According to Elrington, the submissions were all based on technical arguments in law. Elrington says that while Schneider attempted to speak on behalf of Progresso Heights by way of the provisions in the article of association, he contends that those articles do not empower Schneider to speak for the company. Wilfred ’Sedi’ Elrington, Shareholder, […]
The preliminary inquiry for B.D.F. soldier, Albert Moreira, accused of the murder of his estranged common-law-wife, Felicia James kicked off on Monday before Senior Magistrate Tricia Pitts Anderson. Prosecutor in the case, Corporal Christopher Smith submitted thirty-six statements from police including notes of interview with Moreira and information on a motor vehicle owned by James. […]
A rash of murders has the community on edge in Belmopan. We start with a double murder in the San Martin area of Belmopan on Saturday morning. Two cousins, both minors, were shot following a squabble with two other minors, one of them merely thirteen-years-old. The shooters lived in the same neighbourhood as their victims […]
The Choc family also of San Martin area in Belmopan, though hoping for the best, had their worst fears confirmed on Saturday. The body of nineteen-year-old Adamir Choc was found off the road of Never Delay. While there is closure, there are still lingering questions as to how the young woman was killed. Her body […]
There are two more arrests in connection with a drug bust that yielded police over one thousand three hundred kilos of cocaine. Thirty-six-year-old Terencio Mejia Cruz and fifty-three-year-old Jacobo Yovany Mejia Garcia were charged today with conspiracy to abet to import a controlled drug. It is suspected that both Honduran nationals are tied to the […]
Armed robbers were on a rampage targeting business establishments in Trinidad Village, Orange Walk on Friday night. The group of at least five men first hit Primavera Bar, holding patrons and employees at gunpoint. In a short time, they carried out their crime and moved on to a second bar, Sports Bar Los Amigos. But […]
Today, police say there is still no solid lead that explains why thirteen-year-old Christopher Chi was killed, but investigators have reason to believe it may be drug related. So far, they have charged a sixteen-year- old minor for the crime. Chi, a resident of Yo Creek Village in the Orange Walk District, had vanished on […]
The National Trade Union Congress has weighed in on the loss of life at the Civic Center. Two workers plunged to their death from a scaffold inside the facility where they were working on the installation of insulation. The two, Orlington Stuart and Roque Jimenez, were not wearing any harness on Friday. Four others were […]
The N.T.U.C.B. calls for a full unbiased investigation by the Police Department and that a further inquiry be coordinated by the Belize Infrastructure Limited. President Marvin Mora says that the union is not casting any aspersions at this time, but says that the N.T.U.C.B. has been pushing for passage of the Occupational Safety and Health […]
A tragic accident occurred before noon today inside the Belize Civic Center; two persons succumbed and others were injured and in a critical condition at the K.H.M.H. While the number of injured men has been varying, it has been confirmed that four sustained injuries resulting from the fall. The group of men was standing on […]
This afternoon, the Belize Infrastructure Limited issued a release on the mishap at the Civic Center. BIL confirms that two persons died and four others were injured in the accident which was a result of a platform failure that connects the scaffold at a heightened level. The men were working on the installation of acoustical […]
A minor has been arraigned for the murder of Christopher Chi, his thirteen-year-old friend from the village of Yo Creek in the Orange Walk District. The minor was arraigned this afternoon in the Magistrate Court in Orange Walk. Another minor and an adult are expected to be taken to court on Monday. Christopher was last […]
Police have cracked the murder of storeowner, Jiang Zhang Xu. The execution occurred on September tenth after seven o’clock on Sunday night. Xu was sitting behind the counter of his store in Bella Vista Village, Toledo, when an armed masked man entered the store. The gunman demanded money and then proceeded to execute the store […]
There are developments tonight in respect of a drug plane that landed off the Coastal Road at an illegal airstrip on Sunday night. On Thursday afternoon, the alert owner of a resort on the George Price Highway called the police after two men were seen sitting for some time inside a parked vehicle at the […]
Even as the family of Adamir Choc continues to desperately look for her in the Belmopan area, another family is reporting a missing member. In San Pedro, a fourteen-year-old student, Roberto Nah, has also not been seen since midday on Septembers eleventh. His family is seeking information on the whereabouts of the student. Anyone with […]
William “Danny” Mason had his day in court today. Mason chose to give testimony from the dock on the murder of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas who was beheaded in July 2016. Mason and four other men are facing murder charges, following the discovery of the pastor’s head in a bucket at the back of his pickup […]
Turning to Politics, in August, Caribbean Shores Area Representative Kareem Musa made an unofficial visit to mainland China. He was accompanied by a P.U.P. contingent comprised of Belize City Deputy Mayor Oscar Arnold, Councilor Michael “Chips” Noralez and attorney Kevin Arthurs. According to Musa, the visit was as a result of an invitation by Johnston Ou, […]
Deputy Prime Minister and aspiring U.D.P. Leader Patrick Faber officially launched his bid to lead the United Democratic Party weeks ago. Faber’s convention was held at the Belize City Civic where he said that about two thousand persons showed up, including representatives of twenty-five constituencies. Present, although briefly, for Faber’s convention was Belize Rural North […]
The government received much backlash after the Barrow Administration, during a sitting of the House of Representatives, tabled a motion through which a forty thousand dollars loan owed by Joshua Perdomo was written-off. Joshua is the son of Cabinet Secretary Carlos Perdomo. The younger Perdomo was granted study leave to pursue a Master’s Degree in Forensic […]
While Castro attempted to end the interview, the media pressed on the issue and challenged him on some facts including that he was part of the House Committee which reviewed the matter and voted in favour of the write-off. Reporter “This particular one was under a UDP administration.” Edmond Castro, U.D.P. Minister “Yes […]
Three persons, two of them minors, remain detained at the Orange Walk Police Station pending charges for the murder of thirteen-year-old Christopher Chi. The child’s body was found tucked in a culvert on a sugar road, several miles from his home in Yo Creek Village. The suspects are said to be close friends to Chi. […]
It has been six days since nineteen-year-old Adamir Choc was last seen by family and friends and a frantic search to locate the Belmopan resident is underway tonight in the areas surrounding the nation’s capital. According to Marciano Choc, his niece set out on Friday evening with a friend of hers and reportedly ended up […]
A chilling murder took place in the Orange Wald District in the past few days. A fourteen-year-old boy from the village of Yo Creek died a horrible death. His head was smashed and he was brutally beaten. The body of the minor was then stuffed in a culvert and found in a feeder road off […]
In the village of Bella Vista in the Toledo District, a Chinese grocer was the second victim of murder during the Tenth holiday. Shortly after seven o’clock on Tuesday night, a robbery was reported at Chens Store in the village. Store owner Jingzhang Xu, was inside his business sitting behind the counter when an armed […]
This afternoon, Commissioner of Police Chester Williams spoke briefly on the murder of Jingzhang Wu. He also confirmed that a suspect has been detained for the deadly shooting. Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police “Sometime yesterday, Independence police were called to Chen’s Store in Bella Vista Village, Stann Creek District, whereupon arrival they saw the […]
