There was an execution in the city early on Tuesday night but stevedore, Raymond Arnold did not survive the second attempt on his life. At about seven-thirty after completing his duties for the day at the Port, Arnold was murdered. He was heading to his house in the Port Loyola area when a gunman on […]
Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin today dismissed an election petition brought by the People’s United Party against the San Pedro Town Council, affirming the results of the March seventh elections results. The P.U.P. San Pedro Mayoral candidate, Andre Perez and his team, had filed the election petition, asking the Chief Justice to declare the results void […]
Mayor Daniel Guerrero and his team were represented by Attorney Estevan Perrera. Following the C.J.’s ruling, Perrera told the press that the law recognizes that errors and minor miscalculations would be made during an election. He said that the provisions provide that if those errors and miscalculations are substantial and would affect the ultimate outcome […]
Three Jamaicans who drifted for twenty-five days at sea were lucky to dock in Ambergris Caye on Thursday morning. The men, twenty-three-year-old Romeo Lewis, forty-four-year-old Karma Beckford and fifty-year-old Noel Samuels, all fishermen of Westmorland, Jamaica, were reportedly spotted sometime around eleven-thirty on Wednesday night and the San Pedro police were alerted. The authorities went […]
The auto rental business qualifies for fiscal incentives; that’s according to the Ministry of Trade and Economic Development. An article in another sector of the media reported today that the Belize Estate and Company Limited had been granted a concession to import seventy-five new vehicles. The ministry says that no new fiscal incentive was granted […]
For residents of Orange Walk and others, Fiestarama is one of the most anticipated and biggest event in the municipality. This year, the municipal fair has been scheduled to take place on the twenty-seventh, twenty-eight, and twenty-ninth of July. But a standoff between the Orange Walk Town Council and the National Sports Council is putting […]
According to Deputy Mayor Ian Cal, the revenues generated from Fiestarama are used to fund a summer program for youth in the municipality. He says that if the National Sports Council insists in collecting the five thousand dollars rental fee for the People’s Stadium, Fiestarama will be postponed or worse, cancelled. Ian Cal, Deputy […]
The family of Elan White, a fifteen-year-old student from Ladyville, needs assistance in locating the young man. Elan, according to his mother Shamalin White, left home on third of July at about one-forty-five P.M. and since then he has not been heard from. He is about five feet six inches in height, dark complexion, slim […]
Belize remains on Tier Three in respect of human trafficking. A report by the State Department knocks the government for not fully meeting the minimum standards for the elimination of the scourge and goes further to say that there were no efforts to prosecute government employees complicit in trafficking. The report was issued at the […]
On Thursday, police seized one hundred and nineteen grams of cannabis from a Teakettle resident in the Cayo District. During a patrol in the village, police spotted twenty-five year old Gabriel Vasquez, sitting at a bus stop in the village. Vasquez was seen placing a knapsack behind him which when searched contained the four ounces […]
A second Special Sitting of the Caribbean Court of Justice was held today in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. This was the first time that the C.C.J. sat in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, the home country of the recently installed C.C.J. President, Justice Adrian Saunders. The Special Sitting was held to honor Justice Saunders […]
A robotics and computer coding camp wrapped up today at the Samuel Haynes Institute in Belize City. Thirty kids between the ages of eleven and fourteen were selected to learn to build robots and how to do computer programming. The introductory programme taught the participants the basics and gave them a peek at the exciting […]
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry admonished the Government back in June for the exceedingly high fuel taxes. Prime Minister Barrow later responded saying that taxes weren’t going down. In the same letter to Chamber President Nikita Usher, the P.M. wrote that a cut-down on fuel taxes would cause a hit in G.O.B.’s budget and […]
Hijos del West Marimba Group left Belize today for a month-long performance in Taiwan. The group out of Benque Viejo del Carmen was invited to attend the Yilan International Children’s Folklore and Folkgame Festival, where Belize will be the only country representing Central America and the Caribbean. The ten-member group that was formed back in […]
The Philharmonic Orchestra of Xalapa in Mexico is in Belize tonight putting on a twentieth anniversary show. The fifty-member orchestra says that the milestone celebration will feature a single show that kicked off at seven tonight inside the Bliss. We stopped by to check them out in rehearsal and found out that the group is […]
Four young ladies are vying for the title of the fifth annual Miss Indian Cultural Pageant. It is a pageant that aims to raise awareness and appreciation for East Indians in Belize. The Corozal Organization of East Indian Cultural Heritage is observing the event this year under the theme, ‘Capture Cultural Rhythm.’ Today we spoke […]
