There were two murders over the weekend and by any account both were senseless. Early on Saturday morning, the body of Samuel Miguel was found in a parking lot on Cemetery Road. Weeks ago, the twenty-two year old landed his first job at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital and had just received his pay check. […]
Approximately twelve hours after the lifeless body of Samuel Miguel was found, several shots rang out on Flamboyant Street in the Lake Independence Area. Malcolm “Frisky” Wagner was targeted by a gunman in a car. His family believes he was lured to his murder because he interrupted viewing the World Cup and headed out of […]
The gun-violence continued through to the wee hours of this morning. Thirty-one year old Albert Castro is clinging to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot to the head on Fabers Road around three-thirty this morning. The taxi operator was in the company of a female friend in his taxi when […]
There is another shooting to report; twenty-three year old Carlton Augustine, a B.D.F. soldier, is recovering from gunshot wounds he sustained over the weekend. On Saturday night, shortly before eight o’clock, Augustine was returning from dropping home his girlfriend when he visited a residence on Curl Thompson Street. Reports are that he had only just […]
There were several accidents over the weekend resulting in one fatality in Independence and at least ten person injured in Independence and Belmopan. We start with a fender bender in Belize City on Sunday afternoon. At just after two p.m., a white government issued Toyota Prado being driven by Minister of Education Patrick Faber was […]
An elderly man is dead and at least six others injured in a horrible road traffic accident this morning. It happened in the Savannah area about two miles from the junction with the Southern Highway. At around seven fifteen am a school bus was heading to Independence High School carrying new first form students for […]
There is another death to report tonight and it involves a man who was mauled to death in Independence in southern Belize. Jeffrey O’brien was returning home from a fishing trip when he was attached by two pit bulls after eleven on Saturday night. It is not clear who are the owners of the […]
On Friday we told you about Martin Cal, a candidate on the People’s United Party municipal slate in Belmopan. Cal was asked to step down by party officials after his name came up in the Auditor-General’s report. He and another person were recommenders for at least four foreign nationals who were named in the Won […]
An employee of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association has been terminated, and five others are in the hot seat after an audit turned up the misappropriation of funds. It happened between the end of 2012 and April 2014. Apparently those six employees worked out a scheme to give themselves extra money every payday, to […]
This morning it was the B.T.I.A. versus G.O.B., and this afternoon it was G.O.B. versus BGYEA. An action has been taken against the grassroots organization for trespassing in the buffer zone at Harmonyville where the organization was attempting the planting of corn. Justice Courtney Abel heard the matter in chambers, since it was more about […]
In May, the Belize Tourism Industry Association filed a claim seeking judicial review of the decision to green-light Norwegian Cruise Line’s massive tourism project on Harvest Caye. This morning, the case began before Justice Courtenay Abel with submissions from Attorney Godfrey Smith for the B.T.I.A. and Deputy Solicitor-General Nigel Hawke for National Environmental Appraisal Committee […]
At D’Silva Camp in Mountain Pine Ridge, volunteers of the Belize Defense Force and soldiers of the Louisiana National Guard are engaged in Battle Camp 2014. They are undergoing rigorous training on how to fight the enemy, but they are also fighting the mountainous terrain and the humidity. They are about to take on the […]
The Christian Workers’ Union has signed a collective bargaining agreement with the Citrus Products of Belize Limited. It covers only about one hundred workers, but it is an achievement for the union which has shown some movement after a long period of stagnation. Today, President Audrey Matura-Shepherd told us more about the agreement signed with […]
Forty-nine year old bus driver of Corozal Town has been charged with manslaughter by negligence four months after a traffic mishap claimed the life of sixty-two year old Jose Elmer Villanueva. On February twenty-fifth, the elderly man fell out of a Bluebird J and J commuter bus heading towards Orange Walk Town. The driver of […]
At the top of the newscast, we told you about three traffic accidents, but there is one more to report. A near-fatal collision on Saturday morning, involving well-known Belizean cyclist Byron Pope, has resulted in the hospitalization of the young athlete after sustaining multiple physical injuries. Pope, who is a member of the Benny’s Megabytes […]
Pope says that if it was not for his helmet, a safety precaution mandated for use by all cyclists, he could have lost his life upon impact. There is no certainty whether he will be fully recovered in time to defend his championship for the Krem New Year’s Cycling Classic six months from now. In […]
Good evening, I’m Kaya Cattouse and this is Sports Monday Sunday evening at the Ladyville football field, Belize District Stars hosted San Antonio F.C. in the 2014 F.F.B. President’s Cup. Alexander Innis plays the ball inside the area to his teammate but the ball was defeated and landed directly in front of Victor Morales […]
Four years after being behind bars for dousing and setting her husband on fire, Lavern “Anti-Christ” Longsworth heard her fate. This afternoon, she smiled on the docks as President of the Court of Appeal Justice Manuel Sosa read the decision of the court to her. Longsworth was convicted of the murder of her common-law husband, […]
One year and a half after the charge of facilitating the landing of a drug plane was struck out against six men by Justice Denis Hanomansingh, the Court of Appeal has ordered a retrial. The men – Police Officers Lawrence Humes, Renell Grant, Nelson Middleton, Jacinto Roches, Customs Boatman Harold Usher and civilian Victor Logan […]
The extradition appeal of Deon Bruce was also before the Court of Appeal. Back in January of this year, Chief Magistrate Ann Marie Smith granted an extradition request on twenty-eight Bruce who is wanted in Chicago, USA on a long list of charges including murder, attempted murder and possession of a firearm. The U.S. authorities […]
It’s been two days since the horrific fire on Newtown Barracks gutted two massive wooden buildings and tragically ended the life of twenty-one year old Jacqueline Arteaga. After days of investigation by fire officials, the cause of the fire has still not been determined…all that is known is that the inferno started in the left […]
An ex-police officer, who is prosecuting cases for the municipal court, finds himself in big trouble with the law after being busted with a firearm loaded with live rounds. While the firearm is licensed, it does not belong to prosecutor Joseph Nunez, but to a friend who is a security guard. Nunez was busted with […]
On Thursday night, we took at brief look at the twenty-seven page interim Auditor-General’s report. The document chronicles an attempt at an intensive investigation into the corruption at the Immigration Department. We say attempt because the team states that they had trouble accessing records and were given the run-around by Director of Immigration Maria Marin. […]
The Auditor-General’s report has had no visible repercussions on the man at the front and centre of the scandal, former Minister of State Elvin Penner. But it has had serious political repercussions for aspiring politician Martin Cal. Cal’s name surfaced repeatedly in the report, after he and another man were named as the recommenders of […]
Businessman Darrell Carter was back in court today. This time he was there to answer to a single charge of failure to make Social Security contributions payments in respect of persons employed by him. Allegations are that he has not paid contributions for a four month period, from the months of February to May […]
