There is a concord of sorts between A.S.R./B.S.I. and the B.S.C.F.A., but we wouldn’t go dusting off that old cane truck and making merry just yet. Both parties sat down together this morning with Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega at the Radisson in Belize City. In a nutshell, A.S.R. representatives […]
As you heard, pending the decision of the farmers on Sunday, the agreement will be for a period of seven years. There is an out for the farmers, but only after three years. At that time, if a strategic development plan for the industry is not developed to the satisfaction of B.S.C.F.A., the farmers can […]
P.U.P. Deputy Leader Julius Espat will not be participating in the Petrocaribe-sponsored Christmas cheer program. Through that political initiative, all U.D.P. Area Reps will allegedly be receiving one hundred and ten thousand dollars. All P.U.P. Area reps should receive thirty-five thousand, which is the same amount collected by unelected U.D.P. caretakers. The P.U.P. made the […]
If you plan on doing any baking or cooking this Christmas Season then you’ll be pleasantly surprised to know that as of midnight the cost per hundred pound cylinder of butane is going down by five dollars. Earlier today, the Supplies Control Unit in the Ministry of Trade and Investment announced that the new controlled […]
Joel Seawell and four other persons were ambushed on Wednesday evening in the Mahogany Heights area on the George Price Highway. Members of the group, including a woman, were headed home through a picado road, when they came under fire. Seawell was the only one to be hit by the barrage of shots fired at […]
The shooting of Joel Seawell was followed by another this morning in Belize City when a bold attempt was made on the life of twenty-seven-year-old Leon Garcia as he made his way down Victoria Street. Reports are that sometime before ten, a pair of men, described as wearing hooded sweatshirts, accosted Garcia and let loose […]
Tonight, the Belmopan Police are reporting the seizure of a sizable amount of marijuana, confiscated during a special patrol just after midnight. Three persons – Jennie Silva and Yolanda Patt from Benque Viejo, and Casey Fitzgerald Smith from Belize City, were in a vehicle which Police stopped and searched. It is believed that they were […]
A boat attendant was this evening remanded to the Belize Central Prison on a heinous sexual assault charge for fondling a seven year old child in the village of Biscayne on two separate occasions. The news is disturbing because the accused person is an adult who befriended the family and molested the child when the […]
Today was the final hearing of the CCJ appeal concerning the nationalizations of B.T.L. and B.E.L. Senior Counsel Eamon Courtenay, on behalf of British Caribbean Bank, replied to the arguments of the Government, which were presented by Senior Counsel Denys Barrow on Thursday. Courtenay told the CCJ that there was no legitimate public purpose for […]
Courtenay was followed by Lord Peter Goldsmith, Queen Counsel, who replied to the Government on behalf of Dean Boyce and the B.T.L. Employees Trust. Lord Peter Goldsmith, Queen Counsel, Dean Boyce & B.T.L. Employees Trust “The next miscellaneous point I would like to deal with emerged really from the exchange between my learned friend […]
The countdown is on…. There are only nineteen days to end 2014. Earlier today we looked at the crime statistics and at this point, it is safe to say that the number of murders is far above the 2013 stats. Our database shows one hundred and thirty-nine to date, compared to ninety-nine homicides in 2013. […]
Opening tonight at the Bliss, Landini, a paranda album by world renowned Garifuna artist, Aurelio Martinez will be launched. Since September, Martinez along with his team from Stone Tree Records, Ivan Duran, have been in Europe and the U.S. and Canada to introduce the album to international audiences. Tonight, they are back in Belize to […]
