Police are investigating the murder of thirty-eight-year-old Randulfo Alvarez, a resident of Cotton Tree Village. Alvarez lived in the village with his relatives and, though he and his siblings resided in separate households, their relationship was such that they would frequent each other’s home. On Saturday night when Alvarez visited his sister’s home to collect […]
Nineteen-year-old Henry Osorio is recovering from a gunshot wound he sustained while in a vehicle with two female passengers on the Hummingbird Highway, just outside of Belmopan on Saturday night. By all accounts, Osorio is known to be a straight A student in school, and this may simply be a matter of wrong place, […]
Orange Walk police are still investigating the shooting death of Reynaldo Marchand. The thirty-eight-year-old was in the company of Nazir Vasquez in front of Five-O-One Shop when they came under fire from a pair of gunmen on motorcycle. Multiple gunshots rang out shortly after eight p.m. on Wednesday and when the shooting subsided Vasquez and […]
Well-known attorney Orson “OJ” Elrington ran afoul of the law over the weekend when he made an illegal turn in front of the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital on Saturday night. While driving his 2010 Ford Explorer, the U.D.P. caretaker for Freetown made a left on the ambulance exit on Princess Margaret Drive near Belize Elementary […]
Senator Michael Peyrefitte has written to Prime Minister John Briceño under the Freedom of Information Act, requesting a copy of the document in which Governor General Froyla Tzalam was informed that government was retaining the legal services of Courtenay Coye L.L.P. That is the law firm of Senior Counsel and Foreign Minister Eamon Courtenay and […]
Delroy Cuthkelvin, a card-carrying member of the U.D.P., is at odds with his party and will likely be facing its Ethics Committee in the days ahead. Cuthkelvin has been highly critical of Party Leader Moses “Shyne” Barrow in a number of social media advertisements, since his victory at the leadership convention earlier this year. Ashton […]
Stake Bank Enterprise, the parent company for Port Coral, suffered another loss in the Supreme Court today when Justice Lisa Shoman dismissed an application brought before the bench seeking leave for appeal in a decision that she handed down several weeks ago. That matter had to do with an application for judicial review of an […]
Guerra also spoke of the possibility that the latest decision of the Supreme Court may be appealed yet again by Stake Bank Enterprise. Hector Guerra, Attorney-at-law “The primary reason was that the judge felt that Stake Bank did not have a realistic prospect of success. The entire reason leave to appeal is necessary is […]
The 2022 Atlantic hurricane season is going to be an above-average one for hurricanes, and while Hurricane Agatha currently poses no threat to Belize, it is projected to cause major flooding as the Category 2 storm slams into the pacific coast of Mexico today as the first hurricane of 2022. Chief Meteorologist, Ronald Gordon was […]
Gordon advised that there are factors that are going to be in play during this hurricane season’s above normal prediction. Already, he said, there are between sixteen to twenty-one storms forming, with between six and ten becoming hurricanes. Ronald Gordon, Chief Meteorologist, National Meteorological Office “When it comes to seasonal prediction, there are two […]
Monkey Pox – it was first discovered in 1958 when two outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in colonies of monkeys kept for research. Then the first human case of monkey pox was detected in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. And it’s in the human population again, most recently detected in Mexico. But the […]
But what should you be looking for if you’re not sure that you might be infected with monkey pox? Hidalgo says the symptoms are varied but quite pronounced and they can be very painful as well. Dr Jorge Hidalgo “They start to exhibit those types of symptoms – fever, muscle ache, associated with a […]
Over the weekend, Holy Redeemer Credit Union held its annual general meeting. The meeting with the member-owners of H.R.C.U. follows the cancelation of the 2020 and 2021 A.G.M. Aside from the completion of the Jane Usher Building, which was inaugurated back in May 2021; the credit union will now have a presence in Belmopan. […]
In the coming weeks and months, Belize will join the rest of the world in replacing the current way of doing business within the public sector with a whole new digital system. Today the Ministry of E-Governance led the way in launching a series of training courses in digital transformation for public officers and employees […]
The National Agriculture and Trade Show 2022, held over the weekend recorded approximately twenty-six thousand, eight hundred persons who attended the fiftieth anniversary of the event. While Saturday saw upwards of ten thousand persons entering the show grounds, Sunday had the highest turnout with fifteen thousand, plus visitors. These figures do not include invited guests […]
Belize Bank’s digital wallet, E-kyash was also a big feature at the National Agriculture and Trade Show in Belmopan. Taking a selfie with Raymoni mascot gave visitors an opportunity to win an E-kyash package valued at one hundred dollars. And if you visited the booth to cash-in, you got double the funds, as much as […]
Belizean musician, Alexander Evans is one of ten contestants to make it to PanoGrama’s finals. Evans is currently in ninth place and made the cut into the top ten of the steel pan competition with his rendition of one of Leela Vernon’s pieces, entitled “Welcome to Belize.” Here’s the announcement of Evans’ placement, followed by […]
During the course of Saturday and Sunday, the Belize Basketball Federation convened tryouts, as it searches for the best athletes fifteen years old and younger who will form the male U-16 national team to compete in regional games. These qualifying matches are in the hopes of making it to the World Cup of Basketball COCABA […]
