For the past three weeks, Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner has been hinting at the gross wastage of public funds at City Hall, during the time of the previous city council. He refrained from divulging much information to the media, while a transition report was being compiled. What was found out in due course was […]
Perhaps equally as astounding was the processing of payment to one Belize City contractor in the immediate aftermath of the March seventh municipal elections. An invoice in the sum of almost sixty thousand dollars was prepared for Gilbert ‘Gilly’ Franklin on the day after the voting blowout, purportedly for material he had provided for the […]
Of particular interest is that the expenses incurred by the Public Relations Department, as well as the office responsible for parks and playgrounds, kept mounting annually, with little or no measurable outcome. The reward for the fleecing of the public purse, claims Mayor Wagner, was a four-year contract extension for City Administrator Candice Miller. […]
A twenty-seven-year-old customer service representative was ambushed and killed on Wednesday night in Belize City. Kemmar Edgar Wade was shot to the back of his head, rib cage, and left forearm. He was driving on Saint Jude Street when he came under fire by a gunman. Even as he bled, Wade made his way to […]
Businessman Oscar Rosado Senior was laid to rest today following funeral services in Belize City. But according to police, the hunt for his killers goes on. Three persons are sought in connection with the break-in at his construction store on Cemetery Road in which he was shot while coming to the aid of his wife, […]
Fifty-five-year-old Patrick Crossdale, a Jamaican national residing in the Monument Site area of Dangriga Town, was ambushed on his way home on Tuesday near the Gulisi Primary School. A single attacker came out from bushes and fired at him. Students attending the school had to be given the rest of the day off as a […]
The suspected drug plane that was found on the San Estevan/Progresso Road early on Tuesday morning has been removed and flown to the B.D.F. Air Wing across from the Phillip Goldson International Airport. A pilot, a Belizean American from Punta Gorda, was contracted to fly the twin engine Hawker Suddeley HS 125. Earlier today, the […]
Embattled City Administrator Candice Miller remains on suspension until early May when she is to return to office at City Hall. The revelations of extravagance under her watch makes for a less than favorable working relationship with Mayor Wagner, particularly in light of Miller’s actions during the transition period, prior to the swearing in of […]
Last Friday, the cost of the February tenth concert at B.T.L. Park, billed as a free entertainment event for the public, made headlines when it was disclosed that a whopping one hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars was spent on the anniversary celebration. The revelation was part of a review being conducted by the Belize City […]
Cycling has been big in the news this week as the upcoming elections for the Cycling Federation were announced to be postponed. Tonight, there is more news to report from the sport, but it’s nothing good. An elite Belizean cyclist is under provisional suspension tonight after his sample was found to be positive for recombinant […]
Nineteen-year-old Johnito Matus, one of three charged for burglary offenses, managed to hack his way out of the Corozal Police Station holding cell two weeks ago. Also going at large at the time were Austin Sutherland and Marvin Pec. Matus was re-captured in his native San Narciso on Tuesday and now faces additional charges, while […]
In January a trio of Mexican nationals, including a husband and wife, were arraigned in the courts for theft of tens of thousands of dollars from two of several Atlantic Bank ATM’s in four districts. But this week, twenty-six year old Belen Hernandez and thirty-one year old Lionel Rodriguez saw charges briefly dismissed by Corozal […]
A Roaring Creek businessman has been robbed of over seventeen thousand dollars. According to the owner of Westar Gas Station in Roaring Creek, fifty-six-year-old Nelson Gallardo, sometime between March twenty-ninth and April twentieth, as many as five personal signed Atlantic Bank cheques were missing from a cheque book used at the Western Union section of his business. […]
Two Belize City men, accused of robbery and wounding, were set free of the charges today after the complainant did not show up to the Magistrate’s Court. Twenty-six-year-old Matthew Smith, charged with robbery and wounding, and eighteen-year-old Dowellson Blair, charged with wounding, saw their charges dropped when Joshua Jones missed the court appearance. In November […]
When we report on court cases involving fisheries violations, it usually ends with a guilty plea and heavy fines. But two fishermen today chose to challenge the department on their alleged violations. Thirty-six-year-old Robert de la Cruz of Copper Bank, Corozal and twenty-nine-year-old Gilbert Perez of Belize City pleaded not guilty to breach of fishing […]
About a hundred at-risk youths were recognized today for staying the course despite their exposure to crime and other societal ills. Many had been caught up in the cycle of violence but chose to reform and follow a productive path. At a ceremony, held by the Community Rehabilitation Department, they were lauded for having the […]
A Southside family of four received a brand new home from the Hand in Hand Ministries this afternoon. The mother of three children was approved for her new home on her second application to the Building for Change Program. The house was funded by the Vincentian Academy and Charity of Nazareth of the U.S.A Andrea […]
Belize now has some eighty million dollars to work with from the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) for the Caracol Road Upgrading Project. Following approval from both chambers of the National Assembly, Prime Minister Dean Barrow and OFID’s Director General Dr. Suleiman Al-Herbish put pen to paper in Belmopan today. The first phase of […]
It stands alone as Belize’s all-purpose center for special education. But sixty years on from its humble beginnings, Stella Maris School still has many struggles and challenges. While it has produced its share of upstanding citizens, the school has much more it would like to do for its current and future enrollment, but it cannot […]
Blue is a color in Belize mostly associated with the People’s United Party. But it also represents children living with the development condition known as autism. It affects how a person relates to their environment and people. In young people, it is characterized by tantrums, hitting and biting but also in brilliant minds and high […]
Today, visitors at the ITVET, Belize City, got the opportunity to experience the products and services made by students enrolled in the vocational and technical programs. Over four hundred students are studying to become mechanics, cosmetologists, carpenters, front-desk personnel, among other trades, and they took the day hold an open house to show just how […]
It’s an organ that we don’t typically think about. In fact, we only know something is wrong with it when it is severely damaged and usually it’s at its last bit of capacity to function you may begin to experience symptoms. This is why we must know which habits and practices may be affecting its […]
