As the debate raged inside the National Assembly, supporters of the yes vote stood at Independence Hill where speakers were placed and police were out in numbers. They were there for hours to support the government which tabled and passed the new Belize Territorial Dispute Referendum Bill 2019. In their view, the referendum must be […]
Twenty-six-year-old Joshua Gallego was shot on Thursday afternoon; hours later, he succumbed at the K.H.M.H. While the matter was under investigation, the question is if Gallego’s past had caught up with him. A lone gunman inside a vehicle fired at Gallego as he dropped his girlfriend in the North Creek area. News Five’s Isani Cayetano […]
The murder trial of Patrick Castillo, who was charged with the murder of his stepson Yontan Maderos, ended today in the court of Justice Colin Williams. Castillo now awaits a ruling as to whether or not he acted in self-defense or if it was cold-blooded murder when he chopped up Maderos at their Kut Avenue […]
A B.D.F. soldier was before the court today on a charge of wounding, but his common-law wife later requested no further court action against him. But twenty-six-year-old soldier, Leroy Clare will appear before the Belize Family Court within the next five days where his common-law wife has asked for a restraining order. This morning, the […]
There’s a fishy story coming out of Dangriga where a sixteen-year-old minor went missing at sea during a trip to South Water Caye on Monday. According to Jael Sjogren, a fisherman of Dangriga, his cousin, Frederick Lammey Junior, and another unnamed individual, accompanied him to the island. While on the fishing trip, the teenager reportedly […]
Amid the ongoing saga of Atlantic International Bank Limited and the winding down of its operations in Belize, Prime Minister Dean Barrow, on the advice of the Central Bank, has formally canceled its banking license. The revocation follows a number of measures taken by the Central Bank, including enhanced supervision of AIBL’s performance, as well […]
Back in December, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust awarded six point seven million dollars to support improved management of thirteen protected areas across the Belize National Protected Areas System. Earlier this week, they awarded another two point seven million dollars in grants to six local environmental N.G.O.s as a part of the second phase of […]
Seventy-eight alcaldes from across thirty-nine Maya villages participated in a training workshop spearheaded by the Attorney General’s Office today. The session served to inform them of their roles and responsibilities under the Alcaldes Jurisdiction Act. Immediately thereafter, the alcaldes swore their oath of office as administrators of law in their respective communities. In the months […]
The Belize International Film Festival will be held in November of this year and this week they opened the call for film makers to submit their film to participate in the showcase. Today, Director of the Film and Media Arts Unit of the Institute of Creative Arts Suzette Zayden issued a call for entries for […]
The Miss Universe Belize Organization is looking for the next beauty ambassador to represent the Jewel on the international stage. Last December, twenty-seven-year-old Jenelli Frazer graced the stage in Bangkok, Thailand, making Belize proud after its 2016 bout with Dangriga beauty, Rebecca Rath. But it’s coming around to that time again as the search commences […]
In what is expected to be a critical Sitting of the House of Representative on Friday, the Barrow administration is proposing to table the Belize Territorial Dispute Referendum Bill, 2019. The portion of the bill was leaked to the media on Wednesday night and this morning the Opposition People’s United Party received the complete document. […]
As Briceño notes there is still a case before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin which is scheduled to proceed on Monday when the Senate is scheduled to meet to ratify the proposed new bill. Briceño alluded that certain sections in the new referendum bill can be legally challenged. He zoomed in on section three which states […]
P.U.P. Leader John Briceño also countered the Prime Minister’s accusation that the opposition is purposely delaying the holding of the referendum. Briceño says that his party has the moral and legal obligation to the country to ensure that this process is done properly. John Briceño, Leader, People’s United Party “We are not deliberately delaying […]
So will the P.U.P. attempt to block the passing of the bill on Friday? And what about Said Musa who was absent for today’s meeting and Senator Valerie Woods who, like Musa, is a proponent of the I.C.J. Briceño says that the party’s consensus today was to not support the bill as it is. […]
And one more thing on the referendum….late this evening, a joint statement was issued by the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. In the wake of the postponement, the three appear not to be happy with the court’s outcome, but voice support in favour of the referendum and hope that […]
Illegal cattle ranching is just one of the threats to the Chiquibul forest; the area is remote, but it is rich with the most precious natural resources. On a daily basis it is plundered and the human and financial resources to manage the forest are slim. Rangers of Friends and Conservation are on duty doing […]
A shooting in Belize City left a man injured. It happened earlier this afternoon at around two thirty in the North Creek area. The victim has been identified as Joshua Gallego. According to reports, Gallego had dropped off his common-law wife and as he was driving off, a man inside another car released a barrage […]
We’ve been reporting on the detention of two Belizean lawmen and two others in Livingston, Guatemala over the weekend. The men: coastguard officer Pedro Colomer, police officer Fabian Laurie as well as Kevin Hernandez and Jerille Laurie were charged for firearm offenses and were being held at a prison in Puerto Barrios. They appeared before […]
While the Eastern Division jurisdiction for the Police Department has been relatively quiet as it relates to major crimes, petty crimes such as robberies and burglaries have spiked. A well-known supermarket in the Ladyville area is the latest to be hit by thieves. Early this morning just as the owner and his employee were opening […]
Earlier this week reported that two gas depots, belonging to BWEL and TOMZA, were robbed within hours of each other on Tuesday. The culprits got away with an undisclosed amount of cash in both instances. But despite police patrols across the city and along the highways, early this morning, sometime after two o’clock, the UNO […]
Last week, the skeletal remains sans skull of an elder person were discovered in the dried up savannah behind the Los Lagos Community off the Philip Goldson Highway; a denture was also found along with the bones. Relatives as well as police believe that the remains are that of eighty-three-year-old Hubert Richards, who went missing […]
For more than a month, Primrose Gabourel and her son, Dion Zabaneh, have been in and out of court regarding a parcel of land in the Caribbean Shores area of Belize City. Well, there was another court appearance today; the mother did not attend due to her illness, but her son did and was read […]
Two Conch Shell Bay area residents have been detained in connection with two recent burglaries in Burrell Boom Village. The duo is Eugene Mark Anthony Fraser and Joshua Jeremy Gillett. Both were charged for the burglary of Countryside Trade and Service Center on April sixth, 2019. Allegations are that they stole an assortment of items including […]
Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett also gave updates on the two recent murders out west. On Monday, investigators from the San Ignacio Police Formation were called out to a wooden house off Thornley Street where the badly decomposing body of forty-seven-year-old Macario Tzib was discovered lying face up in his bed. He was stabbed […]
The other murder was the shooting death of Lloyden Bejerano. The twenty-nine-year-old was inside his house in the Oscar Sabido area of San Ignacio Town. He was visited by a group of men and soon after he was executed on a sofa inside his living room sometime around eleven p.m. on April eighth. It is […]
