In 2009, the Government of Belize seized control of B.T.L. and when a court ruling found the nationalization to be null and void, Government renationalized the company in 2011. Now…weeks before the general election on November fourth, G.O.B. has settled with the Ashcroft Group by paying a preliminary sum of one hundred and sixty-two million […]
Denys Barrow, who is the brother of Prime Minister Dean Barrow, has also been a target in the Opposition People’s United Party’s campaign. The P.U.P. says that he has been paid millions in legal fees as G.O.B.’s lawyer of choice. The attorney hasn’t been fazed by the negative attention. He told News Five today that […]
T he negative campaign has focused on one particular instance in which Denys Barrow’s law firm was paid over five hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars for its role in a small settlement, which did not require court action. That was twenty percent of the payment to G.O.B. after a ship, the Paranga, caused damage to […]
A family grieves tonight the tragic loss of one of their own. Eleven-year-old school girl, Tezzrah Thompson, was hit by a delivery truck when she exited a school bus at the entrance of Mahogany Heights on the George Price Highway, on Monday. The young girl was heading home after a day at school in nearby […]
A gas station was robbed in broad daylight, on Monday morning for which three men have been detained. The brazen robbery occurred at Southern Choice Butane Limited located at Mile four on the Philip Goldson Highway. The gas attendant on duty was conversing with the company secretary when two men walked into the compound saying […]
In an unprecedented move last week, the Bar Association has applied to the Caribbean Court of Justice to release its decisions on the nationalizations of B.E.L. and B.T.L. Both matters were hastily settled only weeks ago, and the settlement stays the decision by the CCJ. But the Bar Association has asked to be included as […]
The Bar has determined that the decision, whatever it is, speaks to the legality of the much debated Eighth Amendment, and they say it is a matter of public interest so it should be released. But Barrow says all that is moot because the matter of the Eighth Amendment, in light of the settlements, is […]
Thirty-one year old Errol Haynes appeared briefly in court today before the Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. He is suing the Commissioner of Police, Superintendent of Prison and the Attorney General for wrongful imprisonment. Prior to his court appearance, Haynes was in a Mexican jail, but was brought to Belize on a committal warrant to serve a […]
Today, the Court of Appeal wasted no time in upholding an appeal by the University of Belize’s Board of Trustees. The matter before the panel was the Supreme Court’s decision on the termination of UB Dean, Abigail McKay. McKay signed a contract with the university for three years, but claimed that because of the guidelines […]
Tonight, another Belize City youth is free of murder. At the conclusion of a trial by judge without jury before Justice Troadio Gonzalez, twenty-two year old Ronald Bradley, a resident of Mahogany Heights, was acquitted of the October fifteenth, 2010 murder of female Prison Officer, Miriam Gillett. At a ruling handed down by Judge Gonzalez, a no case […]
A public meeting organized by COLA is set for Thursday night in Belize City. The venue, a parking lot adjacent to the Pickstock Hutment on New Road, was once part of its namesake constituency prior to redistricting. COLA is pulling out all the stops to unseat incumbent area representative Wilfred Elrington, who is also Belize’s […]
As we’ve mentioned, COLA insists that it is not politically aligned with any of the mass parties; it is nonetheless, a question that continues to rear its head in the media. Geovanni Brackett, President, COLA “If you notice we have never sat in any political party when they have their press conference, not even […]
Patrick Rogers may have been a little slow in publicly responding to Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington’s address to the UN General Assembly. The B.P.P.’s tardiness, however, does not take away from its firm position that Elrington must be removed from office as Belize’s Foreign Minister. According to Rogers, the Belize Progressive Party, as well as […]
So, Rogers is offering himself as the third party candidate in Pickstock. He says his campaign budget is in the area of fifty thousand dollars, but is it enough to leave a lasting impression in the minds of his constituents? Patrick Rogers, Party Leader, BPP “We said, if Mr. Barrow noh wahn move Sedi […]
An ex-eighteen street gang member from El Salvador was nabbed in Belize two Sundays ago by Orange Walk Police. Twenty-three year old Carlos Enrique Alvarado Lopez is wanted by Interpol for a string of offenses including extortion and belonging to a criminal gang and has been living in Belize since 2013. But Alvarado Lopez was […]
On Monday’s newscast we showed you the telling surveillance video of two brazen robbers, who entered a grocery store in Trial Farm, Orange Walk barefaced and robbed the proprietors of over four thousand dollars in cash and cell phones. The crime occurred just before ten p.m. last Friday and while the ordeal lasted only about […]
The referendum for Belizeans to decide on whether the issue of the unfounded Guatemalan claim should go before the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, for resolution continues at the forefront of public discourse. The matter has been thrust, yet again, into the spotlight, following Foreign Minister Elrington’s recent address before the UN General […]
Is the political quagmire that Belize presently finds itself in with Guatemala made worse by the foreign minister’s apparent lack of personality? It’s a question that was posed to his predecessor during a press conference held by the People’s United Party on Monday. According to former Foreign Minister Lisa Shoman, the existing state of affairs […]
