There was both joy and relief for the families of thirteen fishermen on Saturday morning. The fishermen had set sail fifteen days ago from Copper Bank and during that time, there was no word from them; their seven families hoped for the best, but feared the worst after multiple reports surfaced that the vessel had […]
While the fishermen are safe and sound, a Guatemalan national was shot and killed in the Cayo District over the weekend. On Sunday afternoon, twenty-six-year-old Jairo Alfaro was found in the vicinity of the Xunantunich Archaeological Site with gunshot wounds to the back of the neck and upper right chest. According to police, the young […]
A couple is lucky to be alive tonight after narrowly escaping with their lives when a hail of bullets was fired into their home in the early hours of Sunday morning. Vilma Robinson and Erick McLarly were fast asleep inside a residence in the Eight Mile Community when the echo of gunshots startled them out […]
Two men are enjoying their freedom tonight after spending five years behind bars for murder. Twenty-three-year-old Micah Tillett and twenty-five-year-old Jed Burgess were acquitted of the 2013 murder of twenty-one-year-old Jamal Neal by Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Williams today. Senior Crown Counsel, Sheneiza Smith closed the prosecution’s case after the main witness could not be […]
In the lower courts, twenty-nine-year-old Aaron Lindo was arraigned for the crime of drug trafficking. Lindo, who was unrepresented, appeared before Magistrate Emmerson Banner and pleaded not guilty to trafficking over five pounds of weed. He was granted bail of five thousand dollars plus a surety of the same amount. But before posting bail, Lindo […]
A pool of Belizean journalists is in The Hague, Netherlands for one week. The group representing seven media houses and the Government Press Office includes our Marleni Cuellar. They arrived in that city on Sunday with the sole purpose to learn more about the International Court of Justice. The journalists have engaged in a number […]
Former High Commissioner for Belize to UK, Kamela Palma is speaking out against the Christmas Cheer by the U.D.P. Administration. Palma has been living in Punta Gorda since she vacated the post in London. She questions what the administration hopes to achieve by giving out Christmas cheer allowances of twenty-five thousand dollars to each elected […]
At their press briefing today, police also provided updates in respect of a string of violent activities in the west and south. Jermain Sanker, a resident of Corozal, lost his life in Salvapan on November eighteenth, when a lone gunman approached the parked vehicle he was seated in and fired two shots in his direction. […]
The tragedy involving Honduran national Keidi Ramirez has resulted in the arraignment of her sister who has been charged with manslaughter. The twenty-six-year-old resident of San Juan Village was found dead hours after being bound by her relatives during a drunken fit last Wednesday. It was later discovered that Ramirez, whom many say openly struggled […]
Fifty-five-year-old Simeon Alvaro Perez was brutally attacked and stabbed as many as twelve times during a home invasion last Wednesday. The caretaker had just arrived at work at the DeYoung residence in Ontario Village when he happened upon a burglary in progress. Armed with a shovel, Perez proceeded to investigate a commotion on the property. […]
There is political intrigue to report tonight and it has to do with the retirement of Prime Minister Dean Barrow. For some time it had been known that the PM had scheduled his retirement timeline for one year before the end of the current U.D.P. term in office. The Prime Minister had explained that his […]
The battle among three candidates to represent the Orange Walk Central constituency for the United Democratic Party ended on Sunday evening with incumbent Denny Grijalva defeating Yvette Liu Torres and Evan Williams. Grijalva blew Torres and Williams out of the water, garnering nine hundred and eighty-four votes to Torres’ four hundred and thirty-three votes and […]
Orange Walk Town is known for its tacos and tacos lovers from across the country can attest that the tacos of ‘Shuga City’ are the best. This is why Dillon Jones decided to create a festival around tacos eight years ago. On Sunday, the annual tacos festival took place at the Banquitas House of Culture […]
Tonight, the family of an elderly woman from San Felipe Village in the Orange Walk District continues a desperate search for their loved one whom they reported missing on Sunday. According to Ramiro Ixpec, his mother, sixty-eight-year-old Martha Gonzalez, was last seen on November twenty-third when she set out to sell produce in Dangriga. It […]
The police station in San Pedro Columbia is inhospitable. This is according to Toledo West Area Representative, Oscar Requeña, and the pictures he showed parliamentarians on Friday during the Sitting of the House of Representatives. Speaking on the adjournment, Requeña called on the government to immediately rehabilitate the police station which he says has been […]
Area Representative for Toledo West Oscar Requeña also spoke on the state of public roads in his constituency. It’s a topic that Requeña speaks on during the adjournment of every Sitting of the House of Representatives. He did so on Friday, calling out the Prime Minister for not making good on his promise, a promise […]
And while Oscar Requeña demanded that the Government repair the deplorable roads in his constituency, Lake I Area Rep., Cordel Hyde, is demanding that the government re-take control of boledo. The boledo franchise was privatized in 2009 with the Government granting Brads and Company Limited administrative powers. That company was granted an exclusive ten-year contract […]
On Friday, the Government introduced a bill to repeal and replace the Export Processing Zone Act. The revised act seeks to facilitate investment, production of value-adding enterprises and ensure compliance with regulations and standards. The existing EPZ Act was found to be in violation of the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures of the World […]
Aquatica Submarines has teamed up with businessman and philanthropist Richard Branson, documentary filmmaker and ocean conservationist Fabien Costeau and the Roatan Institute of Deep Sea Exploration to do an expedition to the bottom of the Great Blue Hole. The team will collect scientific data and carry out a sonar scan of the interior of the Blue Hole, […]
The annual sixteen days of activism was launched in Belize City last Friday, under the theme, “#HearMeToo – End Violence against Women and Girls!” As part of the global campaign, the University of the West Indies Open Campus today hosted a panel discussion for at its auditorium in Belize City. Held in collaboration with the […]
According to Jane Bennett, the issue of gender-based violence is cultural, a bad behaviour, that needs to be changed and will take a village to change. Jane Bennett, Head, UWI Open Campus “Most of the times, it is women and mothers that socialize our children and we socialize boys and girls so we have […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities…]
