The Senate meets tomorrow in Belmopan and top on the agenda will be the ratification of various bills that received House approval last Friday, including the Amendment to the Income Tax and Business Tax Act through Government which hopes to collect eighteen million for budget support. In the House on Friday, the Opposition said not […]
If you thought that Friday’s press conference by Mayor Zenaida Moya or the pronouncement by Party Leader Dean Barrow that Councillor Mark King will not run in the October convention, would end the dispute at City Hall, you were wrong. And today the ante was raised with television campaign ads were launched by King. Apparently, […]
Police are investigating what appears to be a murder over the weekend in Valley of Peace in the Cayo District. On Saturday evening, the body of twenty-three year old Pedro Kus Junior was discovered behind the village reservoir. There were no signs of violence to the body, but it is believed that either Kus suffocated […]
Three separate traffic accidents on Saturday have left one man dead and three others injured. Around a quarter to five on Saturday, a collision on the Western Highway claimed the life of forty-three year old Delroy Gentle Vernon. Police reports are that a bus from the national Transport fleet, driven by Sandro Salazar, and a […]
And in another mishap, a two year old girl drowned in a well in the Corozal District. Police visited the residence of fisherman Renaldo Garcia at about two-thirty in the afternoon after he reported that his two year old daughter Dareth Garcia had fallen into a well and died. Garcia told police that he realized […]
There are frequent reports of extortion of Chinese businessmen and today police have one culprit in hand, a health inspector, who was arrested and charged for the crime of Extortion on Friday. Forty-four year old Jerome Gill of the Indianville Area, Punta Gorda Town is accused of extorting money from Chinese businessman, twenty-nine year old […]
In the wee hours of Saturday morning, three men were taken into custody by police following a high speed chase in downtown Belize City. And now twenty-seven year old, Tyrone Broaster, twenty-four year old Michael Young, and twenty-three year old Godfrey Hemsley are claiming that they were beaten by police while in custody. Broaster, a […]
Police finally caught up with one of two jackers who are accused of robbing the Celina’s Nightclub in Ladyville back in mid-July. Forty-eight year old Hubert Young a.k.a. “Rock” was charged with burglary today when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court. The incident occurred on Sunday, July thirteenth around two-thirty in the morning. Thirty-one year old […]
A sixty-six year old man was jacked by three men in Belize City last Friday. Miguel Alberto, a Honduran national, was riding his bicycle on Mapp Street just after ten p.m. when he was attacked by three robbers. Alberto says the men surrounded him and one of them knocked him off his bicycle. When he […]
In other news from the courts, a man was charged and remanded in custody for Keeping a Firearm without a Gun License when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court today. Eighteen year old, Kendall Sanchez, a construction worker of Antelope Street Extension was charged for the possession of a point twenty-two pistol. At around nine-fifteen Saturday […]
A Chinese businessman at the Commercial Free Zone has been jacked of a large sum of money. Twenty-eight year old, Zhung Jun reports that following a report by his cashier, Yue He, on Saturday, he checked the safe at his office located on the upper flat of Yabra Plaza in the Zone, where he discovered […]
In more bad news, two women who were heading home were robbed and one was raped in the early hours of Sunday morning on Antelope Street. The incident occurred around three-thirty in the morning, when a twenty-two year old woman was walking home accompanied by a female friend. According to the woman, a man approached […]
And just in time for the cultural extravaganza in this year’s national day celebrations, the Belize Kriol Council has won major funding from the Inter-American Development Bank to assist in the development, preservation and promotion of the Belizean Kriol culture. The funding of five thousand U. S. dollars is designated for the preservation of Kriol […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley with your weekly delivery of Sports Monday. The first ever junior four stage cycle tour in Belize blasted off at Sugar City O.W. on Thursday through the efforts of the Belize Cycling Association as five teams, featuring some thirty cyclists including Team Alberta of Canada, take off to complete the […]
The House of Representatives met in Belmopan and there were various pressing issues on the agenda for today’s meeting which had its usual share of feistiness and drama coming from both sides of the isle. But first, before the debate on the Windfall Tax and the Sixth Amendments to the Constitution were dealt with the […]
And as for those ten million U.S dollars from Venezuela that the Central Bank retrieved from the Belize Bank on August eleventh following months of litigation in court, the Prime Minister announced he has appointed a Steering Committee that will have oversight on the millions. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “What’s to happen with the money? […]
Prime Minister Barrow was a happy camper when the issue of the Sixth Amendment Bill went through the second and third reading and was debated in the House. And while they were passed at today’s sitting, according to the P.M., they won’t come into force until October because of a pending appeal. Prime Minister Dean […]
That decision by the Prime Minister did not affect the debate of those amendments. There were enough objections and support in the national consultations held around the country weeks ago, but today the politicians had their say. First to stand up and contest some changes was Freetown Area Rep Francis Fonseca who spoke of section […]
He has significant investments in Belize, but that doesn’t mean he has been without controversy, in fact he has been at the middle of it in most cases. And it appears that from time to time he has been in the warpath with both administrations and depending on whom you talk to, there is always […]
And while the House Meeting was the main event of the day, in Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya had her own side-show responding to the serious allegations that Councillor Mark King made against her on Thursday. And to show that the proof of the pudding is in the eating, Moya was emphatic in denying the […]
And the Prime Minister had his own take on the debacle involving the mayor and the Councillor. While Councillor King has been spared for now, his political career is in doubt. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “The undertaking not to go on the media and talk bad about any fellow candidate, the undertaking not to make […]
And from politics to the courts, after hearing mitigation pleas from two character witnesses, Justice Herbert Lord sentenced, twenty year old Guatemalan, Yanira Escobar, to fifteen years imprisonment. Escobar, who also goes by Dominga Hernandez, was found guilty of Manslaughter two weeks ago in connection with the 2005 stabbing death of twenty-two year old Yesenia […]
And in other court news, a businessman and three of his female employees were charged today with the sale of illegal lottery. The owner of Garden Shop on Freetown Road, Dennis Chow, and his employees Jin Jian Zhan, Wei Ling Huang and Zhen Deng appeared in Magistrates’ Court this morning where they faced the charges […]
Thank Goodness it’s Friday … and Saffiyah has the blotter for weekend activities. Hey it’s me, Saffiyah and this is what’s happening Belize. I don’t know about you but I am real excited about the September Celebrations. I can just feel the September spirit in the air. One group that I know is already in […]
Uneasy is the head that wears the crown. And Mayor Zenaida Moya has been in the hot seat since she assumed office. From the onset there was a threat of mass resignations, a string of accusations and counter allegations, and open distension among the ranks, which have now escalated to a public call for the […]
