Former Justice of Appeal Franz Parke has left a cloud of suspicion and scandal in the wake of his departure from the Court of Appeal, announced this week. The Jamaican-American attorney faced serious questions about his fitness to serve as a Judge on the Belize Court of Appeal, but it is concerns about his personal […]
Acting for the Belize Bank Limited, the Courtenay Coye LLP firm has written Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte regarding enforcement of the November twenty-second order of the Caribbean Court of Justice to repay the ninety million dollar judgment, principal and interest, in respect of a Government-guaranteed loan to Universal Health Services. First, the letter states that […]
As promised last week, the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry has responded in stinging fashion to Prime Minister Dean Barrow on the matter of the Universal Health Services fiasco. It repeats its insistence that Belize’s laws and political system need to be strengthened to prevent any administration from running roughshod over Belize’s finances. But […]
Is the Belize City Council behind in almost one million dollars in payment to the Belize Waste Control? Mayor Darrell Bradley responded to that report to say that the arrear is normal at this time of year because of the payment cycle, as per the contract with the company. While the mayor didn’t have the […]
And with those payments lingering, will your garbage be picked up? Mayor Bradley says that the trucks will remain on regular service, collecting garbage on all scheduled days. Today, he dispels the report that the north side garbage collection will be cut back because the Belize Waste Control has a cash flow problem. We reached […]
You heard the Mayor say that the City Council will come into some monies through revenue collection in the next few weeks – that is when the Belize Waste Control will start to get their monies for their services. But, overall, the City Council is not broke; in fact, he says they are doing quite […]
Friday’s meeting of the House of Representatives, the last for 2017, is expected to be chock-full of news. Hanging over the gathering like a specter is the UHS debt motion, which the Government is not expected to introduce until notice has been received from the Belize Bank or payment is agreed on and made as […]
Thirty-six-year-old Elroy Grinage, a driver with the Forest Department in Belmopan, is accused of ordering and orchestrating the stabbing death and decapitation of Hilton Wade. On December first, the Cotton Tree resident was arraigned after being charged for the criminal offenses of abetment and conspiracy to commit murder. His so-called accomplice, Rafael Mencias, has been […]
According to Bradley, had Grinage not been lucky enough to have had proof to support the claim that he was not involved in the homicide, he would have languished on remand indefinitely. Richard ‘Dickie’ Bradley, Attorney at Law “The judge was very clear; he does not give bail for those two offenses. When you […]
In the courts, there is further delay for Anke Doehm, charged with cruelty to a child – her late adopted daughter, thirteen-year-old Faye Lin Cannon. She was scheduled to face preliminary inquiry but after a short appearance the case was adjourned to a date in February of 2018. There is no word on whether the […]
The Public Sector Workers’ Trust, established in 2014, has been a source of controversy in the trade union community. Three retired public officers who say they represent many others sued the Public Service Union, Belize National Teacher’s Union, The Minister of Finance and the Attorney General, as well as five established trustees of the Trust, […]
The Trust comes out of the infamous period between 1995 and 1997 when public officers’ wages and increments were frozen due to budgetary issues for the Manuel Esquivel administration, which also let go over eight hundred officers. Salary adjustments were re-instated in 1997 along with increments and the Government signed over nearly eight hundred thousand […]
Twenty-four-year-old Russell Hyde Junior remains hospitalized after being shot multiple times during an attack on Sunday night. Police believe that the young businessman, who bears his infamous father’s namesake, was lured to a location in Santa Elena Town where he was ambushed. The investigation into the near fatal violence, however, has taken an interesting turn […]
Edwin Antonio Baires Hernandez was shot by police on Sunday afternoon in Teakettle Village, during a pursuit of the alleged robber. The twenty-year-old Salvadoran national was injured in the right leg when a service weapon assigned to one of the responding officers suddenly discharged. According to police, the shooting incident was accidental. Nonetheless, simultaneous criminal […]
Will the trio of officers that brutally assaulted twenty-year-old Randy Chambers on Monday be disciplined internally for physically abusing the young man while in the process of surrendering himself? The incident unfolded on Chambers’ family property and was caught on tape by a nearby surveillance camera. The video shows Chambers exiting one property and entering […]
The Belize Tourism Industry Association held its thirty-second annual general meeting today at the Radisson where a new executive was elected. Reyneldo Guerrero is the new President of the B.T.I.A. Also on the agenda was the recently approved strategic plan to devise an action plan to meet the many targets therein to promote responsible tourism […]
The new sugar crop got off to a good start this morning at Tower Hill where relations between millers and farmers seem to be on a good footing. A projected one million three hundred thousand tons of sugar are to be produced during the seven-month crop. News Five’s Duane Moody reports. Duane Moody, Reporting […]
Disability awareness week is being celebrated under the theme ‘Transformation Towards a Sustainable and Resilient Society for All’. As a part of the activities, the annual Finger Bee was held today in Belize City. Nine deaf students from Orange Walk, Corozal, Cayo and Belize Districts competed in junior and senior categories. After several rounds of […]
‘Toys for Tots’ is an annual event organized by United Airlines where primary school students are treated to a Christmas dinners, toys and entertainment. The organization also partnered with T-shirt Factory to provide for one hundred underprivileged kids from across the city. Sales Representative Jarrett Requeña says that this year they were able to increase […]
It’s the Christmas season and there are parties galore across the city! Today, we joined the Salvation Army at their annual grand Christmas festivities at the Holy Redeemer Parish Hall. About seven hundred students gathered for a day of dance, gifts, food and entertainment organized by the Salvation Army and supported by the Belize City […]
When we think of mosquito borne illnesses in Belize, Malaria is probably not the first disease to come to mind. There is a reason why that is so. That’s what we find out in tonight’s Healthy Living. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting 2020 – that is the target for Belize and other countries in this region […]
