A meeting with Prime Minister Dean Barrow for his intercession in a land transaction which threatens to leave the Public Service Union without a roof over its head is perhaps a last resort in an attempt to save the labor organization’s headquarters. Since it was revealed on November twelfth that the Hilltop property had been […]
During the meeting, PM Barrow and the union representatives agreed that the P.S.U.’s Belmopan address should remain the same, despite the sale of the property. While Mayor Khalid Belisle has caught flak for selling the parcel of land without giving the union the first right of refusal, the PM says that in time the municipal […]
So what does the prime minister’s intervention mean for Mayor Belisle who went on record at a press conference last Tuesday to state that central government or the U.D.P.’s political directorate has not meddled in the administration of City Hall? Reporter “Is it regrettable for you that one of the young, rising stars of […]
‘tis the season for giving and while Belizeans across the country are preparing their annual wish list, government has also put together its budget for the Christmas Cheer program. This year, a sum of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars has been earmarked as funds to be used for social assistance across all thirty-one constituencies. […]
Punta Gorda police are investigating a murder-suicide involving one of their own and his common-law-wife. Police constable Steven Anthony Ferguson fatally shot Josephine Hamilton, before shooting himself in the head on Wednesday night at their residence in Punta Gorda Town. It happened shortly before eleven o’clock and when police arrived on the scene, they found […]
PC Steven Ferguson was a member of the Quick Response Team which is why he had a service issued pistol in his possession on Wednesday night. He was a member of the force for several years and had been transferred to the Punta Gorda police station recently. He relocated to Punta Gorda along with his […]
A woman is dead and tonight her relatives are in police custody. On Tuesday evening around four-thirty, Keidi Ramirez, a resident of San Juan Village along the Southern Highway, was socializing and drinking with family members when she had to be restrained. Four hours later, she was pronounced dead at the Independence Polyclinic. Police have […]
Around five o’clock on Wednesday evening, there was a fatal road traffic accident on the Hummingbird Highway near to Yim Sam Hotel in Belmopan. Thirty-two-year-old Guatemalan national Edwin Valdes of Camalote Village was knocked down off his bicycle by a Dodge Ram pickup truck on Wednesday evening. Twenty-year-old Joseph Penner was behind the wheel of […]
Fifty-five-year-old Teakettle resident, Simeon Alvaro Perez remains hospitalized at the Western Regional Hospital in a stable condition, following an early morning home invasion at his place of work in Ontario Village. Perez was defending his employer at the DeYoung residence on the hilltop off the Prayer Mountain Road because four armed thieves had accosted a […]
Investigations continue into the murder of Jermain Sanker. The twenty-three-year-old, who is originally from Corozal, was executed inside a rented car on Cemetery Road in the Salvapan area of Belmopan on Monday afternoon. Several persons were taken into custody today, but during the weekly police press brief this morning, ACP Joseph Myvett confirmed that Sanker […]
Police are nowhere closer to solving the November eighteenth murder of Eric Staine. The twenty-one-year-old Belize City barber was shot and killed on Sunday night at the intersection of Krooman Road and the George Price Highway. But police have still not been able to establish a motive for the crime nor has anyone been arrested. […]
A Belize City resident has been charged for the murder of American restaurateur Lamont Lipka. Lipka was executed in front of his patrons inside his business, Tropicana Bar & Grill on Coconut Drive, back on May thirteenth. For the past six months, police had been searching for a trio believed to have been responsible for […]
Police have also made an arrest in connection with an attempt made on the life of Stephan Tablada. Over the weekend, Tablada was struck to the right calf by a bullet as he entered his home on Neal’s Pen Road. He reportedly recognised two men on motorcycle in the area and believes that one of […]
A seventeen-year-old Belize City resident has been charged for a pair of robberies out west. The minor was injured during the robbery of a store in Unitedville last week. ACP Joseph Myvett says that the minor was slapped with charges of robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery and attempted robbery of a customer for the incident. […]
Since the Sanctuary Belize scandal broke earlier this month, the Government of Belize has been silent on the matter. That is because Prime Minister Barrow and Central Bank Governor Joy Grant opted not to make a public statement on the Ponzi scheme which has left quite a number of investors out of pocket. For fifteen […]
It is being reported outside of the country that the prime minister’s law firm of Barrow and Williams was involved with Sanctuary Belize. According to PM Barrow, only one of the companies was incorporated through his law firm which does not constitute any involvement in the operational aspect of Sanctuary Belize. Prime Minister Dean […]
Students were absent from the classroom at the Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Primary School in Benque Viejo del Carmen as teachers continue on a sit-out at the institution. The teachers have also been granted a permit to take their demonstration to the streets of that western municipality to express their discontent about several issues, including […]
As to the negotiations on hardships and commuting allowance, Elena Smith says that a meeting will be held on Friday between Ministry of Education officials and branch presidents from across the country to iron out the kinks. This will occur in the absence of Education Minister Patrick Faber, due to Friday’s Meeting of the House […]
“What Can Parliamentarians Do to End Aids?” That was the question surrounding a forum hosted today by the Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/Aids and the National Aids Commission in Belize at the Ramada Belize City Princess. Since 2013, there have been consultations with parliamentarians within the region to develop PANCAP’s Justice for All Programme. Its […]
Are you finding it harder and harder to wake up with that alarm for your early morning workouts? Well, listen up, because tonight in healthy living we highlight three reasons why you should stay on track. Marleni Cuellar “It’s that time of year where the nights start to get a little longer and the […]
