There have been heinous murders in the west since the start of the year and tonight, the murder count went up by one. The latest victim is a seventy-nine-year-old pastor from San Ignacio. The brutal beating of Florencio Guillermo Bardalez has left the community in disbelief. On Monday, the soon to be octogenarian, a Pastor […]
Police have arrested and charged a man for the crime of murder exactly one year after the crime was committed. Twenty-three-year-old Marlon Padillo of Selena Village in Cayo was slapped with the charge in connection with the chopping death of Guatemalan national sixty-three-year-old Edgar Alfonso Perdomo Aldana. The incident happened back on April second, 2016 […]
Two cops were arraigned today at the San Pedro Magistrate court. The two were captured on video manhandling a woman and then firing indiscriminately on Barrier Reef Drive where a crowd had gathered after four o’clock on Saturday morning. Five persons were injured in the mayhem. The wild shooting by the cops has sparked outrage […]
As we reported on Monday, Minister of Education Patrick Faber confirmed that a million dollars has been set aside as a “honorarium” for teachers who showed up to work during the industrial action. That announcement doesn’t sit well with the trade union because teachers have been paid, regardless of their attendance during the protest. So […]
According to Palacio, government is being crafty with its description of the payout. That million dollar bonus flies in the face of government’s proposed strictness at the start of the fiscal year. The B.N.T.U. says that the monies could have been used to repair classrooms and school buildings that were damaged during Hurricane Earl. […]
There is more from B.N.T.U. President Luke Palacio, who sat with the media this evening to discuss other concerns, including the salary adjustment. Prior to the 2017 budget presentation, Prime Minister Barrow announced that increments for teachers would not be affected. While government has stayed true to its word, the B.N.T.U. views the latest action, […]
To make matters worse, Palacio claims that the ministry is being disingenuous by requesting that teachers volunteer to mark Primary School Exams under the guise that they are attending workshops. The correcting of papers are scheduled to take place from Monday to Wednesday of next week, during the days set aside for teachers to make […]
While the Belize National Teachers’ Union has made clear how it feels about this ‘bonus,’ where exactly is the Ministry of Education going to get the money from? As the Minister told us on Monday, the money is being ‘set aside.’ But is the Ministry robbing from Peter to pay Paul? At the request of […]
The P.U.P. in a release this evening called the million dollar payout to teachers, “the sign of a stubborn, immature and downright dangerous man who refuses to accept that he went up against the teachers and lost.” The party makes the point that in a time of deep economic recession, the G.O.B. had to present […]
A shooting in the Old Capital on Monday has left a visiting Belizean in a critical condition at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Jeffery Martinez is a citizen, but resides in Honduras. He was here to regularize his status and was planning to return to Honduras, but violence got in the way and on Monday […]
A pair of Belize City men riding on a motorcycle not too far from the Raccoon Street Police Station came under gunfire on Monday night when they were intercepted by a vehicle whose occupants unloaded a fusillade of bullets in their direction. Twenty-four-year-old Reese Riverol and twenty-seven-year-old Joseph Rowland are both recovering from injuries they […]
He wanted to be a real police officer – he even sat the examination. But in 2010, special constable Aaron Wilson found himself on the wrong side of the law, accused of impersonating a police officer. He was found with various items made up from the Police Department and stories flowed thereafter about his various […]
At trial, Henderson effectively denied knowing or assisting Wilson in any way, but Wilson says he worked exclusively under Henderson’s command and was allowed to wear the brown Police Number One uniform, which was switched out after his case exploded into the public eye. Wilson also charges that he was paid ‘under the table’ to […]
It all came crashing down in July of 2010, when Wilson, who had been working at a night club in Belize City as security, was accused of molesting a woman and stealing her cell phone – charges for which he was found guilty in Magistrate’s Court. But he says the woman in question, while he […]
Attorney General Senator Michael Peyrefitte confirmed to News Five that as of Friday, March thirty-first, the Protected Areas Conservation Trust (Amendment) Act is now law, having been assented to by Governor General Sir Colville Young. This is despite the upper chamber of the National Assembly, the Senate, voting seven to six against passage of the […]
Earlier in the newscast you heard about the cold killing of a well-known and respected Pastor of San Ignacio. The news has shocked the San Ignacio and Santa Elena communities. When we spoke with Mayor Earl Trapp earlier today he said that the level of crime is a concern for his residents, and it will […]
For the past year, the Inter-American Development Bank has funded efforts to streamline Belize’s National Statistical System, which is nominally managed by the Statistical Institute of Belize. With so many organizations collecting and distributing data on a variety of subjects, it is the S.I.B.’s job in Belize’s law to make sure that that data is […]
Almost three hundred athletes across the country participate in the various sporting programs of the Special Olympics, Belize Chapter. Disability or not, every athlete is skilled in a particular discipline and are given an opportunity to represent the country internationally. Over the weekend, Special Olympics Belize put off its annual fun run, which is a […]
