The People’s United Party wants former Minister of State Elvin Penner to be held criminally liable for his role in the Won Hong Kim passport scandal. Just as vehemently, the United Democratic Party has shielded Penner from any criminal scrutiny. The P.U.P. tried the recall petition, and that was blocked by the Elections and Boundaries […]
The P.U.P. chose this less travelled route of seeking a writ of Mandamus because the party has maintained that it has exhausted all other options, legal and political. But is there another option? At a press conference last week Prime Minister Dean Barrow scoffed at the P.U.P. plan to seek judicial review, saying their case […]
Two men were shot on Tuesday night as a surge in urban warfare grips the City. On Tuesday night following the funeral of Supal Street’s Tarique Cadle who was murdered last week, a spray of bullets was unleashed at seven men hanging out at Armadillo Street, not far from where Cadle once lived. When the […]
Last Friday, we reported on the laying off of fifty-seven workers at the Golden Princess Casino in Corozal. Employees of the gambling den were let go in the wake of a decline in business near the Belize/Mexico Border. Today, there are more persons without jobs up north to add to the unemployment lines. News Five […]
The Statistical Institute of Belize held its second press conference for this year. Today, S.I.B. released the figures for G.D.P. and inflation rate. In short, S.I.B. confirms that the basket of food rose sharply in 2013 as compared to 2012; by as much as four percent. But to get to the grocery stores transportation costs […]
All eyes will be on the Supreme Court on Friday, as the P.U.P. fights for judicial review and the government fights to protect the man in the center of an ongoing immigration scandal. That is one angle of attack on Penner, but there is still the matter of the recall petition which was blocked […]
Back in January 2011, Kraal Road gang leader, Raymond Gentle, aka “Killa”, was executed at his jobsite in Belize City while he and his co-workers were building a wooden structure. Today, the person accused of the violent execution saw his trial by judge come to an end. He is twenty-year-old Corwin Bennett, and he will […]
Shane Budram is no stranger to the courts or police. The thirty-seven year old street figure has been before the court on a slew of charges; he was back today to face a charge of Kept Ammunition Without A Gun License. But Budram escaped jail time when he was told he had no case to […]
Two persons were gravely injured in separate traffic accidents in the past three days. The family of sixty-three year old Jose Elmer Villanueva is today standing vigil at the K.H.M.H., praying for the recovery of their loved one. Villanueva was seriously hurt on Tuesday when he fell out of a moving bus as it […]
Another family from the Belize District is at the K.H.M.H. tonight, praying that thirteen year old Earl Ishmael Flores will hold on to life. Flores is from the small community of Buttercup just outside Burrell Boom, and on Sunday afternoon he was knocked down near his home by a vehicle which did not stop, […]
Traffic fatalities are inevitably a part of the annual mortality rate every year. Casualties of road traffic accidents often perish as a result of speeding or drunk driving. While there was a twenty percent reduction in 2013, a total of fifty-one persons died on the country’s highways. The month of December, in two consecutive years, […]
The Venezuelan government is bracing for more protests which have now spread to the capital, Caracas. The United Nations, as well as the Pope speaking from the Vatican, has called for peace. The government today organized a peace conference inviting the opposition which is also organizing a women’s rally led by congresswomen, Maria Corina Machado, […]
The Venezuelan Ambassador says that the opposition is fueling the uprising and accuses the US government of throwing its full support behind the Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, MUD or when translated, the Democratic Unity Roundtable. According to Perez Marcano the United States is protecting its business interests in Venezuela, but it will not be […]
