Former U.D.P. Minister and attorney Marcel Cardona is in big trouble with the General Legal Council of the Bar Association and allegedly faces the threat of a one year suspension from practicing law. The only thing is that Cardona only found out when he saw it on the news Thursday night. There is a complaint […]
Cardona says he feels that he has been denied a fundamental right by not having had the opportunity to mount a defence on his own behalf. Not only was he completely unaware of the meeting of the General Legal Council on Wednesday, but he has not been made privy to any decision of that disciplinary […]
So what’s next for Cardona? Reports from sources in the Bar Association say that indeed there was a hearing and a recommendation to suspend him for a year. He told us today that if that is so, he will fight the decision. But any fight will only come after he receives official notification. Marcel […]
Two men are dead and a woman is hospitalized after an accident on Thursday night in Southern Belize. The collision of two motorcycles, traveling in the same direction, claimed the lives of thirty-two-year-old David McPherson and twenty-eight-year-old William Triguero. Shortly after eight p.m., between miles five and six on the Hummingbird Highway, police say the […]
An Orange Walk resident has beat a murder charge for the second time. He is Krismar Espinosa, whose trial concluded on Thursday before Justice Herbert Lord in the Orange Walk Supreme Court. Espinosa was accused of bashing the head of a female friend in Orange Walk more than seven years ago. A jury of twelve […]
Well known street figure, thirty year old Maurice Felix was in the Supreme Court today to file bail application. The Belize City resident was before Justice Troadio John Gonzalez for his bail application hearing. With no objection to bail from the D.P.P.’s Senior Crown Counsel, Cecil Ramirez, Felix obtained bail of fifteen thousand dollars plus […]
The Department of Civil Aviation is proceeding with an official probe into a plane crash earlier this week involving a Tropic Air flight en route to the Bay Islands of Honduras. The investigation is set to continue as soon as the submerged aircraft is removed from the crash site. To do so requires a joint […]
As we reported in the wake of the accident, it is the second aircraft from Tropic’s fleet to plunge into the Caribbean Sea since December of last year. We asked Garbutt if this poses any concerns to stakeholders in the aviation industry. His response, it is still safer to fly than to traverse the local […]
On Wednesday morning, all three men were returned to the mainland after spending the night at Blackbird Caye. They were then summoned by the Department of Civil Aviation to assist with a preliminary investigation. According to Garbutt, the accounts provided by the pilot and his passengers seem to check out, however, they are conducting an […]
Two weeks ago the Sugar Cane Production Committee made a decision to review cane-farmer quotas, which resulted in a cut in a majority of them. Already faced with the prospect of cane left standing in the fields because of the shortened season, the decision was unpopular, to put it mildly. The Sugar Industry Control Board […]
Diminished petroleum revenues and increased public spending is expected to result in only limited fiscal strengthening in Belize in the months ahead, despite rising non-oil government inflows. Consequently, the country’s debt dynamics will remain unstable, with a looming threat that Belize will struggle to access capital markets or even face a credit crisis. The foreboding […]
Danny Conorquie was murdered in the line of duty back on September twenty-fifth, 2014. No one has ever been charged and as far as we know the Conorquie family is yet to settle compensation with the government. But who did it? There is reason to believe that Guatemalan nationals who operate wantonly in the area […]
If you are to take a drive or walk along the Marine Parade in Belize City, there is an activity that is soon give you an adrenalin rush. The upcoming attraction will allow Belizeans and tourists to get a bird’s eye view of the city on a helium balloon. Belize Balloon Rides will be providing […]
The first ever Belize International Jazz Festival opened with a live concert at the House of Culture in Belize City just moments ago. The first of its kind in the Jewel, the festival will run through to June fourteenth with several performances in several municipalities as well as performances at the Radisson, Spoonaz Café and […]
On this Friday, we dig into our archives and flash way back with a 1994 story about the old prison. As you may know, that prison was located in the heart of the city, where the Museum of Belize now sits. Parts of the structure were retained for the museum and now serve as a […]
