A small plycem house was gutted by fire this morning; fortunately it was unoccupied at the time. According to the National Fire Service, the call came in at around eleven-twenty-three a.m. They arrived at the scene off Caesar Ridge Road to find the house measuring twenty by thirty feet engulfed in flames. The firefighters managed […]
Those who left San Pedro arrived in Belize City by boat. News Five’s Jose Sanchez was at the Water Taxi terminal when the evacuees came ashore. Jose Sanchez, Reporting San Pedro was calm because it was short of three thousand residents. NEMO provided free boat rides for residents who heeded the call for evacuation. And […]
The excitement could hardly be contained at the closing show of KTV Duets on Tuesday night at the Bliss. The fifteen-week show went off with a bang; it started with sixteen duos and after weekly eliminations three remained as the finalists. At the Bliss, the fans and supporters were holding on to their seats in […]
The two big stories for today have to do with the ninth amendment, which is now in effect and Hurricane Rina. We’ll have the latest on the hurricane that is moving slowly but closer to Belize, but the ninth amendment to the constitution, which is really the eighth, is now law. Ninety-four days after it […]
Senior Counsel Godfrey Smith, who along with Queen’s Counsel Lord Peter Goldsmith represented Vaughan Gill and Ricardo Castillo, told the media that legal challenge of the passage of the Ninth Amendment has been exhausted. However, if Gill and Castillo wish to proceed with litigation at the Supreme Court level then GOB will have to answer […]
Weeks after the B.D.F. armory was broken into and an arsenal of weapons stolen, no one has been held accountable. So tonight’s question is: Who do you think should be held responsible for the forty-two stolen weapons from the B.D.F. headquarters; the minister, commandant or officers? Send your comments and responses using your SMART phones […]
The northern part of the country, stretching from Belize City to the northern border is under hurricane watch and it looks that Rina, a category two hurricane can further strengthen. With winds of up to one hundred and ten miles, and moving at three miles per hour, it can become a hurricane a category three […]
As we said at the top of the newscast, evacuations are taking place from San Pedro and Caye Caulker, bringing residents to the mainland. Residents from the cayes were transferred to Belize City today from where they are heading to higher ground. Most persons we met were calm and glad to get out of harm’s […]
Thirty-nine year old Albert Talbert who also goes by the name of Cat was busted with a B.D.F. uniform last Wednesday when police raided his apartment on Maskall Street. Talbert claimed that he paid a BDF soldier fifty dollars for the uniform. This morning Talbert was taken to court and arraigned for a single charge […]
Also in court today, a woman took the rap on charges of possession of controlled drugs for marijuana that was found inside her neighbor’s house. But the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions rejected the guilty plea for on the lesser charge. That means that thirty-three year old Janice Lynch and John Michael Fitzgibbon, […]
There is another case of sexual abuse of a minor. A thirteen year old student from Roaring Creek claims she has been abused by a family member. The allegation is that her uncle had sexual intercourse with her back in June at his Belize City home. There have already been three other reports of sexual […]
The Senate met on Monday in Belmopan. The urgency was for the ratification of the ninth amendment. That did pass, though with a small majority. But there were other issues to deal with. In his Independence Day speech on September twenty-first, Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced that he was forgiving sixty-million dollars in housing loans […]
The post of the Auditor General that became vacant on August thirty-first when Edmund Zuniga reached retirement age has been filled. But while the new appointment of Dorothy Bradley on September twenty-fourth comes highly recommended, some Senators believe that the former auditor general’s reports should have been clarified and vetted before he retired. In the […]
The grand finale of KTV Duets takes place shortly. The Bliss will dress up for the gala event that concludes this season of immensely popular local television show. Three duos survived the rigors of the show and last Tuesday they outdid their previous performances to compete for the first, second and third place. The dad […]
It’s a most unusual, in fact from we know, the first time that the court of appeal was convened over an entire weekend and as early as six o’clock in the morning. It is also a first time that the court is being sought to stop the Governor General from enacting a law. The legal […]
The appeal session was to start at eleven-thirty this morning, but was quickly moved up to eleven o’clock. Senior Counsel Denys Barrow assumed charge of government’s argument before the full Court of Appeal bench. Jules Vasquez “You made the argument in court that now that the full court is convened, the temporary injunction should be […]
At a quarter to six, the attorneys came out of the Court of Appeals. Denys Barrow, the government’s lead attorney on the case said that it all boils down to two p.m. on Tuesday. At that time the court should have made a decision since the injunction expires at four p.m. Denys Barrow, Attorney “The […]
The attorneys for Ricardo Castillo and Vaughan Gill are holding onto what pundits believe is a shoe string before justices Dennis Morrison, Manuel Sosa and Duke Pollard. They faced a tough day in the Court of Appeal, but Godfrey Smith says the case is good for democracy. Godfrey Smith, Attorney “The injunction is in place—that […]
The nationalization of Telemedia has led to the ninth amendment and just when the Government thought the litigation was dying down, another lawsuit has landed at its doorstep. On Friday, whilst the ninth was being debated in the House, Fortis filed a constitutional challenge against the nationalization of Belize Electricity Limited which took place on […]
There’s a hurricane watch in effect tonight from Belize City to the north. At this time, NEMO has declared red one. Tropical Depression number eighteen formed on Sunday afternoon and by the end of the day, it was named Tropical Storm Rina. This afternoon, Rina intensified even further to a category one hurricane and the […]
While the Court of Appeal was hearing submissions on behalf of Vaughan Gill and Ricardo Castillo, in Belmopan the Senate was meeting as scheduled. By midday the Ninth was ratified albeit with a slim majority. Here is how that happened. Two senators did not make it to the Belmopan and a third seat was vacant […]
Senator Henry Gordon on behalf of the Council of Churches also abstained from the vote siding with business senator Godwin Hulse. Senator Liza Shoman was the only opposition representative in the Senate. She did not support passage of the Ninth saying that there is danger when parliament is given absolute power. Lisa Shoman, Senator “More […]
Another family grieves the murder of one its own in the wild cycle of violence. At the crack of dawn on Sunday morning, Frank Usher, a minor was shot and killed. His mother had made reports to the police that her son’s life was under threat and Usher moved from Roaring Creek to Camalote. But […]
There were two unusual deaths reported in the Toledo District this weekend and one of them may have involved foul play. Just before six o’clock on Friday morning, the body of fifty-eight year old Guatemalan, Pedro Che Pacoy, was found on the side of the road near mile sixty-four on the Southern Highway. Pacoy left […]
Sixteen year old Justin Teck came within inches of death after he was shot to the head on September twenty-seventh. Almost a month later, the teen is recovering and today, twenty-one year old Michael Gladden was charged along with twenty-eight year old Mark Gentle for their alleged connection with the shooting. They appeared before Chief […]
