The budget for the police department is being slashed in the upcoming financial year which begins April first and law and order is expected to come under more strain. March has been a busy month for criminals, and even before the month closes, gun violence continued unabated in the streets of the old capital. Two […]
Meanwhile, a woman lost her life on the highway also over the weekend. Forty-six year old Leticia Marva Garcia, a resident of Unitedville in the Cayo District, was in a vehicle that overturned in a traffic accident on the Western Highway. Reports are that around seven-thirty on Friday night a family of three including Garcia, […]
There is another fatality to report. The lifeless body of two-year old Kelisha Kelly was found floating in the Belize River on Sunday morning by a Belize City resident traveling along the river. At about nine thirty that morning Colin Cabral, who was traveling along the river came across the body. It is reported that […]
The budget debate took up the largest part of the proceedings in the House of Representatives last week so few persons noted that an alarming piece of legislation was sneaked through the House. It is the Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Act, 2010. The new law gives to the Supreme Court of Belize the power […]
A slew of taxes to be imposed to bridge the sixty million dollar plus financial gap in the budget for the upcoming fiscal year will prove to have far-flung effects on the local economy. With the implementation of an added twenty-five percent on the existing General Sales Tax, consumers will see an increase on items […]
Since taking office in 2008 the Barrow administration has made numerous references to what is known as the Super Bond which was negotiated by the previous administration. During the Budget Debate last Thursday the subject of the bond was once again revisited and according to the government it is a heavy load for debt financing. […]
The land controversy at mile forty one on the Western Highway continues to garner attention. For the second Sunday in row, a group of Belizeans who either have interests or have already invested in developing the land, held a meeting to record names of everyone who wanted ownership of a parcel of the land. The […]
It was once known as the Merida Initiative but that has now changed and the US sponsored project is now known as the Central American Regional Initiative. Belize today received a donation of some fifty thousand dollars under the initiative. At a presentation today, The Kolbe foundation got equipment for security management. New Five’s Jose […]
During the budget debate last week in the capital, it was revealed that the Ministry of National Security would not be spared from a budget cut and will be facing new constraints for the upcoming financial year. The police department stands to see less cash infused in its coffers to battle crime and that is […]
The Marion Jones Sporting Complex has been in a dilapidated state for quite a while and is in desperate need of an overhaul. In recent times, both the Carnival road march and the Holy Saturday Cross Country Classic have had to end elsewhere because of the condition of the Complex. Last August, a groundbreaking ceremony […]
Though Elvin Penner, the Minister of Sports, was silent on the ongoing construction at the site on Princess Margaret Drive, Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez, the Minister of Works, says other works are underway. The Ministry of Works is the project manager for the construction, and earlier today Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez pointed out that the second phase […]
We have reported that Harold Crooks, the Jamaican consultant, who was commissioned to evaluate the police force and make recommendations for its improvement, is wanted by Jamaica for sex related offences of an under-aged girl. According to the Jamaica Observer, Crooks who is also the former commandant of the Island’s Special Constabulary Force (ISCF), is […]
The murder trial of Pedro Cal fell apart today in the Supreme Court when crucial witnesses could not be located. A jury of five women and seven men had already heard one testimony but Prosecutor Yohhanseh Cave threw in the towel when the father of the murder victim, Dison Diaz, and two other witnesses failed […]
With the increase of crime in the city streets, anyone can become a victim at any time. This weekend, well-known freelance writer, fifty-six year-old Roy Davis, was the victim of a robbery at gunpoint when he was held up on Cemetery Road in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Davis is still in pain after […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. We take you immediately to the Succotz Ferry in Cayo for the start of the eleventh annual Junior Cross Country Cycle Classic which would run for seventy-two miles along the Western Highway where forty-two of the youngest and brightest in the sport are suited up for […]
