Coney Drive here in the city was in mayhem and traffic backed up this afternoon after a shootout between police and two men known to the law. Police were on hot pursuit of a duo of men on motorcycle when the shootout occurred. The duo appeared suspicious to the cops and when they reached the […]
There was another shooting just before nine o’clock on Tuesday night in Belize City. Twenty-five-year-old Keshawn Dennison was among a group of men gathered at the corner Laura Dunn Street and Antelope Street Extension when a gunman opened fire. He was hit in both legs and is listed in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. […]
The head of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas was found inside a bucket in the pan of the truck of the notorious William “Danny” Mason in the parking lot of Barrio Fino in Belmopan. The shocking discovery was met with disgust and anger in 2016. Mason and four other men are facing charges for the pastor’s murder […]
Private developer Dion Zabaneh is free to proceed with filling lot number 4670, after charges against him for infractions that were purportedly committed in defiance of the Environmental Protection Act were withdrawn by the Department of the Environment. In early January, both parties became embroiled in a heated dispute over Zabaneh’s intent to build on […]
A package of allowances and salary to the tune of one hundred and ninety-one thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars annually was requested for approval from public funds on behalf of Paulette Elrington, the daughter of the Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington. Paulette, who has been making that sum while at the United Nations for eight […]
Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington departed the country on Tuesday for Uruguay, along with Ambassadors Daniel Gutierrez and Lou-Anne Burns as well as former O.A.S. Ambassador Lisa Shoman to participate in the international contact group meetings on the situation in Venezuela. The governments of Mexico, Uruguay and CARICOM have proposed the Montevideo Mechanism. According to CARICOM, […]
So while the statement at the O.A.S. by Belize was sanctioned, according to DPM Faber, Belize will not support any type of intervention or interference from any international superpower, such as the U.S. He says that Venezuela has the right to self-determination without political, economic or military interference from other world states. Patrick Faber, […]
On January twenty-sixth, the United Democratic Party’s National Party Council decided that its leadership convention will be held in February 2020. Up to date, there are only two known candidates who have made their political aspirations public. There is Deputy Party Leader Patrick Faber as well as John Saldivar, the area representative for Belmopan and […]
While we had the minister, we asked him about another statement from cabinet colleague Elrington in an interview with this station. When asked to respond to the P.U.P.’s umpteenth call for his removal, Elrington said that the demand was futile. According to Elrington, people very close to the Prime Minister and in the U.D.P. camp […]
In the next few days, a group of attorneys are set to file a constitutional challenge in the Supreme Court. The group will be challenging the validity of the Compromis, signed between Belize and Guatemala to end negotiations and take the territorial dispute between both countries to the International Court of Justice for final resolution. […]
The challenge comes less than two months before the April tenth referendum when voters are to decide on whether or not to take the claim to the I.C.J. It’s been eleven years since the agreement was signed, the document went through an amendment and the referendum delinked with Guatemala. Despite a low turnout, Guatemala held […]
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox was in the country last week. He was not on official business for the Mexican government, but held a brief meeting with Prime Minister Dean Barrow and was joined by Mexican businessmen and potential investors. Now, in 2018, Fox was appointed to the Board of Directors of Khiron Life Sciences […]
Today, the Lemus/Vargas family of Las Flores in the outskirts of Belmopan laid their loved one to rest. Thirty-four-year-old Angelino Lemus was discovered dead on Monday in the river near a golf course in Roaring Creek Village, Cayo. The construction worker, who lived at the corner Florida and Roses Streets in Las Flores area, went […]
The Ministry of Education today hosted its second annual B-TOO Education Expo. High school students from across the country filed into the Belize Civic Center to get first-hand information from several tertiary level education institutions with regards to opportunities and options in furthering their studies. The purpose of the expo was to encourage young men […]
On Tuesday, we reported on the mounting worries of dozens of potato farmers in San Carlos Village, Orange Walk. The farmers are concerned that they will not be able to sell their red potatoes because there is still an abundance of imported white potatoes from Mexico in the local market. The farmers were expecting that […]
A group of fishermen from Sarteneja Village says that they are being targeted by the Belize Coast Guard. According to the fishermen, last year the Coast Guard removed them from a small caye they call Sandbore Caye, which is being used as fishing camp sixteen miles south east of Placencia. They say that the Sandbore […]
When we reached out to the Belize Coast Guard, they had a different version of the story. According to Captain Elton Bennett, they have offered multiple notices to the occupants of the small caye, dating back to last year. Bennett says that the Coast Guard is not targeting a specific group of people, but that […]
The Belize Police Department has taken a number of weapons off the streets in the last few days. Some of the weapons were found in abandoned lots and two were confiscated from persons who have since been charged for unlicensed firearm. Bart Jones, who is the legal advisor for the department, says one of the […]
And while the police department is happy to remove the guns off the streets, they know that it takes more than searching suspicious persons and combing empty lots. So, what is the plan to get more firearms off the streets? Last year, then Commander Howell Gillett was keen on reviving the gun amnesty program, but […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams is still settling into his seat as the new top cop in law enforcement and part of his familiarization entails revisiting the sometimes difficult relationship between the media and the Belize Police Department. Today, a cordial meeting was held with representatives of all major media houses in Belize City to […]
Hyde explains from the police’s point of view why the relationship with the media has been strained in the past. Douglas Hyde, Director, Media & Public Relations, BPD “The police, as you mentioned, is a disciplined body. The media is seen not as a disciplined body, to an extent, and so, by us sharing […]
Today, a driver along the Hummingbird Highway captured a flow of garbage near mile forty-nine. The garbage wasn’t litter along the road; it was garbage being transferred to the dump site in a Belmopan City Council garbage truck. The truck didn’t have a tarp or covering to secure the waste material and the Styrofoam, plastic, […]
