In what is expected to be a critical Sitting of the House of Representative on Friday, the Barrow administration is proposing to table the Belize Territorial Dispute Referendum Bill, 2019. The portion of the bill was leaked to the media on Wednesday night and this morning the Opposition People’s United Party received the complete document. […]
As Briceño notes there is still a case before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin which is scheduled to proceed on Monday when the Senate is scheduled to meet to ratify the proposed new bill. Briceño alluded that certain sections in the new referendum bill can be legally challenged. He zoomed in on section three which states […]
P.U.P. Leader John Briceño also countered the Prime Minister’s accusation that the opposition is purposely delaying the holding of the referendum. Briceño says that his party has the moral and legal obligation to the country to ensure that this process is done properly. John Briceño, Leader, People’s United Party “We are not deliberately delaying […]
So will the P.U.P. attempt to block the passing of the bill on Friday? And what about Said Musa who was absent for today’s meeting and Senator Valerie Woods who, like Musa, is a proponent of the I.C.J. Briceño says that the party’s consensus today was to not support the bill as it is. […]
And one more thing on the referendum….late this evening, a joint statement was issued by the European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. In the wake of the postponement, the three appear not to be happy with the court’s outcome, but voice support in favour of the referendum and hope that […]
Illegal cattle ranching is just one of the threats to the Chiquibul forest; the area is remote, but it is rich with the most precious natural resources. On a daily basis it is plundered and the human and financial resources to manage the forest are slim. Rangers of Friends and Conservation are on duty doing […]
A shooting in Belize City left a man injured. It happened earlier this afternoon at around two thirty in the North Creek area. The victim has been identified as Joshua Gallego. According to reports, Gallego had dropped off his common-law wife and as he was driving off, a man inside another car released a barrage […]
We’ve been reporting on the detention of two Belizean lawmen and two others in Livingston, Guatemala over the weekend. The men: coastguard officer Pedro Colomer, police officer Fabian Laurie as well as Kevin Hernandez and Jerille Laurie were charged for firearm offenses and were being held at a prison in Puerto Barrios. They appeared before […]
While the Eastern Division jurisdiction for the Police Department has been relatively quiet as it relates to major crimes, petty crimes such as robberies and burglaries have spiked. A well-known supermarket in the Ladyville area is the latest to be hit by thieves. Early this morning just as the owner and his employee were opening […]
Earlier this week reported that two gas depots, belonging to BWEL and TOMZA, were robbed within hours of each other on Tuesday. The culprits got away with an undisclosed amount of cash in both instances. But despite police patrols across the city and along the highways, early this morning, sometime after two o’clock, the UNO […]
Last week, the skeletal remains sans skull of an elder person were discovered in the dried up savannah behind the Los Lagos Community off the Philip Goldson Highway; a denture was also found along with the bones. Relatives as well as police believe that the remains are that of eighty-three-year-old Hubert Richards, who went missing […]
For more than a month, Primrose Gabourel and her son, Dion Zabaneh, have been in and out of court regarding a parcel of land in the Caribbean Shores area of Belize City. Well, there was another court appearance today; the mother did not attend due to her illness, but her son did and was read […]
Two Conch Shell Bay area residents have been detained in connection with two recent burglaries in Burrell Boom Village. The duo is Eugene Mark Anthony Fraser and Joshua Jeremy Gillett. Both were charged for the burglary of Countryside Trade and Service Center on April sixth, 2019. Allegations are that they stole an assortment of items including […]
Assistant Commissioner of Police Joseph Myvett also gave updates on the two recent murders out west. On Monday, investigators from the San Ignacio Police Formation were called out to a wooden house off Thornley Street where the badly decomposing body of forty-seven-year-old Macario Tzib was discovered lying face up in his bed. He was stabbed […]
The other murder was the shooting death of Lloyden Bejerano. The twenty-nine-year-old was inside his house in the Oscar Sabido area of San Ignacio Town. He was visited by a group of men and soon after he was executed on a sofa inside his living room sometime around eleven p.m. on April eighth. It is […]
On Wednesday, a pair of guns was found near the river bank area in Benque Viejo Del Carmen. Police say that a forty-five glock pistol with twelve live rounds and a nine millimetre gun with thirteen rounds were retrieved from an area that has for some time been a hotspot for the department in that […]
The jaguar is the largest and most powerful cat in the Western Hemisphere. In Belize, they are found in the lowland forests and along the coast. But hunting and deforestation have increasingly put these big cats at risk of being killed because they are pushed to go close to communities to prey on livestock and […]
The University of Belize wrapped up the second day of hosting one hundred and thirteenth session of the Central American University Confederation called the CSUCA. Universities from Central America and the Dominican Republic met to discuss the state of education in the region, share best practices and solutions to address some of the ongoing issues […]
The Assistant Secretary General with responsibility for academic affairs of the CSUCA also spoke with the press at this morning’s meeting. Francisco Alarcon says that the universities were intent on adopting several policies that will enhance the academic offerings and make education more accessible. The institutions committed to improve research, accessibility of distant post-graduate studies, […]
It attacks almost instantaneously. The truth is only allergy sufferers know the pain of being hypersensitive to things in the environment that can turn them into a sneezy mess in an instant. If this sounds like your reality, then tonight’s Healthy Living has a few tips to help you cope. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting When […]
