The proposed reappointment of Court of Appeal Justice Samuel Awich by the Prime Minister is facing opposition. The Justice’s contract ended on May fifteenth, and Prime Minister Dean Barrow has decided to extend it for another eight years, until Awich turns seventy-five. These appointments are generally done after consultation with the Leader of the Opposition, […]
Disgraced former Minister of State Elvin Penner will be back in court on Thursday, the defendant in a private prosecution brought by COLA. But Penner’s appearance before Lady Justice may be short-lived. That’s because the efforts of COLA to secure evidence in government hands have been stonewalled at every turn – from the Attorney-General to […]
Last Thursday, Minister of State Mark King told the media that his government looks after U.D.P. first, Belizeans second and P.U.P. last. While those words are likely true, in this case honesty may not have been the best policy. King’s comments have gone viral. By Friday, the People’s United Party fired off a release calling […]
In the aftermath of the termination of Dr. Brendan Bain’s contract, as head of the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training Program at the University of the West Indies, there has been a rash of protests across the region, particularly in Jamaica and Belize where avid supporters of the professor have taken to the streets to demonstrate. […]
The Bain discussion continues to rage, with almost frenzied submissions from both sides of the argument. Today, P.U.P. Leader Francis Fonseca told News Five that the ‘homosexuality’ issue, for lack of a better term, has different layers and must always be approached rationally, respectfully and with observance of the rule of law. He cautioned that […]
While Fonseca advises respect and rational discussion, activist Audrey Matura-Shepherd is more direct. The outspoken attorney was a guest on OYE this morning and condemned the move to oust Professor Bain, in no uncertain terms. She called it an outright hit orchestrated by the LGBT extremists, stating that instead of rebutting the evidence presented by […]
Good evening folks, I am Duane Moody and welcome to this episode of Sports Tuesday. James Adderley is taking some time off, so I am sitting in for him. It’s week fifteen of the 2014 National Elite Basketball League and the top four teams in the semi-final rounds are Cayo Western Ballaz, Belize City […]
University of the West Indies Professor, Brendan Bain was terminated on Tuesday of this week in Jamaica under pressure brought on by advocacy groups who claimed they had lost confidence in Bain. The professor appeared as an expert witness in the Belize Supreme Court in the case brought by UNIBAM challenging Section fifty-three of the […]
There is a rare development tonight to our story earlier this week on government’s intention to re-appoint Justice Samuel Awich to the Belize Court of Appeal. We say rare because it is unusual that a judge would not receive the full support of the judiciary to his tenure. As we reported on Wednesday, Government intends […]
The audit of the Central Health Region is done, and the thirty-seven page report is out. It’s comprehensive and detailed, and paints a very grim picture of the health personnel who were entrusted with public monies. On Thursday night we showed you just a portion of the findings of the audit team. They point to […]
Former Mayor of San Ignacio Alfonso ‘Ponchis’ Cruz spent Thursday night in lockdown at the Belmopan Police Station. As we told you, he was picked up by San Ignacio Police at around five-thirty Thursday evening and immediately taken to Belmopan for questioning. Cruz’s signature and stamp appear on many nationality documents facilitated by former Minister […]
Police have formally arrested and charged twenty-four year old Albert Reid for the murder of Santana resident, Maurice ‘Tuko’ Young. Reid was detained at two a.m. on Thursday at a house on Pine Street in Belize City. Sources tell us that police found the murder weapon, a twelve inch knife, hidden in a cement block […]
For months now, the political future of Darrell Bradley has been up in the air, and he’s certainly done nothing to change that. Tonight, there is every indication that Bradley has decided to seek another term as Mayor. But that’s still unconfirmed at this point. We do know that Prime Minister Dean Barrow met with […]
On Tuesday, Minister of State Mark King, in a candid interview with the media, made it abundantly clear that the needs of his political party and those of its supporters come before the wants of the Belizean people and, undoubtedly, way, way ahead of the opposition. While the comment was in reference to U.D.P. stalwarts […]
Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of Health, Peter Allen, isn’t making many friends in the health sector these days. That much is crystal clear in a release sent out by the Nurses Association of Belize, dated May sixth 2014. The letter is addressed to Public Services Commission Chairman, Patrick Bernard, copied to Allen, Director […]
Police Constable Yannick Wade is out on bail. Today, his attorney, Audrey Matura-Shepherd applied for Supreme Court bail for Wade, who has been on remand since May fifth for charges relating to stolen KBH guns and ammunition from the San Pedro Police Station. When he appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith earlier this month, […]
Police have detained and charged twenty-seven year old Mason Patnett, who was on the run after he accidentally shot his accomplice during a robbery on Tuesday. He was picked up at around nine Thursday morning. Patnett and a minor were at the Ladyville basketball court when they approached and robbed eighteen year old Marvin […]
Minister of State Edmond Castro was back in court today; this time he appeared as a witness in a case of theft. A Nicaraguan national, forty-six year old Oscar Hernandez was accused of stealing from Castro a number of tractor parts back in 2012. Hernandez was incarcerated for more than a year since he […]
Tensions are running high tonight between the government and the Belize Grassroots Youth Empowerment Association. That’s because government has taken out an injunction to prevent the organization from planting corn on some twenty-nine acres of buffer land in the Harmonyville Community. The Lands Department and BGYEA have been at odds since its founding members managed […]
According to BGYEA, the private investor, Samuel Patton, has since backed out of doing business with them, but the issue remains that they have already purchased the corn seeds that were to be planted and there are still no access roads to plots of land in Harmonyville. So the next step, according to the grassroots […]
The names for the 2014 Hurricane Season have been released. The season is less than a week away and already tropical storm Amanda has formed and Accuweather reports that it is located some thirty miles south-southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico. TS Amanda, up to news time, has maximum sustained winds of forty miles per hour and […]
Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo has been sentenced to roughly six years in a United States prison after being convicted of conspiring with several others to launder millions of dollars through U.S. bank accounts. Portillo, who was extradited in May 2013, following a failed attempt to stave off being deported pleaded guilty in March in […]
As we told you on Tuesday, the death of Santana resident Maurice Young highlighted a critical need in the rural communities on the old Northern Road. Crime in those areas is not exactly rampant, but residents say it is escalating. There is a police station in Maskall, but no police officer. That’s because the interior […]
Sometime around three this morning an unknown person or persons deliberately lit the fire which destroyed a wooden house at the corner of Cran and Cleghorn streets in Belize City. Eighty-three year old Orseline Wallace Gabourel was trapped inside the home; she called for help but was unable to get out of the house and […]
While police are investigating the death of Orseline Wallace Gabourel, Ladyville Police have detained one man for the death of Santana Village resident, Maurice Dennison Young. On Tuesday evening, the fifty-eight year old man was found dead and decomposed in the bushes behind his home. Police have officially confirmed that it was a homicide, following […]
