On Monday, the Coye family enjoyed a short-lived legal victory when the Supreme Court ordered that their assets, amounting to millions of dollars in cash, be unfrozen. The family’s holdings have been fixed in various bank accounts since 2010, following a directive from the Financial Intelligence Unit, due to money laundering charges that were brought […]
According to Bradley, the injunction was filed without their knowledge. FOR VIDEO CLICK HERE. Via Phone: Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, Attorney for Coye Family “So, yesterday the judge gave an order. Arguments were also presented to her on behalf of a private company which is suing the Coyes claiming that they owe that company monies. Again, […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice convenes on Wednesday at its seat in Trinidad where it will hand down a decision in the case of Maurice Tomlinson versus the Government of Belize and Trinidad and Tobago. Tomlinson, an openly gay activist, is challenging Belize’s immigration laws, following a trip to the Jewel in which he claims […]
In March of 2013, police were reportedly engaged in a shootout with two alleged street figures. The incident involved Brandon Smith, aka Battery, a member of the PIV gang located in the Saint Martin De Porres area, and Ladyville resident, Alrick Smith. Alrick was allegedly shot in the abdomen and hospitalized, but none of the […]
A Belize City man from the Berries Street area of Saint Martin’s De Porres is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after he was accused of robbing a Chinese Grocery Store on Tibruce Street of seven hundred dollars in cash and an assortment of items value three thousand five hundred dollars. He has […]
The village of Barranco is a Garifuna community in the Toledo District; it is also one of five buffer communities on the outskirts of the Sarstoon Temash National Park where pre-drilling activities are taking place and where US Capital Energy had previously established an operating center. While the position of the Maya communities on oil […]
One of the prime tourism islands has been without a doctor, in some instances for months, and the access to timely healthcare on Caye Caulker has become an issue for residents. The problem, we are told, is a perennial one, where the facility has been short of a physician at times for up to eight […]
The appointment of the new director of drug inspectorate has brought to the forefront a wide range of shortfalls within the system in respect of imported pharmaceuticals and persons practicing without a license. According to the Pharmacists’ Association of Belize, there is need for drug inspectors across the country to ensure that proper procedures are […]
A Belizean who left Belize years ago has died in a helicopter crash at Fort Bliss, Texas. He is twenty-seven year old Sergeant Dwight Burn who lived in Barstow, California up until his death on Saturday, while on a training exercise in a helicopter belonging to the eighty-second Combat Aviation Brigade from Fort Bragg, North […]
Financial Literacy Training…it not a topic that you often hear about, but it is an initiative that has been ongoing in Belize since 2008. It targets teachers and students from various schools across the country as well as parents and even private companies. For the past two days at the ITVET, these various groups of […]
The two-day training is interactive and includes presentations from various institutions. Deputy Chief Education Officer, Carol Babb, spoke of how the continuous work of the international organization has led up to three fairs at the ITVET Compound. FOR VIDEO CLICK HERE. Carol Babb, Deputy Chief Education Officer “First it started with four schools and then […]
A police officer was returned to court late this evening for charges relating to stolen guns and ammunition from the San Pedro Police Station. Police Officer Yannick Wade was rushed to the courtroom of Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith where he was arraigned for a total of thirteen criminal charges; he was unrepresented because when […]
An apartment on Antelope Street Extension was the scene of a shooting at the start of the weekend. One man was killed and four others injured, including a fourteen year old minor and a young woman. Twenty-four year old Julian Willoughby was socializing with the group when two men wearing black caps approached them and […]
Just before midday this morning, the Supreme Court ruled that the financial assets of the Coye family, frozen by the FIU for years, were to be released. It is a final victory for the beleaguered family, following up on criminal vindication. But the financial windfall today was just a very fleeting thing. News Five has […]
The Norwegian Cruise Line tourism development project in southern Belize is running into yet another obstacle. That’s because, the Belize Tourism Industry Association, through Senior Counsel Godfrey Smith, has proceeded with legal action against government, particularly the Department of the Environment, as well as the National Environmental Appraisal Committee. B.T.I.A. is seeking a judicial review […]
At this morning’s press conference, B.T.I.A. President Herbert Haylock also made reference to the outcome of a public consultation held in Independence in January as the origin of the impending litigation. Similarly, Placencia Chapter President, Stewart Krohn, says that the proposed project goes against what has been outlined in the National Tourism Master Plan, a […]
Minister of State Edmond Castro was in the Supreme Court this morning, defendant in a private claim brought against him. On February twenty-sixth, 2014, a resident of Belize Rural North, Trevor Vernon, filed an application for what is called declaratory relief, petitioning the Court to rule that Castro violated his oath of office. The application […]
According to a police report, the lifeless body of a Guatemalan national was discovered on Saturday afternoon in Belizean territory, in an area several miles north of Kaldin, Guatemala. Forty seven year old Heber de Jesus Tzin Alvarado met his demise in a hail of gunfire, as an unknown assailant let loose a volley of […]
A Belizean minor is believed to be a victim of kidnapping and human trafficking across the northern border. According to newspaper accounts, police on patrol in Carillo Puerto, which is a favourite stop for persons travelling by road to Playa del Carmen or Cancun, detected a fifty-three year old Mexican man in a parked vehicle […]
Fifty-two year old Brenda Mejia, who is the grandmother of three children, was today convicted of drug trafficking in the court of Chief Magistrate, Anne Marie Smith. While she escaped an immediate jail term, Mejia was fined ten thousand dollars. The Chief Magistrate ordered her to pay three thousand dollars by the end of the […]
Primary school students throughout the country today completed day-two of the Primary School Examinations. The two subject areas were in Social Studies and Math one and two papers. Math two, which involves problem solving and tested their knowledge of logics, is considered one of the most difficult exams and the results are often dismal. News […]
Wrangler Shane Leesman survived five tours of duty in war-torn Iraq and Afghanistan, but is believed to have died while on vacation in Belize. On Thursday, April twenty-ninth, Leesman and a friend, Bradley Josker, ignored warnings of foul sea conditions and headed out to the reef off San Pedro in a kayak. They capsized near […]
The Public Utilities Commission has approved a nominal reduction in electricity rates, following an Annual Review Proceeding submission by Belize Electricity Limited earlier this year. While the mean electricity rate presently stands at zero point four-four-six-five cents per kilowatt hour, it will be lowered by zero point four-three-zero-zero cents per kilowatt hour. The proposed reduction […]
On Thursday afternoon, eighteen year old Ontario resident Justin Lamb went swimming with friends. Shortly after his family received the news that the young man, who could not swim, had disappeared beneath the deep waters of the river. Since then family members have been searching for his body. They feared the worst, but desperately wanted […]
The Police Department is tonight grieving the death of one of its own. Superintendent Alton Alvarez, the officer commanding Intermediate Southern Formation, died unexpectedly on Friday night in Independence. Forty-five year old Alvarez had complained of chest pains and was taken to the Independence Polyclinic and released. But on the way home, accompanied by his […]
