Last Tuesday, during a press conference held by the People’s United Party, it was revealed that government is considering selling minority shares in the various utilities. The move, it is widely believed, is an effort to meet its quota for the forthcoming annual budget. The idea, we are told, is also being frowned upon by […]
What about word of a proposed offering to a Barbados-based outfit? PM Barrow says there has been no such proposition. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “There’s been no such approach. Remember I am telling you that Ambassador Espat who was going to be the point man in all this would have been talking to people, […]
The People’s United Party, following a bolt from the blue, during a testimony given by former Immigration Director Ruth Meighan, claims that the 2012 general elections were stolen by the United Democratic Party. The charge comes after it was revealed during the ongoing Senate Inquiry that hundreds of immigrants were fraudulently naturalized ahead of the […]
It has been a while since we’ve spoken about matters coming out of the Special Senate Select Committee inquiry with Minister of Immigration Godwin Hulse. First there was Ruth Meighan’s testimony that hundreds of documents were obtained without the proper documentation – suggesting massive fraud. And there was Teresita Castellanos’ testimony last week about the […]
Thousands of potatoes are rotting in La Gracia Village in the Cayo District and farmers say they are set to lose thousands of dollars for this year’s potato crop. Some farmers have been experiencing losses for almost two weeks now – they have either been dumping or storing potatoes because they don’t have any buyers. […]
So, what is the Ministry doing about the potato crisis? Well, we caught up with Minister of Agriculture Godwin Hulse today and he told us that the ministry met with potato producers from seven zones, as well as with as many as nineteen of the twenty-five importers. Minister Hulse says that a potato working committee […]
Patrick Tillett, Financial Controller for the Belize City Council, and Eric Chang, former councillor and Deputy Mayor of Belize City, may be summoned by the Senate Special Select Committee. The pair will likely answer in testimony with regard to questions surrounding eight missing visa foils reported stolen from the border office in Cayo District that […]
Within a period of thirty hours, there were four homicides recorded: one in the city that claimed the life of a seventeen-year-old, as well as a murder in Ladyville where a fifty-seven-year-old man was brutally killed; he was almost decapitated. And then there were two murders in San Ignacio within hours of each other and […]
Several hours later, Rural Eastern Division police officers were called out to a remote area on Marage Road, near the Caribbean Shrimp Farm in Ladyville. There, they found the mutilated body of fifty-seven-year-old Walter Dawson, a resident of mile eleven on the Phillip Goldson Highway. Dawson had multiple chop wounds to the head and shoulder […]
Two men were killed in less than twelve hours in San Ignacio – but are they connected? One man was killed as he and his common-law walked in a park and the other was found shot to death on a dirt road. So far, police have identified one of the men – he is a […]
Freedom is closer than ever for thirty-seven-year old Danny Ku, despite a twenty-three-year prison sentence handed down by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin this afternoon. That’s because he has been in prison for the past ten years. Ku was on remand on charges of murder in connection with the death of his wife, nurse Anna Marie […]
Even as news filtered through on Friday of the death of Doctor Cecil “Chubby” Reneau, there were fears for the life of another famous Belizean in the hospital, the “Queen of Brukdown,” Lila Genus Vernon. She had been in treatment for a week for chronic renal failure and family members indicated to us then that […]
Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Church in Belize, the late Most Reverend Osmond Peter Martin, will be laid to rest next Monday, February twenty-seventh, following an official funeral service at Our Lady of Guadalupe Co-Cathedral in Belmopan. The Church accepted an offer from the Government to make it an official funeral, in recognition of […]
Good evening, I am James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlight of weekend sporting activities….]
Our news crew is just back from the fields in the west covering the very important story of the plight of local farmers whose livelihoods are being threatened by the importation and contraband of potatoes from Mexico. The crisis in the agriculture industry, according to the farmers is because licenses are being issued to highly […]
It has been quite a week during which well-known Belizeans and friends of Belize died. We have covered the passing of Doctor Robert Horwich, primatologist and founder of the Community Baboon Sanctuary in Bermudian Landing; as well as Arthur Francisco, also known as Mister Pou; and on Thursday, the Most Reverend Bishop Osmond Martin of […]
The Government of Belize has joined in with official condolences to the family, friends and Roman Catholic community on the passing of first native Bishop of the Church, the Most Reverend Osmond Peter Martin. Bishop Emeritus Martin died on Thursday morning at home of natural causes at the age of eighty-six. While he was appointed […]
Turning to economic news…Belizeans await the return of Prime Minister Dean Barrow from New York City, where he is meeting with Belize’s legal and financial team over the Superbond. But it is not looking good for the third restructuring of the superbond and there is a likelihood that Belize will default in the February payment. […]
In late August 2015, Alberto Coleman—then fifty-five years old—was charged for the July third murder of his twenty-nine year old ex-girlfriend, Juana Cowo. The decomposed body of the young woman was discovered in the bedroom of her apartment at the corner of King and Jose Maria Nunez Streets in Punta Gorda. She had been brutally […]
According to Bradley, the case fell apart because the murder was poorly investigated. And from evidence before the court, while he was smitten by Juana, there was no proof that Coleman had killed her. Richard “Dickie” Bradley, Attorney for Alberto Coleman “As one example of many that emerged, there was—when police broke down the […]
Also before Judge Denis Hanomansingh in the Punta Gorda Courts, two cops are on trial for the shooting death of eighteen year old inmate Rasheed Elijio. He along with Brian Garcia had escaped from the police station in that jurisdiction. Elijio was shot and killed back in May of 2013; he was reportedly shot to […]
A pair of Bulgarian nationals, twenty-eight year old Jeorji Petrov, and twenty-five year old Halid Yuksel Aptula, convicted of theft from a Belize Bank ATM, was back before the courts today on an application for forfeiture of the money. Twenty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars were found inside their apartment in the city believed […]
A cane farmer from San Estevan Village up north, who moved to the City, is behind bars tonight for burglary. Thirty-six-year-old Rafael Yam claims he is suffering from stomach cancer. But notwithstanding, he is serving his first night of a five-year sentence handed down to him this morning by Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser. According to […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice officially announced today via press release that Attorney Denys Barrow will be joining Belize’s final court of appeal headquartered in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Barrow is the first Belizean to be appointed a judge of the C.C.J. and will be taking on the appointment later this year. Belize […]
While on the subject of justices, himself a top notch criminal lawyer, Attorney Bradley reflected on the state of affairs in the Belize judiciary. Bradley echoed the CJ’s statement at the opening of the Supreme Court in January noting that there is a shortage of judges. Bradley says that hundreds of accused persons are behind […]
