Also on Saturday, a collision between a James passenger bus and a motorcycle claimed the lives of a pair of cousins. Just before six p.m., at the intersection of the Southern Highway and the Savannah Road a James Bus collided with a Skygo motorcycle being ridden by Fidel and Edgar Cho. According to information gathered […]
The Lake Gardens residence of BECOL C.E.O. Lynn Young was broken into over the weekend. The thieves, who were captured on surveillance camera as they entered the property, made off with Young’s 2014 Toyota Land Cruiser Prado. On Monday, the former Chief Executive Officer of Belize Electricity Limited took to social media requesting public assistance […]
A shocking discovery was made this morning just after eight o’clock in the village of Succotz located near Benque Viejo de Carmen. The lifeless body of a fifty-six-year-old man was found and identified as that of Juan De La Cruz Carrias. The construction worker met a gruesome and brutal death. He was chopped and stabbed […]
A salesman from Cayo is in big trouble with the law tonight. That is because his boss, also from Cayo, is reporting that he stole more than seventy thousand dollars worth of Ruffo dog food. It all came to light when another employee informed the owner of Recinos that while selling the dog food to […]
A hasty land transaction that appears questionable to many in Belmopan is raising eyebrows and causing outrage. A few weeks ago the Belmopan City Council gave the order to de-reserve a large portion of land along the Phillip Goldson Boulevard. The land was reserved for expansion of the boulevard but the council decided to survey […]
There is no need to panic at this point says the National Emergency Management Organization. Out of precaution, NEMO issued an advisory earlier today informing that it is monitoring the potential for development of a broad low pressure area near Belize. The system, should it form over the weekend, is expected to move westward toward […]
According to the NEMO advisory, should the prediction change for the worse, all factors considered, Belize can be facing a significant threat by Tuesday. Nonetheless, Chief Met Officer Cumberbatch reiterated that nothing has formed thus far. Catherine Cumberbatch, Chief Meteorologist “No system has formed so far. There is no tropical depression, there is no […]
Leslie Pipersburgh and Patrick Robateau are two convicts who have now been given a fixed sentence for a double murder. Both received a sentence of thirty-five years, less ten years already served, leaving the duo to serve twenty-five more years to take effect from April, 2011, the date when they were convicted of the double […]
In 2014, Vitalino Reyes Junior was badly beaten when his father and another well-known operator were having differences in the cave tubing business. The violent incident made the news for days. The heavy competition sparked a huge war between the son and others working for the competing company. Today, the case came crashing down at […]
The court ruled today against Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington in a long standing case involving more than a hundred parcels of land held by Progresso Heights Limited. Elrington owns shares in the company; the other shareholders are U.S. citizens Lawrence Schneider and his son, Adam. While he did not show up in court for the […]
There is another case that has been before the court for some time. It involves the murder charge against William “Danny” Mason and four other accused men. This morning, it was adjourned yet again. Today, defense attorneys received email confirmation that the case has been set to reconvene on October eighteenth, 2019. Mason and four […]
Just after five this morning a police patrol pursued a vehicle carrying a known criminal figure. That patrol chased the vehicle until it came to a stop when it crashed into a lamp post. The men ran off but police were able to detain the driver and that well-known figure. The man was identified as […]
Police say that a man who was shot on Tuesday night around ten-thirty in Belize City is recovering in the hospital. According to Senior Superintendent Hilberto Romero, no one has been detained for the shooting of Russell Reyes. Sr. Supt. Hilberto Romero, Deputy Head, National Crimes Investigation Branch “Police visited the Karl Huesner Memorial […]
Twenty-nine-year-old Tracy Mackinnon says that the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital is giving her a hard time to settle a claim against the national referral hospital. In May 2017, Mackinnon was admitted to the Emergency Department of the K.H.M.H. after she was experiencing abdominal pain while seven months pregnant. She was later sent to the maternity […]
The original offer was increased to seventeen thousand dollars but the settlement has not been completed as yet. According to Mackinnon, she was later diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and the K.H.M.H.A. has failed to recognize her diagnosis. Tracy Mackinnon, Complainant “I started to go through that depression and all of that. It is […]
The cost per gallon of kerosene goes up by five cents at midnight, to seven dollars and forty-two cents. The nominal increase reflects the current demand and supply conditions of crude oil on the international market, as well as fluctuations in the cost of purchasing refined fuel products. Prices for premium and regular gasoline and […]
It was a rare occasion in the Senate today. The upper chamber voted against a motion to write-off forty thousand four hundred and seventy-four dollars and eighty-eight cents owed by Joshua Perdomo, the son of Cabinet Secretary Carlos Perdomo. The motion was brought to the Senate after the House of Representatives approved the motion last […]
At the end of the debate, a division was called by Senator Chebat to document the vote of each senator. As we said, seven of the thirteen voted against the write-off. While the Senate did not approve the write-off, Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte says that money motions cannot be defeated by the Senate. As we […]
Also voting against the write-off was Senator for the Private Sector, Mark Lizarraga. According to Lizarraga, while it was expected that the Senate would not be able to block the write-off, the point was to represent the interest of the Belizean people. Mark Lizarraga, Senator for Private Sector “We know that in the past […]
Still on the unpopular Joshua Perdomo write-off, the Leader of the Opposition John Briceño has written to the House Speaker Laura Longsworth taking issue with the conduct of the debate on October fourth. Briceño tells the Speaker that he and other parliamentarians were denied the right to debate or comment on the write-off and that […]
Senators also debated the amendment to the Contractor General Act. The amendment removes the limitation which barred any Contractor General to return to the public service after his or her term concludes. This, according to the government, made it quite difficult to find a replacement for Godwin Arzu, whose contract was not renewed after senators pointed out […]
Two Belize City men were freed from murder charges after spending almost five years on remand at the Hattieville Prison. Lyson Cacho and Tarique Gillett faced trial for the March 2015 murder of Michael Welch, which occurred on Periwinkle Street in Belize City. Kingsley Morrison was also shot during the gun violence, and was the […]
Over the weekend, the business centre at Ladyville Technical High School was burglarized and a number of laptops donated by Digi were stolen. The Belize Police Department is asking the public’s assistance in locating sixteen grey and black Dell brand laptops. The crime occurred sometime between October sixth and seventh. The discovery was made by […]
There is more tonight from the Public Service Union in respect of its former Hilltop property. The union says it will not be moved from its Hilltop headquarters in Belmopan. A few days ago, the P.S.U. President Gerald Henry received a letter from attorney for Simplex Designs, Estevan Perrera, telling the union that it had […]
Henry says that the P.S.U. has hired the services of Courtenay Coye LLP and the documents should be filed before October thirty-first. He says that the union will not vacate the property because that would mean that they are giving it up. Gerald Henry, President, P.S.U. “I believe that this week the legal team […]
