It was perhaps the most anticipated and hard fought political convention in recent P.U.P. history, as four persons vied for the right to represent the opposition party in the Belmopan constituency. In the ring was veteran politician Amin Hegar, who narrowly lost to powerful U.D.P. incumbent John Saldivar in 2012. Facing Hegar were three political […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow left the country on Sunday to undergo surgery in Los Angeles for which we wish him a speedy recovery. But before leaving, he strenuously defended his Minister of State Edmund ‘Clear the Land’ Castro. Castro is alleged to have received money to facilitate visas for Chinese nationals between October 2012 and […]
When news broke that a South Korean national imprisoned in Taiwan, had received Belizean citizenship and passport, the Prime Minister put Elvin Penner out of cabinet and announced that he was asking the former minister of state to also resign from the party and as area representative. That has not happened and Penner says he […]
Still on the issue of the immigration scandal…The National Trade Union Congress of Belize, and sister organization the Public Service Union, came out swinging this morning on the abrupt transfer last week of eleven clerks and the extended suspension of three officers from the Immigration Department. For context; we note that even though the issuing […]
So far it is only public officers that have been affected in the huge immigration scandal. The police say they are not looking in the direction of the former minister of state and the C.E.O. for the Immigration says it is not in her remit to question him. But the sudden transfer of clerks from […]
The corruption at the Social Investment Fund which resulted in the halting of the Dangriga Market Project has gone unremarked lately. That’s because the issue has been completely overshadowed by the passport and visa scandal implicating not one but two U.D.P. junior ministers. But the people of Dangriga have not lost sight of what has […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow, at a recent fundraiser in Los Angeles, openly admitted that “the Lands Department unfortunately is another hotbed of corruption.” That acknowledgement, which came on the heels of the immigration scandal, confirms what has long been speculated in the Ministry of Natural Resources. Following that disclosure, the P.M. went on record to […]
Early this morning, a fire gutted a house in the King’s Park Area. Luckily no one was at home at the time of the blaze, but the family of four has lost thousands of dollars in personal effects at a time when two of their children are in school. Duane Moody headed to Lizarraga Avenue […]
A Honduran national from the village of Duck Run in the Cayo District is dead after his motorcycle crashed into a cow in Spanish Lookout. The accident occurred just before seven p.m. on Saturday. Twenty-four year old Raul Rodas was travelling on his cycle on the road that leads to the Aguacate Lagoon when he […]
The trial of San Pedro fisherman Harrison Jacobs, charged with the murder of twenty year old Francis Figueroa, ended in a nolle prosequi before Justice Adolph Lucas today in the Supreme Court. Ten witnesses had testified in the trial which was heard by Justice Lucas alone without a jury, but Crown Counsel Shanice Lovell had […]
Twenty-two year old Lloyd Elijio has been sentenced to more than a decade behind bars for the October 2009 attempted murder of Mark Lord. Lord was shot on Hyde’s Lane but survived the incident and testified at trial. Elijio was found guilty last week, and this morning, Justice Troadio Gonzalez was prepared to listen to […]
The senate will meet this Wednesday in Belmopan when opposition senator, Lisa Shoman, will present a motion calling for s senate select committee to investigate the passport and visa scandals. That motion is garnering the support of various organizations, including the trade unions, the Council of Churches and the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry. […]
For the past two weeks, heavy rains had been putting a damper on villages along the George Price Highway in the west. But one of the main effects of the constant downpour is that the waters run off to lower lying areas in the country. Rivers, lagoons and ponds begin to swell and as you […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week six of the PLB’s Belikin Cup found a struggle with Police United needing a win against FC Belize at the Isidoro Beaton Stadium Saturday to escape from the cellar of the football league. Therefore it was no surprise that the Police came out […]
