The Senate Special Select Committee has been watercooler talk across Belize since hearings resumed at the end of April. For better or worse, it has been dominated by the behavior of the ruling party, whose members have consistently disparaged the hearing both inside and outside of the National Assembly, and staged a violent insurrection at […]
Will there be an increase in the amount of money that comes out of your paychecks for social security? That is yet to be seen, but on Tuesday, S.S.B. C.E.O. Doctor Colin Young confirmed that by next year, there will be an increase in the value of contributions per employee to the S.S.B. Early this […]
According to Doctor Young, the investment income of the S.S.B. in the utility companies, the private sector and the agricultural industry has been keeping the fund buoyant over the years. But in the case of agriculture, that too is unstable based on several factors. Dr. Colin Young, C.E.O., S.S.B. “It is that income that […]
There was a massive fire inside the Commercial Free-Zone in Corozal during the early hours of this morning. According to a late report from the police, around one a.m. Corozal Police visited Menandros Store in the Corozal Free Zone where the building was seen engulfed in flames. Police say that personnel from the fire department […]
This week, Belize Sugar Industries Limited’s managers and senior officials are in meetings in Orange Walk Town, reviewing the recently gone sugar cane milling season. It was a record-breaking and successful season beyond the industry’s imagination. Prices of fifty-seven dollars per ton of cane, while not reaching the lofty heights of neighbors Mexico or elsewhere, […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow returned to Belize from personal leave in the United States around lunchtime today. Reporters met him at the Philip Goldson International Airport for an extensive briefing on several national issues. The top story tonight is that the Government of Belize has paid the second and final payment for the settlement of […]
Does the Prime Minister claim to be hoodwinked by Lord Michael Ashcroft following their 2015 conference in Miami, Florida, where the details of what became the Settlement Agreement were hammered out? He says that while Government always kept a watchful eye out, he and Ashcroft mutually understood that a minimum amount of liabilities would be […]
Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte also weighed in on the matter from a legal perspective. According to the AG, the case will go before the CCJ in October. The crux of the matter, says Peyrefitte, is that government doesn’t see eye to eye with the Ashcroft Group as far as expenses go. Michael Peyrefitte, Attorney […]
On average, four and a half million dollars is spent by government annually as it relates to subsidies on diesel fuel for the sugar industry. It is shared among all cane farmers, including miller American Sugar Refining/Belize Sugar Industries, which has its own fields. Now there are reports that it could be under threat as […]
The Opposition People’s United Party has been closely following the sugar situation. Following a record-breaking crop year and in advance of an expected downturn in prices with the leveling of the European market, American Sugar Refining/Belize Sugar Industries is asking farmers to proceed with the remainder of the current commercial agreement. While two of the […]
Mai does have some suggestions for the commercial agreement. He wants it ironclad that, with the accompanying investments in the sugar mill, that not a stalk of cane is left in any field in Orange Walk or Corozal – it should all be ground at Tower Hill. A.S.R./B.S.I., he told us, should take every opportunity […]
The Prime Minister also weighed in, reiterating the importance of ASR’s investment in the industry and particularly in the Tower Hill sugar mill to introduce production of direct consumption sugar for the European and Caribbean markets. He said that he would prefer not to have to intervene directly as he did three years ago to […]
San Ignacio Police tonight have another apparent murder on their hands. The incident that precipitated the death of thirty-eight-year-old Marlon Peters took place ten days ago; however, the investigation has taken on a rapid pace after Peters’ unfortunate passing over the weekend. Police are now focusing on the man with whom Peters had his last […]
There was a second murder recorded over the weekend, similar to that of Peters. Twenty-two-year-old Trevaun Chee was hit multiple times to the head and body allegedly with an aluminum bat in broad daylight on Friday afternoon in front of many witnesses on Mahogany Street Extension in Belize City. Two days later, on Sunday night, […]
Is Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin’s job under threat for outstanding delivery of court judgments? For now, no because at a meeting of the Bar Association of Belize on Friday night, the attorneys postponed a decision on confronting the top jurist until a meeting after the court returns from vacation later this year. One year ago […]
A teenage minor of Santa Familia Village was sexually assaulted over the weekend by someone who broke into her home on Saturday morning. The thirteen-year-old-girl had just got home, only to discover that the front door was ajar. When she entered the residence, she was immediately grabbed from behind by an intruder who attempted to […]
A forty-two-year-old has been detained for her alleged involvement in the disturbing discarding of a newborn baby boy last Wednesday in East Canal in Belize City. While that person is not the suspected mother, she has been in detention for questioning in the matter. According to Inspector Wilfredo Ferrufino of the Crimes Investigation Branch, they […]
Former GSU Commander Glenn Caliz…his name has been mentioned on two occasions last week in respect of an investigation reportedly being carried out by the Ministry of Home Affairs into monies that are unaccounted for at the office of the Gang Suppression Unit. A letter from the office of C.E.O. George Lovell dated June seventh, […]
One year ago, the Government of Belize began making payments to Dunkeld International, the B.T.L. Employees’ Trust and British Caribbean Bank Limited for the settlement of costs for the double acquisition of Belize Telemedia Limited in 2009 and 2011. The first payment, delayed after a dispute over the currency to be paid, rang up to […]
This morning, the American couple accused of cruelty and neglect of thirteen-year-old Faye Lin Cannon appeared before Supreme Court Justice Denis Hanomansingh, seeking bail. David and Anke Doehm got it after a lengthy hearing and as of this evening, they are out on bail of ten thousand dollars each and a surety. Despite the heavy […]
For those upset with the decision of the court, Bradley offered a timely reminder that bail is not a privilege, but a right, and that a person’s liberty cannot be taken from them except in extreme and documented circumstances. Richard “Dickie” Bradley, Attorney for David Doehm “Bail is not to be used to punish […]
While the bail hearing was taking place before Judge Denis Hanomansingh, outside the Supreme Court, a group assembled to protest against David and Anke Doehm. The group travelled to the City from San Pedro where the Doehms lived and where Faye Lin was found dead. Residents of the island are both saddened and enraged and […]
Bradley also addressed the protestors outside the Court in Battlefield Park, saying he empathizes with the situation, but upholds the right of his client to be free while awaiting trial. He makes no pretenses as to whether his clients were innocent or not, but he contends that any suppositions ought to be saved for trial. […]
On Thursday, News Five broke the story of an ongoing investigation into missing monies from the Gang Suppression Unit’s headquarters on Newtown Barracks. The funds were initially set aside for the payment of informants who provide the taskforce with credible leads, as well as information resulting in the arrest of criminals. Those monies, under the […]
The discovery of a dead baby, its umbilical cord still attached, found floating in East Canal on Thursday morning, has stunned residents of Belize City. The baby boy, discarded inside a black plastic bag, was fished out of the waterway by a sanitation worker who was cleaning the area. Julian Jimenez immediately alerted police who […]
