His promotion to the second most powerful government ministry is still making headlines, but since the announcement that on June twenty-fifth, he will become the new Minister of Natural Resources, Hugo Patt today gave his first impression as to the way forward in the ministry. According to him, a number of reforms have been implemented […]
Hugo Patt’s ascension as well as the significance of the portfolio he has been assigned, leads many to question whether the U.D.P. Corozal North area rep is being primed for higher office. He has not made those ambitions clear, but with talks that a third or a fourth candidate may be eyeing the party leader’s […]
As you heard, Minister Patt officially assumes direction of the Ministry of Natural Resources, in the next two week. The minister from the north has not held any of the weighty ministries before, but on two occasions in recent times, he has been named as acting prime minister. Those brief appointments have now propelled him […]
The announcement on Tuesday that Senator Carla Barnett was leaving the Ministry of Natural Resources took a lot of people by surprise because it is well known that the senator was highly rated to clean up the ‘hot bed of corruption. So what went down? The official line is that her demotion to the relatively […]
There is sweet news for cane farmers who strongly fought against the Spanish multinational, Santander, for introducing white sugar into the local market. Tonight, there is a decision in respect of a request by Santander to sell some five thousand tons of white sugar and two thousand tons of molasses for local consumption. The Export […]
There is growing public concern about the status of a development in the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve by a group of businessmen led by former Immigration Minister Elvin Penner. His phone number and name are listed as a contact on the billboard welcoming persons to a planned subdivision for an acreage said to be […]
According to C.E.O. Cho an application by the developer has been halted because of environmental clearance not being granted. The Department of Environment, however, is reviewing that application. Isani Cayetano “My understanding is that the Land Utilization Authority, certain flags were raised and I understand that the owners of those developments proceeded with subdivision […]
A police officer’s quick action foiled a robbery in progress in the downtown area today. The brazen robbery in progress happened shortly after ten this morning in front of a music outlet on King Street and it was all captured on surveillance cameras. The perpetrator walked up to a parked vehicle and pulled open the […]
On Wednesday night around eight-twenty, robbers struck the Balloon Bar Pizzeria on Marine Parade. Police say they were called out to the establishment where they learnt that two armed robbers entered and demanded money. Inspector Wilfredo Ferrufino says the thieves attacked the business owner and his employees. Insp. Wilfredo Ferrufino, C.I.B., Eastern Division “Police […]
Creole Wagans located on ‘E’ Street was the target of robbers on Monday around two-thirty in the afternoon. The perpetrators only managed to take a small amount of cash and some fashion jewelry, but held owner Jesucita Reyes at gunpoint. Even though we are told that the robbers disconnected the surveillance cameras while inside the […]
Are robbers abandoning downtown and targeting the north side? From all indications it appears so. After police implemented the “safe zone” on the Alberts following a string of daring armed robberies, the robberies slowed down but at the same time robberies were being committed on the north side of the City. Creole Wagans, Moon Grocery […]
And from robberies in the city to a burglary in the north. Today police said that Landy’s and Sons, a hardware store on the Belize-Corozal Road in Orange Walk Town was burglarized between Wednesday night and this morning. This is the second time in recent times the businessman has been robbed. Back in April, his […]
Political pundits view Hugo Patt’s promotion to the Ministry of Natural Resources as an attempt to neutralize any power play by frontrunners Patrick Faber and John Saldivar in the run up to the May 2019 leadership convention for the United Democratic Party. Faber who has gone up the ranks of the U.D.P. has made no […]
Despite having lost to Collet’s Patrick Faber for Deputy Party Leader in May 2016, John Saldivar has reemerged as a serious contender. The Belmopan area representative is already on the ground campaigning. According to Saldivar, the current focus is on delivering services required by all Belizeans through the Ministry of National Security, in order to […]
Is a move by the Belize City Council to bill the managing company of the Civic Center approximately half a million dollars for trade licenses, a case of political victimization by the P.U.P.? Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber thinks so because Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner had been against the multimillion dollars facility in his […]
Late this evening, there was a murder in the south side of the city. Police have not been able to confirm details, but we know that a man on Collet Canal reportedly shot another in the area of Pound Yard Bridge. We’ll have more on this on Friday.
There was a fatal accident on the Philip Goldson Highway on Wednesday evening which claimed the life of Nurse Leimi Ewan. The northern regional nurse was traveling from Crooked Tree to Orange Walk when she lost control of her vehicle near Rhaburn Ridge; she died on the spot. Two minors were traveling with Ewan, but […]
Police say they were called out to the scene of a shooting around eight-forty-five on Wednesday night in Calcutta Village, Corozal. A man who was standing behind a supermarket fired shots at the establishment’s security guard. The guard returned fire, but instead of hitting the armed man, a bullet caught bystander Phillip Rancharan in the […]
The Fire Department continues its investigations into the horrific fire in the Escalante Subdivision of San Pedro. Thirty-six-year-old Clarita Bacab, perished in the inferno as did her two children and niece. All died when they were unable to get out of the burning house just before three o’clock on Tuesday morning. Two fire trucks attempted […]
Thirty-seven-year-old Dwayne Davis remains behind bars tonight pending sentencing. Davis was charged with the 2012 murder of Doctor Ivan Garcia but pleaded guilty to manslaughter. He was to be sentenced today, but Justice Adolph Lucas delayed his decision until next week Wednesday, after hearing mitigation pleas from Davis, his attorney, Bryan Neal and one character […]
The Protected Areas Conservation Trust, PACT, along with a team of five ranking government officials, including Minister of National Security John Saldivar, journeyed to the depths of the Chiquibul National Park today to inaugurate a conservation post at a remote frontier location known as South Cebada. The area is fringed along the Belize/Guatemala border by […]
Minister of Education Patrick Faber says that the government is solely responsible to make decisions on whether or not salaries should be docked for teachers who go on strike. There has been disquiet among teachers about now including the payment of teachers’ salaries in the smartstream system. Minister Faber says that it is to ensure […]
A baby girl drowned in a pit of water in Bella Vista Village on Tuesday. Police responded to the drowning sometime around one-thirty that afternoon when a woman reported that she noticed her three-year-old daughter Abigail Umana was missing. She searched the nearby yard and found the baby lying in the hole with water. The […]
The Queen of the Bay pageant is a highlight in the September calendar as highly anticipated as the Carnival Road march. Deep in tradition, the pageant has been running for decades, but last year, the event became a spectacle during the crowning of the Queen of the Bay on the morning of September tenth. As […]
