Up to news time today, Ministry of Education officials confirmed to News Five that the one-million dollar honorarium to non-striking teachers had not been issued and that data was still being collected to determine the number of teachers and the total payout. Now this ‘bonus’ has been lambasted by the unions and in other sectors […]
On Friday, police made a belated announcement of disciplinary proceedings against a police constable and a special constable based in Orange Walk, who were accused of illegally contrabanding items at the Rio Hondo/Botes crossing. Police Constable Jorge Ascurio of the Orange Walk Formation was charged for acting in prejudice to good order and discipline and […]
A Corozal family is grappling with an explosion of violence at their home over the weekend that has landed a husband and wife in hospital and her father in possible legal trouble. The allegation at its center, however, is that the husband, Gabriel Zelaya, continuously abused his wife, leading to her father, Armando Cobb, having […]
A family deep in prayer was caught by stray bullets on Sunday night at their Antelope Street house in Belize City. Miguel Alpuche Junior and his mother, Ignacia, were offering prayers on the first anniversary of the death of Alpuche Senior when gunshots interrupted the solemn celebration. A third family member was fortunate and was […]
Just after seven on Sunday morning, shots rang out on Rivero Street, near Kraal Road on south side Belize City. Reports are that as twenty-one-year-old Earlin Butler Junior stood outside his house near the intersection of Rivero and Fairweather Streets, a lone gunman approached and opened fire on the unsuspecting youth. Butler Junior was hit […]
Several other persons remain critically injured at medical facilities across the country following separate shooting incidents on Saturday in the west and south. The first shooting took place near the Eight and Eight Restaurant on Bishop Martin Street in San Elena. Police, who responded to reports of shots fired in the area, would discover a […]
Convicted fake cop, Aaron Wilson has been given a stern warning by Justice Adolph Lucas for mouthing off in the media last Tuesday, after being found guilty on two counts of impersonating a public officer. The saga of the make-believe lawman concluded shortly after midday when he was ordered to pay one thousand, seven hundred […]
Wilson was fined a total of four thousand dollars for both counts, but the penalty was reduced by two hundred and fifty dollars each due of the length of time during which the matter languished in the judicial process. Christelle Wilson, Attorney for Aaron Wilson “He discounted the fine because, as I mentioned, the […]
Two Belize City men will spend the next five and a half years in jail and Belmopan police are looking for a third after solving a robbery reported last Friday afternoon. Twenty-eight year old Florentino Ruiz of Police Street and Abraham Vellos of Racoon Street were convicted this afternoon in the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court of […]
A San Pedro resident accused of a shooting incident that sent a minor to the hospital was arraigned this morning at the Belize City Magistrate’s Court before the Chief Magistrate. Thirty-year-old Leroy Goff was charged for dangerous harm, use of deadly means of harm with a deadly instrument upon Delson Paguada and one count of […]
Abandoned and infested buildings are a common across the City – they are hot beds for substance abusers and criminal elements. These are just some of the issues that the dilapidated structures present, making them unsafe and hazardous. The City Council says these buildings are going down; thirty-four structures are to be demolished. CitCo has […]
As a part of the multi-agency approach to clean up the city and make it safer, additional works will be undertaken outside of the demolition of derelict buildings. These efforts will include removing abandoned vehicles and clearing of overgrown lots. According to the City Council, there are twelve lots and sixteen derelict vehicles identified so […]
Separate press releases from the Belize Territorial Volunteers and Belize Progressive Party this evening condemned the Government’s decision to spend a million dollars of taxpayers’ monies as an Easter “reward” to teachers who stayed in the classroom in October of 2016 rather than join the Belize National Teachers’ Union on strike. Both parties called the […]
An early morning fire over the weekend was put out by quick action of the property owners and the Fire Department. In the early hours of Saturday morning, seventy-two-year-old Robert Ramclam Senior was awakened by a noise in his shop on Maskall Street in Belize City. He saw a man running away and the front […]
The Belize Tourism Board is reporting another record for tourist arrivals to the Jewel. In releasing the statistics for the first quarter of 2017, there have been two point seven percent more overnight tourist arrivals than the same period in 2016. This is attributed to a forty-four thousand, four hundred-plus visitors touching down in March, […]
Two teenagers, a male and a female second form student attending Bishop Martin High School in Orange Walk Town, remain out of school tonight on their own will, following the discovery that the fourteen-year-old girl is several weeks pregnant. According to Principal Luis Pook, the young boy, whom it is believed impregnated his classmate, has […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of weekend sporting activities….]
Moments ago, the Police Department issued notice that a cop from Orange Walk and a volunteer special constable will face disciplinary measures from the department in relation to a video of contraband activity in the Botes area of Orange Walk. Police Constable Jorge Ascurio of the Orange Walk Formation was charged for acting in prejudice […]
The latest pronouncement by Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington on the definition of Belize’s territory and borders is predictably causing uproar. A few weeks ago he surprised reporters during a press conference with Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, by pointing out that Belize’s borders are not internationally recognized, and […]
Joel Nagel continues tonight as Ambassador of Belize to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland and the International Atomic Energy Agency. The U.S. attorney was accredited to Austria and several other European countries, but was cancelled by the Government of Austria, a move that earned Belize a black eye in diplomatic circles. The dismissal has […]
The Minister of Foreign Affairs contended that business continues as usual for Nagel, and he has already brought results, including a closer relationship with the I.A.E.A., who has sent teams to Belize to observe the situation with cancer caused by various agents, among other things. While it’s hard to believe that what is essentially ‘gossip’ […]
The San Pedro, Ambergris Caye woman at the center of the brutality that led to police confronting civilians on the island early on Saturday morning has come forward to the press. However, she has asked that her full name not be disclosed. Police Corporals Norman Coye and Darnell Madrill are attached to the Quick Response […]
In the immediate aftermath of the gunfire, the woman says she was forgotten for the moment. But after things cleared up, she was taken home by other cops and did not face any charges. Police wanted to speak to her but on Monday, Assistant Commissioner of Police Keith Lino, the commander of the Professional Standards […]
“Not now…not ever!”….the civil society has come out strong against the Government after the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Patrick Faber announced on Monday that non-striking teachers will be given a ‘bonus’ for last October’s eleven-day industrial action. The Belize National Teachers Union, the Christian Workers Union, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry […]
There can be no dispute that teachers have a thankless job, and under most circumstances, the work that they do is appreciated and lauded. That is perhaps why it rankled some that the Belize National Teachers’ Union was able to get the majority of its members out in October for a strike which they framed […]
