The B.N.T.U. was not alone today; they were joined by several other labour groups, including the Christian Workers Union and the Public Service Union. The leaderships of the People’s United Party and the Belize Progressive Party also lent their support in the fight for hardship and commuting allowances. While the mighty B.N.T.U. can take on […]
The man at the centre of the storm is the Minister of Education Patrick Faber whose relations with the Belize National Teachers Union have been testy at best. As teachers chanted in Belmopan, “Solidarity forever; we will not be moved,” the minister was here in Belize City, away from the hundreds who made their point […]
Human remains were found today and it is believed that the remains are that of twenty-year-old Oswald Arnold. Arnold, a Roaring Creek resident, went missing six months ago. He was last seen at the Iguana Creek Bridge before heading off for an overnight fishing trip with four friends. His friends returned the following day, but […]
Guilty of attempted rape – that was the unanimous verdict returned by a jury of nine this evening in a case against Bert Vasquez. The thirty-four-year-old appeared unrepresented before the Supreme Court today where he was also found not guilty of forcible abduction. The case against Vasquez goes back to January 2011, when he was […]
A Belize City welder, who uses as many as eight names, appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court for a charge of robbery with a firearm. Twenty-one-year-old Edward Henry Alexander Wilfred Garcia Ernest Smith Conorquie is accused of the armed robbery of Bernard Timmons on May thirty-first on Mahogany Street. He allegedly stole a chain […]
A Seine Bight businessman, Daniel Vera, was granted bail after he was busted on board a Richie’s bus with a knapsack containing over four pounds of marijuana wrapped in three parcels. Vera was before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford to answer to a single charge of drug trafficking. He was arrested on Tuesday in the Bainsville […]
On the eve of a planned demonstration, the Belize National Teachers’ Union is finalizing preparations to bus teachers from its ten branches countrywide to Belmopan on Wednesday. The announcement was made last week after the relationship between the B.N.T.U. and the Ministry of Education turned sour following the breakdown of negotiations. The B.N.T.U.’s main points […]
As B.N.T.U. National President, Senator Elena Smith explains the teachers have decided to demonstrate against DPM Patrick Faber and so following the rally, the teachers will converge in front of the Ministry of Education to drive home the point that they will not tolerate being disrespected. So when Senator Smith was asked what the B.N.T.U. […]
Proposal Twenty-Two remains on the negotiating table between the Ministry of Education and the Belize National Teachers’ Union. Proposal Twenty-Two concerns grant-aided secondary schools where the teachers and support staff are paid seventy percent of their salary by the government while school managements pay the remaining thirty percent. But according to B.N.T.U. President Senator Elena […]
Primary and secondary school teachers across the country are heading to the Capital as the B.N.T.U. gets into gear for Wednesday’s demonstration. The union is also picking up support from other trade unions, including the utility workers. Earlier today, the Joint Utility Unions, comprised of the Belize Energy Workers Union, Communications Workers Union and the […]
As the family of Police Constable Osborne Martinez prepares to lay him to rest this Saturday, a third member of the PIV gang was arraigned for his murder. Tarique Myles is the last of a trio to face murder charges. Martinez was killed in the line of duty when he was shot to the chest […]
A San Pedro woman is also spending her first night behind bars at the Central Prison in Hattieville. She was arraigned on Monday afternoon for the charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the May thirteenth, 2018 killing of American restaurateur, Lamont “Monty” Lipka. The businessman from Texas, U.S.A. was inside […]
Armed robberies remain unabated across the country, where thieves continue to prey on businesses, both big and small. In Belmopan on Monday morning, forty-four-year-old Chinese businessman Hong Liang Li was relieved of three hundred dollars in cash when a lone gunman entered Tai Fu Store sometime around eleven-thirty. The incident, which was captured on surveillance […]
A mega drug cocaine drug bust last week involving a boat moored at the Princess Hotel, a single engine plane and two S.U.V.s won’t result in any drug charges. The operation started on Sunday and involved the B.D.F., the Police Department and the Coastguard, but something went awfully wrong. First, a group of twelve Guatemalan […]
Around ten a.m., five of the seven Guatemalans appeared before Magistrate Emmerson Banner for the cache of ammo found on them at a checkpoint in Hattieville and at a hotel in Belize City. They are: forty-one-year-olds Marco Palencia and Mario Moreira Lopez, forty-year-old Gilberto Jimenez, forty-six-year-old Bernardo Carillas de la Franco and fifty-four-year-old Sergio Morales […]
This afternoon, the two remaining Guatemalan nationals were also hauled before the courts and charged along with the first group for having entered the country illegally. Jorge Martinez Pinto and Luis Martinez Diaz were joined by Sergio Morales and arraigned before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford for having entered the country through the western border in […]
On Friday morning, the fatal shooting of Police Constable Osbourne Martinez and a robbery at the Belcove Hotel in the downtown area as well as the arrest of three perpetrators were all caught on camera. Three PIV youths were charged for the chilling murder of PC Martinez and this morning, Rayford Mejia and Glen Lopez, […]
It was a busy day in court…Brothers, forty-one-year-old Orlando and thirty-seven-year-old Kareem Staine were found not guilty of the murder of twenty-three-year-old B.D.F. volunteer soldier Denver Villafranco. The ruling was delivered by Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas in a trial without a jury. A third brother, forty-six-year-old Phil Staine, did not share the same luck; […]
Armed robbers also hit a business in the Cayo District. Two Hispanic men, one armed with a handgun, held up the owner of Lily’s Store in San Ignacio Town at around eleven o’clock this morning. Surveillance video shows the men ordering the storeowner to place the cash inside a knapsack, while the armed robber held […]
Ryan Cole from Tibruce Street, in the Saint Martin De Porres area has been arrested and charged for the armed robbery at Freetown Drug Store. He along with another suspect, who police believe they have in their custody, entered the drug store on Thursday night and stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the proprietor. […]
Newsrooms across the city were spread thin since early this morning as a number of robberies, drug seizures, accidents and a murder unfolded. We start with the shooting death of an on-duty cop, who responded to an armed robbery in downtown Belize City, this Friday morning. Twenty-seven-year-old police constable Osbourne Martinez lost his life when […]
The shootout on the Haulover Creek occurred just minutes before a press conference held by the top brass of the police department on a major drug bust. Our team was headed to the Queen Street Police Station when it diverted to the scene. Our cameras captured over two hours of police in action, apprehending the […]
The shocking police shootout with the robbers and subsequent death of PC Osbourne Martinez has gripped the nation. A statement from the Ministry of National Security says that PC Martinez lost his life while valiantly executing his duties as a law enforcement officer. This afternoon, Leader of the People’s United Party, John Briceño joined the […]
A sting operation led by the Belize Police Department, in collaboration with the Belize Coast Guard and the Belize Defense Force, has yielded another sizeable cocaine bust and a cache of firearms. Thirteen persons, twelve Guatemalans and a businessman from a popular store in the Louisiana area of Orange Walk were detained on Thursday afternoon […]
Shortly after the detention of the duo, a team of officers, including police and Belize Defense Force personnel, staked out an area approximately ten miles into the Coastal Road. There they observed a low-flying aircraft hovering the area. After circling the vicinity a few times, the single-engine CESSNA changed course and flew south. On the […]
