A handful of protesters headed to the steps of the law firm, Courtenay Coye LLP, on A Street this morning as the United Democratic Party heats up its campaign against Senator Eamon Courtenay. Under the banner of an ad hoc, C.O.L.A.-styled group known as Belizeans Against Lord Ashcroft and Courtenay (BALAC), they were there to […]
The target of the protestors’ ire returned to his office just before they arrived. He had been at court for an unrelated matter and spoke briefly in response to the idea of the protest. Having been on the frontlines a time or two himself, he appreciates the importance of free speech and free will, although […]
The Government and the United Democratic Party are on a campaign claiming that Senator Eamon Courtenay is a textbook case of conflict of interest since he sits on the senate for the People’s United Party and represents the Ashcroft Group of Companies as its attorney. But Courtenay today cited many cases, including that of the […]
Courtenay says that the Crown Proceedings Amendment Law, which was passed at the same time as the Central Bank International Immunities Law, is not only unconstitutional, but a direct attack on his profession. Two lawsuits have been filed against both pieces of legislation. Courtenay explains that his firm is counsel in one of them, on […]
On Monday during the People’s United Party’s press conference, the party’s legal adviser, Senior Counsel Andrew Marshalleck, gave reporters a primer on the issue of legal immunity. As he explained, the new legislation passed by the Government concerns enforcement of the judgments, and for the most part have no effect as the U.S. Foreign Sovereign […]
In a release issued last Friday, government claimed that Courtenay aborted the senate inquiry to travel to Washington on another case against Belize even though an important witness was to testify. The case in DC was in relation to the Universal Health Services (UHS) loan from the Belize Bank. While addressing government’s claim, Courtenay says […]
But when all is said and done is the senator being used as a scapegoat to deflect from the major financial problems of the country, including a proposed increase in taxes that is to come in the new budget? Courtenay says that the people must not be distracted from the real issues the country is […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow is headed to New York City again on Superbond business. The Government last week extended the time for response to its consent solicitation offer to February twenty-fourth, 2017, four days past the due date for the interest payment due on the current iteration of the U.S. five hundred and thirty-seven million […]
The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Doctor Carissa Etienne, is on a working visit to Belize since Monday. She has been meeting with a number government officials, as well as with Senior Ministry of Health Officials and various stakeholders. As a part of her visit, Belize signed the country cooperation strategy on […]
Former General Manager of the La Inmaculada Credit Union in Orange Walk has filed a lawsuit against the Governor of the Central Bank of Belize for her wrongful termination after twenty-seven years of service with the credit union. Back in July of 2015, the credit union cut ties with Yolanda Gomez, after she was placed […]
A fifty-six-year-old man was slapped with a single charge of sexual assault upon a seven-year-old child. Franz Hamilton was remanded to prison today when he appeared in court to answer to a sexual assault charge after he touched a child on the bottom. The child, in the presence of her mother, informed a social worker […]
There is a report tonight of a major bust of nine point nine million boxes of cigarettes by Guatemalan authorities in Peten. The Guatemalan police say agents in Peten detained Byron Misael Gonzalez who was transporting the cigarettes. The bust on Monday comes on the heels of two others in January in which a combined […]
Inclement weather on Monday did not stop the Belize Territorial Volunteers from making another trip down Belize’s southern boundary, the Sarstoon River. Belize is still without a protocol regarding trips up the Sarstoon except for military personnel, and in the past Guatemala has shadowed and occasionally harassed civilians visiting the area; under the guise of […]
In a brief ceremony held on Monday, February thirteenth, at the Belize House in Belmopan, Ombudsman of Belize Lionel Arzu, accompanied at the ceremony by his family, was sworn-in for a new one-year term. This follows the Prime Minister’s announcement of Arzu’s re-appointment at the January twenty-seventh sitting of the House of Representatives, which was […]
There was a mix-up at the Lord Ridge Cemetery over the weekend and the body of Louise Foreman had to be buried twice—first on Saturday and then on Sunday. The family of Foreman came to News Five’s studios to report that Louise was to be buried in the grave of her predeceased son, Victor Foreman. […]
According to Cemetery Administrator Wayne Usher, the employee from Coye’s Funeral Home has since admitted to the mistake. But this afternoon, Usher met with City Council attorneys to see if charges can be brought against the persons responsible for the incident. On the Phone: Wayne Usher, Cemetery Administrator “It gets worst. You do not […]
Doctor Rob Horwich, an American primatologist and the founder of community co-management with the establishment of the Community Baboon Sanctuary in 1985, has died at the age of seventy-seven. The Sanctuary is the first example of community conservation co-management with the joining of Bermudian Landing and seven surrounding villages to manage the sanctuary and build […]
News Five has been reporting on the case of Orange Walk resident Janine Vega and Laura and Julio Blanco of Pay Day and EZY Loans Pawning. Vega attempted to satisfy repayments in full for two separate loans totalling three thousand, five hundred dollars, for which collateral was a thirty-acre cane field property in Indian Hill […]
