A sixty-two-year-old resident of Biscayne, Belize District was released this morning by the police following a bizarre case of domestic violence with a fatal outcome. Moszetta Reyes provided today vivid details of her ordeal in which acting in self-defense, she ended the life of her abusive son-in-law. The violence started on Thursday night when Arthur […]
Also along the Phillip Goldson Highway, mayhem outside of a local bar in Ladyville left one person injured during a scuffle involving five men over the weekend. On Saturday night, twenty-eight-year-old Kareem Arnold was out socializing when he got into a physical altercation with a group of men. In the course of the brawl, Arnold […]
A single mother and her five children lost everything when a fire gutted their house in Scotland Halfmoon, Belize District. As they try to pick up the pieces to restore normalcy to their lives, police confirm it is a case of arson, but no one will be charged. And that’s because the fire at the […]
Thirty-one-year-old Glenfield Dennison, a Belizean law student in Guyana, has been taken off life-support after being shot multiple times in Georgetown on Thursday night. Dennison, who is presently attending the University of Guyana, was returning to his residence at Cummings Lodge after reportedly dropping off his girlfriend, a fellow student at UG, when he was […]
Today, FECTAB called a press conference to air concerns which they are facing in the industry, and called on government to hear them and act on a number of issues. The umbrella organization has maintained a contentious relationship with large foreign companies Dark Night and Chukka, claiming that they have been given unfair advantages. The […]
FECTAB member and tour operator Yhony Rosado says they deliberately waited until after elections to come public, since they didn’t want to be tarred with a political brush. Still, he says, they are forced to come out now because the small tour operators are losing their livelihoods due to government policies. One major problem, says […]
FECTAB also weighed in on the situation surrounding the now halted Stake Bank project. Developer Mike Feinstein has requested exclusivity from Government or at the very least a tangible show of support to allow him to recover his investment in the long term. Government has responded by stating that it is not prepared to offer […]
Victims of domestic abuse don’t normally go public about the violence. But tonight, Shawna Gillett, a single mother of four children, has come to the media to expose what she claims has been almost a decade of abuse against her by her ex. Even though she’s been to court three times in thirty days, ex-B.D.F. […]
Career criminal Kareem Smith is tonight at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital recovering from multiple gunshot wounds. Smith, twenty-seven, was shot in the back, chest, neck and both hands by a man who told Police he acted to save his own life. According to the Police report, on Sunday afternoon an unnamed person was at […]
Four persons, two Americans and two Mennonites, of the Spanish Lookout area were busted on Sunday, inside a Toyota Four-Runner. They were found to be in possession of twelve point four grams of weed when they pulled up at a police checkpoint at the Burrell Boom cut off on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Appearing before […]
The Guatemalan fisherman found in the immediate vicinity when American Anne Swaney was killed is back in his home country, out of the reach of Belizean investigators. The executive producer on Chicago’s ABC7 was on a one week vacation at Nabitunich in San Jose Succotz when she was murdered. Police found Menjivar fishing nearby. Twenty-four-year-old […]
Martin Muzikant, a Czech national who also goes by the name Petr Maneth, is in trouble with the law tonight. Muzikant gained prominence when he was accused of an alleged bribery against attorney Marcel Cardona. A press release issued by Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action (COLA) this evening says he is in detention at […]
A year and a half ago, the MCC Grounds in Belize City was closed to facilitate a much needed upgrade. The works were contracted out and scheduled to be completed in two months. But that never happened. The contractor dug a trench around the field and never filled it back in. The field has been […]
While we had the Sports Director in the hot seat, we also asked about the white elephant Marion Jones Sporting Complex. About the only thing sports-related at the facility are a running track and an incomplete cycle track and football field. According to Dominguez, the facility is certainly on his list of priorities. Ritchel […]
More than six months ago Santander and thirty-one farmers who had been involved in a lengthy dispute came to an agreement on a settlement. The farmers had no title to the land on which they had been farming for many years, but the terms of the understanding determined that they would. That was a half […]
The Prime Minister and a delegation are now in Washington DC where they will be meeting high level officials of the U.S. Government on the correspondent banking issue. On Friday that matter came up at the House Meeting which was the shortest we’ve ever attended, and certainly the least bloody. There were no fireworks or […]
Creating an Enabling Environment at Community Level…It’s a project of the European Union and the United Nations Children’s Fund that promotes the rights, survival, development and protection of children. This morning, at the UNICEF Office in Belize, a grant of over one hundred thousand Euros, which is a little over two hundred and sixteen thousand […]
Ladyville police took time off the streets briefly on Sunday and instead turned up mass this weekend at Our Lady of the Way Roman Catholic Church. Officers attached to that Rural Eastern Division branch made acquaintances with fellow churchgoers as part of the ongoing Meet and Greet initiative. Senior Superintendent Edward Broaster says that the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The PLB closing season kicked off over the weekend with only 1 of the matches scheduled being staged. We are optimistic here at the Sports Desk so we cling to the belief that a bad beginning makes a good ending. The Verdes/B.D.F. match up […]
The very curious tale of Dark Night owner and alleged murder contractor Bradley Paumen continues to dominate local headlines. The American investor has been charged for putting a hit on four persons – all over a piece of land which blocks access to Dark Night’s caves. Just for background, in mid-2015 the Supreme Court quashed […]
As the Paumen story continues to unravel, two of his employees were granted bail after appearing before Justice Antoinette Moore this morning in the Supreme Court. Ian Skeen and Linzburn Anderson were arrested and charged earlier this week for their individual roles in an alleged plot to commit murder. Skeen was additionally charged with abetment […]
In November the Government of Belize was humiliated after Mexican-American fugitive David Nanes Schnitzer slipped out of its grasp with the greatest of ease. Nanes had been formally requested by Mexico, and located in San Pedro with the assistance of U.S. Marshalls. But days after, he was granted bail of ten thousand dollars and vanished […]
Nanes was found in possession of a number of illegal Belizean documents including a fraudulent passport, was remanded in custody and then got bail despite an extradition request by Mexican authorities for the wanted businessman. In the wake of his flight, many, including United States Ambassador and former California Supreme Court Judge, Carlos Moreno, and […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow has called the loss of correspondent bank relationships an existential threat and a potentially huge crisis. And undoubtedly, if not resolved the implications are many and significant – from what would be an inability to purchase goods and services from the U.S. In a recent interview, Barrow indicated that he is […]
Even as the Prime Minister continues to arrange a round of intensive meetings and lobbying sessions in the international forum, he told News Five that it is important that it be understood that de-risking is not a result of any problem with our jurisdiction. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “The official line from the banks…Bank […]
