The People’s United Party held its leadership Convention on Sunday in Belmopan. Three candidates were vying for the post – Francis Fonseca, John Briceño and Cordel Hyde. The winner would be selected through a historic process where two thousand, nine hundred and seventy-three delegates from thirty-one constituencies would be afforded the chance to vote. In […]
But while all eyes were on the leadership race, both John Briceño and Francis Fonseca also fielded slates for the positions available. Those were Chairman, Deputy Leader North and South and National Communications Director. For the Chairman’s post, Henry Charles Usher from the Briceño camp contested Oscar Requeña from the Fonseca camp. For Deputy Leader […]
With the loss of some existing correspondent bank relationships, the country is facing what Prime Minister Dean Barrow has called an existential threat and a potentially huge crisis. To stave off that threat, the PM headed off to Washington last week, accompanied by Financial Secretary Joseph Waight, Governor of the Central Bank Glen Ysaguirre and […]
The delegation then met with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, another regulatory body which regulates banks that are chartered by states and have not joined the Federal Reserve System. According to the PM the feedback from the FDIC was a little more in the way of affirmative action. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “We met […]
The delegation also met with the Secretary of the Treasury. PM Barrow says the message from that quarter was the same – that there is nothing wrong with the Belize jurisdiction. Secretary Jacob Lew, says Barrow, has promised to spread that word among banks which Belize will now be targeting. Prime Minister Dean Barrow […]
At around four-thirty this afternoon, two teenagers were gunned down on Cristock Street in Orange Walk Town. Minutes ago, the bodies were still on the ground while investigators scoured the scene. Police sources tell News Five that three youths who are well known to them were on Cristock Street when a man on a bicycle […]
There’s another murder to report for which three men charged in the home invasion of Sarkis Abou Nehra are prime suspects. This weekend in Belize City, thirty-two year old Marian Castillo of Georgetown, Stann Creek District was fatally stabbed just before one o’clock on Saturday morning, as he walked with a female friend on Mahogany […]
There was a head on collision this afternoon at about four-thirty at mile eighteen on the George Price Highway. Two vehicles, a pickup truck and a van transporting six tourists crashed into each other. While there were no fatalities, several persons were injured in the accident and had to be rushed to the Karl Heusner […]
But while the tourists in the vehicular accident were slightly injured, that wasn’t the case for two other visitors to Belize. On Sunday, twenty-seven year old Australian tourist Patrick Leslie Jaccound died at the K.H.M.H. while receiving treatment for injuries he sustained on five days earlier. According to police, Jaccound was socializing with friends on […]
Two Belizeans, Milin Vasquez from Orange Walk Town and Hugo Casanova from Corozal District have been in a Mexican jail since February 2013 after they were allegedly busted by Mexican authorities. The duo was reportedly in the company of notorious Mexican dealer, Carlos Cabanas Catzin, known as the Monster, when they were found with two […]
Lisburn Anderson is the mechanic who Police believe delivered payment to a hit-man on behalf of American Bradley Paumen. Anderson has been charged for that crime, and was released on Supreme Court bail. But tonight he is behind bars, and has been since last Wednesday. That’s when Anderson was picked up and charged, again along […]
There was a freak accident on Saturday evening on Mahogany Street in Belize City. Sometime around six-thirty that day, a metal gate near a newly built perimeter fence at the Samuel Haynes Institute of Excellence Compound fell atop a three year old girl, playing in the yard. Brianna Timmons is the daughter of the librarian […]
The Fisheries Department is reporting a huge bust in undersized conch made on Sunday evening. Officers were on routine patrol in the Turneffe Atoll when they came up on the SOL, a sailboat with eight fishermen on board. Five of those fishermen, from the Sarteneja and Copper Bank areas of Belize, are in custody while […]
The timing of the bust by enforcement officers could not have been scripted better, since it comes at the onset of a stakeholder training on enforcement and compliance. Hampton Gamboa, Supervisor, Conservation Compliance Unit “We started a one week training yesterday in terms of enforcement training for our stakeholders and our enforcement agencies such […]
A Belizean was arrested in Melchor de Mencos over the weekend and was scheduled to be processed in court today, but we cannot confirm that that has occurred. Twenty-five year old Kayla Adriana Sanchez is accused of stealing a cellular phone from a store in Melchor and detained by the Guatemalan authorities on Sunday. She […]
Minister of Education Patrick Faber convened the media today at the ITVET Compound on Freetown Road, Belize City. It was a pre-event to the launch of an education conference on Wednesday. But information on the conference was eclipsed by the national convention of the People’s United Party. Minister Faber, who is also aspiring to lead […]
The United Democratic Party will also be holding a national convention in March. But unlike the P.U.P., there will be no elections since at the close of nominations on Friday; the executive in place remained unchallenged. According to Faber, he will be entering the leadership race in the 2020 U.D.P. convention. Patrick Faber, Member, […]
Turning to a health issue that has been making international headlines. The World Health Organization today declared the Zika virus and its suspected link to birth defects an international public health emergency. At least twenty-three countries in the region have been affected with Brazil being hardest hit. El Salvador has asked women not to get […]
Good evening I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. The MCC Grounds was the scene yesterday where the PLB presented the showdown between the Belize Defence Force making the home stand against the Belmopan Bandits. The Bandits gets the 1st good look at goal. Elroy Smith floats this set piece into the danger […]
