His attacker misfired, but thirty-three year old businessman Derrol Vernon did not, and a twenty-one year old Belize City resident is now charged with aggravated assault. Kevaughn Staine was read his charges before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford this morning. According to Vernon, he was driving his black S.U.V. on Lacroix Boulevard on March eleventh. As […]
Officially, thirty-six year old James Crawford of Ladyville is charged with stealing a gold chain during a fight and causing harm to Kenneth Arthurs. But it came out in the Magistrate’s Court that it was a “weed stash” going missing which caused the men to come to blows. According to Arthurs he was raking up […]
Police discovered seven sixteen gauge cartridges in an abandoned lot in Prince Alley, Belize City. Around nine-thirty on Wednesday night, police searched the lot where they discovered the bag with the ammunition. No one was in the area at the time and the cartridges were labeled as found property.
The last we heard from former Lake Independence area representative and Minister of State Mark King, was that he was upset with his United Democratic Party. In October, King claimed he had been illegally kicked out of the U.D.P. National Party Council and not considered for any placement by the party. But he seems to be […]
On Wednesday Senators debated several loan motions, including the ninety million dollar government-backed loan for Belize Telemedia Limited to upgrade its fiber optic network to provide high-speed internet to homes and businesses. Another such motion is the OFID forty-million U.S. dollar loan for the construction of the Caracol Road, passed in the House previously. But […]
Also from the Senate, similar to the Stores Orders Regulations, the Financial Orders Regulations, last amended in 1992, are being amended to release restrictions on accounting officers to make contracts for services and tenders. Answering the concerns of Business Senator Mark Lizarraga that more prudence should be in place in this time of fiscal consolidation, […]
Teakettle in the Cayo District was host to a meeting of the Belize-Guatemala Joint Commission, led by the countries’ co-commissioners and ambassadors, Alexis Rosado and Georges de la Roche. The meeting was a follow-up to the February twenty-seventh joint visit of Foreign Ministers Wilfred Elrington and Sandra Jovel Polanco to the Organization of the American […]
On Wednesday evening, the Inter-American Development Bank Belize office hosted the economic principal specialist for Central America, Mexico, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Doctor Jordi Prat presented to attendees at the Radisson Hotel on the topic of “Inclusive Growth: Opportunities and Challenges for Central America and the Dominican Republic.” He highlighted the region’s social and […]
The 2018 Hurricane Season is a couple months away, but that has not stopped UNICEF and its partner agencies to sharpen their disaster management skills. On Wednesday, UNICEF and several organizations gathered at the Biltmore to do a simulation of a flood. Doing the exercise helped the organizations to see how the machinery works and […]
If you have an interest in teaching yoga for kids, there is an international yoga instructor in country. Ann Robideaux is in Belize for the next few days to teach persons interested in yoga teacher training. Om Shanti Belize is hosting the yoga workshop from Friday, March sixteenth through to Sunday, March eighteenth. Robideaux tells […]
Annually, some of Belize’s most prominent citizen humanitarians have taken to the stage in the name of a worthy cause. They are the Rotary Club of Belize and it’s that time of year for another Patrick Brown-produced play adapted for the Belizean audience. Residents of the River Valley will certainly recognize the setting of “River […]
The Women in Art Exhibition opened at six this evening at the Mexican Institute in Belize City. The yearly showcase puts women’s art on display through eighty pieces of paintings, photography and handicraft combined. The exhibition is being staged through the National Institute for Culture and History in partnership with the Mexican Embassy. Curator of […]
Easter is quickly approaching and following the tragic drowning of a teen at a pool party last week it is a good time to discuss water safety. Tonight in Healthy Living, we visit the Y.W.C.A. and spoke to two senior lifeguards about water safety and hazards. Marleni Cuellar reporting Belize is blessed with beautiful […]
There was a changing of the guard today at City Hall, from the red to the blue. A new mayor and councillors for the country’s largest municipality took the oath this afternoon before a supportive crowd. The P.U.P.’s Bernard Wagner and his team of ten councillors, a week ago, won convincingly the trust of voters […]
In Belmopan, where the upper house met today, a group of students left their classrooms at the University of Belize and headed over to the national assembly building. For about an hour, they protested the spike in violence against children, which is ripping apart families and communities. From sexual abuse to the gun violence that […]
This evening, there was mass movement at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize City. News Five understands that there were issues with the ceiling of the national referral hospital, necessitating urgent action. We are told that doctors and nurses had to be called back to the hospital to assist with the evacuation. Late this […]
A teacher of Independence Village is being accused of sexual assault of a sixteen-year-old girl. Lennox Mejia, known as “Namule,” was read the charge before Magistrate Deborah Rogers in the Independence Magistrate’s Court and remanded until June eighteenth. On March eighth, the minor reported that she caught a vehicle to go to school around seven-fifteen […]
During the budget presentation for the upcoming fiscal year, Prime Minister Barrow announced that a tax of twelve and a half percent will be added to the existing cost of data. The increase in the form of General Sales Tax takes effect on April first and comes at the expense of all internet users, with […]
While he stayed away from speaking on behalf of Speednet Communications, the parent company of Smart, Briceño says that the additional cost will be borne by consumers of data, potentially locking out a poorer class of citizens who won’t be able to afford the service. This, he says, flies in the face of efforts by […]
The debate for the 2018 Budget is set for next week Thursday and Friday. One of the key points will be how the government is managing the tax base for revenue in relation to its spending. Business Senator Mark Lizarraga, a watchdog for the business community, argues in advance of that debate that if the […]
According to Lizarraga, G.O.B. in 2017 had promised austerity measures to cut back on operational expenses. In the 2018 Budget, they’ve only been able to do so by two percent, as opposed to the proposed five percent. The Senator calls for the government to more seriously pursue being efficient in curtailing expenses and managing debt. […]
The Caribbean Court of Justice this morning heard dueling applications from the Belize Bank Limited and the Attorney General in Port of Spain concerning the still-outstanding U.H.S. matter. The C.C.J. ordered the forty-million dollar Belize Bank loan to be paid last November. The loan, made to the original owners of U.H.S. and guaranteed by Government, […]
The Belize Bank is tightening the screws. On Monday a U.S. district court judge ordered that the Bank can seize property owned by the government of Belize “in the jurisdictions where such attachment or execution is appropriate.” The ruling was mentioned by Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay during arguments for the Bank’s case at the C.C.J. […]
When the new budget was presented to the House of Representatives last Friday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow made claims with respect to the value and cost of B.T.L. Tonight, we take a closer look at the facts, which when analyzed, appear to be quite outrageously positive, giving the appearance that the acquisition has been a […]
A loan to B.T.L. was also tabled before the Senate today. The loan from Taiwan is for of thirty-five million Belize dollars, for a commitment period of twelve years at a fixed rate of interest of five point five percent. The loan will be used to finance the installation of a state-of-the-art fiber optic network. […]
