Stories of police brutality are mainstays in our newscast, but tonight, the report is that a police officer is on the receiving end. The constable Jason Hall attached to precinct three of the Belize City Police Department was attacked as he was heading in uniform to Belize City to report to work. Hall experienced vehicular […]
There is closure tonight for the Usher family who earlier today lay to rest one of their own: Desmond Usher, a twenty-three year old resident of the Mahogany Heights community on the George Price Highway. As we reported on Monday, Usher’s body was discovered in the morning by family and friends who had organized a […]
Two Belize City high school teenagers were murdered last week following separate shooting incidents on Monday and Wednesday nights in the Old Capital. Fifteen year old Tarique Thompson was shot last Monday as he headed home on Lakeview Street. He was hit to the head and died five days later on Saturday at the Karl […]
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For the past five years, thirty-one year old year Shelda Patnett has been waiting for her day in court to prove that she was not the owner of two pit bull dogs who attacked and killed sixty year old of Edmund Spain of the Tropical Park Area of Hattieville on May thirty-first, 2010. Well today, […]
Two police officers on motorcycle patrol over the weekend were shot at, but fortunately the gunman missed his targets. But the alleged shooter, Phillip Bowen, ran out of luck when the vehicle he and another person were travelling in, collided into a nearby drain. He appeared in court today to answer to two charges of Aggravated […]
There are two heinous reports of a sexual nature to report tonight. In Silk Grass in the southern Belize, a young boy was sexually abused by someone he knew well, his brother-in law. The minor says that the crime occurred while he and his mother were visiting a relative in the village on Sunday. His […]
The Supreme Court, with support from UNICEF, officially opened Punta Gorda’s first child-friendly Family Court. In release issued, the child-friendly court is hailed as “a leading milestone and part of the strengthening and establishment of a child-friendly justice system in Belize.” The new building is designed for children and includes play rooms as well as […]
U.D.P. loyalist, Delroy Cuthkelvin’s intention to contest the upcoming convention in Stann Creek West, is almost dead in the water. Cuthkelvin has worn several hats within his party including working out of the Prime Minister’s Office and as a public relations officer in the Ministry of National Security. For the aspiring politician, his initial dream […]
In other political news…Just one week away, Belize will see its second bye-election. The first was in Cayo North earlier this year and this time it will be the constituency of Dangriga which includes Sarawee and Hope Creek Villages. It’s going to be a P.U.P./U.D.P. race with newcomer Anthony Sabal and seasoned Frank Pawpa Mena […]
And after that bye-election is over on July eight, the focus is the road to General Elections. While speculations are that it may be as early as the end of this year or towards the start of next year, the P.U.P. says they have been putting the work in the places that it is going […]
Belize has come under intense scrutiny from agencies within the region for failure to meet international standards in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing. The Caribbean Financial Action Taskforce is one such organization which serves as an umbrella for a majority of the countries within the basin. In November 2013, Belize was listed […]
Those shortcomings, according to Eusey, were quite a few, beginning with laws and amendments that were both antiquated. The move, he says, has been to successfully bolster the autonomy of the FIU. Eric Eusey, Director, Financial Intelligence Unit “Our deficiencies were several. First in the area of the legal, our laws were a bit […]
The Police Department held a graduation ceremony for its GREAT Program students today at the Bliss. The program, which official got underway in 2008, is operated under the umbrella of the Community Policing Unit. The initiative is used as a tool to prevent violence and its curricula is taught by law enforcement officers. Over thirty-two […]
Friday’s House meeting was cut short after the Opposition People’s United Party walked out in protest, but a lot was still said inside and outside the House. The P.U.P. used one of its questions to find out how many Guatemalans became citizens in 2014. It is all relevant because the new citizens eventually make their […]
When the P.U.P. lost its national audience in the House last Friday, they made up for it with a fiery impromptu press session outside. We’ve brought you much of what was said on a variety of critical issues including Santa Cruz and the explosive Melvin Hulse recording and resignation. But there was still more, including […]
Espat has led the Opposition’s charge where the use of Petrocaribe money is concerned. In fact, he is named as the claimant in a lawsuit seeking the Court’s judgment on the legality of spending Petrocaribe monies without first getting the approval of the House. His constant cry is that government is using the monies like […]
While Espat is concerned about the spending of Petrocaribe funds, the initiative turned ten on Monday. The milestone achievement was celebrated in grand fashion at the APBEL office in Belize City, complete with a courtesy toast and all the bells and whistles. But, the merrymaking was set against the controversy surrounding the use of the […]
The Petrocaribe Amendment Act was tabled in the House of Representatives on Friday with no objections from across the aisle even though the Opposition wants it repealed. As you would know by now, the People’s United Party area reps walked out in protest before the anticipated debate was to get underway following the eviction of […]
The People’s United Party consulted the expertise of a team of lawyers, led by Senior Counsel Andrew Marshalleck, to draft a legal alternative to the Petrocaribe Amendment Act. With all the effort that went into preparing that document, it was never presented in the House since the P.U.P. lost the opportunity when it walked out. […]
As we said, the Speaker of the House, Michael Peyrefitte, instructed police to remove Senator Patrick Andrews from the gallery of the National Assembly building during last Friday’s sitting of the House. The sitting proceeded, but the debate did not take place on an issue that has been at the center of national discourse for […]
Deputy Leader Julius Espat, who also shared the head table with Fonseca, frankly says that the only means of repealing the newly passed law is to vote the present government out of office. Julius Espat, P.U.P. Deputy Leader “What the claim has done in reality though, it has forced transparency to a certain extent. […]
The last time Desmond Usher, a Mahogany Heights, Belize District, resident was seen alive was on Friday night. The handyman, who is the brother of Leonard “Ghost” Meyers, left his common-law-wife at her mother’s house with a promise that he would soon be back, but he never did. Usher’s body was found this morning by […]
Funeral services for taxi man, thirty-nine year old Patrick Dean Tillett was held at his home village of Hattieville earlier today. He was killed on Wednesday night as he sat on a cement block on Cairo Street in Belize City sometime after ten p.m. At least one man, brandishing a nine-millimeter firearm reportedly opened fire […]
Police have another investigation on their hand that is being upgraded to murder. Fifteen year Tarique Thompson, a second form student of Canaan High School, died on Saturday at the K.H.M.H where he had been getting treatment since Monday. Thompson was shot last week on Lakeview Street just a stone’s throw from his house on […]
