Two young men from Orange Walk Town are the most recent victims of gun violence. A brazen gunman, still on the lam, opened fire on seventeen year old Rene Antonio Acevedo and nineteen-year-old Erlindo Matura Junior as they stood on Gristock Street at about four-thirty on Monday afternoon. A third person, a minor, was with […]
Also in Orange Walk, officers have been conducting anti-drug operations on a weekly basis. On Monday morning, a search in some bushes on Savannah Street in Orange Walk Town led to the discovery of a plastic bag containing thirteen, sixteen-gauge cartridges and ten point one grams of cannabis. There were no arrests and the items […]
There was an acquittal today in a trial by judge without jury. Thirty-two year old Daniel Anderson of Belize City walked out of court as a free man following his acquittal for murder. Anderson was behind bars for more than five years for the murder of Joyce Mitchell, who was gunned down while sitting in […]
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Tonight we report on four accidents that occurred on both main highways; of the four, one was fatal. On Monday afternoon, just before four o’clock, a pickup truck driven by Egbert Ferguson collided into a tour van, traveling from the opposite direction transporting six French tourists. A total of eleven persons were injured in the […]
Aside from the fatal accident that claimed the life of forty-seven year old Egbert Ferguson, there were three other accidents today alone on the Phillip Goldson and the George Price Highways. This morning just after nine o’clock, sixty-two year old Lloyd Foreman was knocked off his bicycle between miles six and seven on the Phillip […]
There was a third accident this morning just after nine on the George Price Highway, which happened at about the same time as the RTA on the Phillip Goldson Highway. It wasn’t fatal, but driver Deryck Satchwell got off very lucky after he lost control of his Dodge Caliber and it flipped off the road […]
The Supreme Court today finished hearing a case that could have impact on the employment of so-called “open vote workers”, those persons who work for Government, but not under formal contract or in a permanent capacity in the Public Service. Former Ministry of Education employee Melissa Belezaire Tucker was employed for seventeen years, from 1995 […]
Not only is Tucker seeking judicial review of the termination; she has filed separately a challenge to the Open Vote Workers Regulations of 1992. Tucker and attorney Senior Counsel Magali Marin-Young believe it violates the Constitution, as then Governor General Dame Minita Gordon was not empowered to enact a law that creates a wholly separate […]
The case has also caught the attention of the Public Service Union, whose president, Eldred Neal, attended this morning’s arguments. He told us that the case points to the need to regularize workers’ status, and that in his ongoing tour of the country as P.S.U. President, workers have been asking their Union to help Government […]
John Briceño and the members of the new National Executive of the People’s United Party will be sworn in at Independence Hall on Wednesday morning. Briceño was elected Party Leader at a National Convention held in Belmopan on Sunday after he beat out Francis Fonseca and Cordel Hyde. There after he will be sworn in […]
Between 2012 and 2015, when just the word Petrocaribe was enough to inspire poetry, song and euphoric frenzy, Government’s coffers were said to be bulging with hundreds of millions. The closest we’ve gotten to an official figure is somewhere in the region of close to four hundred million dollars. That’s a whole lot of money. […]
According to Waight, a payment of fifty million dollars is due in a few weeks time. That’s cause for anxiety, but there’s another financial storm looming. When Prime Minister Dean Barrow settled his Belize Telemedia woes just before election for one hundred and sixty million dollars…that was only part payment! There’s an arbitration panel getting […]
On Monday, the second Friends for Conservation and Development Ranger training program concluded at the Chiquibul. The week long program was conducted in collaboration with the Institute of Archaeology and the Forest Department, with the successful participation of fourteen rangers from FCD, four from the Forest Department and two from the Institute. This is the […]
