There is a report from Chicago that a Belizean was fatally stabbed over the weekend. The thirty-five-year-old Jermaine Jones, who also goes by the name “Rasta Jayblood,” lived in south side Chicago and was the son of Dianne Hall. According to the reports, he was stabbed near his house on Sunday night following an altercation […]
It’s been a bad week for the media. It started at Wednesday’s senate meeting when political operatives attacked members of the media. And this morning, in San Ignacio, the outspoken and firebrand Plus TV editor, Louis Wade, was charged with criminal offences, in relation to an incident that is almost six months old. Wade says […]
Just now you heard Journalist Louis Wade speak on what has transpired with an incident that led to him being slapped with two charges; one for common assault and the other for use of insulting words. At the centre of the story is the San Ignacio Police Formation. On Thursday the media had inquired with […]
Earlier this week, you saw what transpired during the hearing of the Senate Select Committee – journalists were threatened by political operatives carrying out the dirty work of their party which caused a disruption in the session. Today, Wade pointed out that journalists were assaulted on Wednesday, similar to the manner in which he was, […]
The Senate of Belize met in ordinary session this morning at the National Assembly. It is its first meeting since the unprecedented and heinous attack on members of the press during Wednesday’s Senate Special Select Committee public hearing. We will have highlights of its business later on, but first: the Opposition’s members – Eamon Courtenay, […]
Senate President Lee Mark Chang defended his actions following the meeting. He pointed to his track record of being what he feels is overly generous with Senators in raising issues inside the Upper Chamber and said he didn’t feel it necessary for the Opposition Senators to essentially throw a temper tantrum after not getting their […]
Senate President Chang also told reporters today that he shares the opinion of Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber and Chairman Aldo Salazar that the Committee’s public aspect is starting to become wearing. But Committee member Mark Lizarraga disagrees, stating that it is absolutely important to get to the bottom of what happened at the Immigration […]
While President of the Senate Lee Mark Chang has few issues with the conduct of the Senate Inquiry, what was not known was that he had a brief conversation with witness Barton Middleton when he testified before the Senate Special Select Committee in March. This was at the time when Middleton refused to answer questions […]
Police in Punta Gorda are looking for a man who stabbed popular musician Lascelle Martinez to death on Wednesday morning. He has been identified as Simon Lino, who is on the lam. Martinez was having lunch when Lino turned up at his house and after an exchange of words, he stabbed him multiple times on […]
Alleged murderer Simon Lino is wanted by police for fatally stabbing Lascelle Martinez and seriously injuring his ex-girlfriend during a brutal attack on Wednesday in Punta Gorda. Lino, it is strongly believed, may have fled the country to nearby Guatemala. Inspector Frank Zuniga refrained from making a connection between Martinez and Tiannie Figueroa. He did, […]
While Inspector Zuniga stopped short of making any connections, Martinez’s roommate confirms that he was indeed in a love triangle where the young woman was involved with both Martinez and Lino. Valerio says he warned his best friend on previous occasions to stay clear of the young lady. Ainslie Valerio, Roommate of Deceased “I […]
Pastor, host of Rise and Shine and owner/manager of PLUS TV in Belmopan, Louis Wade, confirmed to News Five this evening before news time that he has been summoned to San Ignacio Town police station on Friday. He is expected to be arraigned on two charges of assault and using indecent words for an incident […]
There is another incident on what is an attack on the media. Sergeant-At-Arms of the House of Representatives, Brian “Yellow Man” Audinett, was a member of the gallery at Wednesday’s Senate Special Select Committee public hearings in the National Assembly chamber. But he became part of the news when he, Allan Kelly, and Chairman of […]
Has the usefulness of the Senate Special Select Committee come to an end? Since November more than fifteen persons have been called to testify, some more than once, but only Elvin Penner was of Cabinet rank at the time and other Ministers of Government whose names have been called in the report have yet to […]
There is condemnation of the attack on the media by political operatives. This afternoon, the People’s United Party condemned the actions of Yellow Man and U.D.P. Chairman Alberto August as well as Allan Kelly. The P.U.P. finds it unacceptable that Chairman Aldo Salazar allowed the disruption to unfold without demanding that Police take control of […]
Residents of Punta Gorda Town are tonight reeling from the senseless murder of one of their beloved musicians and former band mate of the famed Coolie Rebels. Thirty-five-year-old Lascelle Martinez, son of former Toledo East Area Representative Peter Eden Martinez, was stabbed to death around midday today at his residence. The deadly attack preceded another […]
When we left you on Tuesday evening, the breaking news was the discovery of a body, believed to be that of a Guatemalan national, inside the Chiquibul National Park. The body was located in the extreme reaches of the Ceibo Chico area, approximately eight kilometers east of the Adjacency Line. Earlier today, a joint operation […]
For the second week running, former Minister of State for Immigration and Nationality Elvin Penner was the headline witness at the Senate Special Select Committee. After last week’s appearance, any thought that he would be more cooperative was dashed within seconds of his taking the oath this morning. He got into a quarrel with the […]
The Committee’s public hearings were briefly interrupted by an outburst from the public gallery. Its source has been identified as opponents of Senator Eamon Courtenay and supporters of the United Democratic Party, there for the specific purpose of continuing to call him out about his relationship with Lord Michael Ashcroft. The hecklers also turned on […]
The saying goes that a man who represents himself in a court of law has a fool for a client. In the case of former minister Elvin Penner, he claims to have gotten legal advice. But his legal adviser was not present at either of his appearances before the Senate Committee. Two members of the […]
More than two thousand names collected by the Immigration Department are suspected of having obtained Belizean nationality in less than optimal circumstances during the rush to the 2012 general elections. Immigration officials testifying at the Senate Special Select Committee, right up to Director Ruth Meighan, have admitted that the persons registered to vote based on […]
Current systems administrator at the Immigration Department, Georgia Bowen, worked at the Information Technology section of the Department during the time of the Won Hong Kim case. It has been established through prior testimony at the Senate Committee that a ‘picture of a picture’ can be taken and introduced into the system. But how can […]
“Positive Play, Positive Minds, Brighter Tomorrow” was the theme of a two-day early childhood development conference convened by UNICEF and several local ministries. As many as a hundred and eighty stakeholders were present for the event that discussed programs that addressed issues related to child development, literacy, as well as parenting, and specialized services for […]
A father of seven children was executed on Monday morning when he attempted to assist persons in a traffic accident. The Good Samaritan was a Guatemalan national who lived with his family in Hope Creek, Stann Creek District. Edwardo Samuel Caal Sub was driving behind a stolen vehicle that was transporting a set of robbers […]
The firestorm in the wake of a racially charged conversation involving the President of the Public Service Union, Eldred Neal, continues to burn fiercely tonight. Various entities, including the Council of Management of the P.S.U., the National Garifuna Council and the Government, as well as the Opposition, are weighing in on Neal’s inflammatory remarks about […]
