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Miguel Encalada, the Ladyville resident who is accused of the murder of his common-law-wife, fifty-year-old Desiree Gonzalez Rowland and his own brother, twenty-five-year-old George Encalada Rochester, appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today to face the charges. The thirty-nine-year-old barber is charged with two counts of murder. While speculation is still rife that the […]
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Miguel Encalada’s mother, Yolanda Encalada, was at the court today and she said that Miguel Encalada and Desiree Gonzalez Rowland had a loving relationship and that George Encalada Rochester had just moved in the area from Corozal days before he ended up murdered. Like the family of Desiree Gonzalez Rowland, Yolanda Encalada told us that […]
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Thirty-eight-year-old Leon Walford has been sentenced to forty-eight years in prison for the execution-style murder of American national Lamont Edward Lipka in May 2018. The deadly incident took place in San Pedro when Walford and Tracey Betancourt entered Tropicana Restaurant and Bar and shot Lipka multiple times inside his place of business. While Betancourt has […]
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We’ve reported on the lawsuit filed by several former employees of S.O.S. Security Firm against the company for non-payment of salaries. Today, the court ruled that the company should deposit the monies owed to its former employees before July third or else. The security guards went on a go-slow or did not show up to […]
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Two men who police have blamed for last week’s shooting of well-known street figure, Jervis Valencia appeared in the Belize City Magistrate’s Court today. They are Logwood Street resident, twenty-five-year-old Lyndon Alexander Saint Claire of Pickwoad Street and twenty-three-year-old Kareem Kelly, a construction worker of Mayflower Street. Police maintain that at around eleven-thirty on April […]
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A man was shot by police in Gardenia Village on Sunday night after he allegedly became disorderly and then charged at police with a piece of board. Police information is that sometime around seven-thirty on Sunday night; they were summoned to the area, which is a shop, owned by relatives of the man, thirty-eight-year-old Wilford […]
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The sensational arrest of seven men, including an off-duty police officer, following a sizeable drug bust in the recesses of Mountain Pine Ridge one year and several months ago, made headlines across the country. A drug plane crash landed on a makeshift airstrip in the mountainous area, severely injuring the pilot, a Mexican national. Elsewhere […]
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The Public Accounts Committee, chaired by Albert area representative Tracy Panton, held its first broadcasted session today from its seat in Belmopan. In attendance were ministers Dolores Balderamos-Garcia and Kareem Musa, along with senators Elena Smith and Kevin Herrera. Appearing before the PAC working group was Auditor General Dorothy Bradley. During the meeting, Bradley detailed […]
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Senator Elena Smith also inquired about measures that can be put in place to prevent a recurrence of the tardy recording of statements. Here’s her question, as well as the response given by Auditor General Dorothy Bradley. Elena Smith, Member, Public Accounts Committee “In terms of the lack of responses coming from the ministries […]
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Over the last few weeks we have been reporting on the legislative amendment exercise that the Government of Belize has been undertaking at the behest of the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force. Those directives have led to the passage of at least ten legislative amendment bills through the House of Representatives. On Friday alone, seven […]
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The Group of Supervisors is working in the background to ensure that all these necessary legislative amendments are being done to align Belize’s financial regulations with international standards. The group functions under the authority of the National Anti-Money Laundering Committee and it is made up of the Central Bank, the Financial Services Commission, the Financial […]
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At the adjournment of Friday’s House Meeting, Leader of the Opposition Moses “Shyne” Barrow rose to share his concerns on the issue of human trafficking in Belize. The Briceño administration is on record saying that investigations have revealed information to suggest that a large number of Haitian nationals are being smuggled to the U.S through […]
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The Office of the Contractor General has been vacant since February. Former Contractor General Omar Mitchell has reached the age of retirement and is no longer able to serve in that capacity. The House of Representatives passed a motion on Friday to appoint Maria Arthurs as the new contractor general. While the contractor general is […]
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On Friday, the Ministry of Public Utilities, Energy, Logistics and e-Governance officially opened a Digital Connect Center in Bullet Tree Falls, Cayo District. The initiative is the result of partnership between the Government of Belize and the Taiwanese Embassy. This falls under the National Digital Inclusion Program. Here are the highlights from that event. (clip […]
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The Football Federation of Belize held a press conference this morning in Belmopan to officially introduce the Under-Fifteen Boys National Team. Twenty players were selected from a group of seventy young athletes from across the country. The team has been preparing for the CONCACAF Qualifiers. Here is a look at how the ceremony went. […]
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Goodnight and welcome to this week’s edition of Sports Monday, I am Paul Lopez. There is a huge regional cricket tournament to be played in Belize later this week. Teams from four countries, including Mexico, Costa Rica and England, will go head to head with the Belize Men’s National Cricket Team to see who will […]
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