The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Elliott Mottley was showered with praises today at a special sitting of the court of Appeal by colleagues and members of the legal profession. Last Friday, the Government issued a release announcing the (Quote) retirement of the Justice but by Monday, no less than the Bar Association […]
Two weeks ago a human smuggling ring was exposed when it was revealed that charters from Haiti had been landing at the Philip Goldson International Airport with Chinese nationals. The investigations showed that the three flights on September eighteen, nineteen and October third brought thirty-three Chinese nationals who were whisked away from the airport to […]
The Bar Association on Monday issued a release, mourning the death of their colleague Richard Stuart and his wife Maria and announcing a reward of fifty thousand dollars for anyone with information leading to a conviction in the brutal slaying. Richard, a former president of Bar, was also a high ranking member of the Steadfast […]
Post mortems have been completed on Twenty-one year old Michael Pandy and twenty-nine year old Keith Nicholas, the two riggers who died in a freak accident last Thursday. The men plunged one hundred and twenty-feet to the ground from a communications tower that they working on in Saint Margaret’s Village on the Hummingbird Highway. While […]
The partnership between Grace Kennedy Belize and the Belize Hospital Auxiliary was formed in November 2009 for the production and distribution of the fifth edition of the Hospital Auxiliary’s cookbook. By the official inauguration in January, nine hundred copies of the book had been sold and by the end of August the two thousand prints […]
This evening the Bar Association issued a release expressing its outrage and dismay over the brutal murder of Richard Stuart and his wife, Maria. As they mourn, his colleagues remember him as a professional, cordial and courteous attorney who was active in the association and served as president from 2008 to 2009. The Bar is […]
Julia Singh was one of two winners who hit the fifty-five thousand dollar jackpot on October sixth. She picked up her prize last Tuesday and today the second winner collected her prize money. Carla Aguilar, also a working mother, took home a cheque for twenty-three thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars, which she says she […]
More than a year after its nationalization, Prime Minister Dean Barrow formally announced today the sale of shares in Telemedia even though compensation has not been settled and the value of the company will not be determined until after the litigation process is complete. Over twenty-two million ordinary shares are being sold for five dollars […]
The Prime Minister also announced his own accommodation agreement for Telemedia. For starters, business tax will be reverted to nineteen percent from twenty-four point five percent, the fifteen percent withholding tax will be removed and then there is VOIP. In one of speeches, Barrow made reference to increasing the speed of internet for a small […]
Earlier in the newscast, we told you about the press conference on Telemedia’s shares. After the nationalization of Telemedia, former Telemedia Chairman Dean Boyce put the value of the company in excess of three hundred million U.S. dollars. That’s a hefty sum that still looms over the cash strapped government. The compensation as well as […]
Representatives from the Statistical Institute of Belize usually come knocking at your door to collect data. Well, the roles were reversed today when the SIB employees made their rounds to assist the community in observation of Caribbean Statistics Day. Across the region, events were held to highlight the importance of statistics, but SIB decided to […]
For some time now, things have appeared increasingly unsettled in the Judiciary. First, an Attorney General questioned the competence of the judiciary at the Supreme Court opening. The Bar Association passed a resolution calling for the removal of a judge, then engaged Prime Minister Dean Barrow in a public tiff over his manner of appointing […]
The body of an elderly man was recovered today from his home at twenty-one Kraal Road in Belize City. The man, identified to us by area residents only as “Dickie”, lived alone. He was last seen alive riding home last week. Neighbors didn’t see him for days and then began smelling a stench. Today they […]
One month and a half after they disappeared, Benjamin and Onelia Rash are still missing and neither the cops nor residents of Punta Gorda Town are any closer to finding them. But there is still hope that the brother and sister are still alive. An anonymous group, going by the name “Good Samaritan League”, is […]
The winning numbers in last Wednesday’s Lottery draw were 02, 05, 07, 20 and 21. Two persons got lucky and hit the jackpot, which stood at fifty-five thousand dollars. Today, a hard working mother of five from Belize City picked up her share of the money. Julia Singh took home twenty-three thousand three hundred and […]
In an interview on Thursday night in this newscast, attorney Arthur Saldivar, who is representing some of the persons who were on duty when Air Century landed in Belize on Sunday night, recalled that in the past administration, the government had removed the minister who was, at the time, heading Immigration when a smuggling ring […]
The countdown to the annual Taste of Belize is underway. The event attracts participants from all over the jewel to compete in all that is culinary. It takes place at the ITVET next Saturday so mark that date on your calendar and save space to savor the numerous samples of cuisine that will be available. […]
Two days after we reported about the suspicious night flights bringing Asian nationals to Belize, there is official word from the Ministry of Defense and the Police Department. Just before six this evening and after two days of investigations at the Philip Goldson International Airport, the three page release was issued. The Defence Ministry’s C.E.O. […]
Tonight there are at least five individuals from the Customs and Immigration departments, whose names are being withheld, and who have been suspended from their jobs. But can a few low ranking public servants orchestrate what is alleged to be a human trafficking ring? According to Arthur Saldivar, who has been retained as […]
There is more on the plane that landed at the Philip Goldson International Airport this past Sunday. Today a team of police officers were at the P.G.I.A. investigating and it turns out that at least three planes may have landed with Chinese nationals over the past few weeks. The first flight arrived on Saturday September […]
The three trustees of the Belize Natural Energy Trust have called for the resignation of the chairman of the Trust, Orlando Burns, who did not renew the contract of the general manager, Deborah Sewell, and instead chose to advertise the post. The BNE trustees have walked out in protest and the disbursement of funds has […]
At the end of last year, the unemployment rate, according to government statistics, stood at twelve point six percent; that’s over eighteen thousand employable persons who are out of work. A group of young people are being trained in computer technology that will hopefully land them online jobs. The Belize City Computer Skills Training Program […]
There have been no new murders reported since the homicide of BeJohn Martinez in Belize City last Wednesday. He was murder victim number nineteen for the deadly month of September and ninety-nine for the year. But will the death of a Roaring Creek man add to the statistics? Police are puzzled by the death of […]
Prior to his departure, former Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh, made several landmark rulings and in many cases, the client that lost was the government. In one particular case, a Benque resident sued the government for the four point four acres of land that the government attempted to swipe from him. Samuel Bruce intended to build […]
News Five sources at the Belize International Airport say that a secret plane load of passengers arrived on a chartered flight last Sunday night. The passengers are said to be Chinese nationals and persons from other nationalities who use Belize as a base to get north of the border. No one would confirm the information […]
