The third member of the Wagner family was murdered in Dangriga on the eve of Garifuna Settlement Day. The southern municipality was overflowing with revelers in anticipation of the holiday when death came knocking at the door of Jahvis Wagner. The twenty-year-old was on Commerce Street when one of three gunmen, believed to be from […]
Commissioner of Police Chester Williams says that the police will maintain an increased presence in Dangriga. The Police Department will be carrying out a number of operations in that town, which in recent weeks has been plagued by rivalries. The commissioner says that he is confident that they will be able to stem the surge […]
Police also gave an update on another case in Dangriga involving a gruesome murder. In early August, we reported about missing man Derrick Ramirez whose body had washed up in Dangriga. Ramirez’s body was found decapitated after he was missing for over a week at Cross Caye when his boat was attacked. Back then, we […]
The Commissioner of Police says that the police will be cracking down on establishments that sell liquor, particularly the nightclubs. According to Chester Williams, the crackdown is to ensure that that these businesses are in compliance with the law when it comes to their liquor license. On Tuesday, the police officers made a check at […]
Commissioner Williams says that his concerns about the nightclub extend beyond not having the liquor license displayed. He says that this business was granted a license, but there are requirements that it has not met in terms of the facility. He also pointed out that that the Liquor Licensing Board is granting extensions to businesses […]
Parliament today had a much different feel and tone. The special sitting was called to mark International Children’s Day so young students from all over the country were standing in as parliamentarians. They took their seats in the Speaker’s chair as well as on both sides of the aisle. There was no posturing to the […]
Opposition Leader John Briceño and Julius Espat, Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, are claimants in a suit brought against the Minister of Finance, Prime Minister Dean Barrow, Financial Secretary Joseph Waight and Attorney General Michael Peyrefitte. They are challenging government’s expenditure of over one point three billion dollars, including the PetroCaribe funds that were […]
While PM Barrow and AG Peyrefitte’s names appear as defendants on the claim, neither government officials appeared in court today. Instead, the financial secretary appeared alone and was represented by Queens Counsel Justin Simon. Under cross-examination, Waight admitted that government often exceeded the prescribed limit set under the Finance and Audit Reform Act. For his […]
In court, the issue of accountability for a hundred million dollars, spent during the fiscal year 2012 and 2013, was raised before the Financial Secretary. According to PAC Chairman, Julius Espat, that figure had also been flagged previously by Auditor General Dorothy Bradley in her Audit Report for that period in question. Julius Espat, […]
Work for a twenty-seven-mile stretch of road linking Corozal Town to Sarteneja started last week following the inauguration of the fifty-million-U.S.-dollar project. The major infrastructure project is being funded by the government of Taiwan through a loan to the government. While the Area Representative Florencio Marin Junior was not at the launch last week, there […]
In the Supreme Court, Jose Rodriguez pleaded guilty to “Causing Death by Careless Conduct” in the fatal traffic accident which claimed the life of eleven-year-old Tezzrah Thompson, four years ago. Initially, Rodriguez was charged with “Manslaughter by Negligence”, but he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge. The case was adjourned to November twenty-fifth, when Justice […]
Also in the courts, Orange Walk resident is facing charges of manslaughter by negligence. He is Cyril Valencio, who was driving a delivery truck that knocked down and crushed Rudolph Arnold in the area of the Port on Monday. Seventy-one-year-old Arnold was riding a bicycle when he was hit by the truck. Vаlеnсіо was arraigned […]
A group of about thirty Guatemalan families continues to illegal settle on a piece of land along the western border in Benque, unwilling to relocate because they are of the firm belief that they are on Guatemala’s side of the border. The land in question is owned by businessman Jorge Espat who has written to […]
Today, Taiwanese Ambassador Remus Li-Kuo Chen gifted the Belize Police Department a brand new coaster. A short ceremony was held for a symbolic handing over, as the coaster bus will be in country until another couple weeks. A similar thirty-two-seater will also be handed over early next year. The buses will be used to transport […]
Police are embarking in a pilot project called the Safer City Initiative. The project will see the installation of a network of high-definition cameras with enhanced capabilities to help police solve crimes and beef security measures. A command centre is under construction where the network will be based and manned. Today, Commissioner Williams says that […]
The government’s Land Amnesty Programme has been extended by a month and three weeks. The programme was originally conceived as a six-month initiate, but a statutory instrument, which was gazetted on October twenty-sixth and signed by the Ministry of Lands, Hugo Patt pushes the deadline to June first. A twenty-five percent discount is being offered for […]
Hugo Patt is aspiring to be the first deputy leader for the United Democratic Party. He is part John Saldivar’s slate who vying to be party leader and with Beverly Williams who wants to be the party’s second deputy leader. The decision will fall on five hundred and sixty delegates and according to Patt; he […]
The Annual Best Warrior Competition got underway this morning and continues until Friday. Teams of competing soldiers of the Belize Defence Force and the Belize Coastguard are pushing their limits in the physical and mental challenges they must overcome to earn the title of Best Warrior for 2019. The competition is taking place at different […]
This season’s KTV Latino champ is a familiar face from the west. After several rounds of song competition, on Monday night Desmond Berry went on to take home the title as well as ten thousand dollars in cash having been voted as the number one singing sensation of KTV Latino. Berry, a salesman from San […]
The Miss Universe pageant will be aired live on December eighth from the Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States. As that day inches closer, Belize’s delegate for the international pageant, Destinee Arnold is making her rounds on the media and preparing to put her best foot forward when representing the Jewel. […]
