The Bar Association is organizing a public forum in the coming days and an expert in international law has been invited to discuss the issue of the I.C.J. In an effort to advance the ongoing public discourse, Professor Stephen Vasciannie will be providing an updated legal opinion on the Belize-Guatemala territorial dispute and whether it […]
There are as many as twelve judges on the Supreme Court bench, however, with the recent retirements of Justices Denis Hanomansingh and Adolph Lucas, two seats are presently available. Both distinguished judicial officers have served in the high court, but it was Justice Lucas’ diligence and career path which began with him joining the police […]
Will the high-profile case involving accused murderer William ‘Danny’ Mason be heard in the Supreme Court this year? Mason is one of seventy-four inmates on pretrial detention at the Belize Central Prison who has been incarcerated since 2016. During the ceremonial opening of the 2019 legal calendar, Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin, in addressing the court, […]
P.U.P. Orange Walk South Area Representative Jose Abelardo Mai is on record speaking on the bad conditions of sugar roads and his concerns over the disbursement of monies earmarked for the rehabilitation of sugar roads in his division. The government allocated three hundred thousand dollars for the upgrading of the roads in the Orange Walk […]
The Caracol Road is coming – well, not quite yet, but G.O.B. has announced that the funds for the project have been secured. On Monday, the Government of Belize signed a loan agreement with the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development for twenty million U.S. dollars to finance the Caracol Road Project. The works include […]
Basketball aficionados are looking forward for the opening of the National Elite Basketball League Season which gets underway later this week. But over the weekend, Belize Hurricanes got a jump start and formally introduced its fifteen players to fans. Looking smart in their new jerseys, the team says it is poised to retain its winning […]
An armed robbery turned into a dangerous hostage situation on Sunday night. Three armed thieves broke into a store on Mahogany Street in Belize City. Seven Days Shop is located on the lower flat of the building and the owners live on the upper flat. Just as they were closing down business on Sunday night, […]
The lengthy standoff between three armed bandits and officers from the Belize Police Department has prompted ComPol Chester Williams to carefully consider the leadership, as well as the role of the Gang Suppression Unit. Not only will there be a new commander of G.S.U. in the weeks ahead, but that as yet unnamed lawman will […]
A Belize City man was brutally murdered over the weekend. The body of twenty-nine-year-old Jose Manuel Ayala was found with five gunshot wounds to the face in the wee hours of Saturday morning. His body was found inside his white Chevrolet TrailBlazer which was found parked at mile three of the George Price Highway. Investigators […]
The eighth murder for the New Year was recorded today. Police say a watchman is dead and two others are missing from Mapp Caye. While his name has not been confirmed, his body was discovered with a gunshot wound to the head and dumped in a latrine. The last time trio’s families heard from them […]
A fifteen-year-old youth is in a coma tonight after surviving a horrible ordeal. The teenager, Jamil Reyes, was socializing with friends in Roaring Creek when he came under a vicious attack. He was brutally beaten and shot to the back of the head. If that was not enough, he was buried in a shallow grave […]
Foreign Affairs Minister Wilfred Elrington on Wednesday sat front row and center, observing five former Foreign Affairs Ministers sign a declaration expressing their firm support to take Guatemala’s claim to the ICJ for final resolution. It was a historic event that unfolded in Belize City with former P.U.P. Prime Minister Said Musa sharing the stage […]
The 2019 sitting of the Supreme Court opened this morning with the fanfare that traditionally accompanies the event. The address on the administration of justice was delivered by Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington on behalf of the Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte. The Chief Justice reviewed and reflected on the work of the court. He noted that […]
Twenty-five-year-old Honduran national Josue Danilo Villatoro Amado was transported from San Pedro to Belize City and arraigned for the murder of Corporal Alfonso Guy. This afternoon, Villatoro, who is a waiter and food and beverage employee at Captain Morgan’s Place, was arraigned before newly appointed Magistrate Tricia Pitts Anderson and remanded to prison until February […]
Last Friday, we reported on the stabbing that left forty-three-year-old cab driver Stephen Leiva hospitalized. He was stabbed outside of his room near the Bel China Bridge in the early hours of Friday morning when a woman asked to use his restroom. As we showed you on Friday, Leiva’s family thinks that he was set […]
A fire has left one man without a house in Ladyville Village. The thirty by thirty wooden structure and all its contents were wiped out by the time fire officials arrived on the scene. But the quick response saved two other houses that are located nearby. According to the house owner, a man known to […]
The I.C.J. remains a hot-button issue. On Wednesday, the only ex-Foreign Affairs Minister who did not sign the I.C.J. Declaration was Senator Eamon Courtenay. That’s because he chose not to be part of what he described as a “circus.” According to Courtenay, former Prime Minister Said Musa had emailed him in October 2018, requesting him […]
According to Eamon Courtenay, certain conditions must and should have been fulfilled before Belizeans go to the polls on April tenth. He says that the legal opinion on the I.C.J. must be updated along with the Maritime Area Act. Courtenay also believes that the Representation of the People’s Act must be amended to allow Belizeans […]
The media also asked Minister Wilfred Elrington about a recent telephone poll conducted by pollBelize.org regarding the I.C.J. Referendum. According to the poll, there is an increasing number of voters who have chosen to vote ‘no’ on April tenth. But for Minister Elrington, the results of the poll are not relevant. He says that polls […]
An emergency medical technician is dead following an accident between miles ten and eleven on the Southern Highway sometime early this morning. Police say Khalil Reyes was along with his co-worker socializing in a village prior to the accident. The surviving occupant of the ambulance told police that he was asleep and it was only […]
There was a near fatal traffic accident on the George Price Highway in Cotton Tree Village, Cayo District. Ezekial Ortega was travelling on a motorcycle with his eighteen-year-old step-daughter, Lillian Sanabria. He had just picked her up from the University of Belize and was travelling to the village when a vehicle hit them from behind. […]
A chopping in Valley of Peace last Friday night has left one man without three of his fingers and with chop wounds to the back. Police were called out to a shop in the village where a man was attacked by his nephew with a machete. ACP Joseph Myvett says the man has now gone […]
A four-year-old baby boy is hospitalized after he was bitten by a dog in the Lake Independence area. Police say that on Sunday around three in the afternoon, Ellis Ortiz was playing in the yard when he went near the landlord’s dog, a potlicker mix, and it attacked him. The child’s screams alerted his stepfather […]
Friends for Conservation and Development has been documenting threats within the Chiquibul Forest for eleven years. Those threats include illegal logging, poaching, and gold panning, which was the biggest threat in 2017. But according to Executive Director Rafael Manzanero, there is an even bigger threat on the horizon. It’s known as “narco-cattle ranching” and it […]
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