Lake Independence Standard Bearer Dianne Finnegan is representing the United Democratic Party in the 2020 general elections and is widely known for her involvement with at-risk youths through her apprenticeship programme. She first met Joseph Babb in 2016, who would later become the leader of the Backalands Crips. During those years, Finnegan would also consider […]
Not only does Finnegan acknowledge meeting with the bosses of both groups prior to her campaign rollout, she says she spoke in the context of helping them to realize their dreams as young men who have been shut out by society. In responding to Shoman’s social media post, Finnegan was steadfast in her belief that […]
In Shoman’s Facebook editorial, she writes, “Both feed off each other. The “don” gets finances, protection, recognition, turf security and favors by the association. The politician gets information, personal security, street enforcement, loyalists and voters and favors.” On the Phone: Lisa Shoman, Social Activist “It’s no secret that in Belize City certain constituencies vote […]
The period for objections to be submitted to the Public Utilities Commission, in respect of an increase in electricity rates which came into effect on January first, expires on Saturday. When the hike was announced, government opposed the increase which was more than what B.E.L. requested. G.O.B. issued a release last Friday asking the P.U.C. […]
While consumers are beginning to feel the pinch post the Christmas shopping spree, another rate increase is expected in June when B.E.L. will attempt to recover an additional eleven million dollars that it would have spent on purchasing power from Mexico. It would mean three increases in one year. Director Tillett explains. Ambrose Tillett, […]
Four men were busted on Cran Street, Belize City by the police on Wednesday. The foursome, who were found with a loaded firearm and thirteen live rounds of ammunitions; however, are in more trouble with the law and are presently being detained at the Queen Street Police Station pending investigations in the murder of Joseph […]
Corozal couple Leah Miller and Dion Woodeye Senior brought in the New Year mourning the loss of their eleven-week old son, Dion Junior. They say they took their son to the Corozal Community Hospital after he began experiencing diarrhea and excessive vomiting. The baby died of dehydration a few hours later. The couple says that […]
While that family is grieving, another is celebrating. On Wednesday, a woman in Trial Farm Village received the news she had been waiting for since November 2017. Raquel Margarita Cocom’s three-year-old daughter was retained by Russian national Andre Timofeev, the child’s biological father. Cocom and Timofeev had been in a relationship for nine years and […]
In the aftermath of a bloody New Year’s Day, two men came under gunfire in Belize City. On Wednesday afternoon, the duo was at the house of Brandon Young on Police Street when two gunmen fired at them. Luckily, Young and Kevan Slusher were both spared. News Five’s Isani Cayetano reports. Isani Cayetano, Reporting […]
The Belize Peace Movement says its fundamental goal is to maintain Belize’s eight thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven square miles in tact. The members describe the movement as fluid and evolving, championing Belize’s national interests through peaceful measures. They are no stranger to the news and form the strongest “NO to I.C.J.” voices. At a […]
And another matter that the Belize Peace Movement weighed in on today was the use of monies for a campaign that they say is for a “YES” vote. The BPM’s contention with the approach being used by G.O.B. is that the monies should be used to present both sides of the dispute. And so their […]
In its lengthy press conference, the BPM did not spare the Government either. Paco Smith says that PM Barrow’s New Year’s message missed the mark when he spoke about the I.C.J. Disingenuous, nonsensical and myopic are just a few of the choice words used to describe the speech. Paco Smith, Belize Peace Movement “In […]
The Peace Movement also took shots at that the People’s United Party. They called on the Opposition to put forth its party’s position. With three months to go before the referendum, the BPM says it is simply unacceptable that sections of the party has come forward with their position, yet the Leader of the Opposition […]
It was a bloody New Year’s Day in Belize. Five persons were brutally killed within twenty-four hours. The first murder for 2019 was recorded in a small village in rural Belize where a fifty-eight-year-old man was killed under odd circumstances. Howard Coleman celebrated the New Year with friends and then left for home in the […]
In the aftermath of the homicide, Vice-Chairman and Justice of the Peace in Lucky Strike is making an appeal to the authorities for law-enforcement support in the village. According to Allan Jones, after Howard Coleman was killed things escalated in the village when residents found out that a man from the village was the suspected […]
The Belize District had the distinction at the close of 2018 as the most murderous area in the Jewel. The New Year is not shaking off that black eye and gang warfare is threatening Belize City. Twenty-year-old Joseph Babb, the leader of the Backalands Crips, was executed on Blue Marlin Boulevard where he was hanging […]
There was another shooting elsewhere in the city. In the south side, the life of Glenford Mossiah came under threat. While a gunman fired as many as sixteen shots, Mossiah was injured, but luckily survived the attack on him at Wax House on East Canal where he was socializing. The would-be killer exited a vehicle […]
In order to thwart another wave of gun violence in the wake of Babb’s murder, the police department has rounded up a group of young men who are considered affiliates of the Backalands gang and has placed them on preventative detention. It is one of several measures being taken to address the recent spike of […]
The first twenty-four hours of 2019 was nightmarish in Belize City as the violence would not let up even as police put more boots on the ground. Twenty-two-year-old Preston Reynolds was heading home to Neal Pen Road on bicycle when he was executed within minutes of another murder on New Year’s Day. He died instantly. […]
One of the persons to be killed during the bloodbath on the first day of the New Year was a young mother of three. Anita Pineda was reportedly stabbed by her ex-common-law husband while she was in the company of her mother at a house of her former brother-in-law in San Ignacio. Pineda’s ex-common-law husband […]
Also in western Belize, the Belize Police Department is investigating the murder of an unidentified Hispanic man. The body was fished out of the Belize River near Blackman Eddy Village, Cayo, on New Year’s morning. The autopsy revealed that the person may have been dead for about three to four days. The hands of John […]
Two rogue cops have been placed on suspension. They are Samir Medina and Tyrell Rowley, who were caught on camera beating up two men in the Boca del Rio area of San Pedro. One of the officers pulled out a firearm during the violent ordeal and one of the victims is believed to be a […]
The beating of the two men by the police is facing outrage in various quarters. The People’s United Party is condemning what it calls the outrageous, criminal actions of two police officers in San Pedro. In a release, it states that it cannot be business as usual in the Belize Police Department. There are far […]
The Belize National Teachers Union says the Ministry of Education has disrespected its membership when it came out batting for the school managements that have docked teachers’ salaries for the November seventh demonstration in Belmopan. Last week, the Ministry of Education sent out a press release to say, “if a teacher is absent without authorization […]
So the line has been drawn. The B.N.T.U. says it will stand by its decision to protest the managements’ docking of salaries for November seventh. Senator Smith says the union is not backing down and will explore all options including legal recourse. And while to some it may appear that the managements may just be […]
