In the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court, Corozal Town resident Mark Antonio Rosales was on Monday ordered to serve nineteen years’ imprisonment. He was unable to pay fines of forty-six thousand dollars in relation to convictions on multiple counts of obtaining property by deception. Magistrate Ladonna John found thirty-one-year-old Rosales guilty of nineteen counts of the charge, […]
There was an armed robbery last Thursday in Corozal Town on the Seventh Avenue, which was caught on surveillance camera. The masked armed men are seen attacking the owner of Ban’s Store sometime after six p.m. Quick response from the police led to the arrest of the trio, identified as Kevin lanza, Alvin Sanker and […]
Minister of Education and Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber last week insisted that Government could not find any money to pay school fees and for vehicles because of the Financial Secretary’s memo warning C.E.O.’s and accounting officers that the treasury is frozen until and after the Budget is read. But the Opposition P.U.P. says its […]
Opposition Leader John Briceño says he expects that there will be some unpleasant consequences for alleged Government misspending in the forthcoming budget. But as to the specific question of raising taxes, the P.U.P. leader says anything is possible. And in light of the apparent neglect of the social partners, most conspicuously the Belize Chamber of […]
Briceño has been working just as hard as his municipal candidates in the last few weeks. Just this past weekend alone he has been to municipalities in the South and West before dashing back to Belize City, which the party has targeted as a key pick-up. But he told reporters on Monday that the energy […]
The party leader also addressed questions of campaign financing. The P.U.P. continues to be dogged by accusations of obtaining funds from Lord Michael Ashcroft, but Briceño insists it is not so. The party is being buoyed by donations from all its supporters in business and around the country and promises it will not let them […]
One of the hardest political battles will be waged in Belize City on March seventh. It is the biggest municipality with as many as forty-five thousand voters. The departing Mayor Darrell Bradley was big on infrastructure, and the U.D.P. mayoral aspirant, Dion Leslie is relying on that record to retain control of city hall. On […]
A team also headed to Corozal Town and found the political parties on the ground in the last leg of the campaign before the elections. The town is swamped with blue and red signs and election paraphernalia which show the fieriness of the campaign by the People’s United Party which wants to unseat the incumbent […]
The Government of Belize has insisted that it is not in debt for fuel shipments from Venezuela through Curacao as part of the Petrocaribe agreement. But a Mexican online media source quotes Venezuelan authorities as accusing G.O.B. of being bankrupt for not meeting those payments. It says there has been no indication that the government […]
Belize Electricity Limited, one week ago, signed a new power purchase agreement which continues B.E.L.’s ability to buy more from Mexico and create new opportunities for energy trade. With stable rates, B.E.L. is positioning itself in the regional market by working with one of the ten replacement companies for Comision Federal de Electricidad, CFE Calificados. […]
We end the news broadcast tonight with a story close to home. Local fans of NBC’s crime drama Taken were astonished by the plot of a recent episode titled Hammurabi, directed by Lukas Ettlin, in which a laid-off worker kidnaps a high-powered accountant in revenge for his lost pension. The team of Bryan Mills and […]
Tonight, eight lawmen are behind bars on charges of murder and attempted murder. Seven are members of the Belize Special Assignment Group and the other is a cop, assigned to the elite unit. The men were jointly charged over the weekend and arraigned this morning before Magistrate Albert Hoare for the deadly attack that happened […]
Police have another incident on their hands that is giving them a black eye. A forty-four-year-old resident of Sarawee in the south died on Saturday while in custody. Police picked up and were transporting Humphrey Mitchell when they claim he jumped out of the pan of the police vehicle. He landed on the pavement and […]
A suspected drug plane was discovered partially burnt this morning in an area between Indian Church and Hill Bank villages in Orange Walk District. Police say they were tipped by someone in the area that a plane had landed and it is believed that the aircraft was set on fire to dispose of any evidence […]
Just after six p.m. on Sunday when shots rang out near the six-mile bridge on the George Price Highway. Eighteen-year-old Darnell Domingo, a student of Western Paradise Village, and twenty-nine-year-old Francis Parham were heading to Belize City on a motorcycle, when they were approached by a white car from the opposite direction. A passenger exited […]
Meanwhile in the Cayo District, police have one person detained in connection with a shooting incident that occurred just before midnight on Saturday. It occurred in the Arizona area of Teakettle Village just off the George Price Highway in which Adolfo Flores was shot to the leg following an altercation with a group of men. […]
Over the weekend, there was yet another confrontation in the Sarstoon River. Members of the Guatemalan Armed Forces aggressed a group of Guatemalan and Belizean journalists traveling with the Belize Territorial Volunteers. The group was stopped from going up the river, despite the avowal of Belizean authorities that our half of the Sarstoon is free […]
Financial Secretary Joseph Waight sent a blistering communication to chief executive officers some days ago asking that their finance officers stop searching for additional funds as there is no money in the coffers. Waight warned that Government will “likely have to issue more T-notes to meet the early end of year payday next month. Our […]
The Government has also hit out at suggestions that it owes for previous shipments of diesel oil from Venezuela and that a tanker cannot be discharged because G.O.B. hasn’t paid its bill. A press statement, over the weekend, calls the delay ‘temporary’ and as a result of ‘unanticipated difficulties’ for the Venezuelan state-run company PDVSA. […]
The People’s United Party has called for the dismantling of the Belize Defence Force’s Belize Special Assignment Group, in the wake of the murder of Ariel Audinette. Seven members of the elite unit are accused of being involved in the beating death of Audinette. Similarly, the P.U.P. has previously called for the disbandment of the […]
The gunman who ended the lives of twelve-year-old David Morrison and twenty-six-year-old Lloyd Valentine in a deadly shooting on Wednesday evening in Pregnant Alley remains at large tonight. It has been several days since the tragic double homicide rocked the city and the police department is no closer to making an arrest. The standard-six student, […]
Clinton Fitzgibbon and Luis Dominguez, both former employees of the Belize City Council, were killed within days of each other on Eight Street, in the city’s quiet King’s Park neighbourhood. Police confirmed today that the murders are related and were in fact motivated by drugs. While several persons were initially detained and released, they are […]
Police say the search continues for missing thirty-five-year-old Alaine Garcia of Hattieville. The six-foot-five-inch tall man was last seen alive around five a.m. on Thursday, as he dropped off his wife to catch the bus in the Windmill area of the village. His wife believes that he may have been shot on his return home […]
Trinidad and Tobago’s Law Association and some media houses have found themselves facing legal action from the country’s Chief Justice, Ivor Archie. Archie has been accused of various instances of misconduct in office, but denies the charges. His attorneys have now written the association challenging the investigation in the High Court. They plan to argue […]
In sporting news, elections for the Belize Cycling Federation have been called for a few weeks from now. The federation said it was waiting for the National Sports Council to approve its constitution, but Sports Council Director Ian Jones told us today that the council only requires the document for registration of sporting bodies under […]
