It took a high speed chase on the highway in the north and a barb wire barrier for police and Customs officials to seize two vans containing a massive supply of contraband liquors in the Pine Ridge Area. While the Uncustommed goods were taken into custody, the occupants of the vehicle managed to getaway. But […]
The story of human trafficking victim Jamelia has been in the news since we reported it on Monday of this week. Jamelia was reportedly sold off to a U.S. national and ended up as a forced laborer in Fresno, California. She lived in Belize up to the age of eleven years and is twenty-three. Her […]
The latest contract to surface for oil exploration in Belize was given to Kimano Barrow, the nephew of the Prime Minister Dean Barrow along with Alfredo Acosta as owners of the Paradise Energy Limited. The contract came to light recently and triggered uproar because of the huge area involved, which includes the Maya Mountains and […]
The contract aside, Matura Shepherd says that contrary to government claims, offshore drilling cannot potentially bail the country out of the super bond debt. Audrey Matura Shepherd, VP, Oceana Belize “Our people are being told that if we do offshore, we’ll get big money. And I am saying to the people, even if we find […]
In late December 2010 B.C.B. Holdings, through the Belize Bank, scored a legal victory when Justice John Muria ruled in favor of enforcement of a forty-three million dollar award from the Government of Belize to the bank. Government appealed the decision by Justice Muria and today in the Chief Justice Chambers, a hearing was held […]
A resident of Lord’s Bank Village is recovering from a surgery tonight after he suffered multiple stab wounds to his chest and abdomen on Thursday night. The victim, thirty year-old Michael Usher, was found near the junction of the Lord’s Bank Road and the Northern Highway sometime after eight on Thursday night and dropped off […]
As we reported in Thursday’s newscast, Errol Haynes and Anthony Barrow, both Belizeans on the run from the law, were nabbed by authorities in northern Mexico for possession of an arsenal of assault weapons. The duo, along with Mexican national Juan Miguel Alvarez, was busted inside an apartment in Calle, a city in the state […]
Time is running out on the Belize Social Security Board and the Christian Workers Union to work out the impasse over salaries and benefits for Social Security employees. Since the “sick out” on February fourteenth of over a hundred and sixty employees countrywide, there has been no progress to a resolution. But the Social Security […]
Gonzalez says that despite the S.S.B.’s decision to compensate the members of staff who reported to work with a day off, the Union still wants to flesh out the problem and avert strike action. Antonio Gonzalez, President, C.W.U. “We have been invited by the Ministry of Labor, through the Labor Commissioner, to attend a meeting […]
A Mexican soldier is in custody tonight after he was found with a large amount of US currency on him. Jose Luis Beltran, who is from Tabasco, Mexico was picked up by police at the Corozal Free Zone on Thursday and by this evening he had already gone through the court system. Beltran had on […]
Also from the police blotter, a Belize City taxi driver had a close call on Thursday. Two men requested Elmer Martinez to take them to Neal’s Pen Road from his station on Albert Street. According to Martinez, one of the men asked to stop near an alley where he came face to face with two […]
Tony Quinn is the fitness guru and a director of Belize Natural Energy’s parent company, International Natural Energy. Quinn has been in and out of the courts because I.N.E. has not been paying dividends to shareholders since 2005. Quinn was found to be in breach of his fiduciary responsibilities and ordered to purchase minority shares […]
The Belize High School opened its doors at the University of the West Indies Campus last September and has had a successful first year. The novelty is that the private school has implemented an interactive technology based teaching system, which the principal, Leticia Eck, says has produced impressive results. Today the school had an open […]
In this week’s What’s Happening Belize, Arielle is mixing things up and has some fun activities for the kids and the adults. So get in the mood to relax and have a good time; whether you want to take in some art or you want to put on your dancing shoes. Hey am Arielle, …and […]
