A Belize City man was shot dead inside his yard just before midnight on Friday and police believe that the attack on the Antelope Street resident was the result of an ongoing conflict over the sale of weed in that neighborhood. It’s the second execution of its kinds we have reported on in the Old […]
ASP Fitzroy Yearwood, Communications Director, B.P.D. “A little after eleven [p.m.], police responded to, yet again, the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where they saw Edward Anthony Nunez, twenty-eight-years-old, suffering from apparent gunshot wounds to his left upper thigh and to his right upper thigh, inner thigh. Initial investigation revealed that on Friday, he was […]
Also over the weekend, there was a stabbing incident on Saturday night that ended with a twenty-three-year-old being hospitalized in a stable condition. Deon Jones visited a residence in Rowland’s Alley where he began tossing bottles at the home and was subsequently attacked by a knife-wielding individual. He was badly beaten and stabbed multiple times […]
A member of the Belize Coast Guard has been named as the suspected getaway driver in the robbery at Puma Gas Station last Thursday. On Friday, we reported that three armed men robbed the gas station at the corner of Faber’s Road and the George Price Highway. An undisclosed amount of cash was stolen, but […]
This morning, coast guard officer Shakeem Richards appeared in court and was arraigned for two counts of robbery. Because the crime was committed with a firearm, it is an indictable offense and no bail was offered to the accused. He was instead remanded until September fifth. Late this evening, Richards was escorted to Hattieville – […]
A fatal road traffic accident on the Old Northern Highway in the Belize District claimed the life of a Sand Hill resident on Sunday night. Thirty-five-year-old Deon Ozaeta was traveling on a motorcycle and as he came up to a curve between miles nineteen and twenty, he collided with a pickup truck, driven at the […]
In May, it was discovered that someone had gotten possession of a bottle of pesticide and emptied it in a water reservoir in San Vicente Village, Toledo District. The incident sent at least six of the villagers to the P.G. Hospital seeking medical attention after they became ill from consuming the tainted water. C.E.O. in […]
If you have empty pesticide containers, the advice from the Pesticides Control Board is that you store them and take them to the nearest collection outlet in your zone. The Department of the Environment and the Pesticides Control Board are working jointly on a national empty pesticide containers management plan. When the plan is implemented, […]
It’s been around for decades, providing full residential services to Belize’s neediest elderly citizens whose families have no means of taking them in or those who have no relatives in Belize to care for them. But the elderly home needs your help if it is to keep its services running. And today, the staff of […]
Now that the COVID pandemic has somewhat waned, the Sister Cecelia Home for the Elderly is slowly reintroducing the programs it once had before the virus put everything on halt. But now the facility wants to do more than it used to. It also wants to add activities such as a physical therapy exercise to […]
The National Institute of Culture and History (NICH) through the Museum of Belize and Houses of Culture officially reopened the Corozal House of Culture. The venue was closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following some renovations on the building, the Corozal House of Culture was once again opened to the public on Saturday July ninth. Present […]
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize today commemorated its fifty-sixth year of representing and protecting workers and their rights. The N.T.U.C.B. is a federation of trade unions made up of thirteen local unions. It is also an affiliate of the International Trade Union Confederation, and the Caribbean Congress of Labor. To mark its fifty […]
Also addressing the audience at today’s N.T.U.C.B. book launch was president of the trade union, Luke Martinez. In his remarks, Martinez raised three issues that he says requires urgent attention from the Government of Belize. He called G.O.B. to action on the appointment of a Labor Commissioner, an Ombudsman, and on the need for a […]
Doctor Theodore Aranda, the former United Democratic Party leader, has passed away. Doctor Ted Aranda, as he was affectionately known, died on Sunday, July tenth at the age of eighty-eight. Doctor Aranda’s political career began in 1974 under the United Democratic Party. His career in politics ended in 2003 as a member of the People’s […]
Team Belize is ready to compete in the nineteenth U-twenty-one Female Central American Volleyball Championship which will be hosted from July twelfth to the sixteenth at the Belize City Civic Center. Belize has always done well in the sport, winning silver in the women’s category back in 2018, then the under-twenty-three and under-eighteen in 2019. […]
From as early as Friday, the team from El Salvador was already in country and over the weekend, the others arrived, except for Panama and Costa Rica who will not participate this year. President of the Belize Volleyball Association Allan Sharp says the five teams competing are all formidable. Allan Sharp, President, Belize Volleyball […]
