Tonight, the uncertainty surrounding that volatile zone known as the Sarstoon is alive and well after Guatemalan Armed Forces denied a News Five team passage down the river this morning, claiming that we were trespassing in their national waters. If it had happened last week, as it has on multiple occasions in past months, it […]
Even as our team headed back to Belize City, deterred from entering the Sarstoon but having made the point that Guatemala isn’t playing on the same checkerboard, Prime Minister Dean Barrow weighed in on the incident with extreme prejudice. Apparently he had been briefed by C.E.O. in the Ministry of National Security George Lovell, likely […]
A release issued by government on Tuesday, announcing the revocation of the Sarstoon Prohibition SI, stated that, “While the formal mechanism is being worked on, the two sides have informally accepted a situation in which there will be untrammeled traffic for Belize’s military and civilians along the Sarstoon.” So what exactly is an informal acceptance? […]
So with Belizean civilians still not able to enter the Sarstoon, what happens next? Will government perhaps seek to reinstitute the Sarstoon Law? On the Phone: Prime Minister Dean Barrow “Why would I do that? That S.I. was to serve the limited purpose of ensuring that at the time the circumstances that saw us […]
It’s clear what the real protocol is at the Sarstoon where civilians are concerned. Belizeans can’t go there. But what about the B.D.F.? We all saw footage of the Guatemalan navy turning back the B.D.F. a couple weeks ago as they attempted to go to Cadenas for a shift change-over. At that time, they were […]
There is another developing story. It is well-known that Guatemalan nationals illegally enter Belizean territory for illegal activities. Most recently when the Sarstoon law applied, their fishermen routinely traversed into Belize to fish while the local fisher folk were barred from entering the Sarstoon. Now, on Thursday night, a total of eight Belizeans were detained […]
The fourth murder for the Corozal District for this year took place on Thursday evening in the village of Paraiso. Thirty-seven year old Delmar Guerra was trailed and executed by two men on a motorcycle a short distance from where he lived. He had just parked his vehicle at a house where he went to […]
There was a fatal road traffic accident early this morning, involving a pickup truck traveling along the George Price Highway. Thirty-one-year-old Oswald Garcia was violently flung from his vehicle between miles thirteen and fourteen, after losing control of its steering. The coconut vendor was presumably intoxicated at the time of the accident and had been […]
A second traffic mishap also occurred in the early hours after midnight, this time involving a Geo Prism traveling along the George Price Highway. Victor Aldana, a Belize Defense Force soldier, reported to Hattieville police that he had just left camp and was driving towards Cayo sometime after one o’clock when he fell asleep at […]
With less than seventy-two hours to go before over three hundred delegates of the United Democratic Party cast ballots to determine a new first deputy leader, campaigns on either side of the political race are in high gear. Earlier today, we caught up with Collet Area Representative Patrick Faber and his self-assuredness has never been […]
The campaign between Faber and his opponent John Saldivar has been rather intense with blows coming from both sides. Inside the Faber camp, it is believed that he will win by a margin of less than fifty votes, while Saldivar is claiming a landslide. Faber says that he is simply trying to lay down the […]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that US businessman, Robert Bandfield, has pleaded guilty to helping stock manipulators launder two hundred and fifty million dollars through Belize. The seventy-one year old pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn Federal Court to one count of money laundering and is facing as many as twenty years in prison. Bandfield […]
After being released from the K.H.M.H., nineteen year Zachary Knox is tonight on remand at the Belize Central Prison. “Yankee,” as he is popularly known, claims he was badly beaten following a shooting involving Assistant Commissioner of Police Chester Williams. Late this evening, he was arraigned for aggravated assault with a firearm upon Williams along […]
A businesswoman from the downtown plaza in Belize City was taken to court today by the GST Department on two charges for failing to issue receipts and failing to utilize a programmable cash register at her business place, Sun Digital Photo. She is thirty-eight-year-old Sandra Sol, a resident of Vista Del Mar area, Ladyville. Sol […]
The bar and the judiciary, along with representatives of the Ministry of Health, gathered today at the Radisson for a training workshop on persons with mental health disorders and the criminal justice process. The symposium, organized by the Belize Bar Association and the Death Penalty Project, culminates a three-day event which also included an academic […]
Co-executive Director Pervais Jabbar, of the Death Penalty Project, reiterates that the knowledge generated from today’s discussions can be useful if applied to individual cases involving persons with mental health disorders. Isani Cayetano “What is the most important caveat, if I may, that the participants would be walking away with after attending the discussions […]
High schools from across the country converged on Belize City today where students participated in a competition geared towards young innovators. The goal is to use a miniature computer platform to perform various IT functions. The challenge was a showcase in ingenuity and innovation and in the end only one school would capture the coveted […]
For two weeks, the National Festival of Arts will feature creative arts performances in drama, song, music and dance from preschoolers, primary school children, secondary students and even teachers. It is part of the Institute of Creative Arts and the Ministry of Education’s goal to incorporate the creative arts into the education curriculum – that […]
