The embezzlement of over half-a-million dollars from the Treasury Department, an inside job that was unearthed a little over a week ago by officials within the Ministry of Finance, has set off a major investigation into this most recent financial crime. The scheme involved the misappropriation of two significant sums of monies, presumably by altering […]
A Corozal police man has been detained following allegations of a rape of a fourteen year old girl. On Monday evening, the minor and her mother visited the Corozal Police Station and reported that the girl was walking home in Altamira on Monday when she was offered a ride on a cycle by the cop. […]
There are still more questions than answers about the murder-suicide that happened over the weekend. In our story on Monday night, we told you about the tragic incident which resulted in the loss of two lives; thirty-year old Colleen Sharp and fifty-four-year old Michael Estell. But, what was the motive? And who killed whom? That’s […]
The Fin. Sec. and legal advisor, attorney Michael Young, have been making the media rounds trying to explain away the new law, which allows government to borrow and spend without House approval. In explaining how Belize draws funds from the Petrocaribe initiative this morning, Waight also commented on the Finance and Audit Reform Act and […]
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Since the beginning of the week, the United Democratic Party’s legal adviser, Senior Counsel Michael Young, has been accompanying Financial Secretary Joe Waight on a series of media rounds to elucidate specific aspects of the Petrocaribe Law. As it is, there seems to be quite a lack of comprehension of the piece of legislation and […]
Despite the discussion and subsequent criticisms that have arisen out of the passage of the Petrocaribe Law, Young says the most important thing is to continue retrieving the funds. Michael Young, Legal Adviser, U.D.P. “The most important thing is to access these funds and to use it for the public good. We have an […]
The process of ‘derisking’ is underway by international financial firms that are withdrawing from sectors within the Caribbean region and elsewhere that represent compliance risks. It is a situation where a number of banks, having assessed the present circumstances, deem it too risky to persist with certain customers and activities, since the risk outweighs the […]
In Monday’s newscasts we told you about the death of three persons over the weekend—the murder-suicide of well known couple Michael Estell and Colleen Sharp in Ladyville and the execution of tour guide, Vern Magdaleno. But there was another fatality over the weekend in the Belize District. A father of five young children, twenty-seven year […]
On Sunday afternoon, a K.H.M.H. clerk lost his mind when he discovered that his girlfriend was not being faithful to him. Thirty-three year old Harvin Arriolla is suspected of being inebriated when he drove his Mitsubishi Galant into his neighbour’s fence, damaged the stairs of the house as well as injured a minor sitting on […]
Belizean artist Tanya Carter is making her mark in the music industry. Over the weekend, she won the People’s Choice Award for Best Belizean Artist of the Year at the International Red Carpet Affair held annually in California. Carter was attending the event where she performed with Lova Boy. While there was word that she […]
Many Belizeans have served and are serving in the U.S Military and like many other immigrants, have risked their lives to serve, but even after their service they are still held to the military’s standard and pay the ultimate price for infractions of that standard- they are banished from the country they served, separated from […]
