Coincidentally, Lino had recently gotten a protection and occupation order for her property in Santa Elena, the residence whose ownership is under dispute. Dolores Balderamos-Garcia, Attorney for Pamela Lino “My main plea to the public would be to assist the police. In Belize, somebody must know something. Somebody must sih something and the police […]
Within hours of the kick-off of the popular cashew fest in the village of Crooked Tree, a fire broke out at the offices of the Belize Audubon Society. The wooden structure was quickly devoured by the blaze over the weekend and by the time the Fire Department responded, there was little they could do. The […]
Saturday morning was a day of celebration for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan. It formally welcomed its third native Bishop, Lawrence Sydney Nicasio of Dangriga, in an elaborate three-and-a-half-hour ceremony, featuring the convergence of many cultures. A coterie of bishops from across the Caribbean congregated to formally make Nicasio, who succeeds Monsignor Dorrick […]
On Friday, a house in Belize City was destroyed by fire around one-thirty p.m. The town-house style home was occupied by two families, a total of eleven persons. The families were wiped out of most of their property – only a few items were saved. An investigation by the National Fire Service has determined that […]
With the countdown officially on to the retirement of Prime Minister Dean Barrow, speculation has begun on the internal race to succeed him. Deputy Prime Minister and first deputy leader of the United Democratic Party, Patrick Faber, is considered the clear-cut favourite after defeating John Saldivar last May for the post. He has been boosted […]
Fuel moves Belize, but the question tonight is whether the country may grind to a halt as a result of rising fuel prices. According to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, the legislated fuel increase in excise taxes is for twenty million dollars spread out over the 2017-2018 financial year; the subsequent increases are a result of […]
Fuel from Venezuela, refined in Curacao, is Belize’s main source under the Petrocaribe program. But because of continued unrest in the South American state and ongoing issues related to world fuel oil prices, questions have been raised about whether Belize is ultimately being compromised by its close relation to this troubled state. Three weeks ago, […]
The People’s United Party issued a statement today about the Integrity Commission further to the House meeting on Friday. The P.U.P. wants to know what Prime Minister Dean Barrow is afraid of, accusing him of circling the wagons around those of his Ministers who it says “have gotten inordinately wealthy and have amassed significant holdings […]
There was another border incident over the weekend in the north. Last week we reported that the Governments of Belize and Mexico had agreed to close the Chactemal area, which is the old Subteniente Lopez border crossing. The move was to deter contraband from the Free Zone spilling into Mexico. Well over the weekend the […]
Her encounter with a convicted murderer three months ago ended with a hit to the face when she tried to take his picture. But according to veteran court reporter and photographer Anita Nembhard, police appear to be having difficulties charging the accused, Byron James, with the assault. It has been three months since Nembhard made […]
A Belizean soldier is flying high after topping a fourteen-month course in pilot training in Jamaica. The Ministry of Defence and the Belize Defence Force took the opportunity to give out congratulations today to Captain Francis Usher, who placed first in the Wings Course 1601 pilot training course in Jamaica. Funding from the course came […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Leader of the Opposition John Briceño today signed a new Children’s Agenda 2017-2030 on the occasion of the International Day of Families under the theme, “Families, education and well-being.” The National Committee for Families and Children’s vision of the Agenda speaks to a nation where the rights of all children […]
Over the weekend, Belize hosted the nineteenth extraordinary meeting of the forum of presiding officers of national parliaments of Central America and the Caribbean (FOPREL). Belize assumed the presidency of FOPREL since February and will be at the helm until next year. The core purpose of FOPREL is to create legislative framework that applies across […]
May is half-gone, but two major activities are coming up in the promotion of Cancer Awareness Month. Cancer has been reported as the second leading cause of death in 2016, with prostate, breast and cervical cancer the chief culprits for men and women respectively. This coming weekend is the Cancer Ride to benefit awareness of […]
Thousands headed to the village of Crooked Tree for the annual cashew festival. The two-day event over the weekend featured all things cashew—from wines to cakes to the sweet roasted nuts. Over the years, the festival has grown considerably becoming an important event in the promotion of local produce. The festival this year caught the […]
Fifty-four-year-old John Deshaies was granted bail this morning, but as soon as he met bail, he was rearrested and tonight remains in police custody. The Canadian national was charged a week ago for the theft of fifty-seven thousand dollars of electronic equipment from the Placencia casino in the south. But Deshaies is also the suspect […]
The couple, a retired officer of the U.S. Marine Corps and his Canadian girlfriend, was found dead in a cane field off the Patchakan/Chan Chen Road after being reported missing six days earlier. The badly decomposed bodies of DeVoursney and Matus were found by a cane farmer who showed up for work on the land […]
According to DeShaies, he has been fully cooperative with agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation who have been dispatched to Belize to probe into the murders. He says that he never really knew Drew Devoursney, aside from having seen the American national when visiting his girlfriend at her house on Serenity Sands Road in […]
Since being picked up as a person of interest by Corozal police, DeShaies is being bounced around from one jurisdiction to another on a seemingly endless string of perp walks. We asked whether he believes that his individual rights are being interfered with as a result of the ongoing detention. Isani Cayetano “Do you […]
The House of Representatives met today in special session in Belmopan. Its main business was to introduce nine original and amended bills and two loan motions. We will get to all of that in a moment, but first to an extended interview at the conclusion of the House meeting with Prime Minister Dean Barrow. Two […]
According to the Prime Minister, today was a good day in terms of his back problems, but there are increasingly fewer of them. With his main goal of this term – a renegotiated Superbond – off the table, he admits there are few other things left to accomplish, canning corruption among them. So he is […]
In December, the seven-member Integrity Commission was appointed in Belmopan. Barely a few months into their tenure, they have decided that a clean slate is needed in respect of financial disclosures for the period when the Commission was not in place. After originally demanding the disclosures for the five years preceding 2016, the Commission appears […]
Outside the House, the Prime Minister refused to take blame for the delay in the appointment of the Commission, repeating that circumstances in that appointment were beyond his control. He was referring to the risk of politically exposed persons, or PEPs, refusing to take up seats on the Commission and open themselves to strict scrutiny […]
Embattled lower court judge Norman Rodriguez is at home tonight on half-pay, following a decision by the Judicial and Legal Services Commission to interdict him. The announcement comes on the heels of his arraignment on Wednesday morning, after being charged in Belize City for a rape that allegedly occurred in Dangriga on April eleventh. The […]
Around twenty-one million Belize dollars was paid out to settle the final costs of the re-arrangement of the Superbond Three point O, which took about five months to negotiate. The figure was announced by Prime Minister Dean Barrow in an official statement during today’s meeting of the House of Representatives. It was in response to […]
