Just after ten this morning screams echoed in the distance off Louise Bevans Street in south side Belize City. A most horrific chopping incident occurred which was witnessed by neighbors including her daughter, who lives next door. A fifty-two year old mother tonight clings to life at the Karl Heusner Memorial after her stepson inflicted […]
Tonight there is more hanky-panky to reveal about the putrid state of affairs that was pervasive at the Immigration Department in years past. The Senate Select Committee on the Special Audit on Immigration met in Belmopan on Wednesday looking at some of what took place in the period between 2011 and 2013. Senator Eamon Courtenay […]
Cayo South Area Representative Julius Espat will not be attending Friday’s Sitting of the House of Representatives. In fact, he will be keeping a fairly safe distance away from the Assembly Building, as word is that there’s a warrant for his arrest should he set foot on Independence Hill during the meeting. It’s not to […]
So what became of the discussion among senior parliamentarians on both sides of the floor to have Espat reinstated? According to the embattled politician, U.D.P. Party Whip, Michael Finnegan, is the only one to have expressed an interest in patching things up. In spite of a letter written by Fort George Area Representative Said Musa, […]
On Wednesday, when asked to comment on Espat’s situation, Pickstock Area Representative Wilfred ‘Sedi’ Elrington proceeded to upbraid his colleague. He went on to say that it is a shame that the People’s United Party, instead of reprimanding Espat for his behavior in the House, is actually united in defense of such action. Today, Espat […]
The appointment of Nestor Vasquez to the Integrity Commission remains a hot button issue for the People’s United Party. Opposition Senator Eamon Courtenay has raised serious concerns about Vasquez’s selection and is critical of his role as the government appointed accountant on the newly formed working group. It was disclosed, following a meeting of the […]
An operation conducted by officers attached to the Forest Department has yielded a significant haul of illegally harvested rosewood. On Wednesday, a site inspection at a woodwork factory in Benque Viejo Town led to the discovery of thirty thousand board feet of flitches. The pieces of lumber did not bear any official markings or documentations […]
While we were up north, we got an update on the November fifteenth murder of twenty-two year old Sherman McFarlane, who was ambushed and shot dead in Libertad village after stopping in with friends late that night. Police believe it stemmed from a prior argument. Now, according to the lead officer of Corozal Police Formation, […]
The Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association today stepped forward to tell its side of the Fairtrade suspension debacle. The B.S.C.F.A. was suspended for the third time in eight years after auditors found that former San Estevan cane farmer Eloy Escalante sold his quota or production estimate to the son of a Government Minister, Edmond Castro, […]
While the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers’ Association has made it clear that it wants no further part of Escalante, a combative Edmond Castro is a different story. He has threatened to sue if the B.S.C.F.A. continues to blame him for their suspension and accused them of mismanagement of the “ghost farmer” situation. But the Association […]
Christmas parties for needy children are popping up at this time of the year. The annual party of the Salvation Army took place at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall in Belize City where there was barely standing room. It is one of the biggest parties so far this season by one of the most giving […]
The unending spate of crime and violence which continues to grip the streets of the Old Capital has given rise to a social movement where friends and families of countless victims are demanding a ceasefire. They are doing so by taking to those very streets en masse. We’ve seen a galvanization of Belizeans in the […]
The countdown to Christmas has begun. We know how much splurging takes place around this your time of year – and we’re not talking about splurging on presents – but on all the rich foods and drinks of the season. So before you pour your glass of rumpopo or cut a slice of that black […]
We begin tonight’s newscast with shocking news of the death of a baby girl under most mysterious circumstances, where authorities are not sure if it was an accident or a case of murder. A month shy of her second birthday, twenty-three-month-old Janeeka Campbell suffered a most brutal and senseless death. Her mother is speaking to […]
Late-breaking information from an aunt of the deceased, who spoke to News Five via telephone this evening, is that according to Janeeka’s father, they were sleeping in bed together when the child got up and went outside to play. She apparently fell down a steep flight of stairs, sustaining massive scrapes and bruises, and it […]
While police are yet to conclude that a two-year old girl from Saint Matthews was murdered, in the courtroom today, two murder suspects of another child walked free. The case fell apart when the prosecution could not produce the evidence to convict Randy Green and Michael Young for the murder of the then seven-old Joshua […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow did not make it back to Belize from New York for health reasons, following meetings with bondholders. A release today says the PM is receiving medical treatment for gastroenteritis. PM Barrow was experiencing symptoms seemingly consistent with viral gastroenteritis prior to his departure to New York. The release states “the symptoms have […]
On Tuesday, the Chief Justice struck out a case brought against the Speaker of the House by Cayo South area rep Julius Espat. Espat argued that his removal from the House did not follow due process. Espat’s argument focuses on a technicality that when Pickstock area rep Wilfred Elrington got up to name him in […]
The Christmas Cheer was introduced by the Barrow Administration to U.D.P. ministers, caretakers and other political officers. Thousands of dollars from the public purse were also disbursed, albeit disproportionately to opposition parliamentarians, as a Christmas Cheer. The monies are said to have been drawn down from the bountiful Petrocaribe Funds. But Petrocaribe has dried up […]
The second session of the Senate Special Select Committee recalled Auditor General Dorothy Bradley, who was joined by direct assistant and Supervisor of Audit Carla Faber to answer further questions in regard to the Immigration Audit Report. The six Senators on the Committee covered extensive ground in the first full session, one of two planned […]
Among the many irregularities found in the Immigration Audit Report’s three volumes is the curious process by which persons who had never set foot on Belizean shores were able to obtain visas, Belizean nationality and passports, in that order, bypassing many of the procedures in place with little more than the sponsorship of local benefactors, […]
The bitter land dispute in Frank’s Eddy Village between businessmen Michael Modiri and Bradley Paumen, over access to Paumen’s Dark Night Tours, is unceasing. Despite their names making headlines on numerous occasions, including a foiled plot to execute Modiri and several others, one individual has remained in the background. Jerome Crawford blew the lid off […]
Crawford claims that he was physically abused by the arresting officers, a matter which is presently before the court. He also says that in visiting the Belmopan police station on Tuesday, he caught wind of a plan involving several officers to blackmail employees of Michael Modiri. Jerome Crawford, Employee of Michael Modiri “The day […]
The government is filing a lawsuit against Andre Vega for not reimbursing to government a four-hundred-thousand-dollar compensation that was paid to him in a land scandal surrounding a property near the Haulover Bridge. Vega, who is the son of former DPM and former Lands Minister Gaspar Vega, and Sharon Pitts were both compensated after they […]
The last we spoke with Minister Elrington, he made it clear that communication with his counterpart in Guatemala, Carlos Raul Morales, was non-existent and that things relating to the territorial claim were at a standstill with Guatemala. . Today, we asked him whether there has been any improvement in particular in respect of a proposed […]
