While the public continues to ask questions, a countrywide education campaign is being held within the Belize Police Department to inform officers of the new law and its parameters. According to attorney Bart Jones, himself a career police officer, it is necessary to teach his colleagues about the law and its regulations, despite their individual […]
Weed smokers across the country can exhale a marijuana-tinged sigh of relief tonight, following the decriminalization of ten grams of cannabis on Thursday. Governor General Sir Colville Young has assented to the passage of that piece of law after the bill was initially tabled in the House of Representatives back in August. Just last week, […]
The recent spike in violent crimes in Belize City is being attributed to an ongoing drug war among rival groups, purportedly over the sale of marijuana. With the decriminalization of that small quantity comes an insatiable appetite for various strains of the drug which will inevitably drive its demand. While the police department has made […]
The Belize Police Department, according to AG Peyrefitte, is fully onboard with the new law; however, there are officers within the agency that are averse to the idea of persons possessing any amount of weed on them. So how will that skepticism be addressed? The Attorney General says rest easy; you can’t be prosecuted if […]
Perhaps the AG’s most fiery response was reserved for the Council of Churches. When asked to give his two cents on their objection to the passage of the law, he minced no words. Peyrefitte said bluntly that the church has no moral authority to take aim at weed smokers when it does not oppose the […]
A routine trip, by attorney Audrey Matura to the Central Prison in Hattieville to visit with clients, turned ugly this morning. Around ten o’clock, Matura says she was removed from the prison compound by Kolbe personnel after she was refused visitation to one of her clients. It came as a surprise to Matura who had […]
Despite efforts made by Matura to reason with security personnel and to reach out to the C.E.O. of Kolbe, she was denied access to her client. She alleges that her client is being abused at the hands of prison management. When she pressed prison officials, Matura found out that following a court appearance on Monday, […]
A pair of siblings is tonight in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after the vehicle they were traveling in collided head-on with an SUV coming from the opposite direction. Just before four this morning, the traffic accident occurred near the cutoff to Vista del Mar on the Phillip Goldson Highway which […]
Tonight, residents of Crooked Tree village are on alert. For the past several days, there has been rain in the area, and the Crooked Tree Lagoon is now in overflow. Additionally, spillover waters from the Belize River and Spanish Creek, received from the Cayo District, have confluence to cause problems for some residents of the […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced during his Independence Day address that the Crooked Tree Causeway is also to be raised and resurfaced, and the Caribbean Development Bank was to have signed the contract for that scope of works design. In addition, according to Chairman John Gillett, roads within the village which have been long neglected are soon to […]
There was another shooting incident this morning in Belize City, however no one was injured. Just after five this morning, police were called out to Kut Avenue where shots were fired. They apprehended twenty-four-year-old Reese Fitzgibbon of Supal Street. From Fitzgibbon police recovered a nine-millimeter pistol and five rounds of ammunition. As of news time, […]
After seven nights in lock down at the Belize Central Prison, twenty-four-year-old Shikell Nunez, aka “Cross Di Nitro,” is out on bail granted to him by Supreme Court judge, Denis Hanomansingh in the sum of five thousand dollars. Police say Nitro made a four-minute and forty-one second video and went live with it on social […]
A week ago Saturday, fifty-four-year-old Ryan Swift died after suffering a seizure at his home on Central American Boulevard. On Thursday, police confirmed that he was poisoned after consuming a toxic substance. Ryan, an exterminator by trade, and his brother sixty-one-year-old Steven Swift had been socializing early on Saturday at his residence after earlier handling […]
Belize’s LGBT community is seeking to get to the bottom of a reported act of discrimination against guests it is welcoming for an event next week. The Executive Director of the United Belize Advocacy Movement, Caleb Orozco, wrote to C.E.O. in the Ministry of Immigration, Edmund Zuniga, alleging that several visitors from Haiti were denied […]
This week at its press conference, the National Evangelical Association of Belize spent much of its time condemning the plan to introduce decriminalization of up to ten grams of marijuana on private property, including expungement of criminal records. But it raised a total of six concerns about issues of family values that it feels have […]
But Minister of Education Patrick Faber says that the ministry not allowing Christian values to be taught within the classrooms is far from the truth. In fact, it is encouraged in all church-state schools. Patrick Faber, Deputy Prime Minister “The government has never intervened in terms of the religious instruction that churches give to […]
The National Aids Commission in collaboration with the United Nations Development Program engaged the youth population in dialog and program development given the HIV/Aids statistics in the country. Today at the Biltmore Plaza, thirty youth leaders from different organizations and schools participated in the forum, which is expected to foster awareness within communities among members […]
Acting president of the National Youth Council of Belize, Dominique Noralez, also participated in the forum. Despite the fact that Noralez sits as the youth rep on the Commission, in her presentation today, she says that it is one of the Sustainable Development Goals that will be addressed at the upcoming World Youth Conference. The […]
The far end of Albert Street this morning was rocking with the sounds of Garifuna drumming. The annual battle of the drums moved to Belize City this year in anticipation of the upcoming Garifuna Settlement Day. Sixteen competing high schools gathered at Birds Isle where the event was taking place. In the end, it was […]
While Birds Isle reverberated with drumming, over at the Saint John’s College gymnasium the pounding was on the basketball court. Teams from around the country were on hand for the national championships of the junior basketball competition. In the end, Belize District teams Saint Joseph R.C. School and Saint Martin De Porres won as overall […]
The Belize City Council led the charge toward online payments for property taxes a few years ago, and much of the government apparatus at national and local level are rushing to follow suit. One of Belize’s richest statutory bodies, the Belize Tourism Board, joined the charge with the launch of a new online portal on […]
