Assistant Superintendent of Police Rochelle Chan has spoken out, but reluctantly, in response to statements made by acquaintance Alvarine Burgess in Wednesday’s public hearing of the Senate Special Select Committee. News Five tracked him down this morning in Ladyville coming out of a meeting. Calling on his twenty-four years of experience as a police officer, […]
Separate and apart from the allegations made against him by Burgess, reports surfaced that Assistant Superintendent Rochelle Chan had his U.S. visa revoked by authorities. The truth is in somewhat greater detail, according to Chan, and has nothing to do with any Immigration involvement or with this week’s revelations. ASP Rochelle Chan, Denies Involvement […]
The confidential report of the Immigration Department and former acting Director Maria Marin on the David Nanes Schnitzer affair has been obtained by News Five. At the end of this past January, the Mexican-American was captured and deported to Mexico to face fraud charges in the Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme. Nanes had been living in […]
In the Magistrate Court today, Ballistic Examiner, Orlando Vera learned his fate and it was not good news. Vera was found guilty of abetment to pervert the course of justice and sent behind bars pending sentencing. His case was heard last week by Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith, who gave her decision in a seven-page […]
Guatemalan national Lazaro Rafael Zaldivar Lopez has yet to pay a fine of three thousand dollars and remains in prison over the weekend. He changed a plea of not guilty to a single count of possession of a false document to guilty before Magistrate Carlon Mendoza. On May twenty-fourth, Lopez was found with a Social […]
Forty-seven-year-old Florencio Pop who was charged with the February, 2012 chopping murder of Felix Cucul Ich in Bladden Village, in Southern Belize, was sentenced in the Dangriga Supreme court earlier this week. This came after Pop changed his not guilty plea of murder to guilty of manslaughter in the presence of his attorney, Oscar Selgado. By so doing, Pop received a […]
A twelve-year-old boy from a school in the deep south is the national coca cola spelling bee champ. He bested eleven other primary school students to win the title. This is the twenty-third year that Bowen and Bowen is holding the competition and it has become a highlight of the year for many students. The […]
Well-known street figure Kendis Flowers appeared in court today where he was arraigned for the attempted murder of two police officers. According to police, Flowers fired as many as five shots at two Police Constables in the early hours of Sunday morning. The officers had to seek cover and escaped uninjured. The incident happened on […]
Earlier today, pictures surfaced on social media of a police pickup, extensively damaged to the rear and front portions. A late evening release by the department states that a police officer attached to the San Ignacio Formation parked the Ford F-150 Pickup Truck in front of the Police Station on King Street when a Chevy […]
A traffic accident on Thursday night claimed the life of thirty-three-year-old Rigoberto Coba of Guinea Grass, Orange Walk District. It happened on the Corozal Cane Traffic Road near BELCOGEN. Coba, who is a voluntary Special Constable, was travelling on a motorcycle from Orange Walk to Belize City when he reportedly crashed into trailers that were […]
The People’s United Party has called for the removal of Minister of State Edmond Castro, following the revocation of his visa by the U.S. State Department. The Belize Progressive Party called for further investigation of the reason for the recent revocation of Castro’s U.S. visas, which he says were about to expire. The B.P.P. states […]
We also asked Chairman Smith to comment on the May seventeenth showdown between supporters of the Belizeans Against Courtenay movement, particularly House macebearer Brian “Yellow Man” Audinett, and the press, resulting in his being temporarily banned from the proceedings. He now faces sanction from the National Assembly Staff Committee and his own party, the U.D.P. […]
Last week, Minister of Foreign Affairs Wilfred Elrington broke the news that Guatemala expects to have its referendum on taking the Belizean claim to the International Court of Justice later this year in November. Belize, meanwhile, continues its own public education campaign. The Guatemala issue has not been as prominent in national affairs while the […]
A release sent out by the Statistical Institute of Belize on Wednesday shows that the prices of goods and services regularly purchased by households were up by two point two percent for the month of April, when compared to April of 2016. An inflation of one point nine percent was recorded for the first four […]
New judge of the Caribbean Court of Justice, Denys Barrow, was sworn in to great fanfare and approval on Thursday morning in Belize City. He is the first Belizean on the highest court of the land and the highest ranking Belizean jurist internationally. In the afternoon, it was the turn of Justice Barrow’s colleagues in […]
Pastor Louis Wade of Plus TV is awaiting his fate in the San Ignacio Magistrate’s Court after being charged on May nineteenth with common assault and use of insulting words against the son of Minister of Works, Rene Montero, Robert Montero. The two men confronted each other outside the Santa Elena Sporting Complex last November […]
The national festival of arts concluded earlier this week. Golden performances from across the country converged at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts to showcase the best of the best for 2017 in dance, drama and song. As that event concluded, the second annual Vernon Leslie Memorial Lecture took place at the Bliss. It […]
There is another festival this weekend. It’s the Belize International Jazz Festival. For the third year, the festival has been a medium to increase appreciation and love for jazz music. It provides a venue for musicians to get up to speed on jazz techniques as well as to network with other professionals from the region […]
We’re two days into the hurricane season, which the Met Office predicts will be above normal with a total of fourteen named storms. On Wednesday, the City Emergency Management Organization held a pre-hurricane season launch on how to effectively manage emergencies. The conference looked at how prepared the city is for disasters, including hurricanes and […]
At Wednesday’s announcement of the hurricane season, the Met Service also launched their newly redesigned website. The user-friendly website has new features such as the real time display of data from seventeen automatic weather stations. Here’s what you can expect from the website. Catherine Cumberbatch, Chief Met “This website will not only give us […]
