The tab at Chon Sing Restaurant which came up to roughly six thousand dollars, according to Bradley, is a blatant falsehood. He says that for payment to have been approved, a check would have had to be endorsed by himself, the director of finance, as well as the city administrator, based on a system of […]
While he dismissed the allegation that it was indeed Joe Bradley who racked up a hefty food and beverage bill nearby, former Mayor Darrell Bradley also spoke candidly on the situation involving beleaguered city administrator Candice Miller. The present P.U.P. city council says that it has been encumbered by a contract extension which had been […]
During last Thursday’s presentation, Mayor Wagner went on record to state that in spite of all the financial mismanagement taking place at City Hall during the previous term, the city administrator was rewarded with a contract extension which saw a significant increase in her annual salary. For context, we revisit a portion of that report. […]
When asked about the city administrator’s contract extension and raise of pay, Bradley told News Five that he believes in remuneration based on ability. But when pressed with the present city council’s view on that decision, in the context of the mayor’s statement on Thursday which you just saw, Mayor Bradley seemingly lost his cool. […]
Is there discontent brewing at City Hall over Mayor Wagner’s leadership style? Earlier today, outspoken councilor Micah Goodin, in a social media post, expressed his dissatisfaction in the municipal leader. He began by thanking the electorate in Belize City for voting him into office on March seventh, then proceeded to inform that he will not […]
There are two murders to report tonight that occurred within fourteen hours of each other; one in San Pedro and the other in Dangriga. We start tonight’s newscast with the execution of a Honduran national on Ambergris Caye on Thursday night in the San Mateo area of that island town. A twenty-five-year-old father of one […]
Another Dangriga resident was murdered today, making it the second homicide in that municipality over the past three days. While both incidents may not be related, investigators are tonight piecing together details of what may have led to the shooting death of Gabriel Laurie Junior, who was callously rubbed out inside his house this morning. […]
Guatemala completed a successful referendum on taking the Guatemalan claim to Belize to the International Court of Justice two weeks ago. A super-majority of voters said yes, but soon it will be Belize’s turn. The push toward a formal vote locally has begun. Diplomat Alexis Rosado and Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington were in San Ignacio […]
But even before Guatemala’s referendum on April fifteenth, questions were raised in a lawsuit in Guatemala’s Constitutional Court about the validity of the 2008 Special Agreement and 2015 amendment. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that the result of the Guatemalan referendum and Belize’s upcoming one are final and whatever the I.C.J. rules if […]
Fresh off the recent Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru, Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington and Peruvian Ambassador to Belize Jorge Roman Morey, based in El Salvador, signed a special friendship and cooperation agreement at the Belize City office of the ministry, the Edward Laing building. Ambassador Morey is in his final days in the […]
Belize was represented at the eighth Summit of the Americas by both Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington and Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte. This triennial meeting of members of the Organization of American States offers Belize the opportunity to network with fellow states on important issues, some of which Elrington outlined. Wilfred Elrington, Minister […]
For the past three weeks, Belize City Mayor Bernard Wagner has been hinting at the gross wastage of public funds at City Hall, during the time of the previous city council. He refrained from divulging much information to the media, while a transition report was being compiled. What was found out in due course was […]
Perhaps equally as astounding was the processing of payment to one Belize City contractor in the immediate aftermath of the March seventh municipal elections. An invoice in the sum of almost sixty thousand dollars was prepared for Gilbert ‘Gilly’ Franklin on the day after the voting blowout, purportedly for material he had provided for the […]
Of particular interest is that the expenses incurred by the Public Relations Department, as well as the office responsible for parks and playgrounds, kept mounting annually, with little or no measurable outcome. The reward for the fleecing of the public purse, claims Mayor Wagner, was a four-year contract extension for City Administrator Candice Miller. […]
A twenty-seven-year-old customer service representative was ambushed and killed on Wednesday night in Belize City. Kemmar Edgar Wade was shot to the back of his head, rib cage, and left forearm. He was driving on Saint Jude Street when he came under fire by a gunman. Even as he bled, Wade made his way to […]
Businessman Oscar Rosado Senior was laid to rest today following funeral services in Belize City. But according to police, the hunt for his killers goes on. Three persons are sought in connection with the break-in at his construction store on Cemetery Road in which he was shot while coming to the aid of his wife, […]
Fifty-five-year-old Patrick Crossdale, a Jamaican national residing in the Monument Site area of Dangriga Town, was ambushed on his way home on Tuesday near the Gulisi Primary School. A single attacker came out from bushes and fired at him. Students attending the school had to be given the rest of the day off as a […]
The suspected drug plane that was found on the San Estevan/Progresso Road early on Tuesday morning has been removed and flown to the B.D.F. Air Wing across from the Phillip Goldson International Airport. A pilot, a Belizean American from Punta Gorda, was contracted to fly the twin engine Hawker Suddeley HS 125. Earlier today, the […]
It has been thirty-six hours since the latest alleged drug plane landed in the north of Belize, on the San Estevan-Progresso Road. Late this evening, the Ministry of National Security issued a statement on the sixth suspected drug plane in recent months. The ministry states that aviation authorities in Belize rely on information from a […]
This evening, National Security top brass, from northern area representative, former senior cop and Minister of State Elodio Aragon Junior to Commissioner of Police Allen Whylie issued statements on the troubling state of affairs. In the case of Aragon, the Orange Walk East representative, he acknowledged that with every plane landing, Belize’s reputation takes a […]
The Commissioner of Police was also asked this afternoon about the suspected drug plane. While Minister of State Aragon was more forthcoming, ComPol Allen Whylie would only confirm that it was an illegal landing and that an investigation is ongoing. Allen Whylie, Commissioner of Police “All I can say is that we receive information […]
The suspected drug plane left abandoned on the Progresso/San Estevan Road on Tuesday morning, remained there up until this afternoon. A team from the Belize Defence Force was on the ground today inspecting and attempting to repair the scorched wings damaged during an attempt to set it on fire. The jet will be taken to […]
Investigators in Dangriga are still probing the shocking, mid-morning execution of Jamaican national Patrick Crossdale. The fifty-five-year-old was shot and killed on Tuesday as he rode his motorcycle from his home in the vicinity of Gulisi Community Primary School. As many as five shots were fired, two of them mortally wounding him. The frightening ordeal […]
A meeting was held this morning in Belize City between P.U.P. leader John Briceño and Prime Minister Dean Barrow. The rare encounter was at the invitation of the P.M. Though no official statement has been issued, it is known that the two discussed major national issues involving the referendum, re-registration exercise and the general relations […]
Belizean fisherman Iginio Canto Bacab remains behind bars in a detention facility in Livingston, Guatemala, awaiting monies to pay his fines for illegal possessions of lobster and conch out of season. The Caledonia, Corozal native was picked up by Guatemalan authorities a week ago, along with two Guatemalan nationals with product that Guatemalan authorities say […]
