Moses Sulph was fired weeks ago; no reason was provided, but his termination letter was received following a sleep-over in front of the Prime Minister’s offices in Belmopan in protest of oil exploration. Sulph is the vocal President of COLA and that organization has the support of the Public Service Union, Belizeans for Justice and […]
Last November, talk show host and news paper columnist, Glenn Tillett, sued Lois Young, Net Vasquez and the Social Security Board. Tillett is saying that both Vasquez and Young were in a conflict of interest situation when they each voted for S.S.B. to invest fifty million dollars of contributors’ money in B.T.L., a company for […]
An alarming report has been released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) that is picking up traction throughout the region. According to a report in the Barbados newspaper, Nation News, the I.C.E., in a period of only six months, over two thousand convicted criminals were deported to Caribbean countries. In Belize, where the […]
In the Magistrates Court, the man who allegedly posed as a police officer for six months, twenty-one year old Aaron Wilson, has been just as convincing representing himself in court for the past two weeks. The alleged fake cop has managed to beat two out of four charges that are being heard at the Magistrates […]
Also in court, Magistrate Kayla Teck had to determine whether thirty-nine year old Mukesh Makhwani was illegally employing his nephew, twenty-three year old Indra Kumar Vaswani. Both men were charged back in February when Immigration personnel asked Vaswani to present his documents and he retrieved them from Makhwani’s warehouse on Amara Avenue. It was believed […]
The Easter holidays are a few days away so the Gang Suppression Unit is busy. Before sunrise this morning, their focus was in one of the city’s hotspots, the George Street area. The first search was conducted at twenty minutes to five o’clock at the home of thirty year old Kareem Westby, a reputed member […]
Last Friday we showed you a very optimistic Christopher Bowman leaving for Oklahoma for medical treatment for his tumor. Late this evening, we were informed that the young man has undergone a five and a half hour medical procedure to catheterize most of the tumor. This procedure was done to remove four pieces of the […]
This Wednesday marks one year since two hundred million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. The oil spill, which gushed into the Gulf from BP’s blown-out well, killed eleven men and injured several others. But today, Oceana says that a disaster like that or even on a smaller scale can be a […]
The grand finale of KTV Latino Season is here and shortly the winner of this season will be announced. The list of applicants that auditioned was long; only the strongest made it to the competition. It’s has been an intense thirteen weeks and only one will walk away as the most popular performer of Latin […]
There were no gang related murders over the weekend, but an innocent life was still snuffed out in the crime wave sweeping across the country. The brother of Belize’s first Prime Minister, George Price, was found dead in his home over the weekend. The police believe that the senior citizen, eighty-four year old Samuel Price, […]
A series of police crackdowns across Belize City began on Friday with an operation on Flamboyant Street. One of the big finds was an antipersonnel explosive similar to that of a claymore mine. The operations concluded early this morning with an intensive four-hour search at the home of a well known businessman. Shortly after four […]
At about two-thirty on Saturday morning a vehicle belonging to Yolanda Schakron, the outspoken founder of Belizeans for Justice, was torched in the Los Lagos area. It is the second vehicle belonging to her family that has been set on fire. But two other vehicles parked at their place of business recently went up in […]
On Sunday evening, a vessel was intercepted in San Pedro carrying a quantity of contraband liquor. The authorities are keeping tightlipped about the incident but there is a reliable report that three persons on the boat were returning from Xcalak after dropping off artists who had performed at a fundraiser for a local preschool on […]
A hearing began today before the Acting Chief Justice, Samuel Awich. It is the case of Glenn Tillett versus the Social Security Board. Last November, Tillett filed a claim in the Supreme Court against the S.S.B. claiming that it was unlawful for Net Vasquez, who is the paid Executive Chairman of Telemedia to also sit […]
In the lower court, two customs officers are facing charges following a report by an elderly US National, who claims he was scammed out of thousands of dollars. The accused men, thirty-five year old Linsbert Godoy and thirty-two year old Herbert Matute, were represented by Attorney Richard “Dickie” Bradley when they appeared before Chief Magistrate […]
Remember Aaron Wilson? He’s the man dubbed as the ‘fake cop’. While Wilson has beaten other charges, he was back in court today on four of seven charges; theft, threatening words and two counts of aggravated assault. The charges are in connection with an incident with Jermyn Galvez and a separate incident of indecent assault […]
Earlier we told you about a raid at the house of James Swan Senior, where police found a stash of weed and a firearm magazine. In other searches throughout the old capital, the Gang Suppression Unit has been successful in removing several illegal weapons off the streets. On Friday, we reported that several firearms and […]
The Police Department removed at least six unlicensed weapons and different caliber bullets from the streets over the weekend. But the department is under fire for not doing enough and so while discussing the weekend’s murder of Samuel Price, Police Press Officer, Sergeant Fitzroy Yearwood, also shared the capture of suspects, who robbed a bus […]
This Tuesday, COLA, is planning a press conference at the Battlefield Park to discuss the termination of its president, Moses Sulph, as an open vote registry clerk. On April twelfth, Sulph received his marching orders from the registry with immediate effect. No reason was given and COLA believes that the matter could end up in […]
Last week, among the stolen and illegal items raked in during a sweep of hot zones in the City, was a high powered weapon, known to be used mainly by the US Military. The list included everything from power saws, fake parcels of cocaine, hand guns, homemade guns and even an M18-A1 Anti personnel mine. […]
And in news of a political nature, the United Democratic Party held its convention for a new Standard Bearer in the Lake Independence constituency and when the polls closed at four p.m., former City Councilor Mark King, emerged victorious. There are over five thousand electors in the Lake I area, of which only seven hundred […]
It’s the time of the year for the Rose Classic International Basketball camp. The camp has been taking place for five years at Easter time when the students are away from the classrooms and looking for ways to occupy their time and minds. Since it started, the numbers have been growing and this morning News […]
Basketball is not the only game in town and across the City at the MCC grounds, another group of school children are competing in a football tournament. Organized by Crime Stoppers, the two-week competition is intended to absorb the energies of the young boys and keep them away from the social decay. News Five’s Isani […]
Good night I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. Week 8 in the Belize Bank Super League Tournament brought the surging Orange Walk United ball club to the MCC Grounds to face Third World FC, a team that took the home pitch yesterday, fresh out of the cellar. Even before the fans are properly […]
Shortly after one o’clock this afternoon, the coastguard retrieved the body of a man who had been missing at sea since Sunday. Kenrod Brown was among a group, including family members, who set out to sea on a fishing expedition to Bannister Caye. Things soon went awry when the engine of their small boat experienced […]
