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In news from the south…Placencia Police intercepted a package containing weed at the airstrip in that municipality. Based on Special Branch intelligence, officers searched a package that arrived this morning on a domestic flight from Tropic Air. Inside a cartoon box filled with vegetables, the officers discovered in a bunch of cilantro, a wrapped parcel […]
Written on February 17, 2015 | Posted in
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Mayoral Candidate, Yolanda Schakron today teamed up with Port Loyola standard bearer for the P.U.P., Gilroy Usher Senior, and took to the streets of south side Belize City for a cleanup campaign. The two political aspirants along with several supporters and volunteers were working along the stretch of Central American Boulevard from its junction with […]
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The family of eleven year old Efrain Alvarado needs your help. He was first hospitalized back in October for chest pains and was later diagnosed with a minor tumor, for which he underwent a surgery. Two months later, Efrain took a second surgery. The student of Chan Pine Ridge in Orange Walk was sent home, […]
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A former B.D.F. soldier was likely lured to his death on Valentine’s Day. Denver Jones was murdered after nine o’clock on Saturday night in an area that he was known to frequent in Ladyville, Belize District. Jones, who was once linked to a missing firearm from the B.D.F. armory, was shot once to the face. […]
Written on February 16, 2015 | Posted in
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In Belize City, nine year student, Davian Sanchez, and fifty-six year old fisherman, Charles Guy, were shot while they were in front of Zen’s Shop on Faber’s Road. Guy is said to be a regular in front of the shop and the minor was simply at the wrong place at the wrong time. It’s alleged […]
Written on February 16, 2015 | Posted in
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This morning, the P.U.P. held a press briefing to draw public scrutiny to what they say is very questionable management of the City Council’s finances over the past three years of Mayor Darrell Bradley’s administration. P.U.P. mayoral aspirant, Yolanda Schakron, had centre stage, backed up by former P.U.P. Mayor and Minister, Joe Coye, who by […]
Written on February 16, 2015 | Posted in
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According to accountant and politician, Joe Coye, although the 2012 audit is inconclusive and the 2013 audit is incomplete, the figures presented in the 2014 audit are cause for alarm. Coye pointed to one figure which he said stood out – in 2012 the Council reported a total debt of a little over fourteen million […]
The P.U.P. maintains that from what they’ve seen of the audit, and from what they haven’t seen, there is a clear indication of mismanagement. According to Coye, it’s almost impossible to gauge the movement and controls of the Council, at least by the figures, and he says that’s damning. Since there were some serious allegations […]
According to Bradley, it’s beyond him how anybody could question the record of the Council, when he maintains that they have been nothing but transparent. He got quite hot under the collar at what he says is blatant political propaganda just two weeks before the municipal elections. Darrell Bradley, Belize City Mayor “Every single […]
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The Belize City Council has received financial assistance from Central Government, to the tune of millions of dollars to bail out city hall for B.M.L. workers, for streets and other infrastructural projects. That’s certainly no closely-held state secret. Mayoral aspirant, Yolanda Schakron, says that it’s a sign of Bradley’s incompetence, because without that money, the […]
So with all that said…is all the hullaballoo about CitCo’s finances a genuine concern, or a political red-herring? We figure that depends on who you ask, on which side of the political divide. We do note that while today’s P.U.P. press conference was all about the audit, Schakron managed to get in a plug for […]
And to wrap up the political discourse, Mayor Darrell Bradley dismissed the P.U.P.’s assertions as utter nonsense. And to prove it, he even threw his predecessor under the bus, claiming that he and the Council have come a long way since those dubious days of under-depositing under Zenaida Moya. Darrell Bradley, Belize City Mayor […]
Written on February 16, 2015 | Posted in
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Darryl Rowland, a real estate officer from Ladyville, along with two women, Angela Burns, a Second Class Clerk employed with the Belize City Prosecution Branch, and Jessie Stephenson, a visiting nurse from Los Angeles California, who resides at Mitchelle Estate area, Ladyville were this afternoon escorted to the Belize City Magistrate’s Court. They appeared before […]
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Two persons also lost their lives over the weekend in separate hit and run accidents, one up north in Orange Walk and the other in the Stann Creek District. Just before seven this morning, the body of nineteen year old Cowpen Villager, Christian Villalobos, was found on the right hand side of the Phillip Goldson […]
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Our Meet the Mayoral Candidate series takes us tonight south, to the banana and citrus belts. In Dangriga, the mayoral seat is between two educators—one is in the classrooms and the other has retired from teaching. Both also face the same challenges to create jobs for the area which has a significantly high unemployment rate. […]
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Also in Dangriga, forty-three-year-old Gregory Williams is tonight recovering from gunshot wounds to the legs after being injured by a police officer at the start of the weekend. On Friday afternoon, sometime before one o’clock, Williams accosted twenty-seven-year old Elroy Quiñonez who was seated outside a bike shop on George Price Drive. According to Quiñonez, […]
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The drowning of a rarely seen Scalloped Hammerhead Shark in Southern Belize has brought into sharp focus the use of gillnets at sea. For years, fishermen have been calling for a ban and a few years ago, OCEANA joined in the call, but there was no progress. Gillnets are classified as legal fishing gears in […]
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Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The 2 Belize City teams in the NEBL season went into the Belize Elementary School Auditorium desperately looking to get on to the win column Friday night. Both teams had suffered severe defeats on opening night with the Belize City Hurricanes falling to the […]
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Tonight, there is additional information on the hundreds of millions of dollars stashed away at the H.S.B.C. Bank in Geneva. That story broke on Thursday night and in our research today, we have unearthed that aside from the nine Belizeans who reside in country, there are twenty other persons with Belizean passports who have stored […]
The Hattieville community on the George Price Highway has recorded its first murder for this year leaving a mother to mourn the death of her only son. The Hattieville resident had just left the K.H.M.H., but had to turn back at about six-thirty on Thursday evening when she was notified of the demise of twenty-three […]
Written on February 13, 2015 | Posted in
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A cop accused of murdering a Belize City man detained at the Caye Caulker Police Station has been found guilty of the lesser charge of murder. The verdict was reached by a jury of six men and six women after five days of hearing evidence in the case and five hours of deliberation today. Police […]
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And while Parham will face sentencing for manslaughter, another man was acquitted of murder today before Judge Antoinette Moore. Shajeem Espat had been accused of the brutal murder of sixty-nine year old security guard Julian Lara on March twentieth, 2011. Lara was found behind Spot’s Bar in San Ignacio with his hands and feet tied […]
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The captain of a boat belonging to Thunderbolt Water Taxi in Corozal was arraigned and he pleaded guilty to two counts of Possession of a Controlled Drug with Intent to Supply. On Thursday afternoon, thirty-five year old Miguel Dominguez, a resident of Corozal Town, was caught red-handed with four point four pounds of compressed hydro-grade […]
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The gang suppression unit is currently conducting countrywide operations including in the west and the Old Capital. The success of the drug bust in Corozal was followed by the discovery of twenty-seven pounds of marijuana in Belize City. Via Phone: Insp. Mark Flowers, Commander, GSU “There were operations conducted in other parts of the […]
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In July 2014, former minister of state, Elvin Penner was acquitted of immigration offences because of a lack of evidence before the magistrate. He was accused of facilitating the issues of a Belizean passport to South Korean Fugitive, Won Hong Kim, who was in a jail in Taipei. Those who brought the case against Penner […]
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