A Belize City fisherman was shot and killed on Wednesday and police strongly suspect that the homicide may have been the result of a longstanding feud between two families. Daniel Hughes Senior is dead and his in-laws say that his murder is not related to the ongoing beef. Earlier this year, however, around mid-March, three […]
Police in Orange Walk are trying to stem the bloodbath in an ongoing gang feud which left two persons injured on Christmas Day. Twenty-eight-year-old Llamont Wade and twenty-one-year-old Pablo Reyes were exiting Reyes’ home on Muffles Street when they came under gunfire at around seven o’clock on Christmas morning. Both men survived the attempt on […]
Twenty-five-year-old Police Constable Keenon Bennett is tonight at the K.H.M.H. recuperating after he was knocked down on Wednesday night. Bennett, a member of the Special Patrol Unit, was on duty, patrolling Saint Martin’s Area on a motorcycle. When PC Bennett was at the corner of Mahogany and Santa Barbara Streets, he was hit from the […]
The cost of electricity is set to go up yet again, for a second time in 2018. This follows a formal request by Belize Electricity Limited to the Public Utilities Commission to recover monies that the company has been spending out of pocket to purchase energy from Mexico. The submission from B.E.L. is seeking an […]
The commission, in its decision, has approved a Mean Electricity Rate of point four-two cents per kilowatt hour. According to Avery, BEL has had to incur an increase in the cost of purchasing energy from Mexico and therefore is simply looking to recoup its funds. John Avery, Chairman, Public Utilities Commission “We expect prices […]
Director of Energy Ambrose Tillett also says that the rate increase being proposed is both wise and acceptable for the supply of service to consumers. Ambrose Tillett, Director of Energy, P.U.C. “The reason why we have to approve this increase is because a lot of these increases are actually locked in already. Pretty much, […]
On Christmas Day, gas prices at the pumps dropped for a second time in forty-eight hours. The cost of premium gasoline reduced by eighty-five cents to ten dollars and forty-seven cents per gallon, while the price of diesel which went down by ninety-two cents to nine dollars and eighty-three cents per gallon. According to a […]
On Friday, the Belize National Teachers’ Union came out swinging at some school managements, calling them the Grinch that stole Christmas. That’s because certain school managements decided to dock the salaries of the teachers who participated in the November seventh demonstration in Belmopan. More than a thousand teachers participated in the demonstration, forcing the Ministry […]
According to President Elena Smith, the docking of teachers’ salaries is not only seen as ‘downright mean-spirited,’ but also as a form of union busting. Senator Elena Smith, National President, B.N.T.U. “It has to be looked at seriously because we do know that when our members lose salaries or when any person loses salary […]
Within the past week, there have been several fires across the country. The first fire happened in Burrell Boom Village in the Belize District. Two wooden homes were destroyed by fire on Friday, December twenty-first. The two homes were owned by a pair of sisters who lived next door to each other – and when […]
On Monday, we told you about a fire along the Stann Creek Valley Roadthat left a family of eight homeless. Sometime after ten a.m. last Saturday, a fire completely destroyed a wooden home in Steadfast Village. The owners of the property were not at home when the blaze started, but were alerted shortly afterwards. The […]
And on Christmas Day a family was left homeless when a fire broke out inside their home around ten in the morning. It happened on Marina Drive in the DFC area in San Pedro Town. The family of six lost everything and one person was injured. The National Fire Service tells us more about the […]
On Boxing Day there were two separate fires one in Orange Walk Town and the other in Belize City. The fire in Orange Walk happened around one-thirty in the morning. Flames were seen inside a business place, but quick action contained the blaze. The National Fire Service says that its investigation shows that the fire […]
The second fire on Boxing Day happened right here in Belize City. The National Fire Service says that around six-thirty that evening flames were spotted inside a wooden home on Tibruce Street. But police officers who were nearby quickly extinguished the blaze. The house, according to fire officials, was occupied by one person. Here’s more […]
On Christmas morning, most of us spent the day at home with our families or out celebrating with friends. For B.E.L employees, it was a morning to keep with the tradition of preparing and serving breakfast to the homeless and shut-ins in Belize City. This holiday season marks the twentieth year since the utility company […]
U.D.P. Standard Bearer for Port Loyola, Philip Willoughby is organizing a first-of-its-kind football tournament on New Year’s Day. Dubbed the Philip Willoughby Seven-a-Side Football Marathon, it is open to the entire public, but particularly those football enthusiasts in the area to come out and participate. Football teams are invited to come out and register on […]
