A forty-one-year-old resident of Belize City narrowly escaped death on Wednesday night after a second attempt was made on his life. Michael Tesecum was on Tiburce Street when a gunman came dangerously close to him and opened fire. The shooter then fled leaving the injured victim to die on the street. He was hit three […]
Police have moved swiftly to crack the murder of Alberto Vargas Junior in Orange Walk. A Belize City construction worker was arrested and charged; twenty-four-year-old Nisani Daniel Garcia is believed to be the triggerman in the execution on the Belize/Corozal Road on Tuesday night some-time around eight. Police believe that Garcia was one of two […]
Thirty-eight-year-old Emmanuel Ivan Sosa was fatally shot back in April at the Pasadita Bar in Ranchito Village. Three months later, twenty-one-year-old George Bednarik has been charged for the murder which occurred in the early hours of April fifteenth. The owner of the bar was reportedly closing up when a masked man entered the business armed […]
The expectation is that the charges will be upgraded to murder for Christian Espat, Nigel Williams and a sixteen-year-old minor following the death of Clifford Kirk, an American expat. The trio was charged for shooting and robbing Kirk on Monday; the aggravated burglary occurred at his home on the north end of San Pedro. As […]
A man was stabbed in San Pedro Town sometime on Thursday. He is now in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. and police say they are now questioning a woman who was detained. ASP Alejandro Cowo says that there is not much known at this time, but the victim has been identified as twenty-six-year-old Adrian […]
Police made two separate drug busts. The first seizure was made about a week ago in a warehouse in San Pedro but the contents of the packets were tablets and they have been sent for testing so the type of drug remains unknown. And just this week, police made a second bust of tablets, this […]
One man has been detained for Tuesday night’s shooting of thirty-four-year-old Ambrosa Bernadez. Bernardez was shot in the vicinity of West Canal and Armadillo Street when a man rode up on a bike to target another person due to an ongoing gang feud. Today, police had a different perspective on the incident and were not […]
Tonight, twenty-one-year-old Grayson Cadle is on his way to Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Georgia in the U.S., to get specialized treatment at the Burn Center. It will be a long road to recovery for Cadle, but as we showed you on Wednesday, his mother is hopeful. And so is Yvette Burks of the Burn Victim […]
The price of premium gasoline decreased by eleven cents at midnight on Tuesday; it now sells for eleven dollars and sixty cents per gallon. It is a small reduction for consumers who have been complaining about the high cost of fuel. The Government has explained that the fuel prices in Belize are as a result […]
In June, the government said that if it reduces fuel tax by two dollars per gallon, it would mean a seventy million dollars hole in government revenue. That reduction would ‘completely de-fund’ the Judiciary and Government Ministries such as Human Development, Agriculture, Transport and NEMO, and Works. It added that essential services provided by these […]
The notice of resignation tendered by NEMO’s Operations Officer Phillip Willoughby on July eleventh, paving the way for him to contest an upcoming U.D.P. convention in Port Loyola, was preceded by legal advice being sought by Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte. Himself a U.D.P. candidate running for standard bearer in that constituency, Peyrefitte sought the advice […]
A lawsuit involving the Government of Belize, brought against the Office of the Attorney General by residents of Jalacte Village, is being heard before Justice Michelle Arana. On Wednesday, submissions were made by attorneys representing members of that Mayan community. They argued that government failed to seek the free, prior and informed consent of villagers […]
During the trial, expert testimony was provided by a number of individuals, including engineering consultant Avondale Moody, for the Ministry of Works. Among the reasons given for the placement of a BAHA outpost in Jalacte is its proximity to the Belize/Guatemala border and the fact that there has been an outbreak of med-fly disease in […]
On Monday, an application was filed in the Supreme Court on behalf of the Belize Bank seeking permission for a judicial review to be conducted to compel Prime Minister Dean Barrow to pay the outstanding ninety million dollar Universal Health Services debt. While government’s attorneys objected to the request, Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin has granted […]
The People’s United Party is joining the Belize Territorial Volunteers in condemning the comments made by Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington. Elrington recently told the press that people have to be crazy if they do not support taking the Belize/Guatemala dispute to the I.C.J. for resolution. BTV categorizes Elrington’s comments as insulting and degrading. Leader of […]
A humanitarian mission embarked by the Belize Territorial Volunteers this morning got off on a bad start. According to Leader Wil Maheia, the group was intercepted by Guatemalan Armed Forces. Maheia says that they were first stopped by B.D.F. soldiers who sought clearance from higher-ups to allow the group to traverse up the Sarstoon River. […]
The P.U.P.’s Vetting Committee has accepted Arthur Saldivar’s application to contest the party’s Belmopan Standard Bearer convention. Whether his application will be approved is another matter. The P.U.P. decided to further postpone the convention to the end of August in light of Saldivar’s application for an injunction to stop the convention in order for the […]
The Belize Tourism Board is boasting ‘groundbreaking’ figures as it relates to tourism arrivals. B.T.B.’s latest stats show that for the first six months of 2018, overnight tourism arrivals and cruise ship arrivals registered a seventeen point one cumulative increase. For the month of June, B.T.B. registered more than forty-three thousand overnight arrivals. This is […]
There are persons impersonating staff members of the Elections and Boundaries Department visiting residents and obtaining information. The public is advised that all employees of the department have staff identification cards. During the mass re-registration exercise personnel from the department will be visiting homes to conduct investigations. The department further advices that the public has the […]
A two-day marketing intelligence training workshop for local business owners began today at the ITVET Compound in Belize City. It is being held through a partnership between the Caribbean Export Development Agency and the Belize Trade and Investment Development Service and seeks to engage businesses that are exporting or interested in exporting to international markets. […]
The two days will feature presentations from the Belize Bureau of Standards, the Belize Intellectual Property Office as well as BELTRAIDE and CEDA. Marketing Intelligence and Caribbean Export Advisor, Zamani Moodie says this is the third training session being done to assist not only Belize, but the region in its export capacity. Zamani Moodie, […]
A four-week childcare training is ongoing at the Belize Training and Employment Centre at the ITVET compound in Belize City. Some eleven participants, all from the childcare sector—primarily pop-up babysitters— are taking a course on a very important issue. That is to take care of young children and become certified childcare providers. Trainees are receiving […]
A national entrepreneurship workshop was held at the BTEC office in Belize City. The workshop brought together key stakeholders to the discussion table on integration of synergies and transferring of information and opportunities to strengthen the support for women entrepreneurs. The concept which will be launched in Belize later will work along with twenty women […]
