Back to the city where a late afternoon shooting took place. A fifteen year old boy of a Pickstock Street address is tonight in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot at least once to the chest just after four p.m. Kurk Broaster and another minor were standing at the corner of […]
At midnight on Sunday, officially, pump prices for diesel, regular and premium fuel increased – diesel by eighty-one cents a gallon, regular by ninety-seven cents a gallon and premium by seventy-two cents a gallon. The thing is…world oil prices continue to trend downwards, resulting in lower fuel costs worldwide…but not in Belize. So what’s the […]
On Christmas Eve, businessman Jack Charles was before the Supreme Court in a case he is bringing against the Government of Belize. The importer is seeking permission for a judicial review to legally examine the basis of a decision by the Belize Agricultural Health Authority to detain a cargo of bulk rice from Guyana. According […]
While the shipment of seventy-five tons of prepackaged grain remains grounded in Big Creek, as of Christmas Day the importer will have to start covering the cost of storage. That quantum, if and until released, will be paid forward; however, Jack Charles is positive that it will be recovered in damages. Jack Charles, Proprietor, […]
Former Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture, Sergio Garcia is presently a technical advisor to Jack Charles. As a regional trade specialist, Garcia is familiar with the provisions of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy Treaty. But he has come under fire from current C.E.O. Jose Alpuche for failure to implement measures that […]
On December second a man considered a dangerous criminal escaped from Police custody while he and two others were being transported to the Belize Central Prison from Dangriga. According to reports, twenty-seven year old Dangriga resident Lawrence Bernardez made his escape when the police pickup slowed down for a speed bump in Hattieville. Bernardez apparently […]
As we get set to close up shop and head into the Christmas holidays, there is no significant update in the alleged rape at the San Ignacio Police Station. Four days ago a woman who was detained at the western station told police that she was raped at gunpoint by a Police Constable who removed […]
It’s Christmas Eve and around the city today, residents from across the country were hustling and bustling in the downtown Albert Street area doing last minute grocery and gift shopping. ‘Tis the season to be jolly and Duane Moody hit the street to share in the love of Christmas. While most persons will be spending […]
A report remains on the desk of the C.E.O. in the Ministry of Transport and NEMO today on the misappropriation of approximately ten thousand dollars from the Post Office in Belize City. On December tenth, the supervisor of the Express Mail Section of the Post Office, while doing a routine check, detected discrepancies in the […]
The ongoing logjam between the Belize Agricultural Health Authority, BAHA, and businessman Jack Charles, proprietor of R.C. Imports, over the importation of Guyanese rice will be settled in court. With time running out to the Christmas holidays, this morning, an application for a judicial review of BAHA’s decision to detain the shipment of grain was […]
If granted, a judicial remedy in the form of an order from the superior court will succeed. While Attorney Banner is optimistic that the matter will be heard in the days ahead, the Caribbean Court of Justice has not been considered as the last resort to settle the dispute. Reporter “So it’s an application […]
Three days after an outrageous allegation by a twenty-five year old woman that she was raped by a Police Constable while detained at the San Ignacio Police Station, an investigation is still ongoing. And no charges have yet been laid against the accused. According to the alleged victim, from Bullet Tree, a policeman took her […]
Keyren Tzib will be home for the holidays. After walking up and down the steps of the Supreme Court many times, the court today granted the coastguard officer bail. She is accused of the manslaughter of her common law husband who she stabbed to death at their Lord’s Bank home during a domestic dispute. At […]
Forty-five-year-old Lindbert Brown lost his life this morning, following a predawn assault during which he was stabbed multiple times inside a residence on Amara Avenue in Belize City. It is reported that Brown attacked a woman with a piece of broken bottle when the object was wrestled from him and used to injure him fatally. […]
Belize has appointed a new Ambassador to Cuba. Annie Burns Martinez, presented credentials to the government ofCubaat the Palacio de la Revolucion inHavanaaccrediting her as ambassador toCuba. Vice President and Comptroller General of the Republic, Gladys Bejerano Portela and First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marcelino Medina González received Burns at the formal ceremony. There […]
And in an update to the crisis of the Cuban migrants stranded in Costa Rica, they will be spending the holidays in that country. That is because negotiators have failed to find a solution to the month old crisis. The only agreement reached at the Mexico meeting was for another round of discussions planned for […]
An American has come forward to claim the mystery plane which landed at the Municipal Airstrip on October twenty-seventh and was abandoned there. The plane is a US registered Piper PA 34 Seneca Twin-engine aircraft. There was no sign of a pilot or any cargo, and since the plane illegally landed before the facility opened […]
Police had reported, based on the findings of a very preliminary investigation right after the aircraft landed, a flight plan had been filed. That plan had the Piper Seneca routed from Aruba to the Phillip Goldson International on Sunday, October twenty-fifth. Instead, it landed at the Municipal Airstrip two days after, on Tuesday. An intensive […]
The courtroom of Justice Courtenay Abel was overflowing this morning for a special ceremony. The occasion marked the admission to the bar of the first B.D.F. soldier. The proud moment was shared by family, friends and colleagues. Having completed his legal training in the Caribbean, Lieutenant Lionel Olivera, will head a new legal department within […]
Is there a growing disparity in the recent number of police and B.D.F. intakes? It would seem as though there are presently more recruits enlisting in the police department than there are in the Belize Defense Force. Since assuming leadership in February 2013, Brigadier General David Jones has been exploring means of expanding the rank […]
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On Monday, CWU President Audrey Matura-Shepherd came out swinging in the wake of an amendment to the Essential Services Act. The revised legislation now includes stevedoring as part of services which when interrupted would endanger the lives, health or personal safety of the whole or part of the population. Needless to say, Matura-Shepherd took aim […]
Negotiations between the Christian Workers Union and the country management of CIBC FirstCaribbean are once again at a standstill. On Monday, CIBC issued a release stating that it is officially closing its doors on January twenty-ninth, 2016. That announcement however, did not mention the outcome of the ongoing discussions in respect of an exit package […]
The home invasion at the house of Lebanese Honorary Consul in Burrel Boom is back in the news tonight. A total of eighteen persons have been charged but the last of eight suspects believed to have invaded the home of Sarkis Abou-Nehra reportedly tried to commit suicide while locked down at the Ladyville Police Station […]
There is a serious allegation tonight coming out of San Ignacio but details are sketchy. A twenty-five year old woman from the village of Bullet Tree was in police custody when she was allegedly raped. She claims that at about five thirty on Sunday morning while she was being held at the police station, an […]
