Arthur Saldivar is known as a very vocal, very dramatic and flamboyant attorney as well as a political aspirant, but tonight both his careers may be in serious risk. He has been accused of making off with almost a million dollars from his client. Melonie Coye alleges that on June twelfth, after hours counting cash […]
And while Fonseca plans to take decisive action where Saldivar is concerned, he is also demanding that Prime Minister Dean Barrow do the same for Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington. Elrington’s brother Errol is a fugitive from justice, wanted in the US on racketeering and medical fraud charges. Errol is in Belize and incredibly, […]
Remember Rural Executive Officer Assistant Superintendent Chris Noble. He was the officer in charge of the entire rural Belize District. Well, he’s now Fleet Manager Chris Noble, in charge of all the Police vehicles countrywide. Doesn’t quite have the same ring, does it? So what happened? Well, as we understand it, Noble got into an […]
P.U.P. activist Albert Vaughan, who was arrested on Monday along with dozens of disgruntled B.M.L. employees for loitering and participating in an illegal gathering, was back in court this morning to answer to charges brought against him. Vaughn, you would recall, was covering a spur-of-the-moment protest in front of City Hall where angry sanitation workers […]
The plight of the BML employees who, up until the prime minister’s intervention on Wednesday, were in jeopardy of losing their jobs with the sanitation company is not lost on the citizenry nor will it soon be forgotten as a major political and public relations blunder by Mayor Darrell Bradley. While the commitment from central […]
And just what are Fonseca’s thoughts on P.M. Barrow interceding in the BML fallout? Well, according to the opposition leader, he supports the idea of coming to the aid of the workers since they were the ones who stood to lose their livelihoods as a result of the impasse. Fonseca says the decision by the […]
Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith will hand down her ruling in two weeks in the case of police corporal Darius Martinez who is accused of attempting to corrupt a public officer back in May 2011. During the trial which concluded on Thursday, GSU Officer, WPC Stacey Smith, told the court that she received a call from […]
Thirty-eight year old Wesley Emmanuel was today freed of murder charges in the death of thirty-six year old Emigdio Gomez which occurred in July of 2008. In a voir dire, Justice Troadio Gonzalez did not allow into evidence a caution statement taken from Gomez by police, on the basis that it was given under duress […]
Today, seventy-two proud recruits of intake number fifty-eight passed out at Price Barracks, ready to stand as soldiers in the Belize Defence Force. The graduation is the culmination of weeks of intense physical and mental training, with only the best of the recruits still standing to take their place in the ranks of the force […]
Belize Defence Force soldiers are back on city streets, thanks to a surge in violent crime. They were taken off in May when things calmed down somewhat…and deployed to the border which is the primary priority area of the force. But it was the calm before the storm, and they’ve had to be called back […]
The San Pedro Water Taxi Platform is a recent construction spearheaded by the Ministry of Tourism. The terminal which was completed not long ago, will be used by stakeholders in the local transportation industry and is being operated by the Border Management Agency. This morning around eleven o’clock, a meeting was held on the island […]
The Belize Film Commission is celebrating a milestone today. At a press conference held this afternoon, Commissioner Nigel Miguel announced that the commission is partnering with ArDoMi Media Group from Los Angeles, California. The partnership will allow Belize to promote itself as a film location internationally. ArDoMi produces content for all media platforms and provides […]
According to ArDoMi representative, Jeff Pogue, Belizean cameramen, audio technicians and other skilled individuals will be trained and employed in the new ventures. Jeff Pogue, Rep., ArDoMi Media Group “What we do is we do production services. I am not a cameraman, I don’t have a bunch of cameras….it’s not what we do. I’m […]
A Belize City father is desperately looking for his missing fourteen year old daughter. Raymond Avilez says that Jada left home on Wednesday morning and has not been seen or heard from since. It is not the first time that she has left home, but her father is concerned because it is the longest that […]
Both the Magistrate Court and the National Committee for Families and Children have raised concerns on the airing of information on the identity of a suspect in the murder of Chryslin Gladden. The suspect was charged jointly in court with an adult earlier this week. In a release this afternoon, the Magistrate Court cites that […]
In February we told you about B.D.F. Corporal Norman Rodriguez, a thirteen year veteran of the B.D.F. who was diagnosed with an arterio-venous malformation on the brain. It’s a condition that required surgery and Rodriguez was complaining bitterly that he felt mistreated and pushed around by the B.D.F., at least where his medical treatment was […]
Miss Mexico is the new La Reina De La Costa Maya 2014. Elisa Espinosa Gomez was one of the eight delegates from the seven Central American countries and Mexico to compete in the international pageant. She came out on top after several rounds of competition on Thursday night in La Isla Bonita where the pageant […]
