Criminal activity is heightening as the Christmas Season gets underway. In the Barton Creek area in Cayo today, a Mennonite couple was attacked by two men dressed in police uniforms. Peter Lowen and his wife were travelling on a horse and cart when they were stopped by the armed fake cops who were riding on […]
If part of your routine involves commuting by foot or by vehicle, private or public, there is something to look forward to. Traversing the Central American Boulevard can be a headache, but now a set of traffic lights should ease your commute and provide safety. City Hall today showed off what it calls state of […]
A San Pedro family travelled to Belize City today for the difficult task of identifying a body. Reports spread quickly this morning that a badly decomposed body had been located in the sea not far from the Port of Belize. The Cobo family had reason to believe that one of their own, Michael Cobo, who […]
Today’s house sitting in Belmopan was fiery and spirited as the LPG price war wages. Prime Minister Dean Barrow is loading the government’s arsenal, expecting some sort of retaliatory effort from the three major butane importing companies which are owned by one Mexican family. On November sixteenth, the government announced fixed prices per gallon of […]
The Government introduced and passed the Supplies Control (Amendment) Bill which increases penalties that may be imposed on these three companies if they continue to sell LPG below the fixed price. In anticipation of some sort of retaliatory move, the Government has prepared a Statutory Instrument that would give the Supplies Control Unit the power […]
Contractor Imer Hernandez and the many multi-million dollar infrastructural contracts that he has been awarded under this U.D.P. government was the subject of a heated debated between Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Opposition Leader John Briceño. Hernandez is the nephew of the former DPM Gaspar Vega. Speaking on the adjournment, Briceño spoke on what he […]
In response to the statement made by Briceño, Prime Minister Dean Barrow defended Hernandez saying that these contracts are awarded by international entities which carry out their due diligence. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “You start off accusing this government of giving all these contracts to Imer, contracts that he doesn’t deserve because again you […]
Before the Imer Hernandez debated unfolded, during the Sitting of the House Minster of Works Rene Montero made a statement related to multimillion dollars Coastal Road contract that Hernandez’s firm was awarded. According to Montero, in June of this year the procurement process was initiated. Six companies made bids for Lot One and five made […]
Works Minister Rene Montero also spoke of government’s plans for the Haulover Bridge which his rapidly deteriorating. The Barrow Administration, in mid-October 2017 secured a twelve-million U.S. dollar loan from the OPEC Fund for International Development to replace the bridge. It was also pointed out back then that in 2014 the government had already secured sixty […]
The sensational trial of William “Danny’’ Mason and four other accused men concluded today in the Belmopan Supreme Court. As the nation waited with bated breath, the verdict from Justice Antoinette Moore was guilty, all five of them, on the grounds that the evidence presented by the prosecution, led by D.P.P. Cheryl-Lynn Vidal, was irrefutable. […]
William “Danny” Mason and the four other convicted men exited the courtroom and entered a police vehicle parked immediately in front of the court. Police were on hand to avert any eventuality. The five headed back to prison to await sentencing for the murder conviction. The reaction from the family of the deceased pastor was […]
As you heard, the family of the deceased pastor believes that justice has been served more than three years after his grisly murder. On the day in which his life was taken, it was established in trial that Pastor Lue had gone Mason’s Intelco Hill residence in Belmopan. Lucas was well known in the community […]
While the courtroom of Justice Antoinette Moore was at its capacity, outside near the parking lot, a handful of politicians and supporters of the People’s United Party gathered in protest. The area representatives and standard bearers were there to clamour for justice in the murder of Pastor Lucas, as well as other victims whose murders […]
Following the verdict by Justice Moore, the Minister of National Security, John Saldivar, issued a rare statement. During the trial, a US federal agent who was stationed at the US embassy at the time of the murder, was contacted by Mason who said that he was being framed by Saldivar. That testimony was presented to […]
An investigation has been launched into the death of a resident of Cedar Street in Belize City. Edwin Usher died over the weekend at the K.H.M.H. after he was beaten badly one week earlier. The incident, which was captured on surveillance video, occurred on November twenty-third around two p.m. in front of Li Zhen Store […]
The common-law husband of an American national has been charged for her murder. Fifty-year-old Wendy Dardano, a nurse attached to the Hopkins Satellite Clinic was murdered over the weekend; stabbed to the chest and her body dumped in a garbage bin. Even before the discovery, her common-law husband Leroy Alexander Lorenzo was detained since it […]
The month of December started in a painful way for three families who lost loved ones in violent and separate incidents. We go first to southern Belize where an American nurse was killed in a most gruesome manner. Fifty-year-old Wendy Dardano was well-known and liked in Hopkins where she moved to months ago. As she […]
In Hattieville, Belize District, a man was murdered on Friday evening. As investigations take place, police say that they don’t know much about the shooting death of twenty-six-year-old Richard Smith who was heading home when he was ambushed. At this time, they only know that he was socializing right before he was killed. Andrea Polanco […]
The third murder victim for the weekend was Shaquille Michael Philips of Corozal Town. After midnight on Sunday, Phillips was gunned down as he sat on the verandah of his family’s house. He was with his father who has just stepped inside to retire for the night when the twenty-year-old came under fire. His wife […]
There is an ongoing LPG war between the three main importers of butane, small retailers and the government of Belize. On Wednesday, during a Special Sitting of the House the Barrow Administration will introduce amendments to the Supply Control Act that would increase penalties substantially against companies that are selling butane at a price below […]
According to the Minister, the low prices are a reaction to Government’s decision to allow for the establishment of the National Gas Company. Taeger-Panton says that G.O.B. will do all it can to ensure that the industry remains stable. Tracy Taegar-Panton, Minister of State, Investment, Trade & Commerce “Lower prices are good for consumers […]
The local trial of the century comes to close on Tuesday when Justice Antoinette Moore will be handing down a decision. The highly connected William “Danny” Mason and four accused men are charged with the beheading of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas and after five weeks of submissions earlier this year, they will learn their fate on […]
An application for judicial review has been filed by attorney Arthur Saldivar on behalf of the Belize Peace Movement and Vision Inspired by the People. Both organizations are challenging the Government of Belize in respect of the thirty-one political constituencies and the fact that they are disproportionate in terms of the numbers of registered voters. […]
A red Ford van carrying a family of American tourists on Thursday afternoon flipped several times on the Philip Goldson Highway in the Orange Walk District. Seventy-seven-year-old Carolyn Moxley Gillis, a resident from the state of Georgia, was flung out of the vehicle between miles forty-one and forty-two. She died instantly. Also in the van […]
A second fatal traffic accident was recorded on Thursday, this time in the south. Police were called out to Santa Cruz Village in the Stann Creek District where they saw a Hispanic man lying dead on the Southern Highway. The unidentified victim was knocked down and killed while riding his bicycle between miles twenty-four and […]
