Twenty-two-year-old Darrington Lauriano Jr. has been sentenced to sixteen years in prison after being busted with a nine millimeter pistol loaded with eight live rounds of ammunition. During the swoop, Lauriano was also found in possession of a hundred and ninety-six grams of cannabis that was concealed among his clothing inside a suitcase. The search […]
A man who has been on remand for almost five years will have to wait even longer after the jury in his trial for murder was dismissed by Justice Troadio Gonzalez. Raymond Myers was charged with the May fourteenth, 2010 murder of Francis Figueroa. But today, the second day of trial, one of the jurors […]
As we reported in Monday’s newscast, an energy summit was held in Washington earlier this year and the U.S. is trying to move its energy influence back into the Caribbean. Last week, before his arrival at the seventh Summit of the Americas in Panama, U.S. President, Barack Obama made the first presidential trip to Jamaica […]
CARILED, the Caribbean Local Economic Development Project is working in collaboration with the Belize City Council and the Canadian Municipal Association to develop a Business Improvement Area concept. It seeks to have business owners and community agents develop their space for increased economic activity. The initiative which will roll out simultaneously with the Belize City […]
But the implementation of the BIA into the city’s framework comes with its compromises. Particularly for the business owners; while businesses will be given the opportunity to develop a collective voice on respective issues, it will come at a cost. Canadian Consultant, Andrea Steenbakker, spoke about the benefits to both the public and private sector. […]
But the Belize City House of Culture and Downtown Rejuvenation Project, following its launch last week, was blasted by the former President of National Institute of Culture and History, Yasser Musa. Musa spoke of the project being retrograde, racist and backward and that the fifteen million dollars to be invested in the project should be […]
As we reported on Monday, the Football Federation of Belize met in congress over the weekend to discuss a number of issues, including preparations for round two of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. While the agenda did not include the fate of beleaguered vice president Rawell Pelayo, the question of the financial documents he […]
Tonight, a small community in Roaring Creek Village known as Hattieville is still in shock, and residents are afraid, following a bold execution of one man and the attempted murder of another over the weekend. Early Saturday morning, a lone gunman targeted twenty-four-year-old Allen Garbutt and his friend, twenty-four-year-old Jermaine Welcome, as they stood outside […]
The second murder of the weekend occurred after nine on Saturday morning in the heart of Ghost Town gang territory. Five bullets made its mark on forty-year-old Edward Usher inside his yard on Mayflower Street; his body was discovered face down on the steps of a two-storey wooden house. Family and friends gathered as police […]
On January seventeenth, B.D.F. soldier Denver Villafranco was stabbed and killed in Belize City. Three days after, Police arrested forty-one-year-old Phil Staine and thirty-eight year old Orlando Staine and charged them for the murder. Today, they say their investigation has been completed with the arrest and arraignment of a third brother, thirty-three-year-old Kareem Staine. Staine […]
Were Santander employees protesting salary issues this morning? Well, that was the word going around. Over twenty workers were in front of the company’s offices today querying about pay they received on Friday. According to a release issued by the Santander Group late this evening, the protest was the result of a misunderstanding which had […]
So, were the employees protesting or not? Santander rep in Belize, Beverly Burke says it wasn’t a protest but rather a miscommunication in the issuance of payments made on Friday, as result of an advance that the company had extended out of good faith to some employees. Here is how she explains it. Via […]
People’s United Party Orange Walk East Area Representative Dr. Marco Tulio Mendez was back in court today after being arraigned on six charges stemming from allegations made by a pair of minors. The beleaguered politician was arraigned in Orange Walk Town before magistrate Merlene Moody on February third where he was read a list of […]
In court on behalf of Mendez was Senior Counsel Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley. He explained the nature of the charges brought against his client. Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, Attorney for Marco Tulio Mendez “Because these charges are way out of time, the law requires that you can bring a matter in front of any magistrate court […]
Rawell Pelayo was deported to Belize last week after serving time in a U.S. jail cell for his purported role in drug trafficking. The name has also been synonymous with football for a number of years, including his promotion to second vice president of the Football Federation of Belize in March 2012. But his reputation […]
The issue of Rawell Pelayo wasn’t brought up during the ordinary congress of the F.F.B. on Saturday but the future of star striker Deon McCauley in the upcoming home and away series against the Dominican Republic was a topic of discussion. There has been formal correspondence between F.F.B. and McCauley concerning his participation in the […]
2015 is deemed historic and significant for Belize and the European Union because this year, the country has received a whopping forty million Euros, which is almost double the amount of money previously provided to Belize from the E.U. The eighty-four million, six hundred and nine-two thousand dollars will be used for the development funding […]
An energy summit was held in Washington earlier this year and the U.S. is trying to move its energy influence back into the region. But in Belize, for some time now, the government has been looking at alternative renewable energy projects that can add to the national grid and reduce Belize’s dependency on energy from […]
Belize’s Ambassador to the O.A.S., Nestor Mendez, in a historic vote became the new Assistant Secretary General Elect of the organization. The post becomes effective later this year in July and will be held by Ambassador Mendez for the next five years. In his first time back in Belize since the election, he too attended […]
But with a Belizean representative holding the second to the highest seat in the O.A.S. hierarchy, will it help with the resolving the Belize-Guatemala dispute? Nestor Mendez, Assistant Secretary General Elect, O.A.S. “The O.A.S. has been involved as a key facilitator in trying to resolve the dispute between Belize and Guatemala for many years […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice during its inaugural sitting in Belize’s jurisdiction will preside over an upcoming land rights claim involving the Maya communities and the Government of Belize. The matter is an application brought forward by government challenging the decision of the Court of Appeal on the issue of communal land rights. On Saturday, […]
A Belizean delegation participated in a simulation summit for the O.A.S. at the end of last month in the Caribbean. They joined over a hundred delegates for sessions to role-play as diplomats and political officials of the Member States of the Organization of the American States and followed parliamentary proceedings to debate and approve resolutions dealing […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. It was billed as a monster showdown out at San Pedro where Saturday night the defending champion, Tigersharks, hosted undefeated Cayo Western Ballaz in a bid for sweet revenge as the semi-pro season turns. The islanders got off to a fast start paced by […]
On Easter Monday, twenty-four year old Coast Guard Seaman Keyren Tzib shot a senior Coast Guard Officer, Petty Officer Kurt Hyde, as they returned to base on board a vessel he was captaining. The sensational, bold shooting was witnessed by other members of the team on the boat. On Tuesday, following an investigation by Police, […]
Keyren Tzib is to return to Court on Wednesday, April fifteenth at two-thirty in the afternoon. At that time, a determination on her bail will be granted, based at least in part on the results of a psychiatric evaluation which must be conducted on her. Much has been said in the media about Tzib’s state […]
