemning the award as containing no rational justification other than to, in the P.U.P.’s words, enrich select U.D.P. ministers and cronies and pad election coffers. They cite the similar works on the Philip Goldson Highway done by Cisco Construction for less than half the cited amount of […]
A recycler was killed over the weekend following a clean-up of the George Price Highway. Elroy Jones was on the job when he lost his life; he was run over by a truck he was travelling in. The Belize City man was putting in bags of trash into the trailer when he accidentally slipped, fell […]
A security guard attached to Technical Security Systems Company Limited out of Cayo is tonight in police custody following a shooting incident at the parking lot of the Ramada Belize City Princess Hotel and Casino. Thirty-three-year-old Glenford Brown has been working at the establishment for some time now, but around three on Sunday morning, he […]
But thirty-one-year-old Kirkland Dawson is tonight at home recovering from a gunshot wound to the thigh. The electrician of Euphrates Avenue was socializing with friends and family inside an open lot adjacent to his mother’s house on Curassow Street when a gunman appeared from across the North Creek Bridge and fired multiple shots at the […]
Nineteen-year-old Asher Saunders has been charged for the attempted murder of Floyd McNab who was shot in the buttocks in Belize City on Friday night. Shortly after nine o’clock, officers were summoned to the K.H.M.H. where they saw the thirty-three-year old suffering from as many as four gunshot wounds to the left and right buttocks. […]
There was a brazen armed robbery on Friday in San Ignacio. Just before ten a.m., twenty-eight-year-old pump attendant Vicente Maldonado of Shawville area was held up at gunpoint at Sirrom Gas, located in the Kontiki area of San Ignacio Town. Maldonado says that he was sitting around his desk when a gunman dressed in dark […]
There were two other armed robberies over the weekend in Orange Walk. The first occurred on Friday afternoon on Zericote Street in Orange Walk Town. Sometime after three o’clock, two men dressed in black clothing, wearing caps and white rags over their faces entered Sun Luck Store and held up Hong Zhen Quin. The twenty-four-year-old […]
Twenty-two-year-old Jermaine Rhaburn awaits his fate at the Belize Central Prison, pending a decision by Justice Adolph Lucas in a murder trial which concluded earlier today. The former Belize Defense Force soldier is charged with the murder of B.D.F. volunteer Clifford Cruz, who was shot and killed at the Militia Hall in Belize City in […]
The National Executive of the People’s United Party met on Thursday and set a deadline of four p.m. on October twenty-seventh for Party Chairman Henry Charles Usher to receive both a list of delegates from constituency committee chairpersons, and nominations for party leader in writing. Tonight one of those potential challengers, current deputy leader Kareem […]
In other political news, the United Democratic Party held its municipal convention for Dangriga on Sunday at Holy Ghost Roman Catholic School near the sea. Incumbent Mayor Francis Humphreys is running for another term after defeating former councilor Herbert Nicasio by three to one. In terms of votes, Humphreys garnered nine hundred fourteen votes to […]
The Belize National Teachers Union is giving Prime Minister Dean Barrow an ultimatum after receiving a terse response when the executive requested an update on the progress of the eight-point agenda presented to government last October. In a letter to the P.M. dated October thirteenth, B.N.T.U. President Elena Smith insists that a comprehensive progress report […]
Smith says the inclusion of the other unions is simply another attempt by government to disrupt the harmony within the National Trade Union Congress of Belize. Elena Smith, National President, B.N.T.U. “We see it as a tactic to divide and conquer. We are aware of what happened last year when we were on strike, […]
The activist community is shaken by the Thursday night execution of seventy-two-year-old Albert Cattouse. The taxi operator was gunned down with a single shot to the head inside his Lincoln Town Car on Hicatee Street behind Rogers’ Stadium. His family is preparing for his funeral this coming Saturday and police have begun an extensive investigation […]
The Jane Usher Boulevard area has become well-known for its murderous rivalries. When the intervention and community policing program under former south side commander ACP Chester Williams was in full effect, the Boulevard was one of his frequent stops. Residents in the area have anonymously suggested that inside the mostly abandoned property immediately west of […]
If you have an elective surgery scheduled at the K.H.M.H. – they say it will not happen because all elective surgeries have been suspended due to the lack of blood products. In a release issued today the hospital advises the public that there’s an ongoing lack of blood products needed for elective and urgent surgeries. […]
Twenty-seven-year-old German Flores, a resident of Hill View area in Santa Elena, is clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight, after being beaten to a bloody pulp over the weekend by a pair of attackers. Flores was on his way home in the wee early hours of Sunday morning when he was […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
