While the Heritage Bank robbery was taking place, Cabinet was meeting in Belmopan on crime and security issues. Late this evening, Cabinet released a briefing on today’s sitting. Cabinet discussed Prime Minister Dean Barrow proposed legislation following the murderous weekend, in which four persons were killed, including two Chinese grocers. On Monday, the Prime Minister […]
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On Thursday of last week Justice Oswell Legall ruled that Belize Telemedia was protecting its economic interest when it pulled the plug on Speednet’s international services. The justice also ruled that Speednet Communications and Belize Telemedia Limited were to resolve mutually the use of infrastructure within a month. The decision comes almost a year and […]
The government is in crisis mode, there were four murders in Belize City over the weekend. Statistically, since the beginning of the year, there are a total of thirty-three murders; that’s eight more than there were at this time last year, an increase of thirty-two percent. We’ll have the Prime Minister’s reaction later but a […]
Before five o’clock this afternoon, when the protest had subsided, a suspect was taken to court in connection with the murders of the Chinese grocers as they stood inside their businesses on Kings Street and Fabers Road. A nine millimeter handgun and ten rounds of ammo were found shortly after and they are believed to […]
As we said earlier, the Chinese community held an unprecedented protest following the murder of two female Chinese grocers. To cement their message that they are sorely fed up of the violence against them, the Chinese community from across the country decided to shut down their stores, restaurants and game shops for two days, beginning […]
The old Capital’s murder spree started on Saturday morning when a resident of Wagner’s Lane was brutally riddled with a barrage of bullets. Forty-four year old Joe Hamilton was murdered near his home. According to reports, Hamilton’s body was found at the corner of South and Plues Streets. He had sustained gunshot wounds to the […]
A father of two was the weekend’s fourth murder victim in the lawlessness that engulfed the streets over the weekend. Abner Rodriguez last saw his family on Saturday evening after six. Thereafter he went out with friends, and by midnight when his wife called him by cell for the second time, she got the horrific […]
While four murders were added to the rapidly growing list that now stands at a staggering thirty-three, charges have now been levied the murder of a Lebanese born woman. On Friday, police arrested forty-five year old Mark Anthony Diaz, a construction worker of Roaring Creek Village in Cayo for the Murder of Isis Nassar. The […]
As we said earlier, the four weekend murders sent the government scurrying for solutions. The police met in emergency over the weekend and this afternoon Prime Minister Barrow along with the ministers of police and defense, flanked by the top brass of the Belize Police Department, the B.D.F. and the National Coast Guard held a […]
A teenage girl is in stable condition after her boyfriend reportedly stabbed her in the neck and leg at his shack this afternoon. The girl, seventeen year old Stephanie Wagner suffered stab wounds to the left side of her neck and leg during a domestic dispute with her boyfriend, nineteen year old Linsford Baldwin. The […]
There hasn’t been a local plane accident since the tragic death of Sir Barry Bowen in February of last year, when his plane crashed near San Pedro. But this morning, a Tropic plane veneered off the runway of the Municipal Airstrip. On board were its pilot and seven passengers; luckily no one was injured. When […]
On Thursday, heavily armed police showed up at the junction of Faber’s Road with the Western Highway. They took eviction orders to a community of squatters ordering them to move forthwith. With guns on the ready, the police blocked access to their houses but finally as night approached the settlers were allowed back into the […]
You will know by now that last Saturday’s platinum artists were a no show as advertised for the concert featuring Shyne, the Music Ambassador and son of the P.M. The buzz was that the mega concert was a pre-release party for his latest album, where two surprise artists would perform. Thousands of persons paid fifty […]
Two vehicles collided head-on just before the lunch hour. The accident caused a traffic jam on the Northern Highway, in the area of the Haulover Bridge. One of the drivers, a Chinese national, was injured and had to the taken to the hospital for medical attention. The highway was eventually cleared and the damaged vehicles […]
Motorists are experiencing slight gas relief at the pumps this weekend after several consecutive price hikes over the past three months. The cost per gallon of premium and regular gasoline was negligibly reduced at midnight on Thursday by eleven cents, putting the new prices at eleven-forty and eleven-thirteen respectively. Diesel has seen a six cent […]
Earlier today we caught up with Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington, the Minister of Foreign Affairs at a CARIFORUM ministerial meeting. The subject of Marcel Cardona’s “constructive resignation” from the U.D.P. was raised with the Minister. The U.D.P. told Cardona on Monday following his outburst at the House last Friday that it will accept his resignation, but […]
On Wednesday, Marcel Cardona’s resignation from his own party was accepted, even thought he had not offered one. The Orange Walk East Representative was told that by his actions he had “constructively” resigned from the U.D.P. Signed by the party chairman, Patrick Faber, the letter came after his legendary remarks in the House last Friday […]
In an interview with News Five late Wednesday evening, Minister Faber said that the U.D.P. did not wish for Cardona to sit on the government side. But neither can he sit on the side of the opposition since he has not crossed the floor. So, how does the opposition People’s United Party weigh in on […]
Murder victim number twenty-seven for this year, was found inside his taxi on Prince Street not far from his station at the downtown taxi stand. The gunman sought Luis Ramos’ taxi just before midnight, and pulled the trigger on the cabbie. He attempted to get away but was killed behind the wheel with a single […]
Police are questioning a US sex offender, David McLain from Oklahoma, in connection with last week’s murder in Orange Walk of a Lebanese born artist Isis Nassar. She was killed at her home in Orange Walk on March twenty-fourth. Her throat had been cut and there were bruises on her hands. At the time of […]
An entire community of squatters was evicted earlier today. They had set up shop at an area near the Faber’s Road junction with the Western Highway where a road is being built for a bridge that would connect the south side to the north side of Belize City. Police showed up heavily armed and blocked […]
We told you about this morning’s mayhem when police blocked access to houses squatters had set up in a new area on the Western Highway. Marion Ali was at the scene late this evening when the squatters returned to the area. The squatters waited for hours on the side of the highway while three police […]
Marcel Cardona went ballistic against his own government last Friday in the House during the budget debate. While he did not support the budget, he abstained in the vote. His passionate presentation was remarkable for many reasons; he took direct shots at the two most powerful people in his government and party, that being Prime […]
In a letter sent to him and signed by the Minister Patrick Faber, the party chairman, the fate of Cardona’s party politics was sealed. While he has not tendered any resignation, he was told that by his actions, he has resigned. The letter also says that put he failed to attend Parliamentary caucuses and National […]
