An elderly woman from San Pedro, Columbia was killed on Saturday, resulting in a manhunt for the alleged killer, who villagers feel is a resident of the community. We’ll have that story in a few, but first there are startling new development from that peaceful village in the Toledo district. Villagers have taken matters into […]
The brutal murder and probable rape of the elderly woman from the village of San Pedro, Columbia has sparked tremendous grief, outrage and fear. The nude body of sixty-one year old Agripina Coc was found at around seven-thirty on Saturday evening by family members. She had been chopped to the head, and because of the […]
The other murder victim is thirty-eight year old Michael Usher. The Fabers Road resident, who is well known to the law, was killed at about forty-twenty on Sunday morning. Usher, was shot multiple times on his upper body and head as he rode home from the George Price Highway towards Central American Boulevard. A lone […]
There was a late evening attempted robbery on Friday in Belize City, but it didn’t go quite as planned. In fact, two of the robbers actually ended up at the K.H.M.H. after they were shot. It happened at the Western Dairies outlet on Freetown Road at around four-thirty p.m. Four youths on bicycles apparently rode […]
A minor and a woman perished on Friday night at about nine o’clock in a traffic accident on a dangerous stretch of the George Price Highway. The two victims are seventeen year old Belizean Jose Manuel Castellanos and twenty-two year old Honduran Maritza Cruz, who were trapped in a GEO Tracker which collided into a […]
It’s official – media personnel will no longer have access to Senior Police Officers from the Eastern Division when trying to access information. That bit of bad news came via email. Effective immediately, any queries for information will have to be directed to the newly formed Public Relations Unit. Douglas Hyde, the Public relations Coordinator […]
A man who allegedly used his vehicle as a deadly weapon was today charged with maim and aggravated assault. Police believe that thirty-three year old electrician Devon Jones deliberately reversed his vehicle into forty-two year old Francis Gill. The incident happened at around twelve forty-five Saturday morning, when Gill was buying food at the Key […]
There is late breaking news. The Western Dairies, the popular ice cream shop, which is located on Freetown Road was jacked this afternoon by armed men. Police are processing the scene and there are few confirmed details available at this time. But we can report that just before five o’clock this evening, the robbers entered […]
Just before news time, the CIBC First Caribbean Bank held a press conference in reaction to escalating anger against the Bank for not disallowing one of its employees to speak to clients in her native Garifuna language. We will have that later in the newscast, but we go to Dangriga where a huge protest was […]
As we told you, there is escalating anger against the CIBC FirstCaribbean. Late this evening, Manager of Retail Banking and Operations, Shaeleen Castillo responded to the allegations being made at the Dangriga Branch. While Castillo declined to comment on the employment status of Uwanhie Martinez, the statement followed a meeting that was held in Dangriga […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow spoke today on a number of hot-button issues of national importance including developments in the sugar industry. Eighteen branches of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association convened in emergency meeting on Thursday in Orange Walk Town after Tate and Lyle made the surprise announcement that it would be buying far less […]
On Wednesday, the Statistical Institute of Belize announced that there was significant economic growth in the second quarter of this year, as much as eight point seven percent. But we checked the stats and found out the following. In 2013, the GDP growth for the first quarter January to March was negative point five percent. […]
It is rare, but the Supreme Court has handed down a decision in respect of one of its own, Justice Samuel Awich. The background is that a complaint was lodged back in 2012 by Dean Boyce and the British Caribbean Bank Limited as well as Lord Michael Ashcroft challenging the legality of a decision by […]
The Prime Minister was at the National Call to Action Conference on Women and Girls’ Financial Health hosted by his wife, Kim Simplis Barrow, when he was drilled by the media. Still speaking on the issue of Justice Awich, Barrow directed his ire at the Bar Association. According to the PM, the Bar is political […]
The Christian Workers Union which represents bank employees has joined the chorus of condemnation against the Dangriga Branch of the First Caribbean Bank. Recently, a bank employee, Uwahnie Martinez, was written by the management instructing that she desist from using her native tongue when conducting transactions with customers. While a meeting has been requested with […]
A letter from Tate & Lyle delivered to the B.S.C.F.A. on Tuesday has sent shockwaves through that Association, which governs eighteen branches in Orange Walk and Corozal. Citing the fluctuating EU market, the company proceeded to inform the B.S.C.F.A. that it would be purchasing fifty-five thousand tons less of sugar from them under the Fairtrade […]
While the impending Fairtrade disaster has taken center stage with the B.S.C.F.A. and the five thousand plus cane farmers in the north, there is plenty of turmoil in the industry even without it. Bagasse payment remains the ten thousand pound gorilla in the room which nobody wants to touch. The Sugar Industry Control Board, G.O.B.’s […]
A man who police claim confessed to burning down his aunt’s home in the Gungulung area of Belize City is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison. Twenty-seven year old Darrel Alvarez was arraigned in the Magistrate’s Court where he was slapped with a single count of arson. Allegations are that this past Tuesday, […]
The People’s United Party has suspended, attorney Arthur Saldivar as standard bearer for the Belize Rural North Constituency. That happened on Wednesday at a meeting called by the executive to discuss Saldivar’s fate. There were some who wanted the party to go further than a suspension and to have him removed as standard bearer. But […]
The body of an American national, Robert Thomas, was found today in his room at a guest house in Belize City. Just after ten this morning, a taxi-man who would shuttled forty-seven year old Robert Thomas around the city, reportedly found him dead. Police was soon be called and visited a room at the Three-Star […]
In June 2012, twelve year old Jasmine Lowe was found dead on a lonely street in the Cayo District. Her death sparked unprecedented awareness and action, and in her name the Jasmine Alert was born a month later. It’s a program which networks the country in an immediate response when children are reported missing. Like […]
Arthur Saldivar’s political career, or at least a political career with the PUP, is tonight in serious jeopardy. The controversial attorney and Belize Rural North Standard Bearer was summoned to P.U.P. headquarters today to learn his fate. He has been accused of taking a client’s money – over nine hundred thousand dollars to be exact… […]
In the allegation of the nine hundred and four thousand dollars, the matter is being litigated and a claim has been filed against him by the Coye family. But while that near million dollar straw broke the camel’s back, there are also other complaints against Saldivar which have been taken before the General Legal Council. […]
Sugar cane farmers have been dealt a crippling, and completely unexpected blow by Tate and Lyle sugars, a member of the ASR group. The terrible news came by letter dated August twenty-sixth – one day ago – and is broken down into bad news and worse news. First the bad news…the company informs the B.S.C.F.A. […]
That was the really bad news, but it gets worse. Traditionally farmers received payment for Fairtrade sugar when it was received by the company. But that’s not happening this time. The letter from Tate and Lyle informs the B.S.C.F.A. that payment will be made not when the sugar is received, but when the sugar is […]
