A 53-year-old jeweler of West Collet Canal is today a hero after he set chase after a 15-year-old who attempted to steal two gold chains from his place of business. The young teen proved no match for the 53-year-old. The thief was caught up West Collet Canal Street.
This morning at about 9:00 a.m. Belizean justices, magistrates, attorneys, prosecutors and law enforcement officers gathered at a church service held at Wesley Methodist Church to begin the ceremonial opening of the legal year of the Supreme
The Spanish Lookout oil spill reported all over the media last week has forced the resurgence of a flood of concerns over the environmental soundness of oil exploration in Belize, while highlighting the risk authorities are taking in permitting exploration and commercial activities to proceed without due adherence to important environmental laws.
Escaped prisoner Ernest Hinds, 23, who was on the run for almost two months, was captured yesterday by the police in a predawn raid in the Havana area of Dangriga.
On Thursday, January 18, the Sarstoon Temash Institute for Indigenous Management (SATIIM) and the Livingston-based Foundation for Conservation and Eco-Development (FUNDAECO) will be co-hosting a bi-national fisheries forum in Punta Gorda Town. This forum, the first of its kind, will bring together Guatemalan and Belizean fisher folk from the Amatique Bay region in the Gulf of Honduras, the two Fisheries Ministers – Hon. Vildo Marin from Belize and Hon. Erasmo Sanchez from Guatemala, and the Fisheries/UNIPESCA directors.
The battle lines were already drawn across the pothole-stricken streets of Belize City and the forces positioned to war for a US$1 cut of the cruise tourist head tax for the City—money that the Belize City Council argues is needed to finance important City operations, the most prominent being the repair of the old capital’s horribly degraded streets.
Minister of Health, Hon. Joe Coye, confirmed on Wednesday, January 10, that Cabinet has revised its position and has stated that Government should acquire 100% of Universal Health Services (UHS), as opposed to the two-thirds ownership (67%) GOB said it should acquire on Tuesday, December 5.
At press time this evening clean-up operations were reportedly still underway at Spanish Lookout, Cayo, after an accidental spray of crude oil reportedly dotted a half-mile tract downstream off a gas flare that reportedly malfunctioned late Thursday night, January 3.
Barrington Slusher, 30, one of 3 men charged with aggravated burglary and aggravated assault with firearm on an elderly couple, pleaded guilty to all charges when he appeared today in the #1 Magistrate’s Court
“But instead of taking a bi-partisan approach to a solution that would benefit everyone affected, the UDP City Council use the bad condition of the roads for political mileage against the PUP …”
“We must make our limited resources work for us …in many instances this will dictate cooperation between the political parties for the benefit of the people …the UDP City Council must accept some of the blame for this spirit of non-cooperation …”
Belize Ports Limited (BPL) chief executive Luke Espat gave interviews to both Channel 5’s Stewart Krohn and Channel 7’s Jules Vasquez this evening. Lucas was responding to a Godfrey Smith column in the issue of THE BELIZE TIMES published earlier today, a column which blew the whistle on a problem between BPL and the cruise shipping giant, Carnival, a problem which the Hon. Minister of Tourism (the said Smith) described as a “schism” which “appears to be irreconcilable.”
Jodie Myvett, 23, a receptionist/secretary at the Central Bank of Belize, is lucky to be alive tonight after being shot at by her boyfriend, Mark Medina, 22.
Cormack Lopez, Jr., a 38-year-old labourer, is hospitalized tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after being chopped with a machete, allegedly by his brother-in-law, Findley Gladden, 41, a field worker for Belize Water Service and a former football star who played for Milpros and most recently for Kulture Yabra, both championship teams.
