Last week Senator representing the Council of Churches, Father Noel Leslie, surprisingly voted YES for the very controversial Petrocaribe Amended Loan Act. We say surprisingly because on May first, when the Act was first passed, the Churches had voted NO. But over the weekend Leslie sent out a release on his own behalf and on […]
Late on Monday evening, four members of the same family were released from the Western Regional after they had been hospitalized following a chopping incident that happened on Saturday shortly before midnight. In the early hours of Sunday morning the family were rushed to the hospital with varying degrees of chop wounds- all caused by […]
It has been over twenty-four hours since the execution-style murder of beloved print journalist Kareem Clarke. At news time tonight, Belize City police are no closer to ascertaining a motive in the deadly shooting. As we’ve reported, Clarke was riding his bicycle in the early hours of Monday morning after reportedly leaving the residence of […]
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On Wednesday political newcomer Anthony Sabal, the P.U.P.’s David, will go up against veteran politician and the U.D.P.’s goliath, Frank “Pawpa” Mena. The U.D.P. has boasted that its victory will be massive, and has been on the ground for the past month in numbers. So has the P.U.P., which is chronically cash-strapped, but has been […]
All day, today there has been an outpouring of both love and sympathy for media colleague, Kareem Clarke. The tragic news spread quickly this morning that the young and gifted journalist from the Amandala newspaper had been executed at about one this morning in an area which ironically is close to a police checkpoint and […]
The Amandala Newspaper has issued a statement on the senseless murder of Kareem Clarke saying, “We are still in disbelief over the tragic loss of this very promising and ambitious young journalist. On a day like today, Kareem would have been hard at work, juggling several stories for publication in the mid-week edition of the […]
There were three other murders over the weekend. The violence started on Friday night with the homicide of a Belize City welder. David Rivas was shot and died just hours into his twenty-second birthday. But was his murder foretold due to gang warfare in the area? Rivas was shot multiple times to the pelvis, buttocks, […]
The third murder occurred before dawn on Sunday also in the city. Sixty-five year old Emmerson Cain was assaulted by at least three persons behind Village Kitchen Restaurant on North Front Street sometime around four o’clock. He was reportedly attacked with a stone and beaten several times to the face before he was thrown into […]
While the murder rate continues to increase, two men went to court this morning and even before their trial started, they were freed. Twenty-four year old Charles Young Junior along with twenty-seven year old Derrick Kuylen are tonight free from a double murder charge. Trial was to start this morning in the Belize City Supreme […]
The Roman Catholic Church has broken ranks with the Council of Churches. Reverend Noel Leslie, who represents the Council in the Senate, was one of seven parliamentarians to vote in favor of the General Revenue Supplementary Appropriation bills, as well as the Amendments to the Petrocaribe Loans Act last Wednesday. The yes vote on the […]
According to Father Leslie, he is equally obligated to support the position of his bishop, despite having voted in favor of the majority in the council. Rev. Father Noel Leslie, Senator for the Churches “As far as the Catholic Church is concerned the bishop, he’s not in agreement with the law totally and so […]
There is monumental news coming out of the Supreme Court – a legal and political bombshell which burst all over Minister of State Edmond Castro. In late 2013, Castro had sued whistleblower Alvarene Burgess for explosive allegations that she paid him to facilitate many visas for Chinese nationals. Castro also sued Great Belize Productions/Channel Five […]
Alvarene Burgess made two appearances on Channel Five – an interview played in the news and an appearance on the Dickie Bradley talk-show. During those appearances she described in explicit detail her visits to Minister Castro’s office on the occasions she would deliver cash to him – two thousand for each visa application he facilitated. […]
Following the withdrawal of the case by the Minister of State, Great Belize Productions/Channel Five issued a statement saying that it has been vindicated in this high profile case because while public figures have a right to safeguard their reputations, they should expect to be subject to a greater degree of public scrutiny and criticism. But […]
Maya leaders converged today in Golden Stream, Toledo, in solidarity with the Santa Cruz Thirteen. The gathering is their first since the arrest of Cristina Coc and twelve other Maya leaders on June twenty-third. But there was an added dimension to this morning’s event. The MLA is going back to the Caribbean Court of Justice […]
After being reported missing by her boyfriend to police earlier this week, the motionless body of twenty-nine-year-old Juana Cardinez, a public officer working out of the Labor Department in Punta Gorda Town was discovered inside her apartment building. The boyfriend is now a prime suspect in her murder and at news time remains in police […]
The long arms of the law finally caught up with a Guatemalan fugitive wanted by Interpol. Uefrin Aldana Cassasola was found living in Yo Creek Village, Orange Walk when police conducted an operation on Thursday evening. It is reported that he was living in a wooden shack with a sister and her partner. The Guatemalan […]
This afternoon, six fishermen accused of being in possession of a firearm, ammunitions and Illegal drugs while on Turneffe Atolls were back in court. On Wednesday, July first, 2015, while the group was detained at the Police Precinct, they were found in possession of one hundred and eighty-three undersized lobsters. Today, they were remanded to […]
There has only been one murder in San Ignacio since the start of the year, but the body of a man was found on Wednesday afternoon in the area of the San Ignacio Community Hospital. The grisly discovery was made by a resident who is constructing nearby and it took his daughter to identify him […]
A peculiar accident claimed the life of a mother and left two of her children and two others injured on Wednesday night in Santa Elena, Cayo. It happened at a church were the congregation had gathered for the evening service. Somehow, a parked vehicle moved from its position in front of the church, crashed through […]
The arrest on June twenty third, 2015 of Maya Leaders Alliance spokesperson Cristina Coc and twelve other residents of Santa Cruz Village has become an international issue. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the O.A.S. has written to the government seeking information on the arrests on the grounds that the life and personal integrity […]
The trial for murder against thirty year old Dionicio Salazar started on June twenty-second before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. And at noon today, a jury of six men and six women stepped into the deliberating room to decide Salazar’s fate. At six-twenty, the jury indicated that it required more time to deliberate. Salazar is accused […]
The La Inmaculada Credit Union, headquartered in Orange Walk, is one of the largest in the country. It has assets around fifty million and about twenty-one thousand members, but it also has a big problem. On May eighth, its long-time General Manager and institution icon Yolanda Gomez was summarily placed on administrative leave by the […]
In the Supreme Court before Justice Troadio Gonzalez, the office of the D.P.P. entered a nolle prosequi in the case against twenty-eight year old Brian Welch of Belize City. He was accused of the attempted murder of the then nineteen year old Alfredo Rodriguez, another Belize City resident. On September fifteen, 2012, Rodriguez fingered Welch […]
