Businessman, Luke Espat, is no stranger to political or financial circles in Belize. He’s generally stayed in the background of politics in the People’s United Party even as he is front and center in finance and business, but usually where controversy is involved. Well, tonight Espat is making the news for an early announcement that […]
And even as Francis Fonseca’s response to Luke Espat’s political intentions seemed lukewarm at best, he appears ready to roll out the fatted calf for a prodigal son who might be coming home. Cordel Hyde won three consecutive elections in Lake Independence before he walked away on the eve of elections 2012 and many believed […]
Turning to crime news, there was a vicious murder over the weekend in Benque Viejo del Carmen. A Guatemalan national who made the border town his home for at least fifteen years, was bludgeoned to death and his body found near a gas station in the downtown area on Sunday morning. Most of the injuries […]
Several persons including Mark Sewell, Rhett Fuller and more recently, Dion Bruce, are currently behind bars at the Central Prison, as they are fighting extradition to the United States. Well, just after ten this morning, Belizean national Khalid Jamil El Turk was saved from being sent to the U.S. Since October eighteenth of 2012, El […]
Stephen Buckley was shot in April 2010 by an on duty police officer, Inspector Denis Lopez, in the Port Loyola during a police operation. Buckley was not armed, but was shot twice to the head through the windshield of his boss’ vehicle despite complying with the instructions of the police. He almost died, but a […]
Buckley was thirty-seven years old when the shotgun blast penetrated his skull and the shrapnel embedded in places that surgery would not help. Doctor Joel Cervantes, the neurosurgeon in his report said that the injuries permanently injured the right brachial plexus. Since the shooting, Buckley has been unable to make a living and it has […]
Much of the media attention over the past few years have focused on Buckley’s recovery and mounting medical bills, but little has been heard of Inspector Dennis Lopez. Lopez is the officer who is accused of shooting Buckley with a sixteen gauge shotgun to the face. According to Bradley, that is a separate criminal matter […]
Earlier in the newscast, we told you about the Luke Espat bid and Cordel Hyde’s possible return into the P.U.P. The Party Leader, Francis Fonseca, also spoke about other pressing issues including the fifty million dollar tourism project for Harvest Caye. He says the Opposition does not support the cruise tourism project proposed by Norwegian […]
Last week, the P.U.P. submitted a motion to be included on the order papers for this Wednesday’s sitting of the House. The motion proposed a change in the structure of the Public Accounts Committee to take away the majority enjoyed by government and allow for participation by the Senate. The motion is proposed by P.U.P. […]
A van loaded with uncustomed goods was busted over the weekend. According to the police, the bust took place on Saturday morning when Operation U-Turn, along with a police mobile patrol, intercepted a Plymouth van on Antelope Street in Belize City. A customs officer and two others were travelling in the vehicle and in a […]
A forty-seven year old construction worker was spared jail time today for harming his ex common-law-wife. Darrington Williams was arraigned in court this morning for injuring Shawn Armstrong on Saturday at her house in the Saint Martin de Porres area. Armstrong claimed that Williams was embroiled in an argument with her and that he hit […]
On Friday, News Five aired comments by Prime Minister Dean Barrow on a variety of pertinent front-line issues. We’ll have some more from the PM tonight, but first to the reason he was at the George Price Center on Friday morning. Barrow was part of a very important meeting with pastors from every district in […]
While the gender policy wasn’t at on the agenda for that meeting, it certainly hasn’t gone quietly into that goodnight. That fiery ball has been lobbed by government onto the court of the churches for their input and suggested revisions, and now it’s just a matter of waiting for a response. President of the Association […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. The FFB’s female interdistrict football competition saw two arch rivals take to the arena as DFC Gentle Touch took aim at Triple B in a pivotal ball game for both clubs. Folks were in the 2nd minute of the ball game when Kiana Martinez threads […]
