The Court of Appeals this morning handed down a ruling in favour of Calaney Flowers, who in 2017, was acquitted of the murder of her ex-boyfriend Lyndon Morrison. The application for leave to appeal was brought by the office of the Director of Public Prosecution on the grounds that the findings of the trial judge, now-retired Justice Troadio […]
So, is this matter over for Calaney Flowers? Her attorney, Anthony Sylvestre, says that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution has a time frame of forty-two days to appeal today’s decision of it so considers. Anthony Sylvestre, Attorney for Calaney Flowers “All proceedings against here they have come to an end as […]
In the lower courts, Chief Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning dismissed an application brought by the P.U.P.’s Standard Bearer for Belize Rural North, Marconi Leal, against a registered voter in that division. Leal, through attorney Michel Chebat, filed a claim to have six voters removed from the voters’ list on the grounds that they provided […]
Marconi Leal was represented by attorney Michel Chebat, who says that the challenge he faced, was the fact that magistrates do not allow for the registering officers to be cross-examined. He says that in at least three of the cases, no one verified the address of the voters. The registering officer, says Chebat, would have […]
While in the U.D.P., Albert Area Representative and Minister of State in the Ministry of Investment, Trade, Commerce and Economic Development, Tracy Taegar-Panton is running for Deputy Party Leader of the United Democratic Party. The first time area representative made the announcement today that she has informed Pearl Stuart, the Secretary General of the U.D.P. […]
Balbino Fermin, better known as “Balo” of Hattieville, was knocked down and killed over the weekend. “Balo” was riding his bike when a truck hit him from behind; he died on the spot. The family reports that residents in the area heard a loud bang when the truck hit Fermin. This evening, the driver of […]
Two persons also perished in the south in traffic accidents. An elderly man lost his life on Friday night in the Stann Creek District when he was knocked down off his bicycle near Pomona Village. Eighty-year-old Samuel King was struck by a vehicle driven by John Castillo who reportedly attempted to swerve out of King’s […]
While investigators were processing the scene of the previous accident, a report of a hit and run incident was also made to Dangriga police where they observed the lifeless body of a Honduran national. The victim, identified as sixty-two-year-old Fidel Padilla, was also knocked down while riding a bicycle in the vicinity of miles three […]
In the Supreme Court, Akeem Trapp walked free of the murder of Ian Adolphus Junior, which occurred February twenty-sixth, 2015 on Gill Street in Belize City. Adolphus Junior was shot as many as three times. Today, the crown entered a nolle prosequi because there was not enough evidence to prove the charge of murder. On […]
After spending almost seven years in jail, today twenty-six-year-old Stephan Jenkins pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter of fifty-four-year old Dennis Williams. On November eighth, 2012, Williams was shot and killed at his workplace, Three Stars Quality Chicken, located on Vernon Street. Justice of the Supreme Court, Marilyn Williams, sentenced Jenkins to seventeen […]
Last Tuesday, following several weeks of cooperating closely with the U.S. State Department in Washington, the Belmopan Supreme Court received a written witness testimony from a U.S. Federal Agent who was involved with the investigation of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas. In the account, the witness testified that on July seventeenth, 2016, Acting Commissioner of Police Russell […]
Earlier in the year, the Belize Police Department began to enforce the department’s Standard Orders regarding hairstyle and consequently banned dreadlocks. Six women police officers were accused of willfully disobeying a lawful command from Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. A memo circulated within the department states that one of the reasons for the ban on dreadlocks is the […]
While there were no murders in Belize City, police are investigating a shooting that occurred on Friday night. It happened at around nine-thirty at the corner of Sarstoon and Ebony Streets. The victim has been identified as twenty-one-year-old Tyrique Medwood. He was shot in the right leg and up to today, police have not been […]
Twenty-six-year-old Kevin Buller was also shot on Saturday night in Belize City. He was riding his bicycle on Jasmine Street when the shooter pounced on him from the rear and fired several shots in his direction. Buller was shot several times to the body and was rushed to the K.H.M.H. for medical attention. According to ACP […]
A shooting on Friday night in Ladyville has left one man hospitalized. Police say that sometime around ten-thirty that night, Denfield Tasher, was on the corner of Parakeet and Tapnachick Streets near Lowe’s Supermarket when he was shot. ACP Joseph Myvett tells us more about police’s response to the shooting. ACP Joseph Myvett, Head, […]
A travel agency in Belize City was the scene of a brazen robbery attempt. Police say that twenty-four-year-old Samuel Trapp entered Matus Travel & Tour Services on Barrack Road on the evening of October fifteenth and attempted to hold up the business after inquiring about tickets to Caye Caulker by water taxi. When employees of […]
In June, a Taiwanese delegation came to Belize to look into investment opportunities in the Tourism industry. Today, the Government, through the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Commerce, along with BELTRAIDE, and in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture, kicked off a second investment mission, this time for the agriculture sector. A ten-member investor team […]
C.E.O. in the Ministry of Agriculture Jose Alpuche also weighed in on the trade mission. Alpuche told the press that apart from attracting new investments and opening new markets, this kind of mission can attract new technologies and practices. At the end of the mission, BELTRAIDE will be holding a review session to get feedback […]
A contract with Taiwanese firm Overseas Engineering and Construction Company Limited for the upgrade of the Corozal/Sarteneja Road was signed today by the Government of Belize. The brief ceremony follows the signing of a loan agreement between G.O.B. and the Export-Import Bank of the Republic of China (Taiwan) for fifty million U.S. dollars. Signing on […]
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A lengthy two-page diatribe was released late on Thursday evening in which Prime Minister Dean Barrow took a number of swipes at Opposition Leader John Briceño in response to a letter written on October fifteenth in which he threatens court action on the write-off to Joshua Perdomo. The PM’s two-page rejoinder, released through the Government […]
The Perdomo loan write-off is not going to go away in time soon. Today, U.D.P. Senator for Government Business Godwin Hulse says that the forty thousand dollar loan does not mean it is uncollectible. Perdomo is employed at the Southwestern Institute of Forensic Science, which is located in Dallas, Texas. He was to return to […]
Hulse reiterated the government’s position that the loan is six-year statute barred. According to him, cabinet sticks to the recommendation from the Attorney General. But Hulse did let out that the Perdomo family is making arrangement to settle the unpopular debt. Godwin Hulse, Senator for Government Business “I don’t get into the argument whether […]
It has been almost two years since a series of public hearings were conducted by the Senate Special Select Committee into the findings of the Auditor General’s Special Audit Report of the Immigration and Nationality Department. That document chronicled the goings-on, including various procedural irregularities, within the department during the period 2011 to 2013 and […]
In the absence of what many expected to be a timely report, there has been talk that completion and presentation of that document is deliberately being stalled for political reasons. While those sentiments have been voiced elsewhere in the media, Senator Salazar says the most salacious pieces of evidence have been ventilated during the hearings, […]
