Corozal Beauty Queen Aracely Cahueque was set free…acquitted of three counts of abetment to murder this morning. We’ll have her first words as a free woman since October, 2010. But first we go to the trial, which ended just before ten this morning. Cahueque had been accused of masterminding the brutal murder of eighteen year […]
After the verdict, hell broke loose as Cahueque was being processed out of custody at the Belmopan Police Station. At ten-thirty this morning, Cahueque stood in front of the Police Station with her mother and attorney Dickie Bradley, who was giving the media an interview. That’s when the emotion of the moment got away from […]
Cahueque’s first minutes as a free woman this morning were not happy ones, as she was attacked outside the Belmopan Police Station and her mother punched in the face and hit in the head. After things quieted down she was sneaked out of the station and taken to a secure location where News Five was […]
There is another resignation from a senior government post to report tonight following on the heels of the departure of the Esquivel family from government. When Laura Esquivel-Frampton was forced to resign from the Belize Tourism Board, two-term Prime Minister, Sir Manuel Esquivel, resigned as advisor to the P.M.; his wife, Kathy, also resigned as […]
Late Thursday evening, News Five reported the alleged murder of twenty-four year old Independence resident Kayla Burgess. The family had previous posted it as a kidnapping, but by seven p.m. Thursday their worst fears had been realized. The twenty-four year old was found by Police in the Bullet Tree Area of the Cayo District, in […]
About a million dollars in vegetables have been destroyed in the Valley of Peace area, Cayo District. The community is the largest provider of vegetables to two districts, but the farmers have lost their crops due to crop-dusting. Green Tropics, the controversial company which grazed land in the Laboring Creek Jaguar Corridor Wildlife Sanctuary in […]
The Chicago Tribune is reporting today that a Belizean was murdered in Chicago on Wednesday. Michael Tingling was protecting his fifteen year old daughter, Masharah, when he was punched on the chest. He died shortly afterwards. The report is that Joseph Firek, a man on parole for residential burglary has been charged with murder and […]
At the northern border on Thursday evening, custom officers busted a group of men returning from Chetumal. Belize City resident thirty-two year old Derrick Thompson was behind the steering wheel of a van with Belize City license plates. Thompson was travelling along with thirty-six year old Keisha Garnett, twenty-five year old James Welch and thirty-six […]
He was accused of shooting at an Orange Walk man back in January 2013 and even though he had fled the jurisdiction, Noel Zetina was granted Supreme Court bail in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars in the court of Justice Herbert Lord. Bail was vehemently objected to by the office of the Director of […]
Citizens Organized for Liberty through Action….The organization says that they are providing the public with the final resort to have former Minister of State Elvin Penner, before a court to be questioned in respect to the immigration scandal that continues to stink to high heavens. On February twenty-seventh, COLA went to the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court […]
The National Trade Union Congress of Belize called for a boycott of Bowen and Bowen products today after the recent termination of thirteen employees from the company. The employees were challenging new terms of employment and absented themselves from work for two days saying they were sick. The boycott, however, did not appear to hold […]
Butane prices are up once again. The Belize Bureau of Standards has approved the increase effective Thursday. The new controlled price for liquid petroleum gas (LPG) depends on the supplier. Butane imported by Belize Gas Limited and Western Gas Company Limited from PEMEX in Mexico will see a one-dollar increase across the board in every […]
A gang of fifteen stevedores on Wednesday pulled off an unexpected strike at the compound of Port of Belize. The gang was scheduled to unload ninety-five containers from Seaboard Marine vessel. The shift should have lasted approximately twelve hours, but the stevedores refused to work because they were fed pasta salad, barbecue chicken and a […]
SATIIM has applied to the Supreme Court for an injunction to stop US Capital Energy from starting pre-drilling operations within the Sarstoon Temash National Park pending a court decision. Today, SATIIM got support from APAMO, the Association of Protected Areas Management Organizations. The umbrella organization is calling on US Capital and the Government to respect […]
A training workshop for fisher folks was held today at the office of the Belize Fishermen Cooperative Association. The workshop is part of a project funded by the Community Management of Protected Areas Conservation Program (COMPACT) to improve the welfare of fishing communities and increase the conservation, protection and sustainable harvest of fishery products. The […]
