It’s been ten months since the Westerhaven crashed into the reef, causing substantive damages. Since then two other ships, the CaribeMariner and the Azteca also ran into the reef. Azteca settled out of court, but today lawyers for the government and for the Westerhaven argued before Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. Deanne Barrow is representing the […]
On Pan American Day, October twelfth, a brutal home invasion occurred at Freetown Sibun, in Hattieville Village. An elderly Canadian couple that migrated to Belize were held up at gunpoint and robbed. But while inside the secluded home, the burglar attacked the sixty two year old woman and raped her. Police say that when three […]
In another criminal matter before the court, a Corozal man who was accused in 2008 by an eleven year old girl of carnal knowledge walked free on Monday when the child could not remember the exact date when the incident supposedly happened. Twenty-one year old Alex Garcia was freed by a jury of nine in […]
And a Jamaican national who absconded in December of 2008 after he was busted with a stash of marijuana was today convicted and sentenced in absencia. Even though he is not in Belize, fifty-three year old Eric Mills received a three year jail term plus a fine of ten thousand dollars, in default, an additional […]
Marisol Elizabeth Perez died one hour after she was born on Sunday and her parents attribute the tragedy to hospital negligence. It is not an unfamiliar allegation and a check of our archives shows that Marisol was the seventh child to pass away under suspicious circumstances in this year alone. The incidents come from the […]
The news broke on Monday that Cabinet has decided to privatize the nightly Boledo and Sunday lottery. A contract is being awarded to Brads, located at the Farmers Market, a favourite hangout for various government ministers. Government claims that by outsourcing the local lotteries, revenues will be maximized from point nine million dollars to a […]
It slipped under the radar but last Friday during a caucus at City Hall two Councilors went at each other in a heated confrontation. It happened after Councilor Roger Espejo questioned a contractor about the amount of material being delivered for a project under Councilor Wayne Usher’s portfolio. Espejo asked if the Council was being […]
The Comision Federal de Electricidad from Mexico, last week announced it was canceling its firm contract for electricity supply to the Belize Electricity Limited, one of the biggest utility companies in Belize. B.E.L. responded saying that it had the capacity to fulfill the energy demand. According to its C.E.O., Lynn Young, the Mexican supplier has […]
In respect of its challenges with the Public Utilities Commission, Young explained that B.E.L. has not been able to sit down in the past year with the P.U.C. and that all issues are taken to the courts for settlement. Young also spoke of the report of an independent expert who found that the P.U.C. was […]
There was a huge cry from City residents last year for the City Council to do something about the deplorable conditions of Albert and Regent Streets in downtown Belize City. The main thoroughfares were a nightmare to drive on. Finally, this year in January, the two streets were paved by the Ministry of Works and […]
