Gunshots rang out in the vicinity of the Inspiration Center late on Sunday night and when the shooting subsided forty-four-year-old Brindel Munnings was suffering from multiple injuries to the body. According to investigators, Munnings had a previous misunderstanding with someone who may have waylaid him as he made his way through an alley that adjoins […]
Around eight o’clock, a fire broke inside an elevated wooden house in Lord’s Bank Village on Sunday night. The home was occupied by an elderly person who escaped unhurt. The blaze spread quickly through the building, which could not be saved and by the time fire-fighters arrived on the scene, the building was gutted. Police […]
At midnight on Tuesday August twentieth, the pump prices of regular gasoline and diesel will see a decrease. The prices for regular gasoline will decrease by forty three cents from ten dollars and fifty five cents to ten dollars and twelve cents. Diesel will dip a mere four cents and will sell at ten dollars and […]
Oliver Peters was acquitted of the murder of his uncle on June eleventh, after spending almost five and a half years on remand at the Belize Central Prison. Tonight, he is listed in critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital following a stabbing incident on Saturday night. It is not clear what precipitated the […]
A retreat outing for an officer almost ended fatally when he was attacked and stabbed in the face and injured on the hand by another co-worker. There is no motive known for the latest attack for which a local boat captain is charged with wounding a law enforcement officer of the Belize Port Authority. As […]
A Scotland Half-moon resident is behind bars following his arraignment for a huge amount of marijuana. He is forty-two-year-old Joel Sutherland, a construction worker from rural Belize District. Sutherland, who was represented in court by attorney Kathleen Lewis, appeared before Senior Magistrate Aretha Ford. He was read a single charge of possession of a […]
Government’s fifty million U.S.-dollar loan from Taiwan to upgrade the Sarteneja Road will be administered through a Taiwanese company in Guatemala. It’s an interesting bit of information revealed during Friday’s house meeting. Overseas Engineering and Construction Company will act as the special purpose vehicle to oversee the project, presumably in the manner in which Belize […]
The Port of Belize Limited is looking to expand its operations and its principals have put together a presentation to be made before Cabinet’s investment subcommittee in the days ahead. But that did not stop Cayo South Area Representative Julius Espat from raising the issue in the House of Representatives on Friday. In the context […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow, in responding to Espat, admits that while Waterloo has written to government informing of its intention to expand its docking facilities at the Port of Belize, he is not directly involved in any negotiations. PM Barrow says that C.E.O. Audrey Wallace responded on his behalf to inform Waterloo that Cabinet’s investment […]
The Belize City Council, led by Mayor Bernard Wagner, has gotten government’s approval for a municipal paper; a means of short-term financing that is useful in improving CitCo’s cash management system. The municipal paper will provide the cash-strapped council with an opportunity to improve its cost structure by considerably lowering its financing costs. This follows […]
Friday’s house meeting wasn’t without its share of banter and potshots. While there were a number of heated exchanges across the floor, the funniest tit-for-tat came by way of Caribbean Shores Area Rep Kareem Musa and PM Barrow. Musa mocked the prime minister about his age and PM Barrow wasted no time in responding to […]
The People’s United Party is condemning the brutal murder of an elderly woman in what should have been the safety of her own home in Sandhill last week Tuesday. Ofelia Hernandez Cruz was beaten to her head with a hammer. The P.U.P. notes that two other elderly persons have also been murdered in the Cayo […]
As the new school year approaches, representatives of the Belize National Teachers Union met with Chief Education Officer, Doctor Carol Babb, and M.O.E. Crown Counsel, Delvit Samuels, regarding the application for the renewal of full licenses. At the end of the meeting, it was agreed that all teachers should apply for the renewal of their […]
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The House of Representatives met today in a special sitting during which several bills, including the Belize City Council (Municipal Paper) and the National Liquefied Petroleum Gas Project, were brought up for second reading. The session, we note, did not see the attendance of Opposition Leader John Briceño who is still recovering from injuries received […]
According to Prime Minister Dean Barrow, the idea of forming a public/private partnership goes beyond party lines since a majority of those who make up the board, as well as other stakeholders are affluent members of the People’s United Party. The purpose of this agreement, he says, is to ensure that the price of butane […]
The much needed upgrading of the Corozal/Sarteneja Road, as well as the construction of the Pueblo Nuevo and Laguna Seca bridges, will be done using a loan of fifty million U.S. dollars from Taiwan. While the rehabilitation of that forty-seven mile stretch of road is long awaited, there is some controversy surrounding the monies that […]
Vocal in his objection to how these monies will be spent, in the absence of a contractor general, is Lake-I area rep Cordel Hyde. Not only is he apprehensive that there may not be proper accountability for the expenditure of these monies, Hyde also says that it will serve to expose the so-called fraud that […]
Members of staff at the Dangriga Polyclinic are up in arms over what they describe as an injustice being perpetrated on them. Some eight employees staged a sickout today for the second time this week. The first was on Tuesday when they learned that their annual bonus was reduced by ten percent, from sixty percent […]
Kareem Musa’s visit to Mainland China two weeks ago is still the subject of much debate in political circles across the country. While it may have died down in the news this week, it is being resurrected following the Prime Minister’s take on the unsanctioned visit and the impression it gives in light of Belize’s […]
In forming an alliance with Taiwan, Mainland China officially severed ties with Belize, and despite the notion of being diplomatically cordial with both nations, PM Barrow says you can’t have your cake and eat it. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “One of the points I want to make is that you can’t have it both […]
But while Musa has been soundly criticized for making the unapproved visit to Mainland China, his colleagues in the opposition do not seem to find it entirely objectionable, at least not to the extent that Prime Minister and his government are making it seem. Cordel Hyde equally weighed in on the matter and said it’s […]
And speaking for himself, Kareem Musa once again reiterated the purpose of the trip, despite the optics or the impression it has given to the masses of Belizeans. Here’s how he defended his visit. Kareem Musa, Area Representative, Caribbean Shores “I think the prime minister characterized it as some sort of putting his government […]
On Thursday, Police Commissioner Chester Williams reiterated to the media that Corporal Kent Martinez was not the officer who shot Vince Martinez in the groin with a rubber bullet. Vince was shot on May twelfth after police responded to reports of a domestic dispute. While officers attempted to arrest Vince, the gun went off and […]
After the incident, Vince Martinez filed an official report to the Professional Standards Branch. Commissioner Williams told News Five on Thursday that some investigations are complex because the department has found that at times complaints are false and are filed as a result of malice. He did agree that there are legitimate complaints. Williams says […]
