This week’s firings at City Hall have ignited a political firestorm that has morphed into a potentially dangerous situation. A vehicle belonging to a high ranking official at City Hall was torched on Wednesday night. From all accounts it was politically motivated. Sharlene Rudon was in bed at home in the Kings Park area of […]
City Administrator Candice Miller and office manager Lisbeth Butler were among six city council employees who were given their marching papers on Tuesday. But were the dismissals foretold in Mayor Wagner’s press conference on April twenty-sixth, when he informed that a restructuring of the organizational makeup of City Hall was inevitable? Those who have been […]
And today when asked about the recent firings at the Belize City Council, Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber echoed the sentiments of the United Democratic Party’s press release earlier this week. He chalks up the terminations to political victimization. He did say, however, that if there is strong evidence to support why employees were fired […]
There has been a major development in a missing person case dating back to February of this year, when thirty-five-year-old Alaine Garcia was reported missing. The Hattieville resident was last seen returning home on Sylvestre Boulevard after taking his children to catch the bus to go to school. While no body has yet been found, […]
On the heels of the confiscation of some thirty pounds of marijuana in the San Antonio Village, the police department is reporting yet another huge drug bust in the west. On Wednesday afternoon, around two o’clock, police intercepted a Great Wall Wingle loaded with cannabis from Guatemala en route to Belize City, during a joint […]
A fifty-year-old security guard is tonight recovering at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a frightening home invasion in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. Around one o’clock this morning, as Merrick Lambey slept on a sofa inside his house on Curl Thompson Street, he was awoken by a knock at the door. […]
Two persons are tonight in police custody pending further investigation into a shooting in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. Police say that on Monday night, at least one gunman opened fire on the residence of Eric Mendez, a nineteen-year-old who was remanded that same day for the shooting of Tyrone Stevens over […]
The case of Sunshine Holdings Limited, Dean Boyce and the B.T.L. Employees’ Trust, and the Attorney General continued in the Supreme Court today. After testimony on Wednesday from Financial Secretary Joseph Waight and B.T.L. director Rafael Marin, Senior Counsel Rodwell Williams, appearing for Sunshine, made submissions as to the merits of Sunshine’s case before the […]
Earlier this week, the Elections and Boundaries Department outlined the process for the re-registration exercise set to begin on July first and conclude in December. An area of great concern involves those thousands of Guatemalan nationals that have obtained Belizean nationality, but did not formally renounce their Guatemalan citizenship. The Belize Chamber of Commerce, National […]
Friends for Conservation and Development is reporting that the “Yes” vote to the International Court of Justice may have embolden the Guatemalans because since then, they have been increased incursions deep within Belizean territory. Just this week, the FCD’s rangers were on patrol and found new survey lines and crops as deep as two point […]
Earlier this week, there was uncertainty on the celebration of National Teachers’ Day. But today, Minister of Education Patrick Faber says there will be. Faber said that whether the B.N.T.U. puts up cash or not to fund the activities, it will not stop government from throwing a grand event in the teachers’ honor on May […]
And what about salaries for those government teachers who rallied in Belmopan in March? Minister Faber says he has received word but nothing official from the different school managements that those teachers will not receive pay for participating in the anti-crime rally. The B.N.T.U. National President Elena Smith has also said that the union will […]
Earlier today, the Deputy Prime Minister Faber was asked to comment about reports that he had been involved in an incident in the United States where he was detained. That query was prompted by newspaper articles stating that a man was detained after two Henry County schools in Atlanta were put on lockdown after a […]
Police were also quizzed today about an incident that occurred on April twenty-seventh in Trial Farm Village, Orange Walk in which Demetrio Pott and his brother were beaten badly following a traffic accident in the village. Forty-seven-year-old Pott is tonight clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he and his brother were […]
Following the recent shootings and murders in south side of Belize City, the police has amped up its patrols and presence in Port Loyola, specifically in the Jane Usher Boulevard area. Both shootings reported earlier in the newscast, happened under the nose of the police, which has a checkpoint about two blocks away. So have […]
Belize’s men of faith are meeting with regional authorities as part of the plan to end HIV/AIDS as a chronic disease in the Caribbean by 2030. Today there was a consultation hosted at the Radisson involving discussions of the churches’ role in reaching out to the affected in their congregations and communities. The president of […]
The Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP) describes its ambitious strategy for ending HIV/AIDS in about twelve years as “test, treat and defeat.” Director Dereck Springer says the goal is for ninety percent of those living with HIV to know their status; ninety percent of HIV-positive persons to begin treatment; and ninety percent of those being […]
The Belize Brewing Company today organized the fourth launch of its popular cacao stout. The seasonal drink is being released in anticipation of the Chocolate Festival in southern Belize. The company has produced two thousand, three hundred cases of the chocolate stout for the local market. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, Reporting […]
The Ministry of Education launched an art exhibition today to show off the creative talents of students in the Belize District. This morning, Ministry Education Officials and students gathered at the Mexican Institute to showcase the more than three hundred pieces of work done in school and after school art programs. The event is also […]
It’s nurses week and the K.H.M.H. nurses took a little break to celebrate with a cookout competition. Nurses from Philippines, Jamaica, Guyana, Nigeria, Cuba, and Nicaragua, along with the Belizean nursing staff made their cultural foods and put on a creative food displays in the parking lot of the hospital. We stopped by for a […]
It is commonly said that one must love a person “warts and all”. While the general advice of accepting flaws may be useful, the more we learn about warts the less we may be interested in accepting them. In tonight’s Healthy Living we find out more about one lesser discussed but very common wart that […]
