Belize City Mayor, Zenaida Moya Flowers is offering no comments on her expulsion from her party. That decision was taken last Friday by the U.D.P. Ethics Committee for her explosive outburst after she was arraigned on criminal charges last October. This morning, however, Prime Minister Dean Barrow said the party acted because he was aggrieved […]
Licenses issued for offshore oil exploration have stirred up environmentalists. So far eighteen companies have been granted concessions to search for petroleum on land and sea. Some of the concessions are more controversial than others because they overlap areas that contain fragile ecosystems. The Belize Barrier Reef, a World Heritage Site has been parceled off […]
Still on oil, the Prime Minister’s law firm, Barrow and Williams, has been named as having a vested interest in one of the eighteen companies which have concessions to drill offshore for oil. Rodwell Williams, the lead partner of Barrow and Williams is a director in Princess Petroleum Limited, a company related to the proprietors […]
About seventy B.D.F. soldiers, thirty police officers and a smaller number of Coast Guard personnel are deployed to conduct Operation Jaguar. The financial costs are not known but the operation is taking place around the clock in the hot spots of the City. We asked our viewers on Tuesday night: Do you think Operation Jaguar […]
At only seventeen years old, Kareem Francis was charged in 2007 for the murder of fifteen year old Jomo Lamb. Today, three years later, Francis walked free of the charge because of a 2009 change in the Indictable Procedure Act which now allows for testimonies to be read in court if the witness is afraid […]
And in the Magistrates’ Court, after four days in police custody, thirty year old Alwyn Gonzalez and twenty-six year old Tiffara Bradley were finally arraigned in on drug and ammunition charges. Gonzalez was being sought to face charges along with his common-law-wife Tasha Herrera for over two kilos of cocaine. He was found at an apartment […]
While Operation Jaguar has been effective in slowing down criminals over the past week, one Belize City gunman managed to slip the watchful eyes of police patrols last night. Shortly after ten o’clock gunfire erupted in the area of Mex Avenue and when residents went to the scene they spotted an uncle and his nephew […]
In regional news, the state of emergency in Jamaica has the entire island on lockdown. Over five hundred persons are in police custody and upwards of fifty persons have been killed since the start of the battle between the police and the Shower Posse gang of Tivoli Gardens. Security forces have been trying to arrest […]
In neighbouring Quintana Roo, the mayor of Cancun has been arrested because of suspicions that he has protected two drug cartels while in office. This has caused fear that there will be more violence from the cartels as the government steps up the anti-drug war. According to the Federal Attorney General’s Office, Gregorio Sanchez will […]
There has been talk of a cabinet reshuffle for some time, in fact the Prime Minister said weeks ago that it would take place after the village council elections. Well those elections are winding down now, so we broached the subject with him this morning. And which Minister will get the axe or who would […]
Guatemalan national Miguel Perez, winner of the Eighty-second Annual Cross Country Cycling Classic, remains the subject of an investigation carried out by the Belize Cycling Association. As we reported on Tuesday night, Perez, who rode for the Sugar City Stars, tested positive for an unspecified hormone. News Five’s Isani Cayetano has more on this story. […]
Earlier we heard the Prime Minister say that he wouldn’t stand in the way of oil exploration. Well, there is one company, which has been granted a concession to drill for oil which is proving difficult to identify. And that’s Sol Oil Belize. A check for its particulars at the company’s registry came up with […]
Contraband markets, like counterfeit money, are no easy feat for authorities to crack down on. So when counterfeit money turns up at contraband market then the problem is compounded for police and customs officials. Well that is the case coming from the Botes and La Union areas along the Mexican/Belizean border. The report is that […]
Karim Berges, the National Campaign Manager for the United Democratic Party attempted to establish a bar and conference room at number forty eight Baymen Avenue in Belize City. Baymen Avenue is set within a residential neighborhood and is also where ardent U.D.P. supporter Solie Arguelles and Area Representative Carlos Perdomo reside. Perdomo, Arguelles and other […]
There have been several fundraisers to assist the well known Jose Cruz, a dialysis patient and activist for others diagnosed with kidney problems. But chronic renal failure is a lifelong battle that only gets more expensive as it advances. That is why Cruz has come up with a way to raise funds for his medical […]
