After spending a night in lock-down, eighteen-year-old Brandon Hughes was taken to court this morning and arraigned before Chief Magistrate Sharon Fraser for the murder of well-known businessman, Oscar Rosado Senior. Police are actively looking for two other suspects who remain at large. Hughes was picked up at his house on Aloe Vera Street and […]
Teachers and students were back inside their respective classrooms at Belmopan Comprehensive High School today, after a two-day sit-out effected by faculty and staff. The protest was led by fourth form teachers who were dissatisfied with the manner in which the school’s board of management went about addressing the issue of outgoing students who failed […]
According to Smith, the disqualification of so many students was the result of a miscalculation in the school’s electronic tallying system. Those discrepancies were compared with manual averages derived by each teacher which showed that a majority of those sixty-six fourth formers were indeed passing. Senator Smith says that all the teachers and board members […]
Back to the court…Thirty-seven-year-old Dwayne Davis on Thursday admitted to causing the death, though not intentionally, of fifty-two-year-old Doctor Ivan Enrique Garcia Gomez, a naturalized Belizean originally from Guatemala, in June of 2012. Davis pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter during his trial which began on May third. He told police that he […]
Twenty-three-year-old Windell Neal pleaded guilty to obtaining property by deception from the Belize Book Center. On April thirtieth, 2018, he’s accused of collecting one hundred dollars from manager Andrew Bennett after posing as a supplier from Carmelita Village in Orange Walk. He took a package to the center and told them that they had a […]
Thirty-five-year-old Rupert Thomas was released from a charge of unlawful sexual intercourse dating back to 2013. The Seine Bight resident, a police officer for nine years, was accused of raping a minor who was a month shy of her sixteenth birthday. But the now twenty-year-old complainant took the stand in the Dangriga Supreme Court and […]
In historic regional news, following a sweep of the country’s thirty seats in the House of Assembly by her Barbados Labour Party, Mia Amor Mottley was this afternoon sworn in as Barbados’ eighth Prime Minister and first woman to hold the post. Mottley took her oath in the presence of Governor General Dame Sandra Mason, […]
A change at the top of NICH went under the radar, but tonight we can confirm that there is a new acting president of the statutory body. For the past two years, since former President Diane Haylock took up the appointment as Belize’s Ambassador to Taiwan, Director of the Institute of Creative Arts, Gregory Vernon […]
On the heels of the successful district festivals of arts, the national event opened this morning at the Bliss Institute and continues until Thursday of next week. The theme “Pathway to Peace; Creativity and Unity,” captures the spirit of the national festival in which over a thousand young students from the golden performances will be […]
Fuel prices went up again on Thursday for the umpteenth time this year, and the third in a month, with premium now selling at eleven dollars and sixty-seven cents per gallon. The Chamber of Commerce today issued a release on the hike calling on the government to immediately review and reshape its fuel tax strategy […]
Last year, Moses Sulph’s Belize Leaders for Social Justice carried out a protest on the high cost of gas prices. While results were mixed as prices have gone up and down since and a third price hike in as many weeks just went into effect, Sulph is hoping for better luck with a protest that […]
The national university, the University of Belize, this week unveiled big plans for the growth of the institution in the next five years, including introduction of more Bachelor’s-level programmes and the university’s first Masters’ programmes. Other aspects of the plan include infrastructural upgrades to the Belmopan campus—building labs for the engineering and the new biology […]
Want a job? There were at least seven hundred and fifty available at different levels of experience and pay scale today at Swift Hall on the compound of St. Martin de Porres R.C. School and Church. The first ever BELTRAIDE Career Fair united thirteen prominent employers in four different industries with hundreds of job-seekers in […]
On Thursday at the Inspiration Center, healthcare professionals from across the public and private sectors participated in the second annual Cuba and Belize Medical Symposium. Both countries share a unique partnership where health and medicine are concerned. That interest continues to see Belizeans completing medical studies in Cuba, as well as the Cuban Medical Brigade […]
The 2017 school year is winding down quickly, but the Belize Police Department and Scotia Bank are already thinking ahead to the next academic calendar. That partnership has seen the availability of as many as fifteen one-year scholarships to be offered to primary school students on the south side of Belize City. There are only […]
Since his transfer to Belize City several weeks ago, Region One Commander Howell Gillett has been on a relentless outreach to at-risk youths across the south side of Belize City. That provision of community services comes in many forms, including taking busloads of children on trips to the rural parts of the country. One such […]
The 2017 report on HIV by the Ministry of Health is pending, but the 2016 statistical data shows that there were two hundred and twenty-five new infections reported for that year. One hundred and four persons died of HIV-related conditions in 2016. There is also an estimated three thousand six hundred and sixty-five persons living […]
