There was another shooting just before nine o’clock on Tuesday night in Belize City. Twenty-five-year-old Keshawn Dennison was among a group of men gathered at the corner Laura Dunn Street and Antelope Street Extension when a gunman opened fire. He was hit in both legs and is listed in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. […]
The head of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas was found inside a bucket in the pan of the truck of the notorious William “Danny” Mason in the parking lot of Barrio Fino in Belmopan. The shocking discovery was met with disgust and anger in 2016. Mason and four other men are facing charges for the pastor’s murder […]
Private developer Dion Zabaneh is free to proceed with filling lot number 4670, after charges against him for infractions that were purportedly committed in defiance of the Environmental Protection Act were withdrawn by the Department of the Environment. In early January, both parties became embroiled in a heated dispute over Zabaneh’s intent to build on […]
A package of allowances and salary to the tune of one hundred and ninety-one thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars annually was requested for approval from public funds on behalf of Paulette Elrington, the daughter of the Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington. Paulette, who has been making that sum while at the United Nations for eight […]
Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington departed the country on Tuesday for Uruguay, along with Ambassadors Daniel Gutierrez and Lou-Anne Burns as well as former O.A.S. Ambassador Lisa Shoman to participate in the international contact group meetings on the situation in Venezuela. The governments of Mexico, Uruguay and CARICOM have proposed the Montevideo Mechanism. According to CARICOM, […]
So while the statement at the O.A.S. by Belize was sanctioned, according to DPM Faber, Belize will not support any type of intervention or interference from any international superpower, such as the U.S. He says that Venezuela has the right to self-determination without political, economic or military interference from other world states. Patrick Faber, […]
A trio of brothers, who had been behind bars for the 2011 murder of taxi man Errol Ferguson, was released today on bail. Though they have not been found guilty, they have served eight years behind bars. Justice has been delayed for Michael, Ryan and Adrian Pook who were tried in 2015 and remained in […]
The Government of Belize, via the Minister of Finance, is being sued by Choice Bank Limited after operations were shuttered in June 2018 when its international banking license was revoked. That decision was taken by Prime Minister Dean Barrow, who is also the Minister of Finance, on the advice of the Central Bank. Choice Bank […]
There are still no charges for the driver of the vehicle which knocked down and killed twenty-three-year-old Marilena Mortis. Mortis had just visited with her mother on Dolphin Drive in the Buttonwood Bay area of the city and was crossing the Philip Goldson Highway near DK’s Supermarket when she was struck by a vehicle. The […]
News Five has confirmed that the parents of eleven-week old Dion Woodeye Junior have commenced legal action against the Ministry of Health. The parents have consulted a lawyer and are waiting for reports from the Corozal Community Hospital to proceed with their claim of negligence. Baby Dion died at the Corozal Community Hospital on December […]
For some time, a Belizean has been named as one of the U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s most-wanted deportable aliens. He is forty-six-year-old Santos Moriera who has a number of convictions and has been deported a number of times from the U.S., but somehow managed to get back into the United States. But the long […]
At midnight tonight, the prices of diesel and kerosene will take a significant hike. Consumers will be hit with a sixty-six cents increase per gallon in the price of diesel which will be selling at nine dollars and ninety-seven cents, hovering under the ten-dollar mark. Kerosene will increase by sixty-three cents and will now be […]
As many as four legal claims have been brought against the Commissioner of General Sales Tax in the wake of a 2018 decision handed down by the Caribbean Court of Justice in a case against tour operator David Gegg. This morning, attorneys representing individual claimants, including Jaguar Ventures of Belize, Hugh Parkey’s Belize Dive Connection, […]
Three days into February, the first murder happened on Saint Thomas Street in Belize City. Tour guide thirty-three-year-old Shawn Hemmans was shot as many as eleven times as he walked down the steps of a house, where he had gone to watch the Super Bowl. Hemmans was rushed to the hospital, but succumbed as he […]
A twenty-three-year-old teacher perished this morning in a horrible traffic accident near a well-known supermarket at the entrance of Belize City. The mother of two, Marilena Mortis left her mother’s house on Dolphin Drive, in the Buttonwood Bay area, and proceeded to the highway. Because there are no pedestrian crossings in the area, Mortis avoided […]
A Scotland Halfmoon villager lost his life in a fatal RTA on the Burrell Boom Road early this morning. Twenty-seven-year-old Kristian Tillett was driving towards the village when he lost control of his Mitsubishi SUV, which flipped several times before coming to a stop. Tillett was flung from the vehicle to his death, while his […]
There were three fatal accidents within six hours across the country. The first occurred just after twelve a.m. today in the San Joaquin Village on the Philip Goldson Highway. In this RTA, the driver did not stop to render assistance. The identity of the male victim remains unknown at this time and Assistant Commissioner of […]
A fifty-year-old electrician is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison accused with the rape of a three-year-ten-month old child. Alfonso Perez, aka “Rebel,” appeared before Magistrate Emmerson Banner for arraignment today. Due to the tender age of the boy, Perez was not granted bail and is to return to court on April fourth. […]
The People’s United Party on Saturday cranked up its ‘vote no to the I.C.J.’ campaign after its National Party Council unanimously supported the People’s Declaration. After completing his nationwide consultations, P.U.P. Leader John Briceño is convinced that the government has mismanaged the education campaign, leaving voter without enough information to make an informed decision. After […]
Mobilizing tens of thousands of voters on April tenth is a task which will require resources such as human capital and most importantly, money. Prior to the P.U.P.’s National Party Council meeting on Saturday, reports surfaced that Party Leader John Briceño had communicated to the party’s hierarchy that they will need to fund their ‘no […]
An unusual hearing took place today in the Supreme Court in which an accused murderer, waiting for a decision for two years, got bail. Curtis Lamb will be out on the streets of Belize City as early as Monday, after being granted bail in the sum of forty thousand dollars by Justice Herbert Lord this […]
At the Court of Appeal, thirty-three-year-old Gareth Hemmans Junior walked out a free man after the bench quashed his conviction this murder. He had been sentenced to eight years in prison after being found guilty of the attempted murder of Miguel Zaiden. The incident took place on May first, 2016 when Hemmans viciously chopped Zaiden […]
A father of a two-year-old girl lost his life in a freak accident while at work in Corozal. Thirty-two-year-old Jose Gomez was a sanitation worker for the Corozal Town Council for seven years; on Tuesday, he was returning to the town from the dumpsite when he accidentally fell from the waste management truck. Gomez suffered […]
Complaints against the Vital Statistics Unit on Hyde’s Lane have been raging for years. We’ve heard horror stories of frustrated individuals who have waited for hours in long lines to have their birth certificate or other documents corrected or free from errors—errors often committed by the staff at the unit. It’s a hellish experience for […]
And while Joseph Bennett’s cannot re-register, the application for naturalized Belizean Jason Guerrero was rejected. Guerrero is also well known in Belize in the music industry and for his founding role in BSCAP, the Belizean Society of Composers Authors Publishers. But he was told that his voter’s re-registration application was rejected by the Elections and […]
