Twenty-one-year-old Albert Vargas is the latest murder victim. He was killed inside a car in Orange Walk Town on Tuesday night near a tacos stand in a heavily trafficked area. Vargas was parked along the Belize/Corozal Road near Landy’s and Sons when a gunman appeared pointed a gun at him and released the bullets, injuring […]
A woman was shot just before eight o’clock on Tuesday night. Thirty-four-year-old Ambrosa Bernardez of a North Creek address was not the intended target in an ongoing gang feud. She was sitting with friends at the entrance of an alley in Queen Square when a gunman fired shots in their direction. He missed his target, […]
Grayson Cadle remains in a critical condition tonight in the hospital. He is the twenty-one-year-old who was burnt to seventy percent of his body when a butane leak inside his neighbour’s apartment sent off an explosion on Monday evening after four. Cadle has since been placed in an induced coma. According to his mother, Marianne […]
But the road to recovery may be long for Grayson Cadle. And that is why his best chances may be at an overseas medical facility for burn victims. According to Marianne Cadle, they are working with Yvette Burks of the Burn Victims Mercy Fund to get him to the U.S. But while costs and logistics […]
Former four-term city councilor Phillip Willoughby took up the post of Operations Officer with the National Emergency Management Organization in April, following a stunning defeat of the United Democratic Party’s slate in the March seventh municipals. Willoughby landed the job with NEMO just a few weeks after the election loss and was touted as having […]
The Belize Territorial Volunteers is not happy with Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington for comments he made in an interview last Thursday, July fifth, while speaking at a ceremony where the United Nation Development Programme and the US Government announced technical and financial support towards the I.C.J. campaign. When asked about the I.C.J. campaign, Elrington said […]
Attorneys for the Government of Belize are fighting yet another lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court by the indigenous Maya community of southern Belize. The claim brought against the Office of the Attorney General was first reported in April 2016 and has to do with a sixty-acre swath of land in Jalacte Village that was […]
According to Coc, farmers in Jalacte Village are no longer able to access and use lands that were traditionally set aside for agriculture because the road that has since been built bisects their properties. The BAHA substation, says Coc, is located in the center of the village and also poses an inconvenience to residents who […]
So what is the role of the Toledo Land Rights Commission in the latest legal battle over communal land rights? That’s what we attempted to find out from the MLA spokesperson. Isani Cayetano “I have a question to ask with respect of the Toledo Land Rights Commission. In the context of what is taking […]
Taiwan’s Foreign Minister, Joseph Wu, is expected in Belize on an overnight visit next week. According to a report in the official press in Taiwan, Wu will be heading here on the sixteenth and seventeenth of July following a visit to El Salvador. Support for Taiwan has been dwindling in this region and in recent […]
A Ladyville resident reports that she was robbed on Tuesday night around nine o’clock. Thirty-two-year-old Shaniva Arnold was walking with a group of persons on Albert Quilter Street when they were pounced upon by two men, one was armed. The duo proceeded to rob them of a long list of belongings including jewellery, tablet, cell […]
Former NBA athlete, Milt Palacio is in Belize to train the national men’s basketball team which has just been formed to compete against teams from the region in the Central American Championship, a qualifier for the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup. Palacio touched down on Sunday from Canada and has been putting the team together […]
In the month of June, the Ministry of Public Service observed ‘public service month’ and honored those who have been working for a long time in the public service. The ministry is now rewarding over three hundred and fifty police officers and civilian staff working in Belize City with the Belize Police Department. Similar programmes […]
Summer camps are getting in full swing all over the city. At the Gateway Youth Center today, at least twenty youths converged to participate in a sport which they hope to master. The volleyball camp is expected to run for two weeks and the young athletes, both male and female, have their eyes on big […]
World Population Day is observed internationally on July eleventh and seeks to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues. It was established by the then-Governing Council of the United Nations Development Program in 1989. The theme for this year is, “Family Planning is a Human Right” and signifies the fiftieth anniversary of […]
