On Saturday, Minister of State Edmund Castro entered the country. He was in Miami on government business when he became the subject of serious allegations of corruption. Castro is accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars to facilitate and fast-track the processing of Belizean visas for Chinese nationals. The informant who came forward last […]
Castro dodged the media Saturday, but he won’t be able to dodge the very serious allegation made against him. The informant, who Castro has identified as Alvarine Burgess, has now filed an affidavit at the Ombudsman’s office in Belize City. In the affidavit, Burgess discloses specifics of her meetings with Castro, during which she claims […]
Castro’s only comments came via press release today following an emergency U.D.P. meeting. According to the release, Castro makes clear that the allegation was a lie. He was never engaged in any visa ring, and never collected a penny from the woman now turned self-proclaimed whistle-blower. When contacted early last week Thursday, Castro said, “I […]
Still on the immigration matters….Following up on notice from the floor of the Senate on October seventeenth, the Opposition Senator, Liza Shoman will be moving a motion at the next sitting of the senate calling for the appointment of a Special Select Committee of the Senate. At the time, irregularities were disclosed in the issuance […]
While Castro bunkers down in the face of very compelling, firsthand information against him, there are other visa irregularities coming to light. Tonight, twenty-two Indian nationals are incarcerated after they were rounded up by immigration authorities on suspicious of visa fraud. Five of those persons were found without any documents, while sixteen were found in […]
On Saturday, tensions escalated on Cemetery Lane in Belize City because of a dispute over one tiny parcel of land. On one side of the dispute is prominent attorney Rodwell Williams. On the other is the Young family, who has lived on the plot of land for more than a century, since Belize was British […]
As we mentioned earlier in the newscast, on Saturday Police gave an undertaking that they would not act until a meeting with Rodwell Williams and the Young family is convened. The bone of contention is a small piece of land on the family property on Cemetery Lane. Williams claims to own the property, and he […]
The anticipated congress of the Christian Workers Union proceeded on Saturday morning at Birds Isle. Tensions were bubbling for weeks because of a call for action from the stevedores while long time President Antonio Gonzalez and Secretary General James McFoy were of a different mind. In the backdrop was a threat of expulsion from the […]
The torrential rains over the weekend affected southern and western communities where water levels rose significantly. The flooding has already taken one life. In Succotz, a man, sixty-five year old Carlos Valdez died after his dorey capsized while crossing the river and we’ll bring you all the details of that story on Tuesday. News Five […]
Twenty-three year old Jane Usher Boulevard resident, Albert Moody, today appeared in the Magistrate’s Court related to a shooting incident in Belize City on October twentieth. Moody has been charged with two counts each of Attempted Murder and use of deadly means of harm, and one count each of dangerous harm and wounding on twenty-seven […]
A jury of five men and four women today convicted twenty-two year old Lloyd Elijio of Belize City for the attempted murder of Mark Lord in October of 2009 in the Supreme Court of Justice Troadio Gonzalez. Elijio was accused of shooting Lord in the chest around twelve-thirty in the afternoon of October twenty-fifth, 2009 […]
The Court of Appeal today ordered a new trial for forty-three year old Kimberly Brannon, also known as Kimberly McLaughlin, and set aside her conviction and sentence of life imprisonment on a charge of murder. Brannon was convicted in November of 2011 for the murder of her common-law husband, Anthony “Antics” Herrera, a race jockey […]
The perennial issue of the cost of garbage collection in Belize City, the result of seemingly exorbitant contracts signed with sanitation companies years ago, is one which continues to plague successive city councils. Despite all efforts to clean up and rejuvenate the Old Capital, City Hall, under the leadership of Mayor Darrell Bradley, remains in […]
Former Deputy Mayor Eric Chang remains absent without leave in Taiwan since departing for his home country in early September. Chang, who has been accused of participating in the conveyance of a fraudulent Belizean passport to an imprisoned South Korean businessman, has virtually fallen off the radar. According to Mayor Darrell Bradley numerous attempts have […]
The Museum Association of the Caribbean (MAC) is holding its twenty-fourth annual general meeting under the theme “Pooling our Resources: Collaborations, Connections and Partnerships.” The goal is to develop concrete ideas and policies on how the association can address the challenges of museums in the region. The meeting is expected to convince the Ministry of […]
The countdown for the official launch of the newly renovated BTL Park has commenced and, to mark the occasion, Mayor Darrell Bradley was on hand to erect a sign notifying the public of the grand re-opening. After weeks of diligent labor to uplift the recreational space, anticipation is building up for the December seventh launch. […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The persistent downpour across the nation over the weekend forced a cancellation of most of the scheduled sporting events. The three Belikin Cup matches advertised for Sunday, twenty-seventh October were among the victims and will be stages Wednesday at 7:30 P.M. Paradise Freedom fighters […]
