A husband and wife were savagely stabbed to death inside their house in Orange Walk Town. The bodies of Rafael and Mario Huezo were found on Monday morning sending shock waves throughout the community. Today police detained one of their sons, Mario, for the gruesome murder. He was captured near Independence in the south and […]
Tragedy struck a family in Silk Grass, Stann Creek District, on Monday afternoon. Omar and Efijenia Lobos lost their three-year old son in a fire that totally gutted their small wooden house in the village. Inside the house on a bunk bed was Isaias. The fire swept quickly and the young boy could not be […]
There was a shooting in the dead of the night in Belize City on Monday. A thirty-six year old resident, Christopher Guild, was heading to Freetown Road when he came under attack and it was all caught on surveillance camera. The gunman was monitoring Guild, employee at B.P.O., and opened fire when he saw the […]
A post mortem examination conducted on the remains of thirty-four year old Densmore Bowman show he died a horrible death; he was hacked to death. The death certificate states that the Belmopan resident died as result of traumatic shock due to multiple chop wounds to the head, neck and limbs. His body was discovered on […]
A police constable is in plenty trouble with the law. Twenty-two-year-old constable of Esperanza Village, Nadir Rayon Mendoza, was charged for theft when he appeared in court today. He was arrested on Monday after police issued a warrant post on Thursday. He is accused of stealing three firearms from the Queen Street Police Station in […]
There are some in-roads being made in respect of the eventual ban of gillnets. As you know, the government has endorsed the continued use of the fish gear on the basis that more than eighty fisher folks need to secure their livelihood before a ban is imposed. Oceana and the Coalition had committed two million […]
Banana Enterprises Limited, a subsidiary of the Big Creek Group, is taking Island Holdings Limited, the parent company for Harvest Caye, to court for non-payment, following a business deal turned sour. Island Holdings, we understand, contracted the services of Banana Enterprises to purchase a dredge in order to clear a channel for Norwegian Cruise Line […]
According to Flores, Banana Enterprises lost significant money on the deal since the dredge has failed to serve the purpose that it was initially purchased for. Zaid Flores, Managing Director, Belize Enterprise Limited “Well we’ve been doing dredging of our own for some time. We own our own dredge so, you know, it’s not […]
At midnight tonight, consumers will be spending more on three types of fuels. The price for regular gasoline, kerosene and diesel will be going up. Regular gasoline will increase slightly by one cent to ten dollars and six cents per gallon. In the case of kerosene, the increase is sixteen cents which means a gallon […]
A few months ago we told you about the drought that has hit the north. It has affected several different crops, and one of the hardest hit, is the sugarcane. Because of its value to the country’s economy and livelihoods of thousands of Belizeans, a lot of steps are being taken to build the resiliency […]
Since the signing of a huge contract of one hundred and thirty-three point two million dollars for the Coastal Road between Government and Imer Hernandez, serious concerns have been raised. Hernandez, the relative of former P.M. Gapi Vega, who has emerged as government chief contractor, has won a number of other contracts with G.O.B. though […]
Another thorny issue is the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. The Chamber along with the unions and NGOs were critical in the push to its signing three years ago but implementation has been at a snail’s pace. In a letter to the P.M. dated December fifteenth, the Chamber notes that along with the N.T.U.C.B. and […]
A house was gutted by fire on Monday night in Belize City. The fire broke out after eleven o’clock in the CET Site area of Saint Martin’s in the Old Capital. The wooden house with zinc roofing was completely destroyed by the blaze. The owner, thirty-nine-year-old Daisy Foreman, was not at home when the fire […]
A B.D.F. soldier had to be rushed for medical treatment to the Southern Regional Hospital after sustaining injuries in a freak and dangerous accident. Twenty -one year old soldier, Macario Cus, was cleaning an M16 when it accidently discharged and the projectile hit Cus in the left leg. Cus, who is attached to the Fair […]
There was a bust of contraband goods here on Coney Drive. The list of items includes wines, vodka, whiskey and cigars, popular goodies especially at this time of the year. A mobile patrol this afternoon stopped and searched businessman forty-nine year old Freddy Ellis Mansu who was driving a car. The vehicle and the items […]
