While the city streets were quiet over the weekend, today two persons were murdered in a span of fourteen hours. The latest murder victim was executed this afternoon just two blocks away from the Queen Street Police Station in proximity of Majestic Alley. A well-known car washer, forty-four-year-old Arthur Flowers, was shot and killed near […]
Hours earlier, a Belize City couple was ambushed as they returned to their apartment on Coral Grove after midnight. A gun man, who waylaid them, opened fire instantly killing Francis Gill before he could exit his vehicle. Gill’s wife, Betsy, was spared her life but remains hospitalized at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital with injuries. […]
New details surfaced over the weekend regarding the drug plane which attempted to land in Belize early on Friday morning. Approximately one thousand five hundred kilos of cocaine were confiscated by agents of the Federal Police and the Mexican Army after the plane made an unexpected landing at the Chetumal International Airport. Early on Friday […]
When we caught up with Leader of the Opposition John Briceño, we asked him for comment on the recent landings of suspected drug planes in the north. Briceño says we need to put a stop to these illegal aircrafts to send a clear message that Belize is not a drug transit. Briceño also had strong […]
Two men lost their lives over the weekend as a result of a road traffic accident. They are twenty-nine-year-old Jose Bacab of San Pablo Village and thirty-six-year-old Samuel Gonzalez of San Juan Village. The duo was on a motorcycle on Saturday night, travelling from San Victor Village towards San Narciso Village. Coming from the opposite […]
There were two shootings over the weekend. Two men were hospitalized early on Sunday morning after shots were fired on Hudson Street in San Ignacio Town. It happened at around three-thirty-five and according to police; thirty-two-year-old Moamar Zelaya and his brother were reportedly attacked. Zelaya pulled out a firearm and fired several shots at the […]
A seventy-one-year-old Canadian man was shot, beaten and tied up over the weekend. Pierre Blais was entering his Toyota Eco car at his residence in Hope Creek Village, Stann Creek, when he was attacked by two masked men. One of the men drew a firearm and pointed at Blais’ head before firing a single shot, […]
Activist Dianne Finnegan and wife of Minister Michael Finnegan of the Mesopotamia Division, was elected U.D.P. standard bearer for Lake Independence. While small in numbers for the sprawling constituency, Sunday’s convention was high-spirited among the supporters of the four-person race. Finnegan, who works with the Youth Apprenticeship Programme credited the youth for her win. While […]
There was also a new U.D.P. standard bearer elected in the Cayo South division, but actually he’s a former area rep. Three persons contested to be the caretaker for that constituency, which is a stronghold of P.U.P. area rep, Julius Espat. A total of one thousand three hundred and ninety-seven votes were cast with nineteen […]
Minister Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez confirmed today that he was among a group of U.D.P. politicians who held a meeting with PM Dean Barrow prior to last Tuesday’s cabinet meeting. The group, he says, requested that the PM postpone his retirement and remain in office until 2020 when general elections are due. Martinez stayed on course […]
So while that the leadership bid is an internal U.D.P. matter, today we asked Leader of the Opposition what he makes of the PM’s decision to demit office until his term expires. John Briceño says it is clear that there is no confidence in Saldivar and Faber to take over the leadership – and that […]
In early November, Martinez came out in support of Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte, who was considered the dark horse who would have gone head to head against DPM Patrick Faber and National Security Minister John Saldivar for the leadership. With a delay in the leadership fight, can Faber and Saldivar expect others to make a […]
Last week we reported on the US Government’s decision to cut non-humanitarian aid and non-trade assistance to Belize. United States President Donald Trump issued a Presidential Memorandum which listed Belize as one of several countries that has failed to comply with minimum standards of international human trafficking regulations. As a result, aid to Belize will […]
A former BWS employee walked from a rape charge today after more than four years awaiting trial. Fifty-six-year-old Eugene Reneau was accused of raping a twenty-seven-year-old woman in March 2014 near mile ten and a half on the Philip Goldson Highway. Today, when Reneau appeared before Justice Adolph Lucas, Crown Counsel Sherigne Rodriguez entered a […]
The AFP, or the Agence France-Presse, is an international news agency with over fifteen hundred journalists contributing to its twenty-four-hour news coverage from across the globe. The AFP has one news outlet in The Hague with a staff of four. They cover news from the Netherlands, the International Criminal Court, the Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals […]
Another question the journalists sought answers for was about the liberal use of marijuana in the Netherlands. It was not so common in The Hague; in fact, it was hardly noticeable. But in the capital city of Amsterdam, there are hundreds of what are called coffee shops, essentially marijuana shops, that are given permits to […]
A five-day conference kicked off today in Belize City. Policy makers are attempting to strengthen what is in place to eliminate poverty among the various pockets of the vulnerable populations. Issues of healthcare, income security for children, the elderly or the disabled are also on the table. On the first day, social protection registries and […]
The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, through the U.S. AID-funded Climate Change Adaptation Programme, launched its Light Detection and Ranging system today in Belize City. The system, known as LiDAR will help to significantly boost the Caribbean’s ability to limit the devastation of climate change by improving its capability to monitor and plan for physical […]
Friends of Conservation and Development held its nineteenth annual general meeting on Sunday in San Ignacio Town. The AGM, which was held at the San Ignacio Hotel Resort, was well attended. Chief Executive Officer in the Ministry of National Security, Felix Enriquez reiterated support for F.C.D. as it strives to maintain stability in the Chiquibul […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. [Highlights of the weekend sporting activities….]
