Ivan Ramos didn’t have much favors with the party after he accepted the controversial Petrocaribe Father’s Day Cheer from G.O.B. Deputy Party Leader Julius Espat went on record to condemn the acceptance of monies because the party is suing the government on the grounds that the use of the monies is illegal since it did […]
In the aftermath of the resignation, Ivan ‘Macca’ Ramos has no kind words for the P.U.P.; after all he says that the P.U.P. had no kind words for him. According to Ramos, it may very well be that he was set up to step down. He says he has no regrets with his decision, but […]
The body of a veteran fireman was found burnt inside his vehicle in Dangriga. But who would want him dead and why? Well, it seems that the price on his head was high because his killers didn’t only fire a barrage of bullets on his vehicle, but they also set him on fire inside his […]
Belize City police are tonight looking for well known street figure, thirty-year-old Maurice Felix, who was released on bail last Friday after being charged with the attempted murder of two men. He is now wanted for murder two weeks after the shooting. On Monday, May twenty-fifth, Mark Gentle and Calvin Cumberbatch were both seated in […]
A chopping incident over the weekend left a man hospitalized. Twenty seven year old Rodolfo Perez was chopped multiple times in the Long Bank Road a few miles outside of Dangriga. Officer in Charge in Dangriga told us more. Supt. Roy Joseph, O.C., Dangriga “On Sunday, the seventh of June 2015, at approximately two-ten […]
An official investigation into the cause of an airplane crash near Lighthouse Reef last Tuesday, involving a Tropic Air flight destined for Roatan, Honduras remains ongoing. The inquiry is being undertaken by the Department of Civil Aviation which has teamed up with the Department of Environment to safely remove the submerged aircraft from its aquatic […]
Rogiers’ version of the subsequent rescue contrasts starkly with that of the coast guard. They reported that not only was the operation successful but that their response time was well under a half hour, having deployed assets from Calabash Caye. According to Rogiers, that account is not entirely accurate. Isani Cayetano “I was made […]
Sixty-one year old Lester Yorke’s badly decomposing body was found in a vat in February 2014 at his family’s premises on Guerrero Street in Belize City. This morning, his brother, forty-two year old Michael Anthony Rowland, was arraigned for manslaughter before the Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. This afternoon, Rowland sought and was granted bail […]
On Sunday, Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley was officially endorsed as U.D.P. Standard Bearer. As far as conventions go, it was a low-key political event since Petrocaribe made its entry into politics. There were about three hundred and fifty persons there and only a few political shirts…but there were heavy hitters present to herald Bradley’s […]
And one more piece of political news…This isn’t exactly a great time in the P.U.P.’s long history, or even a particularly good time. So of course, the PM couldn’t resist poking some not-so-good natured fun at Francis Fonseca who he says is breaking up the P.U.P. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “Francis deh bout […]
Internal and criminal investigations are currently ongoing at the Police Department in Belize City after a city resident was shot by an on-duty police officer. Thirty-year old Kareem Betancourt is tonight in stable condition and under police guard at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after he was shot to the right arm by a police […]
There were two fatal accidents over the weekend…one in Sand Hill, Belize District and the other in Hicatee Village, Toledo. On Saturday afternoon, fifty-seven year old Oscar Chacon of Burrell Boom village was knocked down and killed as he crossed the Phillip Goldson Highway near its junction with the Maskall Road. Orange Walk resident, thirty […]
The second fatality took the life of seventy-three year old Isidoro Galvez of Hicatee Village in Toledo District. Around midnight on Saturday, police came across an extensively damaged Mazda pickup near mile twenty on the Southern Highway. Inside the vehicle was forty-six year old Magarita Cal, the common-law wife of Galvez. They were both travelling […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Friday night saw the opening game in the semi-pro basketball championship which saw the defending champions, San Pedro Tiger Sharks grab game I of the 3 game series in a 77 – 64 final score over Cayo Western Ballaz. Darwin Leslie did most of […]
Former U.D.P. Minister and attorney Marcel Cardona is in big trouble with the General Legal Council of the Bar Association and allegedly faces the threat of a one year suspension from practicing law. The only thing is that Cardona only found out when he saw it on the news Thursday night. There is a complaint […]
Cardona says he feels that he has been denied a fundamental right by not having had the opportunity to mount a defence on his own behalf. Not only was he completely unaware of the meeting of the General Legal Council on Wednesday, but he has not been made privy to any decision of that disciplinary […]
So what’s next for Cardona? Reports from sources in the Bar Association say that indeed there was a hearing and a recommendation to suspend him for a year. He told us today that if that is so, he will fight the decision. But any fight will only come after he receives official notification. Marcel […]
Two men are dead and a woman is hospitalized after an accident on Thursday night in Southern Belize. The collision of two motorcycles, traveling in the same direction, claimed the lives of thirty-two-year-old David McPherson and twenty-eight-year-old William Triguero. Shortly after eight p.m., between miles five and six on the Hummingbird Highway, police say the […]
An Orange Walk resident has beat a murder charge for the second time. He is Krismar Espinosa, whose trial concluded on Thursday before Justice Herbert Lord in the Orange Walk Supreme Court. Espinosa was accused of bashing the head of a female friend in Orange Walk more than seven years ago. A jury of twelve […]
Well known street figure, thirty year old Maurice Felix was in the Supreme Court today to file bail application. The Belize City resident was before Justice Troadio John Gonzalez for his bail application hearing. With no objection to bail from the D.P.P.’s Senior Crown Counsel, Cecil Ramirez, Felix obtained bail of fifteen thousand dollars plus […]
The Department of Civil Aviation is proceeding with an official probe into a plane crash earlier this week involving a Tropic Air flight en route to the Bay Islands of Honduras. The investigation is set to continue as soon as the submerged aircraft is removed from the crash site. To do so requires a joint […]
As we reported in the wake of the accident, it is the second aircraft from Tropic’s fleet to plunge into the Caribbean Sea since December of last year. We asked Garbutt if this poses any concerns to stakeholders in the aviation industry. His response, it is still safer to fly than to traverse the local […]
On Wednesday morning, all three men were returned to the mainland after spending the night at Blackbird Caye. They were then summoned by the Department of Civil Aviation to assist with a preliminary investigation. According to Garbutt, the accounts provided by the pilot and his passengers seem to check out, however, they are conducting an […]
Two weeks ago the Sugar Cane Production Committee made a decision to review cane-farmer quotas, which resulted in a cut in a majority of them. Already faced with the prospect of cane left standing in the fields because of the shortened season, the decision was unpopular, to put it mildly. The Sugar Industry Control Board […]
Diminished petroleum revenues and increased public spending is expected to result in only limited fiscal strengthening in Belize in the months ahead, despite rising non-oil government inflows. Consequently, the country’s debt dynamics will remain unstable, with a looming threat that Belize will struggle to access capital markets or even face a credit crisis. The foreboding […]
