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Senior Counsel Barrow explains what the High Court ruling means for his client, as well as a likely course of action in respect of a claim for damages. Isani Cayetano “What does this now mean for your client and the operations of the Caribbean International Brewery and what other form of redress would you […]
Written on October 5, 2023 | Posted in
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A decision has been made to amend the law to make threats a serious offense for certain groups of people. This decision comes less than a month after crown counsels who work out of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions staged a two-day “sick-out” in protest of their working conditions. For two days, […]
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The Alcalde for Laguna Village Francisco Chub and the Chairperson of the Village, Sebastian Itch, are accusing the Chairman of Yemeri Grove Village of trespassing. In a letter to Usher, dated October second, Chub and Itch wrote to Usher stating that he has on several occasions led unwarranted trespass on Laguna Village lands. The village […]
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On Wednesday, the media got an interview with Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Immigration. We took the opportunity to get an update on the amnesty program, for which the deadline for applications closed in March of this year. While the estimation is that there are over forty thousand unregulated migrants in the country, […]
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The trial against Attorney Oscar Selgado for abetment to commit murder, continued today at the High Court. At the start of the trial on Monday, six witnesses took the stand. Marlyn Barnes, the woman who Selgado allegedly contracted Giovanni Ramirez to kill, was the first to take the stand. She told the court that she […]
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The land dispute between Yemeri Grove and Laguna villages is in the news for a third consecutive night. This is because it is somewhat creating a division within the country as tensions continue to rise. It is a topic that came up in cabinet on Tuesday, for which the Ministry of Natural Resources and the […]
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Earlier today from its seat in Port of Spain, Trinidad, the Caribbean Court of Justice held a monitoring hearing in respect of the Consent Order, as well as the overall progress of the Maya land rights issue. During the session, the most recent flare up of tension between the southern villages of Yemeri Grove and […]
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During a recent visit by the Belize Territorial Volunteers to the Sarstoon, there was a confrontation with the Guatemalan Armed Forces – who were clearly in Belizean waters and agitating the situation on the ground. This escalation comes ahead of both countries preparing for a hearing at the International Court of Justice on the longstanding […]
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Prime Minister John Briceño says that he has not received an official report on the incident, but that Guatemala needs to understand that majority of the Sarstoon belongs to Belize. He says the aggression by the GAF is unacceptable because Belizeans are allowed to travel the length and breadth of the country unimpeded. However, those […]
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Attorney Oscar Selgado was charged back in July 2019, for the crime of abetment to commit murder. Selgado’s trial began today inside the High Court. Back in 2019, he was accused of asking a client to carry out a hit for him. The client in this case was Giovanni Ramirez, a man who was charged […]
Written on October 3, 2023 | Posted in
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We also heard from Senior Counsel, Adolf Lucas Senior, the attorney representing Selgado. Lucas says all the evidence that the Director of Public Prosecution has led up to this point are secondary and insignificant to the substantive matter. He gave us further details of today’s proceedings. Adolf Lucas Sr. SC, Attorney-At-Law “The prosecution who […]
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Earlier today, twenty-eight-year-old Aaron Flowers was acquitted of the offense of aggravated assault with a firearm upon a woman. The businessman of the Lord’s Bank area is no stranger to the law and over the weekend he was detained of an old incident that occurred in mid-September where he allegedly pulled a firearm on a […]
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Thirty-two-year-old Stanwell Bernardez, a construction worker of Antelope Street Extension, was read a single charge today when he appeared before the Chief Magistrate. Bernardez was arraigned earlier today on a charge of going equipped. That’s after he was found in possession of a pair of nine inch pliers and a small screwdriver. It is alleged […]
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On Sunday morning, tensions escalated between residents from the neighbouring villages of Laguna and Yemeri Grove in southern Belize. For some time now, there has been a land dispute between both villages and this is due to the lack of the delimitation of boundaries. The residents of Yemeri Grove are saying that Laguna is being […]
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We begin tonight’s newscast with the arrest of two men for probably the most callous murder for 2023. Last Thursday, we brought you the gripping images of the murder of forty-three-year-old David “Goofy” Phillips, whose body was discovered in the Western Pines residential area at Mile eight on the George Price Highway. Phillips’s head was […]
Written on October 2, 2023 | Posted in
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Accused of being member of a gang, Tyrone, Ellis and Shaquille Meighan were acquitted this afternoon due to a lack of sufficient evidence. In February 2020, the three brothers were taken before the Magistrate’s court where they were each arraigned for allegedly being the member of a gang, namely the Ghost Town Crips. At the […]
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Last Tuesday, the Belize Defense Force’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit determined that a crude object found onboard a Maya Island Air flight from San Pedro was an improvised explosive device, an IED. This was after a bomb expert, retired B.D.F. commander David Jones, was called to assist with a situation at the Belize Municipal Airport. […]
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The scare, according to the Director of Civil Aviation, has prompted authorities to expedite the implementation of certain security measures, including the use of handheld metal detectors for scanning passengers. Nigel Carter, Director of Civil Aviation “I can say to you that we do have a national security program and a national security committee […]
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Over the last six months, the People’s Constitution Commission has expended four hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars of its one million, thirty-five thousand dollar budget. That’s according to P.C.C. Chairman Anthony Chanona. But, the commission has been facing serious cash flow issues and it’s due to the red tapes in the Ministry of Public Service’s […]
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And, it is not only the vendors who are feeling the pinch. According to Chairman Chanona, for the past six months commissioners have been executing their tasks using their own funds. After spending hundreds of dollars out of pocket on fuel and other expenses, he says provisions are now being made for commissioners to receive […]
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This week, the Belize-Guatemala territorial dispute was raised three times during the Seventy-Eighth Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in light of a recent encounter between a group of Belizeans and the Guatemalan Armed Forces on Sarstoon River. At the meeting on Saturday, Foreign Minister Eamon Courtenay placed on record Belize’s dissatisfaction […]
Written on September 29, 2023 | Posted in
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A family of four is tonight without a roof over its head after the place called home was gutted by fire this morning. The fire began just before six a.m. and quickly spread through the two-bedroom wooden structure belonging to Kareem Yorke. Inside at the time of the blaze was Yorke’s brother, his girlfriend and […]
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A man was callously murdered overnight near the Western Pines community. The killer apparently used a cement block to kill David Phillips, otherwise known as Goofy. The incident happened behind a concrete house that is still under construction and investigators are trying to put the pieces together of how the deceased, whose family members say […]
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On Tuesday at midday, the Belize Defense Force was informed that a contraption which appears to be an explosive object had been found on an aircraft belonging to Maya Island Air. When B.D.F. personnel arrived at the municipal airstrip a few minutes later, they observed that the device had already been removed from the aircraft […]
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A Mahogany Heights resident has been convicted of drug trafficking after police discovered one hundred and seventeen grams of cannabis in her home. Reports are that on Wednesday night, police officers were conducting operations in the village when they conducted a search at the home of Nia Clother. Police say that while searching a room, […]
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