And even if speculation abounds, the Mayor says she is confident that at the end of the investigations, no one will be charged because there will be no shortage. But she would not go as far as to say that Prime Minister Barrow’s announcement last Friday was premature and assured that they will discontinue the […]
It’s almost a month… that is the longstanding dispute between the Belize Medical and Dental Union and the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Board. And tonight they’re back to square one and it involves the same man in the eye of the storm. It started with the firing of Doctor Khalid Ghazi that mobilized the B.M.D.U. […]
The number of confirmed cases of Influenza A H1N1 in Belize has almost tripled in the past days. Of the fifteen samples sent to CAREC in Trinidad and Tobago from the Corozal Free Zone, results for ten came in last Friday. Nine of those tests are positive, bringing the total confirmed cases to fourteen. Nineteen […]
The number of cases of swine flu now stands at fourteen. With this threat staring livestock farmers, the Pig Council reports that there is a decrease in the pork consumption and that it is developing strategies to encourage an increase in sales. To this end, the wholesale price of pork is going down from one […]
The Teachers Commission that the Ministry of Education is proposing to implement has been the subject of heated debate. Some stakeholders feel that the church’s power would be usurped by the ministry and herald the end of the church-state system. M.O.E. has staged a series of poorly attended public consultations throughout the country perhaps because […]
In June we reported that the Financial Intelligence Unit was investigating a case of identity theft in which the personal data of hundreds of persons had been stolen. It involved the accessing of private data from the City’s Traffic Department’s driver’s license database and the forging of signatures to send and receive funds. The scam […]
It started as a pre-dawn fist fight and hours later a twenty-nine year employee of a San Pedro Hotel was dead. It is suspected that it had to do with a pending debt and the cops are still investigating Saturday’s killing. But one man has been charged with manslaughter. Marion Ali was in San Pedro […]
In other crime news, two persons are hospitalized, one of them in critical condition, following a stabbing early this morning. Around six a.m., twenty-two year old Jermaine Chen, his girlfriend, twenty-three year old Myriam Terry and their baby boy were at their apartment located at 20 Dolphin Street when they were stabbed multiple times purportedly […]
In Friday’s newscast we reported on the burglary at a home on Police Street Extension in which sixteen year old Frank Trapp was shot on his right calf. Today police arrested and charged nineteen year old Ryan Alvarez of Supal Street and twenty-five year old Michael Young of West Canal with Aggravated Burglary, Use of […]
But while Young appeared in court this morning for Thursday night’s shooting, there are additional charges that he had to answer to—and this time, for the robbery of thirty-nine year old Egbert Tun. Young pleaded not guilty to the charge but due to the nature of the allegations committed with a firearm he was remanded […]
Also in court, a former prison officer, Youmol Mcnabb, is to pay a fine of ten thousand dollars for attempting to smuggle four point five ounces of cannabis into the prison. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers ordered Mcnab to pay the fine by December thirty-first or in default he will serve three years in prison. On February […]
Belmopan police are investigating the discovery of charred remains that may be those of a missing person from the Belmopan area. Around midday Sunday, police visited an area near the river bank in the Another World Area of Roaring Creek Village where some bones were located. According to Deputy Officer in Charge of Belmopan Police, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this serving of Sports Monday. The Corozal fans crowded the Norman Broaster Stadium yesterday to support Nizhee Corozal in game one of the 2009 B.P.F.L. Championship series with the heavily supported Hankook Verdes of Cayo. Even the opening ceremonies attest to the magnitude of today’s […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow stepped in today in the K.H.M.H. crisis that has been festering for more than three weeks, but if you thought that heads would roll in light of the countless allegations of corrupt practices, then think again because that is not about to happen, not any time soon. Flanked by the Minister […]
According to the Prime Minister, he met earlier today with three members of the B.M.D.U. and he outlined the work of the Commission to be chaired by a Judicial Officer. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “I made clear especially to the doctors that there is already a mediation process in trade. Certain things from the time […]
The commission of inquiry will have plenty to look at since it appears that there is no end to the stench coming from the K.H.M.H. We reported on Thursday on the Cecil Knowles allegations which included fish being bought all the way from Orange Walk for the K.H.M.H. And now another man in the know, […]
And according to Rosado, the current Chairman’s management style is not only unethical, it is contrary to the K.H.M.H. regulations. Dr. Alvaro Rosado, Former C.E.O., K.H.M.H. “The K.H.M.H. Act specifically states the Board appoints the Chairman—sorry the Board appoints the C.E.O. and the C.E.O. runs the hospital day to day affairs, the Board sets policy. […]
Turning to the City Council, after Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers was elected for a second term, Prime Minister Dean Barrow assigned Patrick Tillett as Financial Director to look after the councils finances. Since then, Moya Flowers has made it publicly clear that Tillett’s place is inside “his little office” and that he is not the […]
It is one of the biggest cases of money laundering in Belize, a whopping six point five million dollars that apparently involves an intricate web of companies and identity theft involving the City Council’s data base. The man charged today with two counts of Money Laundering is the manager/owner of Omni Networks and Fultec Systems. […]
The other money laundering case, that of the Coye family, is taking a back seat to the Fuller case, but is still in the headlines. The one point five million dollars the Coyes are charged with laundering seems miniscule compared to the Fuller case. And in court today charges against one of the defendants were […]
It has consumed countless hours in court and perhaps that is the reason why Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh decided to use this Saturday to continue with the case. It is the issue of the Maya Leaders Alliance and the Toledo Alcaldes Association against the Attorney General and the Ministry of Natural Resources. The Mayas are […]
Antoinette Moore was successful in another landmark case that concluded Thursday. It had to do with six banana workers who were fired from Maya King Banana Farm owned by businessman, John Zabaneh. The firings are said to have occurred soon after the employees had convened a meeting to discuss joining a union. Moore says the […]
A three-time sex offender from Bloomington Illinois was today fined two thousand dollars in Magistrate’s Court after he pleaded guilty to Aggravated Assault upon a Belizean hotel employee. Sixty two year old Gerald Waterman, who has been convicted three times in the US for sex related offences, committed his last act on Wednesday while staying […]
Also in court, a former University of Belize employee was victorious in his second round of trial against the school. Mohammad Kamruzzaman was today awarded over forty thousand dollars in salary and benefits that were withheld when his employment was terminated as a result of theft allegations in 2004. He was accused of embezzling six […]
A mother and son say they have been left traumatized by an armed robbery late Thursday night. At around nine, two brazen thieves walked into the home of Pedrina White on Police Street Extension and used her youngest child, Frank Trapp, as the bait to rob the woman of three hundred dollars. The robbers also […]
