The Corozal Police Department remains under pressure tonight. Four officers were assigned by Corozal Police in an operation to evict forty-four year old Richard Garcia last Friday in Chunox Village. The task was accomplished with prejudice – Garcia was shot dead after, the officers alleged, he menaced them with a machete. The Professional Standards Branch […]
One suspect is being questioned following the brazen robbery of the Toledo Teachers Credit Union late last week. The robbers concocted an elaborate plan to break into the building, pry open the vault containing over a hundred thousand dollars in cash, and then flee with the money undetected. But even as the robbers carried out […]
Omar Barahona Junior was shot seven times and killed as he attended a going away party in his honor on Saturday night. The twenty-one-year-old from Cotton Tree was socializing with a cousin and twenty-year-old Devon Brooks when a man fired several shots at the trio; seven of those caught Barahona Junior, one hit Brooks in […]
There is more tonight to the ongoing battles within the Football Federation of Belize. On Monday, you heard Sergio Chuc who has been disqualified from seeking elections as president, call on delegates to stay away from the June twenty-fourth elections. The F.F.B. Electoral Appeals Committee barred Chuc from running following allegations of bribery, corruption, conflict […]
With Chuc out of the way, Ruperto Vicente and Marlon Kuylen will go head-to-head in a few weeks at the annual congress. In the 2016 elections, after twenty-two rounds of voting, there was no clear winner between Chuc and Vicente, and Marlon Kuylen, was appointed to hold over as president. But will the election follow […]
In the immediate aftermath of Sergio Chuc’s disqualification to contest the presidency, the vehicle of Michael Blease, the secretary general of the federation, was set on fire. Both Chuc and Vicente came out against the criminal act, saying whoever is responsible should be dealt with by the law. Sergio Chuc, Football Stakeholder “That was […]
A Belizean attorney is moving up to a senior post at the Inter-American Development Bank. Senior Counsel Lisa Shoman has been appointed to a six-year term as a sitting judge for the Inter-American Development Bank. She joins six other adjudicators on the organization’s administrative tribunal which is tasked with dealing with employment matters. The IDB […]
So, with a cushy number waiting for Shoman at Thirteen Hundred New York Avenue, will her law office here in Belize City be shuttered? That’s what we asked her earlier today. Isani Cayetano “What does that mean for your private practice? Do you now have to give up the office here?” Lisa Shoman, […]
A majority of members of the National Assembly Staff Committee voted on Friday during a meeting to reprimand, rather than suspend or remove, House of Representatives Sergeant-At-Arms Brian “Yellow Man” Audinett for his attacks on media personnel inside the National Assembly during the public hearing of the Senate Special Select Committee on May seventeenth. Audinett […]
There will be another public hearing of the Senate Special Select Committee tomorrow, Wednesday, and members of the Belizeans against Courtenay movement led by Alberto August are expected to be there. Former Immigration Minister Carlos Perdomo will continue his testimony from last week, while Immigration Officer Ady Pacheco and ASP Rochelle Chan also in the […]
Last week Friday, Supreme Court Judge, Hon, Justice Herbert Lord heard a bail application for convicted prisoner, Orlando Vera, the Belize Police Department Ballistic Examiner. On June first, 2017 Vera was convicted for the offense of abetment to pervert the course of justice when he was recorded by a Belmopan businessman, Michael Modiri. In the […]
Two men, one from San Pedro and the other from Corozal, will have to stand trial at the Supreme Court for thirteen counts of possession of false documents in respect of nationality certificates. Forty-two-year-old Marcos Basto and thirty-one-year-old Mark Antonio Rosales were charged back in November 2015; and today a preliminary inquiry determined they are to […]
The Western Regional Hospital got a major upgrade today. The works done on an Accident and Emergency unit will enhance the capability of the hospital to accommodate more patients. Added to the expansion, the hospital was gifted with a brand new incinerator – all of this comes courtesy of the U.S. Army South through its […]
Valentino Blanco is the embattled C.E.O. at the Free Zone. Over the past few weeks his appointment raised eyebrows with many questioning his qualifications and wondering if there was any political influence, since he is the brother-in-law of Minister of State Doctor Angel Campos. Things came to a head and Blanco was suspended after management […]
Almost a year ago, Belize Sugar Industries Limited lost over two thousand, six hundred tons of molasses due to a first-of-its-kind Maillard Reaction inside its tanks at Tower Hill. The initial loss had been closer to four thousand tons but about a third was eventually recovered. The company attempted to have the Belize Sugar Cane […]
A Women in Fisheries Forum was held today at the Biltmore Plaza. When looking at the fishing activity in Belize, particularly extraction, men dominate the sector. But the industry includes processing, transportation, sale and management. In Belize we have forty-seven licensed commercial fishers and there are a large number of women involved in the processing […]
Before we go to break, in foreign policy news…Panama has officially severed all diplomatic ties with the Republic of Taiwan, as of Monday and established relations with the People’s Republic of China. Immediately, Taiwan announced it was closing its embassy in that country and recalling its technical mission. It also ended all bilateral cooperation and […]
Variations in climate influence most human activities either directly or indirectly resulting in losses or benefits. Making effective use of available climate information ensures efficiency and sustainability across a number of sectors. As has been recorded across the world, climate change imposes additional stresses on agricultural systems and human livelihoods. So, the need for timely […]
We report on land disputes regularly in this newscast, but this one has a different twist. The de facto caretaker of Queen Square division and sister to Prime Minister and area representative Dean Barrow, Denise “Sista B” Barrow, established three houses standing side by side at the eastern end of parcel 444 located at number […]
June fourteenth is celebrated annually as World Blood Donor Day. As early as eight o’clock, persons are encouraged to visit the National Blood Bank office inside the Central Region Compound on Princess Margaret Drive to donate a unit of blood. This year, the day is being celebrated under the theme, “What can you do? Give […]
