Belize has been named in a five hundred million US dollar tax fraud scheme. For months, there have been investigations that various companies, including Titan International Securities were using Belize as cover for tax evasion and money laundering. Earlier today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and major U.S. financial news outlets reported indictments of six […]
Minister of Education Patrick Faber is taking significant heat at the moment. The senior U.D.P. Member of Parliament has been accused of assaulting two women during a party at his home in Lord’s Bank Friday night. One of the women, an employee of the ministry who is allegedly involved in an intimate relationship with Minister […]
The People’s United Party has called on the police to carry out and complete an investigation into the matter. That seems distinctly unlikely, based on the response by the police on Monday and also based on past experience. Faber has been in trouble at least twice before – once when he threw a cement block […]
The plight of Uwahnie Martinez, a former employee of CIBC FirstCaribbean’s Dangriga Branch, concluded this morning with the bank formally accepting her resignation. This succeeds a meeting with firstCaribbean’s regional executive who flew in from Barbados to sit down with the Christian Workers Union. The union represents Martinez who claims that she had been reprimanded […]
CWU President Audrey Matura says the meeting was held to address three pertinent issues relating to Uwahnie Martinez’s employment situation. That discussion, she said, was chaired by Ella Hoyos, who flew in from CIBC FirstCaribbean’s headquarters in Barbados to do damage control. Audrey Matura-Shepherd, President, Christian Workers Union “The main person conducting the meeting […]
According to Ella Hoyos, Managing Director for CIBC FirstCaribbean, the bank has a no discrimination policy where it concerns race and language; however, certain aspects of the policy will be revised within the coming months to address the issue of language usage across the region. Ella Hoyos, Managing Director, Human Resources, CIBC “I have […]
On August fourteenth, after almost a year of so-called intense investigations, former Southern Regional Hospital Administrator Nasley Sommerville finally appeared before the Services Commission to determine her fate in the Public Service. Following an audit of that region by the Auditor-General, Sommerville is accused of using her authority to embezzle over three hundred and sixty-six […]
On Monday, we reported that both a criminal and an internal investigation have been launched by the Police Department into the shooting of a Baghdad Street resident over the weekend. According to police, an officer on duty pulled out his service weapon and shot fifty year old Kent Skeet while on an operation in Taylor’s […]
A and R was robbed on August twentieth, just before the close of business at around six o’clock. Five days after the robbery, security officer Leroy Ciego was charged with conspiracy to commit robbery. This morning, another man was arraigned for robbery. Police believe the alleged mastermind and gunman behind the theft is Kevin Bodden. […]
Twenty-three-year-old Nicholi Rhys, the son of a female police sergeant, is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison after being accused of robbing a man back in August of last month. Late on Monday afternoon, Rhys appeared before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith and was read a single charge of robbery. Allegations made against […]
Monday was International Literacy Day, celebrated in schools throughout Belize. The focus is on reading, comprehension and writing, and to that end the Ministry of Education collaborated with the media and other organizations to promote the love of reading. Schools engaged in different activities, with parents getting involved and students getting tagged to read the […]
The 2014 school year opened a week ago, with students returning to classrooms across the country. Well, not all students. The classrooms at the Seventh Day Adventist School in Progresso were empty. That’s because parents refused to send their children to school because they have problems with the principal and the administration. The action is […]
At the sitting of the House of Representatives on Friday, Prime Minister Dean Barrow spoke briefly on the introduction of a bill to amend the Firearms Act. According to the PM, one of the aspects of the Act which will be revisited is collective responsibility. Currently, if a gun or ammunition is found in a […]
A British A-One grenade was retrieved from the streets of the Old Capital last Saturday. The grenade was located at an abandoned house on Banak Street. While that operation was successful and brought some comfort to residents as we go into the holidays, there have been instances when grenades hurled at throngs of persons have […]
Late last month, Prime Minister Dean Barrow was asked about a twenty million dollar loan from Venezuela through the Petrocaribe Initiative which is being used for infrastructural works ongoing nationwide. The loan facility, however, did not go before the National Assembly. On Monday, at a press conference, P.U.P. leader, Francis Fonseca, said that Prime Minister […]
The annual expo Belize market place was held over the weekend at the ITVET compound in Belize City. It’s always a big deal, always crowded, always full of deals and excitement and this year didn’t disappointment. The official numbers put the number of visitors at nineteen thousand attendees. It was literally impossible to capture the […]
