A Hattieville man was executed at his house in the village over the weekend. Before eight o’clock on Saturday morning, twenty-six-year-old Philmore King was shot to the back of his head by a person he was chatting with on the verandah of his house. But is his murder related to a recent drug bust in […]
A most troubling report came out of the quiet village of Gales Point Manatee this weekend when it was discovered that a newborn had been injured in the lower back after being shot with a pellet gun. Four-month-old Dashawn Dwehene was accidentally wounded by his father on Saturday when he reportedly discharged the air rifle […]
A third shooting on Saturday involved twenty-three-year-old Eugene Henderson Junior who has been transferred to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The Burrell Boom resident was in Roaring Creek with family members preparing for a service for a missing relative. Henderson Junior was sleeping on a sofa when a gunman entered the lower flat of the […]
There has been a surge in dangerous daylight robberies of various stores in the downtown area of the City. In the past two weeks, Hofius, Nacho World, and M and L Collections were hit by armed thieves who remain on the loose. Police have put more on boots on the ground in the downtown area […]
Brenae Timmons, now five years old, was crushed by a heavy iron gate on the compound of the Pickstock Development Association, steps away from the Lake Independence Public Library where her father Bernard Timmons works as a librarian. On January twenty-ninth, 2016, she had been playing outside with another child when the gate fell. She […]
But it will not be as easy to collect the funds, as according to Musa, the Association, led by executive director Barbara Elrington, and Espat have made no overtures of assistance to the family before being taken to court. Brenae Timmons’ family has had to pay for all her medical and rehabilitation costs at the […]
The Court of Appeal kicked off its June session this morning with the long-awaited appeal of Belize Telemedia Limited against Curtis Swasey. It concerns Swasey’s charge, made in 2015, that his original idea of using texting to conduct the established lottery draw was co-opted by B.T.L. and his information used to propel the “Mek Mi […]
B.T.L.’s attorney Magalie Perdomo tried to persuade the Court of Appeal panel, as they had failed to do in the lower court, that Swasey’s idea was never truly his own. It had been in the public domain, she argued, since 2004, and that B.T.L. had entertained proposals from at least two other entities. Officially, the […]
Tonight we have news from both major political. The race to represent Orange Walk East in 2020 was a hotly contested campaign between P.U.P. Mayor Kevin Bernard and Councilor Josue Carballo. For weeks, the town hall colleagues had been working tirelessly, canvassing the constituency. Their presence on the ground, as well as in the social […]
Within the United Democratic Party, there is news that Corozal North’s Hugo Patt is offering himself for leadership of the party, but Patt says he has made no decision. While, it may be about a year or more before candidates formalize their interests, we know that there is jostling for power with Patrick Faber and […]
Long-time U.D.P. area rep for Port Loyola Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez thinks the P.U.P. made a mistake in endorsing Gilroy Usher for the Port. Martinez is retiring from electoral politics, but says he will remain active within the U.D.P. and will have a big say in his replacement. Usher came within seventy-three votes of beating Martinez […]
A police officer was shot while off-duty on Saturday night in the Victoria Street neighborhood. Sergeant Shawn Walton was seated inside his vehicle when multiple shots were fired within proximity of him. Despite a trio of checkpoints in the vicinity, Walton’s attackers were able to flee the scene successfully by heading in the direction of […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Nimrod Fitzgibbon is recovering from a gunshot wound to the leg after coming under attack by a lone gunman on Sunday morning. He was returning home on bicycle after purchasing food near the intersection of Dolphin and Armadillo streets. Upon passing Queen’s Square Primary School, Fitzgibbon noticed someone standing in the schoolyard. The unidentified […]
A freak accident in the Corozal District has resulted in a teacher losing his life on Saturday morning. Thirty-eight-year-old Isaac Nicholi, a Mennonite educator of New Land Community, was killed when a horse and buggy that was transporting him and another individual, overturned in a nearby drain. Nicholi was pinned beneath the cart and was […]
In April, a jury found him guilty of killing the family that took him in from Belize. Today, twenty-two-year-old Brian Omar Hyde learned that he will spend the rest of his life in prison, four times over, for doing so. However, the sentences will be served concurrently. In August 2015, Hyde used a machete to […]
The Ministry of Education handed out close to three hundred thousand dollars in education subsidies for four-hundred and thirty-nine students in Rural Belize and four-hundred and ninety-six students in Belize City. The three hundred dollar subsidies will go towards high-school education for the newly graduated standard six students. For the past nine-years, the Ministry of […]
Saturday, June ninth is recognized as World Accreditation Day. It is a global initiative that was established by the International Accreditation Forum and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation to raise awareness of the importance of accreditation. We all have expectations that safety is critical in our work places, that food products are safe to eat […]
One of the accredited organizations at today’s forum is the Citrus Growers Association. Its Citrus Research and Education Institute’s plant pathology diagnostic lab is the first and only laboratory in Belize to receive ISO one-seventy accreditation for five tests. The CGA’s Henry Anderson shares how this accredited lab is critical not only to the work […]
Prime Minister on Saturday received a special award from Oceana in Belize and the Belize Coalition to Save our Natural Heritage at the Belize Biltmore Plaza. The sculpture of a wave shaped from the root of the mahogany, the national tree of Belize, commemorates a significant milestone for conservationists: Last year the Barrow administration, with […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of weekend sporting activities….]
