In other acts of miscreancy and lawlessness from the weekend, a Roaring Creek infant was injured when several gunshots were fired at her father's vehicle.
Reginald Ruiz, was driving his Mitsubishi Montero Sport Vehicle from the Another World Area, and a gunman opened fire on his vehicle when he slowed down for a culvert.
The windshield shattered and his one year old daughter received scratches above her ear and bruises to her face. He identified the gunman by name and police are now looking for that person.
And On Friday in Belize City, a Cosmetologist was assaulted then later intimidated by the same man. Denya Oviedo was walking on Raccoon Street when she was approached by a dark complexioned man on a bicycle. He punched her to the left side of her face hard enough to cause her nose and mouth to bleed.
He then rode off. But it did not end there. Later on that same day she was walking with her three children down Neal's Pen Road when the same man came back, this time with a gun.
When he pointed a black handgun to her face, she instructed her children to run into the bushes. When she looked back, he was already riding away. Police are now looking for 30 year old Denroy Williams for questioning.
And, in Unitedville, a man took his life, after telling his wife to get out of politics. Florena Bennett, a 39 year old Belizean Domestic, found her husband's body hanging in his son's bedroom with a nylon rope tied around his neck.
Before his death, Alfonso Bennett was reported to have been behaving strangely, and pulled a machete at his children before arguing with his wife.
Allegedly, the argument was started because he did not like that his wife was campaigning for the UDP. His wife added that he was frustrated because he was unemployed and the bills were piling up.
Supposedly, some of his final words to her were "you are not going to see me again." Then, at 9:00 am, Steven Bennet Jr. entered his room and found his father's lifeless body.
Bar Assoc New President
The Bar Association held its Annual General Meeting last week Thursday - and - with all the timeliness of those slow judges they like to criticize - the Bar graced us with a press release yesterday.
Senior Counsel Andrew Marshalleck, was elected president - taking over from his wife Jackie Marshalleck who held the presidency before him.
Magali Marin Young is Vice President, Edwin Flowers is treasurer and Agnes Segura-Gillett is Secretary.
Denys Barrow, Darlene Vernon, and Andrew Bennett are Bar Committee Members. They were elected to serve for 1 year.
PM Leaves With Wife For Cancer Treatment
Earlier on in the news, you saw the Prime Minister speak about his meeting with bankers.
That interview was conducted yesterday and Yesterday he leaves the country.
According to an official release, he is leaving to accompany his wife for another round of cancer treatment. He will be gone for two days, returning on Thursday, and the Deputy Prime Minister, Hon. Gaspar Vega will hold over in the interim.
Darts Is A Sport! You'll Know Why In July
You may think of darts as a bar-room past-time, but it is a serious sport, played on a lucrative, highly competitive level worldwide.
And now a major regional event is coming to Belize. The Caribbean Cup of Darts will be played in Belize form July 20 to 30th, 2012.
President of the Caribbean Darts Organization, Malcom Spicer, was in Belize over the weekend to scout out the country.
He told us it will be a large and worthwhile event, with teams from over 16 countries participating - and he isnsited, Darts is a real sport:..
Malcolm Spicer - President, Caribean Darts Organization
"Darts just appear in these countries just from nowhere, and any country has a chance of winning these events. As I've said, darts is a sport. I know that a lot of countries see darts as not being a sport, but darts is a sport. It exists on different. Obviously, there is the Pub level that everybody knows about in the bars, but that's on the base level. On the next level above that, we have our national and international tournaments, and then we have the professional level above that are athletes. They practice for between 5 to 6 hours a day, and they are athletes just like any other sport."
Jose Mora - President, Belize Darts Federation
"Belize will benefit - first of all - by having the honor of holding it for the first time since we've been playing darts, and secondly - as Malcolm mentioned - the tourism aspect."
Spicer estimates that between two and three thousand persons will visit Belize for the event in July - that includes about 200 players.
The venue will be the Biltmore Best Western.
As regards, the Belize male and female teams, tryouts for the national team of 8 is underway while five females have already been selected.
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