In the absence of a Contractor General, contracts awarded by the Government are currently being sent to the office of the Solicitor General for revision. Godwin Arzu’s contract was not renewed following complaints made by not only the Opposition but by Social Partner Senators. Arzu had failed to submit six yearly reports during his tenure. […]
In the crime blotter…the murder of Roy Lord remains an open investigation after police were forced to release a suspect in their most recent homicide case. The thirty-one-year-old was shot and killed shortly before midnight on Monday as he walked along Wilson Street en route to pick up his girlfriend from work. According to police, […]
A pair of men, both of whom are Mexican nationals, has been fined by customs and immigration authorities in Belize, even though one of them is wanted by Interpol for crimes committed in his home country. Fifty-year-old Abelardo Castilla and forty-year-old Manuel Villanueva were busted in San Pedro where customs officials recovered an assortment of […]
The charred vestiges of a small single-engine aircraft believed to be a drug plane was found in a remote area of the Orange Walk District earlier this week, on Tuesday. There is not much that investigators have unearthed aside from a few drums containing aviation fuel and seats of the plane. The discovery was made […]
The area of Blue Creek in northern Belize continues to be a hot spot for drugs and illegal plane landings. Police have confirmed that another illegal aircraft, likely a drug plane, landed in Orange Walk District. This past Tuesday, police found what was left of a single engine aircraft at a farm about eighteen kilometres […]
There’s been a major arrest in Belize of a Mexican national wanted by Interpol. News reports from Mexico say that a former government employee, Gonzalo Herrera Castilla has been detained in Belize. Herrera Castilla worked during the tenure of former Quintana Roo governor, Roberto Borge Angula and had been on the lam for some time […]
The scandal involving well-known Catholic priest Oliver Smalls has taken many by surprise, including those in his flock who attend service at La Inmaculada Parish in Orange Walk. Smalls is facing allegations of sexual abuse of minors in the U.S. While the disgraced minister has reportedly left the country, the debate rages on as to […]
As it concerns the church-state system of education, Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber has also weighed in to say that while there are merely allegations being made against Father Smalls; government is concerned for the safety of children who interact with priests in the school and church settings. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education “I […]
The most shocking of the sexual images circulated over the weekend involves a fifteen-year-old student of Wesley College, in uniform. She has since taken a leave of absence from school to receive professional help from a counselor. Minister of Education Patrick Faber says he supports the school’s administration in making available to the minor the […]
The wholesale distribution of pornographic images over the weekend on social media has raised the issue of cyber bullying and the urgent need for legislation to be passed to combat the malicious spread of damaging material. Those laws have been long in the making, despite the constant flood of lewd and sexually explicit material being […]
While the Attorney General is looking at ways to combat cyber bullying through the passage of legislation, Minister of Education Patrick Faber says it is equally important to discourage the production and sharing of pornographic images. The Deputy Prime Minister supports all initiatives to help the teenage minor through this difficult ordeal. Patrick Faber, […]
There was a late night shooting in Belize City on Monday which claimed the life of a young man from Lord’s Bank Village. Police are yet to determine whether the murder of Roy Lord is tied to gang activity. What they have been able to confirm is that he was accosted by a lone gunman […]
The mass circulation of a video clip depicting an underage female student in her high school uniform engaged in a sexual act is repulsive. Since its release over the weekend, a number of government and non-government agencies have come forward to condemn the act and the recording, as well as its distribution. The National Committee […]
The publication of a list of forty-two priests with ‘credible and substantiated’ allegation of sexual abuse against a child by the Richmond Diocese includes the name of Father Oliver Smalls. The Belizean priest has been removed from ministry and will no longer administer in public in the Diocese of Belize City and Belmopan, following the […]
All roads led west this morning as a convoy of police vehicles made its way to an undisclosed location where a huge haul of drugs was incinerated. It’s part of a routine destruction process where a mass of seized narcotics is ferried to a remote area and done away with. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. […]
Ten years ago, on December eighth, 2008 the Foreign Ministers of Belize and Guatemala signed, at OAS headquarters, the Special Agreement between Guatemala and Belize to submit the territorial, insular and maritime claim of Guatemala to the International Court of Justice. Minister Wilfred Elrington signed on behalf of the country while the then Minister of […]
According to Attorney Anthony Sylvestre, since the Special Agreement commits Belize to hold a referendum with the intention to settle the dispute at the I.C.J. which will rule on Belize’s boundaries and borders, such agreement needs to two-thirds majority approval from the National Assembly. Anthony Sylvestre, Attorney “Until and unless the provisions or the […]
With fifty more days to go until the April tenth I.C.J. Referendum, government still has the opportunity to take the Special Agreement to the House. Kareem Musa, Attorney “The beauty of all of it is that April tenth 2019 is not a date set on stone. So the Prime Minister and the government need […]
Sexual abuse allegations and scandal have rocked the Catholic Church and tonight a Belizean priest is one of forty-two clergymen who have “a credible and substantiated allegation of sexual abuse” against a child. The list was published three days ago by the Catholic Diocese of Richmond, Virginia, U.S.A and it includes Father Oliver Joseph Smalls […]
Cyber bullying has become a trending topic since a series of pornographic videos were shared across various social media platforms over the weekend. The incidents have raised the ire of many, including social activists, who have since gone on record to express their displeasure with what can only be described as a most despicable act […]
Police say two minors were raped in separate incidents and the men accused are in police custody. On Sunday sometime after seven in the night, a fifteen-year-old girl was raped by a man she knows in Orange Walk. In the other incident, a thirteen-year-old reported to police that on Valentine’s Day a man she is […]
A fifty-four-year-old man died in a motorcycle accident on Sunday night. Police say John Triminio of Orange Walk was driving his cycle between miles seventy-one and seventy-two on the Philip Goldson Highway when he lost control, crashed and died near San Roman village. Police say Triminio was driving on his cycle alone and was socializing […]
Police shot a robber and have another man in custody after they robbed a grocery store on Daly Street in Belize City. According to Police, two men went to Kum Hua store sometime after eight-thirty on Saturday night pretending to be customers and shortly after held up the store’s owner at gun point. The owners […]
Police say they have recovered close to one thousand ammunition believed to be from the Victor L. Bryant burglary that happened last week. And they say that another five hundred rounds are still out in the streets. As we’ve reported, the arms dealer’s business on Chetumal Street was burglarized and a stock of firearms and […]
For years, complaints against the Vital Statistics Unit have been mounting. In December 2018, former Prime Minister Said Musa told parliament that there are many wrongs at the unit where even rodents were eating documents. Musa said that what is happening in the Vital Statistics Department poses a serious threat to the democratic system of […]
