On Wednesday, representatives from three butane companies namely Belize Western Energy Limited, Gas Tomza, and Southern Choice Butane (Zeta Gas) met with Prime Minister Dean Barrow. On the table for discussion was the newly formed National Gas Company which will oversee the LPG industry in Belize. According to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, the National Gas […]
A meeting between Prime Minister Dean Barrow and representatives for Belize Western Energy Limited, Gas Tomza, and Southern Choice Butane (Zeta Gas) took place today in Belize City. The meeting lasted for more than an hour and the discussion revolved around the National Gas Company. In August, the government passed the National Liquefied Petroleum Gas […]
The three current importers of LPG are encouraged to bid for the bulk supply to the terminal. Speaking on behalf of the companies was Ernesto Uh of Zeta Gas. According to Uh, the meeting was amicable and he sees a favorable response from the government in terms of the bids that would be put forth […]
The Prime Minister and representatives of the three current butane importing companies have scheduled another meeting though the time and venue has not been agreed upon. According to Uh, concerns by the companies will be further discussed however PM Barrow reiterated that there is no reversal of the National Gas Company and its mandate. […]
The Public Service Union has been ordered to vacate its Belmopan Hilltop headquarters by October thirty first. The order is by Simplex Designs Limited which has hired Attorney Estevan Perrera. A recent letter sent to P.S.U. President Gerald Henry says that if the P.S.U. fails to vacate the premises by the allotted time, it will […]
Deputy Director of the Belize Tax Service Reynaldo Verde legal woes continues in the U.S.A. Today, he was denied bail. Verde was nabbed by the F.B.I. on charges of interference with commerce by means of extortion and attempted extortion. The criminal complaint was made by the principal of Orchid Bay Development, Chris Williams, who reported […]
The prices for regular gasoline and diesel will be going up at midnight at gas pumps across the country. Regular gasoline will go up by thirty-four cents and consumers will now be paying ten dollars and twenty-seven cents per gallon. In the case of diesel, the gallon will be going up by fourteen cents and […]
The case against the Belize City Council brought by former City Administrator Candice Miller adjourned around four-thirty this afternoon in the courtroom of Justice Courtney Abel. Mayor Bernard Wagner was on the stand throughout the day being cross-examined by Miller’s attorney, Magali Perdomo. Miller was let go from City Hall back in 2018 when the […]
The fate of Reynaldo Verde will be determined on Wednesday. The Deputy Director of the Belize Tax Service remains behind bars in the U.S. on charges of interference with commerce by means of extortion and attempted extortion. There is now a possibility that he might not face jail time. Court documents show that Attorney Karen Rochlin, […]
The murder trial of William “Danny” Mason and four other accused men continued to face a hitch today in the Belmopan Supreme Court. That is because the court has been unable to get a statement from one of the last witnesses for the defense. The witness, Tim Reid, was employed by the U.S. Embassy at […]
The Public Service Union says it won’t be moving though it recognizes the purchase of Hill Top by Simplex Design Company Limited as legal. In November of 2018, the P.S.U. headquarters was sold by the Belmopan City Council to the company and despite their efforts and even a promise by the Prime Minister to get […]
Today, the C.E.O. in the Ministry of Human Development, Judith Alpuche, acknowledged the need for more collaborative work with the police when it comes to detaining minors. Speaking about the video of the hostel escapee who was roughed up while being detained by the police, C.E.O. Alpuche says that her ministry stands ready to work […]
A 2004 squatters’ problem on the Belize/Guatemala border is re-emerging. There is word that Guatemalan families have begun clearing lands in that area. More than ten years ago, about thirty families from El Barrio Judah in Guatemala were relocated to the border and subsequently, these families inched their way into Belizean territory. Pictures posted by […]
The General Debate at the United Nations started on September twenty-fourth and has now concluded. On Saturday, Foreign Minister, Wilfred Elrington addressed the assembly; at the end of his statement, Elrington spoke of the Guatemalan claim to Belize which by way of a referendum in May is now before the International Court of Justice for […]
Just eleven days ago, a Beechcraft Super King Air Two Hundred landed on an illegal airstrip off the Coastal Road. Sixty million dollars worth of cocaine were confiscated from the plane and eight men from Honduras, Ecuador and Mexico have been charged and are spending time at the Hattieville prison. This morning, a much larger […]
While police investigate this most recent jet landing, the Opposition Leader John Briceño says government is not taking the matter of taking these suspected drug planes as seriously as it should be. Here is what he told the media in a press briefing today. John Briceño, Leader of Opposition “There is a radar that […]
There was a murder in the city over the weekend. Twenty-one-year-old Jebran Wagner, who lives on Majestic Alley, was fatally shot at a house party on Coney Drive. Originally from Dangriga, Wagner was the stepson of man who was executed at the compound of the Southern Regional Hospital in Dangriga in July. Police are investigating […]
There was another murder, but in southern Belize. A Guatemalan national was killed on his farm sometime on Sunday. The Pomona resident was found with massive chop wounds on his corn plantation sometime after midnight. A search party went looking for Domingo Mathias after he didn’t return from the farm. His family claims that he […]
Today, the Head of the National Crimes Investigation Branch ACP Joseph Myvett spoke with the media about the murder in the Stann Creek Valley. Police say that they are following several leads and one villager has been detained for questioning. Myvett says that by seven on Sunday night Domingo Mathias was reported missing and a […]
The Commissioner of Police says that the cops, who were placed on interdiction in connection with the death of sixty-year-old Nestor Vasquez Junior, have been found guilty by a tribunal. The police officers from Precinct three, Sergeant Shawn Walton and Police Constables Edward Pitterson and Bernard Cayetano were put on interdiction with half-pay and faced […]
There was outrage over the manner in which members of the Belize Police Department carried out the arrest of a teenage minor in Belize City last week. The incident involved five officers manhandling a fifteen-year-old escapee from the Princess Royal Youth Hostel who was being apprehended for return to the facility. But in carrying out […]
Two men from Honduras are behind bars tonight charged in connection and a Venezuelan plane laden with sixty million dollars of cocaine that landed off the Coastal Road on the night of September ninth. The duo, Allan Yovani Mejia Chirinos and Nolan Jose Carrasco Lopez were each charged with one count of possession of controlled […]
The media in Ecuador and even in Mexico has picked up the news of the arrest of the foreign nationals for landing and attempting to move a cargo of cocaine here. According to one report in Noticias Primicias, forty-three-year-old Ecuadorian, Juan Pablo Larrea Cruz who is locked up at the Hattieville prison, is the brother […]
Twenty-eight-year-old Jahnon Trapp, a resident of Esperanza Village, has been arraigned for the murder of Mirna Young, a mother of six who was gunned down inside her home in Santa Elena last Wednesday. Trapp stands accused of letting loose a barrage of gunshots at a pair of men, including Young’s son who was standing inside […]
There is outrage over the manner in which members of the Belize Police Department effected the arrest of a teenage minor in Belize City on Wednesday evening. The incident involved five officers manhandling a fifteen-year-old escapee from the Princess Royal Youth Hostel who was being apprehended for return to the facility. But in carrying out […]
