Since taking his seat on the bench as presiding judge of the high court, Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin has spoken of the existent backlog within the judiciary, particularly in his address during the ceremonial opening of the Supreme Court. Ironically, he too seems to be adding to that mounting number of undecided cases. Isani […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow had a little fun with the Bar Association’s scolding of the press on Monday for what it called ‘sensationalizing’ its discussion of overdue court judgments on the part of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. It has decided not to take any action for now, as the Chief Justice has once again promised […]
The sixteenth Social Security Board’s Scholarship Award Ceremony was held today at the George Price Center in Belmopan. A whopping forty-three students from across the country were the lucky recipients of fifty-nine thousand dollars allocated for the program. That added to those currently enrolled, this year, the S.S.B. will be investing one hundred and eighty-six […]
The Central American Commission for Maritime Transport in collaboration with the Belize Port Authority, the Port of Belize and the Port of Big Creek is hosting the thirty-ninth Central American Port Forum. Over eighty delegates from eight countries, who represent port managers and administrators, as well as representatives of Ministries of Transport, port authorities and other related entities, will also be discussing the cruise […]
A few weeks ago, we told you about the call a few stevedores were making to ask CWU President Dale Trujeque to step away from the negotiations table. The stevedores, less than forty of them, said that they were not seeing any progress in the dialogue for the Collective Bargaining Agreement. The C.E.O. of the […]
In less than an hour, the Bliss auditorium will come alive as week five of KTV the Remix takes place. In this round of the competition, two more competitors will be out and seven singers will take on disco songs in this summer’s hottest television show. The show starts at eight-thirty, but who will advance? […]
San Ignacio Police tonight have another apparent murder on their hands. The incident that precipitated the death of thirty-eight-year-old Marlon Peters took place ten days ago; however, the investigation has taken on a rapid pace after Peters’ unfortunate passing over the weekend. Police are now focusing on the man with whom Peters had his last […]
There was a second murder recorded over the weekend, similar to that of Peters. Twenty-two-year-old Trevaun Chee was hit multiple times to the head and body allegedly with an aluminum bat in broad daylight on Friday afternoon in front of many witnesses on Mahogany Street Extension in Belize City. Two days later, on Sunday night, […]
Is Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin’s job under threat for outstanding delivery of court judgments? For now, no because at a meeting of the Bar Association of Belize on Friday night, the attorneys postponed a decision on confronting the top jurist until a meeting after the court returns from vacation later this year. One year ago […]
A teenage minor of Santa Familia Village was sexually assaulted over the weekend by someone who broke into her home on Saturday morning. The thirteen-year-old-girl had just got home, only to discover that the front door was ajar. When she entered the residence, she was immediately grabbed from behind by an intruder who attempted to […]
A forty-two-year-old has been detained for her alleged involvement in the disturbing discarding of a newborn baby boy last Wednesday in East Canal in Belize City. While that person is not the suspected mother, she has been in detention for questioning in the matter. According to Inspector Wilfredo Ferrufino of the Crimes Investigation Branch, they […]
Former GSU Commander Glenn Caliz…his name has been mentioned on two occasions last week in respect of an investigation reportedly being carried out by the Ministry of Home Affairs into monies that are unaccounted for at the office of the Gang Suppression Unit. A letter from the office of C.E.O. George Lovell dated June seventh, […]
One year ago, the Government of Belize began making payments to Dunkeld International, the B.T.L. Employees’ Trust and British Caribbean Bank Limited for the settlement of costs for the double acquisition of Belize Telemedia Limited in 2009 and 2011. The first payment, delayed after a dispute over the currency to be paid, rang up to […]
There were several traffic accidents over the weekend. The Chetumal Street Bridge opened for traffic over two years ago and it took some four point five million dollars to do it – but a portion of the bridge was extensively damaged over the weekend. On Sunday afternoon, a vehicle slammed into the bridge and caused […]
A road traffic accident at the Burrell Boom Junction on Saturday night has left one man hospitalized. Around ten-thirty that night, police responded and upon arrival, saw an extensively damaged van on the left side of the highway and a motorcycle in the middle of the road. According to police, the van which was driven […]
The European Union has been implementing its Accompanying Measures for Sugar program in Belize for some time now. While one of the key targets has to do with road construction in the North, there are other measures taking residents out of the Sugar Belt. One of those has to do with finding persons willing to […]
The Gang Suppression Unit was busy this past weekend as personnel from the agency descended on Police Street on Saturday afternoon. No arrests were made but the officers were able to recover a quantity of marijuana from the area, along with five live rounds of nine millimeter ammunition, as well as crude, homemade firearm. The […]
A second man has been charged with the armed robbery of businessman Robert Pickwoad at the Uno Gas Station on February seventh. He is thirty-three-year-old auto body works mechanic Arthur Humes of Curassow Street, Belize City. Humes joins Lloyd Leslie Junior of Bocotora Street, who was previously charged in March and is out on bail. […]
Twenty-three-year-old Patrick Petillo and twenty-eight-year-old Ronald Michael were jointly charged with one count of drug trafficking when they appeared in court today. Police report that on Saturday, July twenty-second, they made a bust of almost nine pounds of weed inside a vehicle that belong to Petillo, but was being driven at the time by Michael. […]
Belizeans United For Equal Rights at Home and the Diaspora – it is a group that is aiming to create a movement under one banner that will bring about the unification of Belizeans at home and abroad. In short term they go by the acronym BUFERHD. They say BUFERHD intends to end the divide that […]
Another matter that the movement hopes to see change is the matter of dual citizens in parliament. It is a controversial topic – but BUFERHD maintains that they will not rest until Diaspora Belizeans can offer themselves to represent in the democratic process and still maintain their dual status. Doctor Morgan spoke briefly on the […]
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This morning, the American couple accused of cruelty and neglect of thirteen-year-old Faye Lin Cannon appeared before Supreme Court Justice Denis Hanomansingh, seeking bail. David and Anke Doehm got it after a lengthy hearing and as of this evening, they are out on bail of ten thousand dollars each and a surety. Despite the heavy […]
For those upset with the decision of the court, Bradley offered a timely reminder that bail is not a privilege, but a right, and that a person’s liberty cannot be taken from them except in extreme and documented circumstances. Richard “Dickie” Bradley, Attorney for David Doehm “Bail is not to be used to punish […]
While the bail hearing was taking place before Judge Denis Hanomansingh, outside the Supreme Court, a group assembled to protest against David and Anke Doehm. The group travelled to the City from San Pedro where the Doehms lived and where Faye Lin was found dead. Residents of the island are both saddened and enraged and […]
