The men who brutally stabbed attorney Richard Stuart and his wife, Maria to death in 2010 today learned how many more years they will be spending behind bars for the vicious crime. Milton Maza and Eli Lopez Avila were sentenced to thirty-five years in jail by Supreme Court Justice Colin Williams. On October nineteenth, the […]
The Public Service Union came out swinging on Monday when it lambasted the Belmopan City Council for secretly selling off a parcel of land within the Ring Road that it has been occupying as its headquarters since 1998. Sale of the property to Chinese businessman Xin Ni has raised the ire of many, particularly since […]
On Thursday, it was revealed that the physical location in Corozal which businessman Xin Ni used to register Simplex Design Company Limited is actually the home address of P.S.U. branch executive, Amelio Cal. Cal told News Five that the property in Santa Rita Layout is owned by his mother and is occupied by his family. […]
Former Prime Minister Said Musa has weighed in on the matter. Musa released a statement today in which he recalls that when he was Prime Minister in 2000, officers of the Public Service Union including the then President Margaret Ventura appealed to him to regularize and grant security tenure of the Hilltop recreational facilities to […]
According to Musa, he was shocked to learn that the present Belmopan City Council has sold the property to an Asian businessman of Corozal. Musa was also shocked when he read a lengthy post by U.D.P. Minister John Saldivar, in which the Belmopan area rep accuses Musa of gifting the property to the P.S.U. Saldivar […]
Orange Walk ITVET called off its sit-out this morning sometime around ten-thirty after teachers got some good news from the Ministry of Education. The sit-out started on Tuesday of this week because the teachers are not happy with a number of issues that have gone unaddressed for a long time. One of the major concerns […]
An accident involving a Belize Defense Force soldier stationed at the forward operating base near the mouth of the Sarstoon River is raising serious questions about the conditions of the facility. The F.O.B. was officially launched in April 2016 and is staffed on a twenty-four-hour basis by military and coast guard personnel. The unfortunate incident […]
The sensational story involving the questionable sale of choice land between the Belmopan City Council and Chinese businessman Xin Ni continues to unravel. Tonight, the plot thickened because the Vice President of the Corozal Branch of the Public Service Union has come forward to say that the mailing address used in the dubious transaction is […]
On Tuesday, Mayor Khalid Belisle hosted a press conference during which he refuted claims made by the Public Service Union. When asked who from Simplex Design brokered the deal with CitCo, Mayor Belisle remained circumspect. He told reporters that he was purposely refraining from any name calling. So, the fact that a bogus address belonging […]
Police believe they have cracked the latest murder in San Pedro. Late this evening, a fourteen-year-old minor was charged for the execution of Cyril Jones, a thirty-seven-year-old BWS employee who was targeted at his home on Tuesday night. The minor is among several persons held since Tuesday after the deadly incident in the San Pedrito […]
Twenty-seven-year-old Warren Lewis became a free man on Wednesday night after he was found not guilty of murder. Lewis stood trial for the 2009 killing of twenty-two-year-old Albert Allen. After a three-hour deliberation, a jury of four men and eight women told Supreme Court Justice, Marilyn Williams, that they found Lewis not guilty of the […]
The Forward Operating Base at the mouth of the Sarstoon River is placed at a strategic location at Belize’s southernmost border with Guatemala. The post is manned around the clock by military and coast guard personnel who launch from the F.O.B. to conduct patrols upriver. On Wednesday morning, shortly before nine o’clock, a Belize Defense […]
The lifeless body of fifty-seven-year-old Francisco Sis, a farmer of San Marcus Village, was observed in the middle of the Southern Highway on Monday night. He had been fatally struck by a pickup truck driven by forty-seven-year-old Gregorio Choc. According to the self-employed resident of San Felipe Village, he was driving the Ford Ranger in […]
Well-known Belize City cabbie, Arthur Requeña, will be laid to rest on Friday. The taxi driver was knocked down and killed on Monday morning while attempting to cross the Philip Goldson Highway near mile two. He was fatally struck by a vehicle registered to the Belize Agricultural Health Authority, which was driven at the time […]
A thirty-seven-year-old San Pedro resident was executed on the veranda of his home on the island town. Cyril Jones was shot in the face on Tuesday night around seven-thirty when a gunman opened fire on him. Even before the gunman fled the scene, he pointed his weapon on another resident, who tonight is in fear […]
A convoy of vehicles book-ended by wailing sirens made its way along the George Price Highway this morning, en route to a location out west where a sizeable amount of drugs would be set afire. Inside the police van were fifteen bales of cocaine that were seized during an operation at the beginning of the month. […]
When a suspicious single-engine aircraft touched down at an airstrip in Sarteneja over the weekend, residents who are wary of constant drug activity taking place in the north believed that it may have been a drug plane. An investigation has since revealed that it is registered to an American national who is now living in […]
The People’s United Party has weighed in on the land dispute involving the Belmopan City Council and the Public Service Union. In a release issued earlier today, the opposition party castigated Mayor Khalid Belisle for selling the Hilltop property which has been occupied by the P.S.U. for the past twenty years. The sale of land […]
On Monday, P.S.U. President Doreth Cayetano-Obermayer told the media during a press conference that they have always been under the impression, aside from supporting documents, that the land in question was the property of the union. First Vice President Dean Flowers also said that the executives of the labor organization negotiated with the Belmopan City […]
Owner of City Shuttle, Philip Jones, is accusing the Department of Transport of unfair practices and discrimination of a political nature. Jones wants to provide transportation services to and from Belize City and Belama Phase three, four and five. Currently, Haylock Bus Service is the only company providing the exact same service to Belama Phase […]
According to Musa, the decision of the Department of Transport will be appealed and based on the minister’s decision, it will be decided whether the matter will be taken before the courts. Kareem Musa, Attorney “If he doesn’t make a decision within a reasonable time, our next step is to take this matter back […]
The Hilltop headquarters of the Public Service Union in Belmopan was sold off a month ago unknown to them. The new owner is a Chinese businessman from the north who paid significantly less to the Belmopan City Council than what the property had been assessed for. The Union is fighting back tooth and nail to […]
According to Mayor Belisle, were the P.S.U. to have honored the agreement, a significant portion of what is outstanding would have been cleared. The property, which was valued at no more than half a million dollars, was later sold for four hundred thousand. But, was City Hall too generous in discounting the cost for Xin […]
Mayor Belisle did not confirm if the land was paid for in cash and neither could he provide details as to how Xin Ni was aware of that the land was for sale. It is known, however, that the sale of the headquarters took place one day after the new owner registered the company. The […]
Atlantic International Bank Limited denies any wrongdoing. The bank was named in a civil complained lodge in the U.S. courts after the Federal Trade Commission shut down the multimillion-dollar ‘Sanctuary Belize’ real-estate scam. Atlantic International Bank Limited, which has a similar name to the local Atlantic Bank, but has no connection with that bank, posted […]
