The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) has issued a stern release, asking Prime Minister Dean Barrow to withdraw the proposed Ninth Amendment to the Constitution. The Chamber warns that the proposed Amendment creates a very dangerous situation, which is not contemplated by the Constitution. It allows the Legislature to have absolute power to […]
The British Caribbean Bank is going to the Caribbean Court of Justice based in Trinidad and Tobago seeking an injunction in respect of the hugely controversial proposed Ninth Amendment. The bank is also seeking a declaration that the re-acquisition on June twenty-fourth of Telemedia is void. The Court of Appeal back on June, twenty-fourth ruled […]
The preliminary inquiry in the case against La Cabana Bar owner, Mike Menjivar, concluded today. The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions is only pursuing charges against, Menjivar, after his wife and housekeeper were freed last Thursday. This afternoon, Prosecutor Lucio Shal argued that there is sufficient evidence against Menjivar in the statements provided […]
On Monday, police raided the Belize City house of radio talk show host, Glenn Tillett. They reportedly found computers that had been stolen from the Embassy of El Salvador in Belmopan. Tillett and his family were at home at the time and were detained for questioning. Tillett, however, had to be taken to the Western […]
The fleet of buses of veteran operator, Froylan Gilharry, remains parked at his company’s garage in Corozal Town tonight. His fifty-eight employee were sent home in mid-June when the Transport Department re-scheduled a number of runs across the western and northern zones soon after the conflict among bus operators and government over runs granted to […]
Also in court, a father and son who admitted to stealing oranges from a farm in La Democracia Village, which is managed by Ray Olgadez, have been slapped with a huge fine. According to forty-eight year old Santo Tzul and twenty-three year old Jose Luis Shol, they intended to sell the twenty sacks of oranges, […]
There is growing criticism and unease to the proposed Ninth Amendment to the constitution which the Bar Association says it will likely challenge in the courts. There are ninety days in which public consultations are required before the proposal goes back to the House for approval, but the topic is already getting a great deal […]
A Belama resident succumbed to head injuries early Monday morning after being bashed on the head with a blunt object that is yet to be identified. It would follow that it is a case of murder. But the prime suspect has been charged with Manslaughter. He is twenty-eight year old Marlon Woods, who faces the […]
In the Supreme Court, the last murder trial with jury concluded today since trials without juries are now in effect. The Parham cousins, who were accused of the murder of Orlando Montero aka “Vega,” are free men tonight. Vega died after a July tenth altercation that occurred as he stepped off a bus destined for […]
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There is significant progress to report on tonight in football. A delegation from FIFA concluded a second round of meetings with representatives from the Ministry of Sports and the Football Federation of Belize earlier this evening. The big news to come out of that meeting is that the embattled president of the F.F.B., Dr. Bertie […]
Discussions on football are ongoing, but basketball continues to bounce its way to the future. The Under Seventeen national team has been selected and on Monday the youths left for Puerto Rico to participate in the Centro Basket U17 Championship Tournament. According to President of the Belize Basketball Association, Paul Thompson, eight countries are participating […]
The Under Seventeen basketball team returns to Belize next week Monday. The boys aren’t the only athletes who are making an impression on their Central American counterparts. The Central American Female under Eighteen Volleyball Championship gets underway in Costa Rica this Wednesday, August third to the tenth. The girls range in ages from twelve to […]
A fire interrupted the dead of night on Sunday at La Isla Bonita. Five houses were completely destroyed in one of the island’s biggest fires rendering a total of twenty-four persons homeless. The blaze broke after midnight in the downtown area when the victims were in deep slumber; it was reportedly caused by an electrical […]
The proposed ninth amendment is at the center of a firestorm. Lawyers, policy makers, and activists have been vocal about the controversial amendment, which—if passed—will prevent the courts from reviewing amendments to the constitution. That was top on the list of contentious issues that have Belizeans on edge. On Saturday, persons from across the country […]
Last week, the Government announced it was not proceeding to enact the preventative detention measures that had been widely criticized and rejected by the public. That proposed initiative required a constitutional amendment unlike another anti-crime measure that was introduced at the same time in the House in May. The Prime Minister today penned his signature […]
It was a violent weekend in the Jewel; one man was murdered while five others were injured in Belize City and Belmopan. The madness started as early as Friday afternoon, when at least nine bullets were fired at Jeffrey Flowers while he stood on Amara Avenue. He was hit on the chest, back, buttocks, abdomen […]
Two minors were also injured in Belize City on Sunday morning. The young men were riding separate bicycles on Amara Avenue when a barrage of bullets was fired in their direction. Both victims received several gunshot wounds and are currently receiving treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Meanwhile, in the capital city, one man […]
An accident on the outskirts of Orange Walk District still has two families reeling from the tragic outcome. On Friday at about seven p.m., forty one year old Amir Awe was driving a white Jeep Liberty towards Corozal. His passenger was well known businessman, fifty-three year old German Vega Senior, the brother of the Deputy […]
There was another traffic fatality on Sunday evening, this time on the Old Northern Highway. Two motorcycles collided head on as Luis Zetina was travelling from Maskal Village and Winston Dawson was heading in the opposite direction. Ladyville police responded to the report of the accident, but when they arrived on the scene, Zetina, a […]
Only a few hours ago, the bloodshed began on the violence prone streets of Belize City. A hail of nine millimeter rounds were let loose on a City resident this afternoon as he stood near the office of Mesopotamia Area Representative Michael Finnegan on Amara Avenue. Jeffery Flowers, a known affiliate of the Taylor’s Alley […]
And while Flowers was well known to the police, another shooting incident occurred and it involved an activist who is well known to the media. Yolanda Schakron has had numerous brushes with members of the Police Department since the murder of her nephew Christopher Galvez in December 2009. The most recent altercation was on June […]
Late this evening the Prime Minister’s Office sent a letter to the people of Belize to clarify the government’s position on the Constitution (Ninth Amendment) Act 2011. The letter from PM Dean Barrow referred to court cases in Ireland and India to make clear certain points. It says “The Constitution of Belize, in section sixty-nine, […]
The Bar Association’s rejection of the proposed eighth and ninth amendments to the constitution has not gone without some criticism. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington who is also an attorney, says the bar has been silent on many issues, and though he hadn’t read the Bar’s position on those amendments, Elrington says […]
Angel Moriera and Reginald Cumberbatch have both been the center of scandal. Moriera’s name has been attached to fraudulent land transactions which resulted in the sale of an island and other properties without the consent of the owners. Cumberbatch, as you are aware, has been accused of attempting to assault a male minor in Succotz […]
