In another matter recently before the Supreme Court, Justice Courtney Abel also ruled in favor of the Belize Bank. He struck out a section of the Income Tax and Business Tax Act which required all businesses to pay their taxes in full before challenging the assessment. The decision followed an evaluation in which the bank […]
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Thirty year old businessman, Raul Magana Junior on April twentieth, 2014, allegedly experienced a tire blow out that caused his vehicle to overturn on the Phillip Goldson Highway between Miles twenty sixth and twenty seventh. Magana’s twenty seven year old common/law wife, Lissi Li and son were killed in the mishap. The traffic fatality occurred […]
Gay rights activist Maurice Tomlinson, who is challenging the existing immigration laws of Belize and Trinidad & Tobago, was back before the Caribbean Court of Justice today. Tomlinson is suing the governments of both countries on the basis that their laws are discriminatory towards prohibited classes, including the LGBT community. On May ninth, 2014 the […]
There is a report tonight that fuel stocks are running low at gas depots countrywide. As a result, the main fuel importer, Puma Energy, has been rationing stocks, in particular for diesel which is retailing at seven dollars and ninety-seven cents per gallon. The cutback to consumers has been caused by a huge increase in […]
A Mahogany Heights resident is tonight fortunate to be alive after he was stabbed to the chest on Friday afternoon in what has been described as a domestic dispute. Forty-two year old Earlin Butler was stabbed around two p.m. on Friday by a woman, who lives three houses away from his in the village. Just […]
According to Hattieville Police, under whose jurisdiction the Mahogany Heights Community falls, they were called out sometime around two-thirty on Friday afternoon. By that time, Butler had already been rushed to the K.H.M.H., while his attacker, twenty-four year old Hattieville resident, Shannon Smith, was at a house in the community. Police would not speculate as […]
There has not been a guilty conviction for murder since the beginning of the year and in fact, as recent as last Thursday, three men walked free of the charge. Well, just after midday, a jury of eight men and four women stepped into the deliberating room to decide the fate of thirty-one year old […]
A bloodbath on Mayflower Street on the night of March fourth ended in the death of a Belize City resident, left another man injured and the alleged assailant under police guard at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. That is after thirty-three-year-old Jervis Valencia was shot by police responding to the scene of the deadly incident. […]
Livestock farmers in Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary have been losing their cattle, but it is not to rustlers. For some time now, farmers have lost thousands of dollars because jaguars have been on the prowl in the area. The issue is that the jaguar population is under protection by law, and the only reason to […]
A Mexican national was hacked to death in the Corozal District on March first. The body of a man identified as Sergio Martinez was discovered in his bungalow with multiple chop wounds to the face and head. Police have been unable to properly identify the man and he has since been buried as a “John […]
Today’s sitting of the House of Representatives was reserved for the presentation of the 2015-2016 Budget, the eighth of the Barrow administration. Later in our newscast we’ll have an extensive look at that, but first we deal with another matter which dominated the political scene inside and outside the House today. We refer, of course, […]
With that acerbic statement, it was on to the reading of the Budget, and there is where it would have ended today. But the man to whom many of the allegations in the leaked recording are pointing decided to have his say. Former Prime Minister Said Musa is a veteran debater in the House, but […]
P.U.P., Leader Francis Fonseca was absent his seat for the back and forth between Musa and the Prime Minister – which was both awkward and vicious. But he dismissed the allegations as being asked and answered many times before. Fonseca insists that it is being handled internally, and that’s just the way it’s going to […]
Even without the heat generated by that fiery recording, Fonseca is at a most difficult time in his political leadership. In some quarters there is criticism that he has been unable to unite the party and has been unable to restructure the once mighty organization into even a shadow of its former self. But there’s […]
Relations between former Party Leader, John Briceño, and current P.U.P. Deputy Leader, Julius Espat, remain tense following the release of the clandestine recording on Tuesday. Briceño levied serious allegations against his former advisor Espat and Espat is not taking it lightly. The bad blood has made its way to the social media, where it is […]
Just before midday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow made his 2015-2016 Budget presentation which he promised would be the shortest ever, but which still ran for forty-nine minutes. He prefaced the substance of the address by proclaiming that the muscularity of the voters in municipal elections would, as promised, be rewarded by the muscularity of government […]
For fiscal year 2014/2015, there is a projected overall deficit of one hundred and forty-one million dollars, a two point five percent increase from its initial estimate. That, says Prime Minister Barrow, is the direct result of government’s focus on people-centred, country-centred spending. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “The U.D.P. political directorate is unrelenting in […]
Turning to political news….Following an executive meeting and four hour political post-mortem examination on Wednesday, the P.U.P. appeared focused on the road ahead which will lead inevitably to very difficult general elections. Flanked by his generals, P.U.P. leader Francis Fonseca sent out a message to, in his own words, the demoralized supporters of the Party. […]
As we also mentioned on Wednesday, during the meeting at Independence Hall Espat demanded a public apology from Briceño and called for his head. Neither the apology nor the requested ouster came to pass, because Espat was only supported by one executive member. Tonight, we bring back that comment which has so incensed P.U.P. Deputy […]
A fire in the city has left a young single mother and her two children without a roof over their heads. Deniesia Tillett left home at seven this morning heading to her job at Travelers Limited, where she started working just a month ago. Her twelve year old and four year old daughters were at […]
In response to a flare-up of violence in San Pedro which Police believe is directly connected to drug rivals warring, special units have descended on the tourism mecca. One early casualty of the crackdown is the Campos/Hernandez family which is believed to be one of the warring factions. On Wednesday, a special unit of San […]
There are significant developments coming out of B.S.I. tonight where it is reported that longtime factory manager John Gillett tendered his resignation today. News Five understands that another senior employee at the Tower Hill Factory, Jamil Matar, was placed on administrative leave on Wednesday, but unlike Gillett, he has not opted to resign. Matar, who […]
As we told you earlier, there is a major crackdown underway in San Pedro Town, necessitated by violent crime which even resulted in the brutal murder of a two year old boy. Because things seem out of control, the police are fighting fire with fire, and already the complaints are pouring in. Today, Irma Mejia […]
Diego Wade is another San Pedro resident who says he barely survived a meeting with the infamous Gang Suppression Unit earlier this week, and at one point thought they would kill him. Both Wade and Allen are being represented by Attorney Oscar Salgado who says that he is fed up of the constitution being flouted […]
