Since the beginning of the week, the United Democratic Party’s legal adviser, Senior Counsel Michael Young, has been accompanying Financial Secretary Joe Waight on a series of media rounds to elucidate specific aspects of the Petrocaribe Law. As it is, there seems to be quite a lack of comprehension of the piece of legislation and […]
Despite the discussion and subsequent criticisms that have arisen out of the passage of the Petrocaribe Law, Young says the most important thing is to continue retrieving the funds. Michael Young, Legal Adviser, U.D.P. “The most important thing is to access these funds and to use it for the public good. We have an […]
The process of ‘derisking’ is underway by international financial firms that are withdrawing from sectors within the Caribbean region and elsewhere that represent compliance risks. It is a situation where a number of banks, having assessed the present circumstances, deem it too risky to persist with certain customers and activities, since the risk outweighs the […]
In Monday’s newscasts we told you about the death of three persons over the weekend—the murder-suicide of well known couple Michael Estell and Colleen Sharp in Ladyville and the execution of tour guide, Vern Magdaleno. But there was another fatality over the weekend in the Belize District. A father of five young children, twenty-seven year […]
On Sunday afternoon, a K.H.M.H. clerk lost his mind when he discovered that his girlfriend was not being faithful to him. Thirty-three year old Harvin Arriolla is suspected of being inebriated when he drove his Mitsubishi Galant into his neighbour’s fence, damaged the stairs of the house as well as injured a minor sitting on […]
Belizean artist Tanya Carter is making her mark in the music industry. Over the weekend, she won the People’s Choice Award for Best Belizean Artist of the Year at the International Red Carpet Affair held annually in California. Carter was attending the event where she performed with Lova Boy. While there was word that she […]
Many Belizeans have served and are serving in the U.S Military and like many other immigrants, have risked their lives to serve, but even after their service they are still held to the military’s standard and pay the ultimate price for infractions of that standard- they are banished from the country they served, separated from […]
A well-known Ladyville couple was found dead inside their house in Ladyville, Belize District. When family members were unable to get in contact with them on Sunday, police were called. Inside the bathroom of the house, on the second floor of the building on the Old Coke Road, police would discover the bodies of fifty-four […]
The spate of violence over the weekend extended to the City where six persons were injured and one man was killed. The gun violence started as early as seven-thirty on Friday night on Banak Street, near its junction with Magazine Road. Within forty-five minutes, gunshots rang out on Curl Thompson Street and Central American Boulevard. […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice this morning commenced hearings for the first time in Belize, since its establishment in 2001. There are currently three other members, Barbados, Guyana and Dominica, is its newest member. And while the CCJ is headquartered in Trinidad, it is not the final court for that country. On its historic sitting, […]
The basis for the legal challenge, according to Courtenay, is the constitutionality of the court’s decision to incarcerate August for the remainder of his life. Equally, the case against August was based solely on the use of circumstantial evidence, a point of interest for Director of Public Prosecutions, Cheryl-Lynn Vidal, who did not disagree with […]
Just before ten this morning, political friction erupted in the Lake Independence area and police were called in to avert any violence. Residents and P.U.P. Standard Bearer, Cordel Hyde gathered at an abandoned structure, the property of Lake Independence Action Committee, which was the campaign office of Hyde and subsequently served as the venue for […]
An Orange Walk pastor has been arrested and charged on multiple counts of child pornography of two minors. Honduran national Gerardo Lopez of the Evangelical Church in Trial Farm was questioned in connection and confessed that he took the photos of the children, ages two and ten years old. He told police that he was […]
As we reported earlier, there were six persons injured in three other shootings in the Old Capital, but are not linked. Prior to the murder of Vern Magdaleno at the junction of Faber’s Road and Central American Boulevard, three other persons including a fourteen year old girl had already been shot and transported to the […]
Within minutes of the shooting on Curl Thompson Street and even as the scene was being processed, another team of officers responded to a shooting; this time at the corner of Banak Street and Magazine Road. At about seven-fifty p.m., eighteen-year-old Nissane Usher was shot to the left thigh. Usher and two others were standing […]
By Saturday, night, two other persons including a fourteen year old girl would be shot and taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Just after ten p.m., two gunmen approached a house on Police Street in the Lake Independence area and opened fire. His target, believed to be thirty-four-year old Levar Taylor, was hit to […]
And up north, a couple in Corozal Town remains hospitalized tonight, following a domestic altercation on Sunday. Twenty-three-year-old Leandro Botes, a resident of Altamira, was stabbed in the left shoulder during an incident at their residence. Sometime around nine o’clock, police visited the Corozal Community Hospital where they observed Gomez bleeding profusely from his injury. […]
The controversial Petrocaribe Bill has since been enacted and despite the N.T.U.C.B.’s seemingly lethargic response in criticizing that piece of legislation, a release by the umbrella organization was issued over the weekend. The statement is preceded by a bit of turbulence within the rank of the trade union congress in the wake of Senator Ray […]
A Sweden student was before the court today after he was busted on Caye Caulker in possession of a pipe used for smoking drugs and one point three grams of weed found inside his backpack. This morning, after spending the weekend in lock down, nineteen year old Harmish Miller Rees Malins, was arraigned before Magistrate […]
We have reported on the violence in the Belize District and up north in Corozal. In the west, a domestic dispute landed a woman in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in a critical condition. Shortly before three on Saturday morning, San Ignacio Police were called out to Esperanza Village about a reported attack on twenty-seven […]
A businessman was also robbed on Saturday night in Santa Elena Town. Robbers netted over two thousand dollars in cash and valuables. San Ignacio Police say they are investigating this robbery and with the help of surveillance cameras they hope to find the perpetrators. We spoke, via phone, with Deputy in Charge of the San […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. As the PLB Closing Season continues to roll, we caught up with yesterday’s showdown in what could be a preview of the finals as Verdes FC hosted Police United inside the Norman Broaster Stadium yesterday. The police jump up early with Andres Makin unleashing […]
Belize’s star striker Deon McCauley is back in the Jewel. As we reported on Thursday, a petition to return McCauley, in time for the Jaguars to prepare for the second round of World Cup qualifying competition, had been spearheaded earlier this week by a dedicated group of football fans. They simply wanted to see the […]
Now that McCauley is back in the country, F.F.B. President, Ruperto Vicente, says that the ball is in his court and he must now show and prove in the days ahead. Isani Cayetano “What’s to happen going forward? He’s here in Belize, have you been able to have an informal conversation with him coming […]
Following a congress of the Football Federation of Belize last Saturday, President Ruperto Vicente informed the media that embattled second vice president Rawell Pelayo was expected to tender his resignation from the post in the days ahead. The Orange Walk businessman and F.F.B. executive was recently deported to Belize after serving time in a U.S. […]
