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Since postponing its national convention a few weeks ago due to inclement weather, the People’s United Party has been busy organizing what it is calling the biggest political gathering that Belizeans will ever witness. With less than a month away from the March seventh municipals, gears are in motion to mobilize as many as fifteen […]
A thirty-three-year-old resident of Saint Matthew’s Village, Cayo District, is in custody tonight as investigations continue into the murder of Israel Perez. Earlier today, Cruz Castillo was arraigned for handling stolen goods including a power wash machine and a vehicle belonging to Perez. But was he involved in the murder? That’s what police are trying […]
Written on February 7, 2018 | Posted in
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Tariq Cano is a youth dreaming of a better future in the sport of cycling. Long glamorized by the Holy Saturday Cross Country Cycling Classic and later by other races, cycling has had its share of internal struggle. Now there is trouble brewing between Cycling Federation of Belize president Dion Leslie, who is also U.D.P. […]
Is the matter of the age-old territorial dispute with Guatemala and a pending referendum to determine whether the unfounded claim should be taken before the International Court of Justice, being used as a political football? In the south, there are at least six Mayan communities that think so. They have raised concerns about house-to-house visits […]
Alcaldes, as well as traditional leaders, are being urged to rebuff any effort to politicize the territorial issue. Despite acknowledging the importance of the campaign, Pablo Mis notes that it is imperative that the process is to be conducted in a fair, objective and independent manner. Pablo Mis, Program Coordinator, MLA “Given the magnitude […]
The concerns of the Maya community were presented to Prime Minister Barrow in writing in October of last year. His response, according to MLA Program Coordinator, Pablo Mis, failed to address those fears. Pablo Mis, Program Coordinator, MLA “At the beginning of 2017, the newly elected seventy-eight alcaldes passed several resolutions. One of them […]
Earlier we heard Tariq Cano questioning the delay in elections at the Cycling Federation. President Dion Leslie did not wait long to respond. News Five received a communication from attorney Bryan Neal this afternoon, addressed to Hector Guerra as Cano’s attorney. Neal says his clients have told him that Cano is not even a member […]
The Police Department appears not to be taking the bait of the Ahmad family in relation to some of the key pieces of evidence being used to support a murder charge against one of their own, Woman Police Constable Michelle Brown. Fareed Ahmad was shot inside his car on December twenty-seventh in Hattieville; he died […]
The body of a missing Immigration Officer was found today at Harmonyville, off the George Price Highway. Israel Perez, a resident of Saint Matthew’s Village and father of a young boy, had been missing for days and this morning, his family, friends and colleagues had the most difficult time coming to terms with his brutal […]
Written on February 6, 2018 | Posted in
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There is another murder for which a motive has still not been established. It is now six weeks since the popular barber, Fareed Ahmad, was murdered in his car on December twenty-seventh, 2017. A female police constable with him at the time is behind bars charged with his murder, but as far as we know, […]
Twenty-one-year-old Hezron Parks is making the headlines in the U.S. where he shot and killed an Arizona fire captain. According to international media, Parks faces second-degree murder charge and was given a three hundred thousand dollar cash bail and put under electronic surveillance because he is considered a flight risk. U.S. media says that Parks’ […]
2017 ended as one of the most murderous years with one hundred and forty-four homicides. This January, there have been as many as fourteen murders, topping the statistics for the same month last year. This morning, the Ministry of Home Affairs launched a two-year anti-crime strategy. First and foremost, police want to reduce the murder […]
Written on February 6, 2018 | Posted in
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So what is the fate of Operation ACT now that a National Crime Fighting Strategy has been introduced which will remain in effect for the next two years? The campaign has been ongoing since late October and while it covers three specific hotspots in Belize City, it has also expanded to other areas of the […]
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The scandal that is the forty-million-dollar loan to the former Universal Health Services, compounded with interest of more than fifty million dollars, continues to reverberate in the public consciousness. The government is making a last-ditch effort to stave off potential payment by taking a pair of arguments to the Caribbean Court of Justice which ordered […]
The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry issued two separate statements this afternoon. The first concerns the launch of the first San Pedro Town chapter of the business organization. It is scheduled for next Tuesday, February thirteenth at the Mahogany Bay Resort, on Sea Grape Drive in San Pedro Town. It is a partnership with […]
A Bella Vista man has been arrested and charged with the heinous murders of two sisters: Cricencia and Jospehine Oh from the village of San Antonio in southern Belize. The hacked and nude bodies of the two siblings were found on January twenty-first and days later, police charged twenty-year old Wilmer Escobar, a man with […]
Written on February 5, 2018 | Posted in
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The theft and arson of a vehicle belonging to a member of the judiciary is not an everyday occurrence. But over the weekend Magistrate Shanti Morrison reported that her sixty-five-thousand dollar SUV went missing from the street in front of her house in Ladyville. On Saturday morning around four-thirty it was discovered burnt up near […]
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There is a major arrest of a Canadian national with a long rap sheet who is wanted in Belize for murder. But it may be a while before twenty-eight year old Jordan Bacchus returns to Belize. He was nabbed during a drug bust in Sudbury, Ontario, north of Toronto, on Friday. Bacchus and a woman […]
A domestic of Belize City no longer faces attempted murder charges after the prosecution decided not to continue the case against her in the Supreme Court. Forty-two year old Hilda Locario was accused of attempting to kill Shirley Leslie on February fifteenth, 2012 on St. Thomas Street during a night out. Locario appeared before Supreme […]
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Government is reportedly acquiring the services of another lawyer; he is Ben Juratowich, Queen’s Counsel from a British Law Firm Freshfield Brauckhaus Deringer. He will be representing the Government of Belize in the upcoming U.H.S. case at the Caribbean Court of Justice on March fourteenth. Juratowich’s C.V. features extensive representation of governments in international cases […]
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On the diplomatic front…Belize has been without a resident ambassador from Guatemala since Manuel Estuardo Roldan was recalled to his Ministry for consultations. Relations were strained following the shooting death of young Julio Rene Alvarado in the Chiquibul in April 2016. Guatemala is now proceeding with the appointment of career diplomat George de la Roche […]
Uruguayan lawyer and politician Manuel Washington Abdala has been personally selected by O.A.S. Secretary General Luis Almagro to succeed Magdalena Talamas at the organization’s office at the Adjacency Zone. Abdala was a national representative for the Colorado Party from 1995 to 2010, along with Jorge Batlle, the elected President of the Republic of Uruguay. Abdala’s […]
As the March seventh elections draw closer, temperatures are running high in Cayo where the two political parties are clashing and violence is emerging. On Thursday evening, a young man alleges that he was beaten up by the campaign team led by U.D.P. mayor Earl Trapp. While he has several injuries to show, late this […]
This morning in the Chief Magistrate’s Court, a U.S. request for the extradition of attorney Andrew Bennett got underway. The extradition request contains seven counts of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Each count carries a prison term of between two and three years in the U.S. At today’s hearing, Jenina Urbina took […]
Written on February 2, 2018 | Posted in
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Could the Government of Belize end up going it alone in the upcoming appeal of the August tenth, 2016 judgment of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin regarding the amendment of Section fifty-three of the Criminal Code? Following the momentous decision outlawing sexual acts other than consensual heterosexual intercourse, between man and woman, various church groups loudly […]
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