The illicit drug trade appears to be thriving in northern Belize. In the past twenty-four-hours, two suspected drug planes, or what was left of them, were found at different locations in Orange Walk and Corozal Districts. This morning, the news was that a drug plane landed early on Monday night in an isolated area near […]
There are more details tonight on the deadly beating of Ariel Audinette Salazar at his house in Orange Walk. Eight lawmen are spending their second night behind bars, charged with his murder and the attempted murder of Oscar Payes. They are not cooperating with the investigation, so there are lingering questions about what led the […]
The death of forty-four-year-old Humphrey Mitchell on Saturday has prompted the Belize Police Department to revisit its standard operating procedures where arrests and transportation of persons in custody are concerned. Mitchell, a Jamaican national who moved to Belize several years ago, was being escorted from Sarawee Village to Dangriga in the pan of a pickup […]
Kirk Lamb had been an employee of Government Minister Anthony Martinez for nearly a quarter-century, until his recent termination. But Lamb says insult was added to injury when he found out recently that the Minister, without getting his approval, allegedly sent cash vouchers for thousands of dollars in his name to a local credit union […]
The Foreign Ministers of Belize and Guatemala were today at the western border for an official visit to the office of the Organization of American States, joined by the new special representative to the O.A.S.’ Secretary General, Washington Abdala. They took in special performances from neighboring children of the area after a bilateral meeting, a […]
Both Foreign Ministers were asked about the positions in both countries concerning taking the claim to the I.C.J. It has been suggested that older Guatemalans are more predisposed to supporting the claim due to indoctrination at the height of tension between the countries; Jovel Polanco spoke on that aspect. Elrington emphasized that the I.C.J. route […]
There is another high level visit coming up. Officials from Mexico are scheduled to arrive this coming Friday. The Undersecretary for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ambassador Luis Alfonso de Alba, and the Executive Director of the Mexican Agency for International Development Cooperation Agustín García-López Loaeza, will be here for a few hours. The purpose […]
In the Belmopan Magistrate’s Court, Corozal Town resident Mark Antonio Rosales was on Monday ordered to serve nineteen years’ imprisonment. He was unable to pay fines of forty-six thousand dollars in relation to convictions on multiple counts of obtaining property by deception. Magistrate Ladonna John found thirty-one-year-old Rosales guilty of nineteen counts of the charge, […]
There was an armed robbery last Thursday in Corozal Town on the Seventh Avenue, which was caught on surveillance camera. The masked armed men are seen attacking the owner of Ban’s Store sometime after six p.m. Quick response from the police led to the arrest of the trio, identified as Kevin lanza, Alvin Sanker and […]
Minister of Education and Deputy Prime Minister Patrick Faber last week insisted that Government could not find any money to pay school fees and for vehicles because of the Financial Secretary’s memo warning C.E.O.’s and accounting officers that the treasury is frozen until and after the Budget is read. But the Opposition P.U.P. says its […]
Opposition Leader John Briceño says he expects that there will be some unpleasant consequences for alleged Government misspending in the forthcoming budget. But as to the specific question of raising taxes, the P.U.P. leader says anything is possible. And in light of the apparent neglect of the social partners, most conspicuously the Belize Chamber of […]
Briceño has been working just as hard as his municipal candidates in the last few weeks. Just this past weekend alone he has been to municipalities in the South and West before dashing back to Belize City, which the party has targeted as a key pick-up. But he told reporters on Monday that the energy […]
The party leader also addressed questions of campaign financing. The P.U.P. continues to be dogged by accusations of obtaining funds from Lord Michael Ashcroft, but Briceño insists it is not so. The party is being buoyed by donations from all its supporters in business and around the country and promises it will not let them […]
One of the hardest political battles will be waged in Belize City on March seventh. It is the biggest municipality with as many as forty-five thousand voters. The departing Mayor Darrell Bradley was big on infrastructure, and the U.D.P. mayoral aspirant, Dion Leslie is relying on that record to retain control of city hall. On […]
A team also headed to Corozal Town and found the political parties on the ground in the last leg of the campaign before the elections. The town is swamped with blue and red signs and election paraphernalia which show the fieriness of the campaign by the People’s United Party which wants to unseat the incumbent […]
The Government of Belize has insisted that it is not in debt for fuel shipments from Venezuela through Curacao as part of the Petrocaribe agreement. But a Mexican online media source quotes Venezuelan authorities as accusing G.O.B. of being bankrupt for not meeting those payments. It says there has been no indication that the government […]
Belize Electricity Limited, one week ago, signed a new power purchase agreement which continues B.E.L.’s ability to buy more from Mexico and create new opportunities for energy trade. With stable rates, B.E.L. is positioning itself in the regional market by working with one of the ten replacement companies for Comision Federal de Electricidad, CFE Calificados. […]
We end the news broadcast tonight with a story close to home. Local fans of NBC’s crime drama Taken were astonished by the plot of a recent episode titled Hammurabi, directed by Lukas Ettlin, in which a laid-off worker kidnaps a high-powered accountant in revenge for his lost pension. The team of Bryan Mills and […]
