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From Works to Education…The Ministry of Education also came under significant scrutiny for its handling of tertiary financial assistance grants during the period April 2004 to March 2012. Examining various files and records, the report finds that the ministry’s authority for awarding funds for purposes other than tuition and scholarship fees was not clearly defined, […]
An amendment to the Misuse of Drugs Act is to be tabled this Friday at a special meeting of the House of Representatives in Belmopan. For years, a committee headed by S.S.B. Chairman Doug Singh has been looking at decriminalizing the possession of small quantities of marijuana. Debate around the pros and cons of amending […]
The Guatemalan press reported that Taiwan is to grant that country six hundred fifty million U.S. dollars in assistance to construct the CA-Nine Highway to Puerto Barrios, Guatemala. But the Taiwanese Ambassador to Belize has responded that his country is not in a position to accommodate the multi-million dollar request. According to Foreign Minister Elrington, […]
Late this evening, News Five has been able to get a sneak peek at the 2012-2013 Auditor General’s Report which is expected to be tabled this Friday in the House. The document is voluminous so it will take more time to go through its content page by page. But from what we have seen so […]
Written on August 15, 2017 | Posted in
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There are more details available tonight on the state of finances of the Belizean Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Last week, Shyne Barrow resigned abruptly when it became known that his predecessor Heather Cunningham and current Chair of BSCAP, was charging more than half a million dollars in fees for 2010 to 2013, even […]
Late this evening, BSCAP’s chairwoman, attorney Heather Cunningham, responded to claims being made by Shyne during a press conference earlier today. Those statements cast a negative light on Cunningham, as well as the organization because she is, for all intents and purposes, being accused of financial mismanagement during her term as C.E.O. While Shyne provided […]
Cunningham has taken umbrage to the allegations made by Shyne because she says they are slanderous. According to the chairwoman, the twenty-five hundred dollars that has been earmarked for distribution to member artists is the sum of what has been collected in revenue between 2014 and 2016. On the Phone: Heather Cunningham, Chairperson, BSCAP […]
At news time this evening, police confirmed that Jafari Castro and Gilbert Franklin are in police custody pending charges. The duo was detained earlier today in the south side of Belize City. Assistant Commissioner of Police responsible for Operations, Edward Broaster, told us earlier that the third suspect in the beating of basket ball player […]
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As police were announcing the arrest of twenty-one-year-old Christian Espat on Monday evening for charges of attempted murder, deadly means of harm and dangerous harm for a shooting incident on Ambergris Caye over the weekend, he was being brought to Belize City and arraigned even before getting to speak with attorney Richard “Dickie” Bradley. Espat […]
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It’s been a month since the last increase at the pumps, but get ready for another crunching increase in fuel prices. At midnight tonight, regular gasoline rises by a whopping fifty-one cents, to ten dollars twenty-one cents from nine dollars seventy cents. Diesel prices sit at eight dollars eighty-two cents, rising from eight dollars sixty-eight […]
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After a week of much hesitancy and serious backpedaling, the Belize Police Department has finally confirmed the names of three men, including Jafari Castro, who are wanted for the vicious beat down of a university athlete. But police is still not able to determine Jafari’s whereabouts. According to Minister Edmond Castro, in an interview with […]
Written on August 14, 2017 | Posted in
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So with all the confusion surrounding the whodunit mystery, is the department attempting to protect Jafari Castro and his alleged accomplices? According to ACP Broaster, there hasn’t been any political interference during the course of their investigation, despite the abrupt transfer of Inspector Fitzroy Yearwood. Last Wednesday, it was announced that Yearwood had been relocated […]
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This morning, Police Constable Ismael Monima was taken before the Corozal Magistrate’s Court for tampering with evidence. The junior officer is being accused of perverting the course of justice after he removed a urine specimen from the Traffic Office at the Corozal Police Station. According to a Corporal of Police, last Thursday morning around four-thirty, […]
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On Friday, Monima was charged with Perverting the Course of Justice and was held in lockdown until today when he was arraigned. Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that corruption within the department will not be tolerated. ACP Chester Williams, Commander, Professional Standards Branch “I will tell you from a police standpoint and […]
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Superintendent Dinsdale Thompson is on personal leave from his desk at the Queen Street Precinct, amid an ongoing investigation being conducted by the Professional Standards Branch. A probe into the smuggling of an undisclosed quantity of pharmaceuticals is being done internally, after the senior officer was busted in Arenal on August fourth by customs officials. […]
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Some twenty thousand U.S. dollars in cash, five thousand dollars in checks and an undisclosed amount of Belizean currency were stolen over the weekend from the Caribbean Tires office in Spanish Lookout, Cayo District. But the money has been recovered through community and police work. Tonight, an employee is detained for questioning. According to Superintendent […]
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There’s more crime to report…a trio, including two minors, escaped grave injuries on Saturday night when a pair of gunmen opened fire on them at a woodwork shop in San Pedro. Nine-year-old Jaheem Martinez and twelve-year-old Armando Bernardino Hernandez, both primary school students, are lucky to have survived an armed assault during which Lloyd Tyndall […]
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Shyne Barrow’s abrupt departure as chief executive officer of the Belizean Society of Composers, Authors and Producers, BSCAP, on August tenth, is mired in controversy. Belize’s Music Ambassador has demitted office after only one year at the helm of the group, despite a considerable turnaround at the once dormant organization. His resignation succeeds a recent […]
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Late this evening, BSCAP issued its release on the claims made by Shyne. The organization accepted his resignation, but goes on to call his comments to be “wildly inflammatory, misleading and inappropriate.” The letter states that since Barrow has been very vocal that the artists are his priority, BSCAP remains hopeful that he will reconsider […]
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Residents of Las Flores, a subdivision of Belmopan, are demanding answers about a recent transfer of land to a resident of Belmopan by the Belmopan City Council. One Amy Anabella Chen of a Hummingbird Highway address sought transfer of Block twenty, parcel number 8713 in February and the transaction was completed a week ago for […]
It has been a less than stellar week for the Belize Police Department, as the men and women of law enforcement have been finding themselves on the wrong side of the legal system. Earlier today, a pair of officers was arraigned in the Punta Gorda Magistrate’s Court on a joint charge of extortion, after they […]
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Police Constable Franklin Ramirez as well as Trevor Brown and Elorey Graham were all granted bail of six thousand dollars, plus two sureties of three thousand dollars when they appeared in the Belize City Supreme Court today to firearm charges. The men were busted on Monday when the Mobile Interdiction Team stopped a vehicle travelling […]
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A daring robbery was reported at high noon in the Culture Capital, Dangriga, today. According to police, a single armed man walked into the Dangriga Sub-Treasury on Saint Vincent Street around twelve-thirty, having arrived on bicycle. The suspect used a sawed-off shotgun to hold up the cashier and a civilian who was doing business there. […]
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There have been four murders in south side Belize City alone since the beginning of August, but unfortunately, no one has been charged for any of the crimes. The most recent homicide; that of twenty-three-year-old mechanic, Christian Velasquez, is the only of the four that has seen two persons taken into custody for questioning and […]
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Earlier this week, we joined youths from Belmopan on a tour of the Hattieville prison. The initiative was intended to discourage and deter young people from engaging in criminal activity. The statistics show that the prison population is made up mostly by Hispanics incarcerated for immigration offenses; in second place are crimes of dishonesty while […]
