Every year, it’s a highlight of the judicial calendar as the ladies and gentlemen of the bench and bar present themselves in the official opening ceremonies of the Belize Supreme Court. While today’s proceedings stuck to tradition, the lingering cloud of the Meerabux case cast a dark shadow over the legal community. But first to […]
While the annual Supreme Court opening is usually long on form and short on substance, one issue hovered over today’s gathering like a fog bank over Victoria Peak. That is the Supreme Court case of Meerabux versus the Attorney General, a constitutional motion in which deposed former Supreme Court Justice George Meerabux is seeking to […]
During today’s official ceremony, members of the legal community observed a minute silence in memory of one of their own. On Friday, Alexander “Andy” Johnson, a former Chief Magistrate, died after battling a series of illnesses. He was fifty-nine years old. After retiring from the courtroom, Johnson became clerk of the National Assembly, but was […]
A traffic accident on the Western Highway has claimed the life of an eleven-year-old boy and left eight others in hospital. According to police, eleven-year-old Clint Price was travelling with family members to Santa Elena just before midnight on Sunday, when the Nissan pickup he was travelling in rear ended another truck between miles fifty-seven […]
An inmate from Hattieville is in serious condition at the K.H.M.H. tonight after he was stabbed in a fight on the prison compound. According to Major Earl Gentle, Superintendent of Prisons, Leon Castillo, an inmate of the maximum-security block was in the yard for recreation time when he got into a fight with three other […]
A robbery over the weekend has netted three bad guys an undisclosed amount of cash and goods. Police say around 3:00 a.m. on Sunday three men ambushed twenty-seven year old Mackenson Semeranct, a security guard working at Ramon’s Gas Station in Belize City, tied him up and left him behind the building while they ransacked […]
A dramatic weekend fire in a highly congested area of Belize City has destroyed two houses and left sixteen people homeless. News 5’s Rick Romero rushed to the scene on Sunday to find fire-fighters fighting the flames from various angles in an effort to prevent it from spreading. Today, fire officials tell News 5’s Jacqueline […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re on board this fresh flight on Sports Monday. It was a weekend of international football with the visit of Associacion Deportiva Carmelita from Cost Rica in full effect. Friday night they clobbered Builders Hardware Bandits 3-nil, so we take you out to M.C.C. Grounds where the semi-pro champions […]
