On Monday Smart, a subsidiary of Speednet filed an application for an injunction against the telecoms giant, Telemedia, and today it scored a victory in the courts that will restrain Telemedia, from causing it further disruption… at least in the next few days. Attorneys for Speednet, Andrew Marshalleck and Eamon Courtenay, went to court to […]
Still on the telecoms industry, when the Government expropriated Telemedia in August, it just might have taken on the mother of all legal battles. To add to the slew of cases it is already facing from the nationalization, two additional matters landed before the desk of Prime Minister Dean Barrow last Friday and both are […]
There was an execution style homicide in the City between Monday night and Tuesday morning. It involves a mechanic who was brutally murdered some time during the night and left on the street side. On Monday night, twenty-one year old Leonel Jose Donaire left his home for the last time of his life. His uncle […]
And before the courts, the Honduran taxi driver who knocked down a couple on the Burrell Boom Road at around seven o’clock on Saturday night was arraigned today. Fifty-six year old Manuel Dubon and his common-law-wife fifty-four year old Eva Gomez were riding bicycles heading to church when they were hit from behind by a […]
Also in the court, a Belize City man was charged in connection with one of the latest shooting incidents in the old capital. Twenty-eight year old Michael Henry, also known as Yellow, was arraigned for the Attempted Murder of Jermaine Belgrave, who was shot on the left shoulder on Saturday morning. Belgrave was reportedly standing […]
In news of an economic nature, the recession has infiltrated every nook and cranny and it does not seem to be escaping anyone. But amidst the hard times there are a few businesses that are helping the public to better cope with the financial downturn. Marion Ali went looking but did not find very many […]
On Monday night we reported that the vessels of a Jamaican Fishing company had docked in southern Belize to, among other things, begin fishing for the export market. That company, which goes by the name of PG Fishing Company Limited, is here through a joint agreement with a local fishing group, the Rio Grande Cooperative. […]
A young mother is claiming that her daughter has a slim chance to live after doctors allegedly punctured the baby’s lungs. Kamecia Shiel says that on November twenty-seventh, she took her two month old premature daughter, Irma, to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital for treatment for a cold. Shiel says that she was told that […]
George Hardie Junior of Las Vegas Casino is back in Belize and in his first interview since his release on Saturday night, he told News Five that he is leaving no stones unturned to secure the release of two employees that remain in jail. Hardie, along with David Abner Gomez, was finally freed after spending […]
When it comes to what actually took place on July thirteenth 2008 between Hardie Junior, his security guards and the two Mexican nationals, there have been several versions of the story. Hardie told us what he knows of the incident and what he thinks of the conviction by the Mexican authorities. Via Phone: George Hardie […]
Although it is not a full member of the CARICOM block, Cuba along with the CARICOM grouping is today celebrating the thirty-seventh anniversary of relations. Back in 1972, a joint decision by Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Guyana and Jamaica led to the establishment of diplomatic relations with the island, a decision which, at the time, […]
In other news, Belizean track star Marion Jones proudly raised the Jewel’s flag at the 2000 Sydney Olympics where she won five medals; three gold and two bronze. But she was stripped of those awards after admitting in October of 2007 to using steroids prior to the event. Jones gave up the medals days after […]
The internet, at its inception, was said to be a medium through which the world would be brought together. And now Starbucks, the international coffeehouse chain, has decided to take up the task and create a Global Sing-A-Long. About six-thirty Monday morning, vocalists from around the world including a Belizean, Leslie “Bastic” Jenkins, sung a […]
There is an art exhibit of the self titled works of Joseph Chiang on display at the Image Factory. Chiang is the artist who won the design competition that resulted in the construction of the hand monument at the roundabout to the entrance of the Western Highway. When we caught up with Curator for the […]
