Within forty-eight hours of a deadly explosion at a quarry at the Santa Cruz Layout, Santa Elena, Cayo District, experts have put together a preliminary assessment of what possible went wrong. Canadian national Ron Sutherland of Tiger Aggregates was subcontracted to extract material from the quarry. He was in the danger zone when a second […]
While details are being provided as to what may have caused the deadly explosion at the quarry in Santa Elena, residents in the nearby area are attempting to get back on their feet. Today, Belize Roadway Construction Limited, which subcontracted Tiger Aggregates to carry out the mining, was on the ground collecting information from affected […]
Local authorities are trying to locate the driver of a full-size luxury SUV which was abandoned on Wednesday evening at the northern border with Mexico. Corozal police were summoned to the customs cargo area near the border crossing around four p.m., where they came across a cream Lincoln Navigator. The vehicle had collided into a […]
We’ve been reporting on a case of alleged sodomy inside the Belize Central Prison. An inmate, who is now out on bail, claims he was sodomized twice last month while he was locked up in the prison. The alleged perpetrator is another inmate, Kenroy Cooke, who was charged on Wednesday with two counts of unnatural […]
What about claims that the guard on duty ignored the plea for help after the first incident happened? We asked him if there was negligence on the part of the guard to whom it was reported first. C.E.O. Murillo says that there are a number of systems in place, apart from the guard on duty […]
Baltazar Sarmiento, an elderly watchman, was killed at his place of work last Saturday by a pair of thieves who broke onto the Buca Shell compound on the Phillip Goldson Highway. The sixty-one-year-old Honduran national was fatally shot once to the left temple. While the ordeal was caught on camera, police are unable to break […]
A pawn shop manager had to employ his licensed weapon to defend himself against a robbery of his establishment today. Tonight, one of the three men who tried to rob him is in hospital and two others are on the run. Around two-thirty this afternoon, thirty-six year old Dorian Usher, manager of Monica’s Pawn Shop […]
The Public Service Union has come out strongly against Auditor General Dorothy Bradley and what it calls her “dastardly administrative practices.” On Friday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow confirmed that he had been aware of the constant stream of complaints from employees at the Supreme Audit Institution against Bradley, resulting in a sick-out, and said he […]
The spanking new Belize City Center is yet to officially open its doors to the Belizean public. Amid controversy over the cost of the colossal structure is its plumbing. Over the past several weeks, concerns have been raised about the integrity and efficiency of pipes and fixtures inside the building. Critics argue that the water […]
The Ministry of Health says that its epidemiology unit is carrying out an investigation into a reported increase of severe acute respiratory infections cases at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The Ministry of Health says that children make up over seventy percent of the cases. In a release issued on Wednesday, it noted, “one of […]
2017 has been a case of the chickens coming home to roost for the Barrow government in two particular cases. In the span of two weeks in November, the Caribbean Court of Justice delivered two separate but damaging blows to the government in the matter of the settlement of Belize Telemedia Limited and Belize Bank […]
The Belize Coalition to Save our Natural Heritage is leading the congratulations for the National Assembly, whose members have adopted the Petroleum Operations (Maritime Zone Moratorium) Bill 2017. It now goes to the Governor General for his consent. But among all the plaudits are two outstanding concerns. One is how would the legislature handle a […]
As noted on Wednesday, both Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte and Leader of Government Business and former Natural Resources Minister Godwin Hulse indicate that no offshore oil licenses exist, and the government has no plans, according to Hulse and current minister Carla Barnett, to issue any. The Coalition’s press release indicates some confusion, therefore, about why […]
HelpAge Belize, in partnership with B.E.L., recognized eighty-nine-year-old Gwendolyn Sanchez of Benbow Street with the first ever “Caregiver Achievement Award.” The senior citizen and her husband raised her children, including two with special needs, for decades. The Help Age says that many of these caregivers go unnoticed and at times unsupported, as they take on […]
The Belize City Council was out and about the City spreading some more Christmas cheer. The twelve days of Christmas continued at Saint John Vianney Primary School. The Public Relations Unit of the City Council went over to hand out gifts and goody bags. City Councilor Hyacinth Latchman-Cuellar tells us more about today’s initiative and […]
No one wants to be sick during the holidays. Unfortunately, influenzas and stomach viruses are especially typical around this time of year. Tonight in Healthy Living, we look at why this is so and also what you can do to prevent it. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting If you’re a parent or teacher, you’ve probably noticed […]
