Tonight, there is much more information coming out of the immigration scandal which resulted in the immediate firing of Minister of State Elvin Penner last Thursday. The catalyst for the termination seems to be the issuance of a Belizean passport to South Korean national Kim Won-Hong. That passport was processed with the speed of lightning […]
At midnight on the twentieth September, a flag raising ceremony was held at Belize’s City’s Memorial Park to usher in Independence Day. Thereafter the formal Independence Day festivities moved to Belmopan with the traditional pomp and ceremony befitting the thirty-second anniversary of independence. The Prime Minister gave a glowing report of the state of the […]
A highlight in the Prime Minister’s Independence Speech relates to a landmark case in the Supreme Court for which a decision is pending. It is the case of Caleb Orosco versus the Government of Belize in which the executive director of the United Belize Advocacy Movement, UNIBAM, is challenging Section Fifty-three of the Criminal Code. […]
For the Leader of the Opposition, Francis Fonseca, the government is reeling from one scandal to the other. Fonseca also called for less confrontation and more dialogue, less arrogance and more humility and less personal politics and more problem solving. But one of the opposition’s biggest beef was the issue of the Public Accounts Committee, […]
In Belmopan, the official ceremonies concluded around midday; the government and the leader of the opposition had different versions on the state of the nation. In Belize City, the formal ceremony was not as heated and Mayor Darrell Bradley delivered the formal Independence Day address at Memorial Park. A uniformed parade drew thousands of spectators […]
In the wee hours of this morning a San Ignacio resident was brutally murdered on one of the municipality’s main thorough fare. Jorge Luis Tzib was brutally stabbed and his throat slit. His body was found in a pool of his own blood across from Red Cross offices. The murder has shocked his family and […]
There was another incident in the west which fortunately ended without casualties. Nancy Marin of NM Productions, a location management company out of San Ignacio, booked a river tour at Actun Tunichil Muknal in Teakettle for an investor scouting group from Russia. The group of eight Russians and one German had a series of meetings […]
Popular beat boxing talent Erron Golanche, a member of the musical group Acafellas, lost his life on Friday night during a tragic hit and run in Orange Walk Town. Details of the road traffic accident are not forthcoming from the police department. What we do know is that Golanche was seated on a motorcycle and […]
There was a near tragedy on the Boom/Hattieville road just after eight on Sunday night. It involved four separate vehicles and resulted in five persons being seriously injured. It didn’t make it onto the Police sitrep, but what we confirmed tonight is worthy of a Final Destination horror flick. First, a vehicle flipped on a […]
In May 2011, popular Belmopan businessman Mike Menjivar was at home with his family when the GSU raided his home, supposedly looking for drugs and guns. In the melee which ensued hundreds of bullets were fired into the home. Menjivar claimed that he did not know who was storming his home so he fired back […]
A Belize City Construction Worker was convicted this morning in the Belize City Magistrate for committing an indecent assault upon a fifteen year old girl. Dwight Flowers, who is thirty-seven years older than his victim, was charged with Aggravated Assault of an Indecent Nature for fondling her breast on March twenty-fourth. Flowers was convicted in […]
In the west, the Independence Day activities were not without its own share of controversy. In San Jose Succotz, the installation of Miss Independence is a big affair. But this year, it had a twist. The story is that Yancy Bautista was duly elected as Miss Independence, but Bautista did not want to wear the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. 30 riders congregated for the start of the BCA’s test race that ran 2 laps on the Boom-Hattieville Road yesterday as the new season continues under a brand new national executive. At the turn around point in the 1st lap, it’s Giovanni Lovell and […]
