Family and friends of Zeidy Orosco and Balthazar Lopez were emotional with grief today as the couple was laid to rest in Corozal Town. The outpouring of support for the family of the couple has been constant all week, but today the final farewell was marked with the pain of loss. A post mortem concluded […]
There is another round of costly litigation coming our way, and once again it has to do with Belize Telemedia Limited. The Government of Belize paid half of the settlement figure last year, although it was delayed due to miscalculation over the value of the currency in which it was paid – U.S. dollars versus […]
Without a doubt the matter will be going to the CCJ, which FinSec Joseph Waight says is provided for under the settlement agreement signed in Miami, Florida in 2015 between Lord Michael Ashcroft and Prime Minister Dean Barrow. Ninety-five million U.S. dollar is about one-third of Belize’s current foreign reserves, but there is no justification, […]
According to a U.S. court decision, the eighteen-point-five million U.S.-dollar arbitral award for the Belize Bank Limited against the Government will not be reconsidered. It leaves only an injunction granted in Belize in February on which a decision is expected in a few weeks’ time. The Court of Appeals for the Washington, D.C. Circuit on […]
A rift in the membership of the Church-State Commission will result in separate reports being presented to the Government of Belize. The Commission was formed in the wake of the August, 2016 ruling by Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin which allows for consenting adults to engage in certain sexual acts previously deemed unnatural in privacy. Leaders […]
Reverend Papouloute expects that the report of the Council of Churches will be produced once all its executive members are together in a few weeks’ time. But despite the separate reports being made, the relationship between the members of the Council, he expects, will survive this temporary rift. Like his colleague Anglican Bishop Philip Wright, […]
A partial appeal of Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin’s historic decision on Section Fifty-three of the Criminal Code of Belize is set for hearing at the Belize Court of Appeal. However, only the Roman Catholic Diocese and the Attorney General in part will be appealing. The Belize Council of Churches; Belize Association of Evangelical Churches; and […]
Within twenty-four hours after she was charged with the murder of her husband, Deshawm Ramirez was set free of the charge. The Seine Bight couple had a tumultuous marriage known for domestic violence and on May twenty-six, a public argument ended violently and fatally for Glenn Ramirez Junior. Tonight, there are fresh details of how […]
A ballistics examiner employed with the National Forensic Science Service is serving a two-year sentence at the Belize Central Prison after being found guilty last Thursday of abetment to pervert the course of justice. It is the first time that such a charge has ended with a conviction and according to the Chief Magistrate, “Corruption […]
On the heels of damages done to a Mayan mound in San Pedro, tonight there is another disturbing report from the Institute of Archaeology that another Maya monument, this time up north, is under threat. The Institute says it is monitoring the situation in Louisville, Corozal, where a site which is also named Louisville is […]
There was an armed robbery in Belize City on Tuesday night, involving an employee of Gas Tomza Ltd. Twenty-four-year-old Irvin Carranza, a Salvadoran national, was at work a fuel depot near mile one and a half on the George Price Highway when a man armed with a knife entered the office. That individual approached the […]
Last month a fire was set that wiped out the Belize Audubon Society’s Education Center in Crooked Tree. Someone deliberately set the structure on fire just hours before the village celebrated its annual cashew fest. Audubon lost everything in the blaze. The organization hasn’t always had a friendly relationship with some members of the village. […]
As we told you on Wednesday, Paul Ku got a Belizean passport with the approval of then-Immigration Director Ruth Meighan and then-Minister Carlos Perdomo, despite issues with his application flagged by retired Immigration Officer, Therese Chavarria. Ku was sponsored by naturalized Belizean, Rina Chiu Hsiang Lo, who has been described in the Senate hearings as […]
The hearing concluded with some fireworks, as Business Senator Mark Lizarraga pressed the former Minister on a particular application for one Mohamed Mohamed Khalil Owemer, a Saudi/Palestinian national who applied for nationality through marriage but was not qualified. Perdomo said he looked for the specific approvals of the Officer in Charge of the Section and […]
Senator for the Churches, Ashley Rocke, has told News Five that he believes he has seen enough of the public testimony for the Senate Special Select Committee. He also opined that public officers are as much to blame as ministers of government for the breakdown in services at the Immigration Department. We spoke to two […]
Driving in Belize can sometimes be a hassle, considering that each municipality and the Department of Transport have its own system for licensing and any cooperation is informal at best. But the Government of Belize wants to change that, and today its Central Information Technology Office and the Ministry of Finance signed a memorandum of […]
The Children’s Agenda 2017-2030 was launched today, but signed on May fifteenth between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. The document is a road map that outlines the development of children and adolescent from ages zero to nineteen for the next fourteen years. The agenda, according to the National Committee for Families […]
Today across the world was observed World Oceans Day. It is a day set aside to highlight the importance of oceans and the need to protect and preserve the natural resource. On Wednesday, OCEANA Belize took journalists for a trip off the waters of Punta Gorda Town. Local journalists got the opportunity to visit the […]
The heat has been very intense over the past few weeks and it is only the beginning of summer. You’ve heard the message countless times about staying hydrated and out of the heat. For those who needed added motivation to increase their water intake, tonight’s healthy living looks at the potential dangers of excessive heat […]
