In a dramatic decision handed down by the Court this morning, Justice Minette Hafiz granted two of three injunctions requested by Mayor Zenaida Moya-Flowers in her legal challenges against her own party. In the first, the Court is prohibiting the U.D.P. from continuing to exclude her from meetings of the National Party Council. On October […]
There was another remarkable decision in the court today and it has to do with the government controlled Telemedia and Speednet. Last Thursday executives of the country’s two telecommunications providers faced each other in the courtroom of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. The CJ ruled then that the injunction that Speednet sought against Telemedia, the dominant […]
Speednet is not the only organization that has had to return to the court to get compliance. Almost like a case of déjà vu, a grass roots association from Cayo also had to make another trip to the chambers of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh to have a judgment enforced. As in the case with Speednet, […]
It is one of Belize’s top exports and while production has declined, today’s reopening of the sugar cane season has brought relief to cane farmers in the sugar belt. That’s the good news, the bad is the delay has created a real possibility that payments may be late and not in time for Christmas. The […]
The settlement of the Belize/Guatemala dispute may one day land before the International Court of Justice in the Hague, but that does not mean the end of incursions or conflict along the borders. And this is what prompted a meeting in Washington between the Foreign Ministers of Belize and Guatemala this past Wednesday. Both Wilfred […]
Earlier this week, part of a study called the Male Social Participation and Violence Study in Belize, was released. The research will not be completed until June 2010 but the initial findings of the group led by Doctor Herbert Gayle of Jamaica showed that with a statistic of thirty four murders in 2008, the jewel […]
Belize’s strategic location makes it a common port for transnational smuggling of illegal drugs, weapons and human trafficking. According to international reports, a Guyanese National was charged in the United States on Wednesday with Conspiracy and Alien Smuggling for her role in attempting to enter four Indian nationals into the US via Belize and other […]
A con-artist, who goes by the names Gina Conorquie and Gina Jordan, ran into more trouble with the law on Wednesday despite five previous convictions under her belt. Well, Gina will now be spending Christmas at the Hattieville Prison. She has been found guilty of Theft and sentenced to six months for her latest offense. […]
Sometime around five this morning, twenty-eight year old Dwayne Lopez died while receiving medical treatment at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Lopez was admitted last Monday evening after he was shot in the lower back while standing with a friend at the corner of Supal Street and Kut Avenue. Despite several surgeries he did not […]
But the driver of a Quality Poultry delivery truck was more fortunate. Just after three p.m. today two thieves approached the vehicle, which was delivering chickens and turkeys for an upcoming wedding in Hattieville, and fired several shots at the occupants. None of the bullets hit their target and while one of the men ran […]
Earlier this year there was an event called “Walk a mile in her shoes”. It called on men to don a pair of women shoes and show solidarity for victims of gender based violence. But here’s a bit of advice, if she wears more than two inches in heels you may want to think again. […]
