It made big news earlier this week when three of its employees were detained pending investigations into more missing monies. The news plunged City Hall deeper into scandal after the recent charges against Mayor Zenaida Moya Flowers and three members of her finance team last October. But the forty-eight hours that the cops were entitled […]
The Foreign Minister’s artificial border comment made to an OAS reporter in December will not be forgotten soon in particular since the borders remain porous. Still, a handful of B.D.F. soldiers are no match for the Guatemalan armed forces while they patrol the southern border. During his press conference on Wednesday, the Prime Minister reflected […]
There are fresh accusations coming from the Galvez family tonight and it’s against the police. Today Yolanda Schakron, the aunt of murder victim, Chris Galvez, told News Five that last night two of her twelve year old nephews were approached and intimidated by officers on motorcycles on Amara Avenue. One of the officers, according to […]
The Chris Galvez murder remains unresolved and the family has maintained there’s been a cover up. Aside from the alleged harassment of the minors on Wednesday night, there were other incidents that have allegedly taken place against friends of Galvez: the latest on Tuesday night was against an eighteen year old. The friend, who did […]
Ground will soon be broken for a medical facility that will cater primarily to children. It’s a momentous endeavor and will bring relief to parents who are forced to take their children out of the country for life saving surgeries. Sanford World Clinics and Belize Healthcare Partners have teamed up to build the Sanford Children’s […]
The Belize National Teachers’ Union says it has been trying since 2008 to sit around the table to re-negotiate its Collective Bargaining Agreement with government. But the B.N.T.U. has publicly revealed that it has had no luck getting an audience with the Ministry of Education and the Prime Minister and last week gave a one […]
Twenty-nine year old Tin Yu Tan of Mango Creek lost his life in a traffic accident between miles twenty on the Western Highway in August of 2009. Tan was the passenger in a Toyota Tacoma driven by his friend Wei Chao Huang when the accident occurred. On the way to Belize City, Huang lost control […]
Two city residents, who allegedly attempted to rob a house in the St. Martin’s area, are behind bars tonight. Shane Edwards and Leon Yorke were taken before the courts today and charged with attempted burglary and damage to the property of Michael Belisle. They both pleaded not guilty but the court prosecutor Sergeant Egbert Castillo […]
Two years ago the Belize City Council and the Salvation Army embarked on a programme to provide a roof and meals for the homeless in Belize City. After countless meetings it was expected the initiative would have kicked off, and the problem would have been dealt with right? Wrong! As Marion Ali found out, it […]
Many issues were raised by the Prime Minister at his press conference on Wednesday, including the admission that things will get worst in the next fiscal year. That was bad news but another issue that stuck out like a sore thumb, was his unapologetic defense of his ex- wife, Lois Young, as the government’s lawyer […]
Planning for the Belize Rural Finance Program has been in the works for the past two years. And finally today in Belmopan, the Belize Credit Union League and the government announced that they are ready to implement micro financing to at least fifteen thousand households in rural areas to the tune of six million dollars. […]
The unemployment figure stood at twelve point five percent for the third quarter of 2009, that’s according to the Statistical Institute of Belize. The opening of a new business venture may not dent the statistics, but in these hard times, it will provide sixty jobs for residents of Belize City. It won’t come on-stream until […]
Many women develop them during pregnancy and both genders discover that they can be caused by weight gain. And the only thing we find uglier than stretch marks is the fact that they are here to stay, as this week’s edition of Healthy Living found out. So if you’ve tried everything on the shelf and […]
Brace up because the worst is yet to come. That’s because the economy is not a dark cloud looming over the Barrow administration, it’s a potential hurricane on the horizon. Prime Minister Barrow admitted that Quote “The upcoming fiscal year will be the hardest of the UDP term.” End Quote. And that is because there […]
But what about the revenues from oil profits? According to their data, Belize Natural Energy’s gross revenue from petroleum production is three hundred and twenty-six point one U.S. million. The government’s share is seventy-eight point five million dollars. BNE claims it only receives fifty five point five million dollars. But the largest share, sixty percent […]
According to the police statistics, crime is going down. But the man on the street knows that violence and grenade attacks are on the rise. Urban terrorism is the new description of the warfare between rivaling gang factions throughout the old capital. Morale within the Police Department is low and the strategy to combat crime […]
Gary Seawell, the Ladyville resident who has been on the lam since 2007, is the last of three brothers wanted by the United States on narco-trafficking and money laundering charges. Duane is locked up in the United States and Mark is in the Hattieville Prison fighting extradition to the U.S. On Tuesday morning the police […]
Forty-eight hours—it’s the maximum time that a person can be detained before being charged. And for the employees of the Belize City Council in custody, their detention time will elapse sometime around eight tonight. But word coming from CIB personnel is that it is still uncertain whether they will be charged for allegedly stealing approximately […]
On February third President of the Belize National Teachers’ Union, Jaime Panti called on the government to address the issue of their Collective Bargaining Agreement, accusing GOB of dragging its feet since 2008 and staggering the process. The fight is over an unfulfilled salary increase and Panti gave government a one week deadline to deliver […]
But according to BNTU’s Executive Secretary, George Frazer, the union has not met with government since 2008 and it is willing to sit and negotiate if only GOB would be willing to give them an audience. Frazer said the problem is longstanding since previous administrations did not meet with them to discuss a new collective […]
In northern Belize, the Crooked Tree Police Station had not in use for about five years because the building was unfit. And after a blaze last night, the station was reduced from a dilapidated structure to mere rubble. Corporal Donald Gillett, who is in charge of the area, says the building and contents were completely […]
Back in September of last year, twenty-four year old Elton Herrera, an employee of Brown’s Butane Gas Service, lost his life when a faulty gas tank exploded on Mopan Street. His death sparked an investigation on safety measures implemented by butane gas operators. Both the departments of Fire and the Environment, the Belize Defence Force […]
In the year 2000 Belize’s population stood at roughly two hundred and forty-nine thousand. Ten years later, it is estimated that the number of people living in Belize is around three hundred and fifty thousand. The Statistical Institute of Belize will conduct a census starting May twelfth and its employees will be gathering relevant information […]
There were two burglaries in communities along the Northern Highway on Tuesday, and in one incident the culprit was caught at the scene. Police on patrol in the Lord’s Bank area, detected the first break-in at eleven o’clock in the morning when they heard a security alarm at the home of Dorian Westby. They searched […]
No Dual Citizens in the House. That’s the news coming out of the PM’s conference earlier today when he revealed that the Seventh Amendment to the constitution has been struck down. Since the Prime Minister brought the bill to the House of Representatives in June of 2009, the general population spoke out vehemently against it […]
