When the Prime Minister Dean Barrow announced last Friday that he expected arrests at City Hall for financial irregularities that brought back to memory, allegations made before the last City Council Elections in March. According to the PM, Patrick Tillett, the Financial Director he appointed, had reported what he deemed to be some serious irregularities […]
The mayor maintains that the Government’s Audit Department has recently completed their assessment for period 2003 to 2009 and found no irregularities. Zenaida Moya Flowers, Belize City Mayor “The Belize City Council has its own internal that continuously audits the council’s transactions and processes. Additionally, the council is audited by the government auditors who have […]
And even if speculation abounds, the Mayor says she is confident that at the end of the investigations, no one will be charged because there will be no shortage. But she would not go as far as to say that Prime Minister Barrow’s announcement last Friday was premature and assured that they will discontinue the […]
It’s almost a month… that is the longstanding dispute between the Belize Medical and Dental Union and the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital Board. And tonight they’re back to square one and it involves the same man in the eye of the storm. It started with the firing of Doctor Khalid Ghazi that mobilized the B.M.D.U. […]
The number of confirmed cases of Influenza A H1N1 in Belize has almost tripled in the past days. Of the fifteen samples sent to CAREC in Trinidad and Tobago from the Corozal Free Zone, results for ten came in last Friday. Nine of those tests are positive, bringing the total confirmed cases to fourteen. Nineteen […]
The number of cases of swine flu now stands at fourteen. With this threat staring livestock farmers, the Pig Council reports that there is a decrease in the pork consumption and that it is developing strategies to encourage an increase in sales. To this end, the wholesale price of pork is going down from one […]
The Teachers Commission that the Ministry of Education is proposing to implement has been the subject of heated debate. Some stakeholders feel that the church’s power would be usurped by the ministry and herald the end of the church-state system. M.O.E. has staged a series of poorly attended public consultations throughout the country perhaps because […]
In June we reported that the Financial Intelligence Unit was investigating a case of identity theft in which the personal data of hundreds of persons had been stolen. It involved the accessing of private data from the City’s Traffic Department’s driver’s license database and the forging of signatures to send and receive funds. The scam […]
It started as a pre-dawn fist fight and hours later a twenty-nine year employee of a San Pedro Hotel was dead. It is suspected that it had to do with a pending debt and the cops are still investigating Saturday’s killing. But one man has been charged with manslaughter. Marion Ali was in San Pedro […]
In other crime news, two persons are hospitalized, one of them in critical condition, following a stabbing early this morning. Around six a.m., twenty-two year old Jermaine Chen, his girlfriend, twenty-three year old Myriam Terry and their baby boy were at their apartment located at 20 Dolphin Street when they were stabbed multiple times purportedly […]
In Friday’s newscast we reported on the burglary at a home on Police Street Extension in which sixteen year old Frank Trapp was shot on his right calf. Today police arrested and charged nineteen year old Ryan Alvarez of Supal Street and twenty-five year old Michael Young of West Canal with Aggravated Burglary, Use of […]
But while Young appeared in court this morning for Thursday night’s shooting, there are additional charges that he had to answer to—and this time, for the robbery of thirty-nine year old Egbert Tun. Young pleaded not guilty to the charge but due to the nature of the allegations committed with a firearm he was remanded […]
Also in court, a former prison officer, Youmol Mcnabb, is to pay a fine of ten thousand dollars for attempting to smuggle four point five ounces of cannabis into the prison. Magistrate Dorothy Flowers ordered Mcnab to pay the fine by December thirty-first or in default he will serve three years in prison. On February […]
Belmopan police are investigating the discovery of charred remains that may be those of a missing person from the Belmopan area. Around midday Sunday, police visited an area near the river bank in the Another World Area of Roaring Creek Village where some bones were located. According to Deputy Officer in Charge of Belmopan Police, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this serving of Sports Monday. The Corozal fans crowded the Norman Broaster Stadium yesterday to support Nizhee Corozal in game one of the 2009 B.P.F.L. Championship series with the heavily supported Hankook Verdes of Cayo. Even the opening ceremonies attest to the magnitude of today’s […]
