There is more from B.N.T.U. President Luke Palacio, who sat with the media this evening to discuss other concerns, including the salary adjustment. Prior to the 2017 budget presentation, Prime Minister Barrow announced that increments for teachers would not be affected. While government has stayed true to its word, the B.N.T.U. views the latest action, […]
To make matters worse, Palacio claims that the ministry is being disingenuous by requesting that teachers volunteer to mark Primary School Exams under the guise that they are attending workshops. The correcting of papers are scheduled to take place from Monday to Wednesday of next week, during the days set aside for teachers to make […]
While the Belize National Teachers’ Union has made clear how it feels about this ‘bonus,’ where exactly is the Ministry of Education going to get the money from? As the Minister told us on Monday, the money is being ‘set aside.’ But is the Ministry robbing from Peter to pay Paul? At the request of […]
The P.U.P. in a release this evening called the million dollar payout to teachers, “the sign of a stubborn, immature and downright dangerous man who refuses to accept that he went up against the teachers and lost.” The party makes the point that in a time of deep economic recession, the G.O.B. had to present […]
A shooting in the Old Capital on Monday has left a visiting Belizean in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Jeffery Martinez is a citizen, but resides in Honduras. He was here to regularize his status and was planning to return to Honduras, but violence got in the way and on Monday […]
A pair of Belize City men riding on a motorcycle not too far from the Raccoon Street Police Station came under gunfire on Monday night when they were intercepted by a vehicle whose occupants unloaded a fusillade of bullets in their direction. Twenty-four-year-old Reese Riverol and twenty-seven-year-old Joseph Rowland are both recovering from injuries they […]
He wanted to be a real police officer – he even sat the examination. But in 2010, special constable Aaron Wilson found himself on the wrong side of the law, accused of impersonating a police officer. He was found with various items made up from the Police Department and stories flowed thereafter about his various […]
At trial, Henderson effectively denied knowing or assisting Wilson in any way, but Wilson says he worked exclusively under Henderson’s command and was allowed to wear the brown Police Number One uniform, which was switched out after his case exploded into the public eye. Wilson also charges that he was paid ‘under the table’ to […]
It all came crashing down in July of 2010, when Wilson, who had been working at a night club in Belize City as security, was accused of molesting a woman and stealing her cell phone – charges for which he was found guilty in Magistrate’s Court. But he says the woman in question, while he […]
Attorney General Senator Michael Peyrefitte confirmed to News Five that as of Friday, March thirty-first, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust (Amendment) Act is now law, having been assented to by Governor General Sir Colville Young. This is despite the upper chamber of the National Assembly, the Senate, voting seven to six against passage of the […]
Earlier in the newscast you heard about the cold killing of a well-known and respected Pastor of San Ignacio. The news has shocked the San Ignacio and Santa Elena communities. When we spoke with Mayor Earl Trapp earlier today he said that the level of crime is a concern for his residents, and it will […]
For the past year, the Inter-American Development Bank has funded efforts to streamline Belize’s National Statistical System, which is nominally managed by the Statistical Institute of Belize. With so many organizations collecting and distributing data on a variety of subjects, it is the S.I.B.’s job in Belize’s law to make sure that that data is […]
Almost three hundred athletes across the country participate in the various sporting programs of the Special Olympics, Belize Chapter. Disability or not, every athlete is skilled in a particular discipline and are given an opportunity to represent the country internationally. Over the weekend, Special Olympics Belize put off its annual fun run, which is a […]
The police say they are carrying out a thorough investigation of an early morning shooting in San Pedro. Since Saturday morning, two videos have been circulating on social media. In one the police are seen manhandling a handcuffed woman, pinning her down and then hitting her. That incident happened at about four o’clock on Saturday […]
The blasts of up to fourteen shots could be heard in the video, but authorities say only ten expended shells were recovered from the scene in the prime tourism destination. On the island today, business owners are still reeling from the shooting, which is likely to have an impact on the industry as the Easter […]
Suffering from a black eye in the wake of the shooting, the police called a press conference this morning. While two of five officers have been charged for their roles in the shooting incident, the Professional Standards Branch of the Belize Police Department says it continues to conduct an investigation into the shooting incident. According […]
The officers in question clearly acted outside of the rules of engagement when they began firing their weapons during the disturbance. Both have been charged for wounding as many as five persons and will also be facing disciplinary charges as a result of their actions. The investigation, says ACP Lino, saw interviews being conducted and […]
At the heart of the chaos was the failed detention of an unidentified woman, whom officers assigned to work duties at the establishment, were attempting to subdue. That woman was being severely manhandled and roughed up by the officers, even though she was in handcuffs. Despite the ordeal being recorded by patrons of the night […]
A Guatemalan national identified as twenty-one-year-old Bryan Geovanny Corado was murdered on Sunday night in an area on the Belize side of the O.A.S. Adjacency Zone known as El Champon. Corado has been described by local police as a member of a transborder criminal outfit operating from Melchor de Mencos. He was recently released from […]
Three persons perished in traffic accidents over the weekend. An accident in the south has left two teenagers dead and several others injured. More than a dozen persons were traveling in a truck when the driver lost control and overturned multiple times on the Placencia Road. The accident happened on Sunday afternoon and before the […]
A new Chief Executive Officer will take up the reins at Belize Telemedia Limited on Wednesday, succeeding former C.E.O. Anwar Barrow who demitted office in February. Rochus Schreiber will assume oversight of the day-to-day executive management of B.T.L. on April fifth, taking over from Chief Financial Officer Ivan Tesucum who held over since Barrow’s departure. […]
New prices are in effect for beer and stout; soft drinks; rum; cigarettes; fuel and cement following the coming into force of the 2017-2018 Budget. The Government of Belize legislated an increase in excise levies for these products, known as the ‘sin taxes.’ Bowen and Bowen Limited, bottlers of the Coca-Cola line of products as […]
Nearly two years ago there was a massive shake-up in the Eastern Division of the Belize Police Department, with three senior officers – Assistant Commissioners of Police Chester Williams, Dezerie Philips and Edward Broaster assigned to manage crime in the most violent section of the country. With that anniversary coming up, and Williams in particular […]
A fire early this morning completely wiped out a wooden home in the Benguche Area of Dangriga. Sometime after four thirty, Errol Gomez was inside his one bedroom house when he was woken up by flames inside his house. A neighbor, who happened to be up around that time, responded quickly and called the authorities. […]
The Ministry of Education effectively conceded in its arbitration wrangle with the Belize National Teachers’ Union that it could not arbitrarily set the dates for making up of class time lost to the strike carried out by the B.N.T.U. in October, as it tried to do at the end of the Christmas break. It was […]
