A prison warden was accidentally injured this afternoon at the Kolbe Central Prison during a chaotic escape attempt by a mentally ill inmate. The incident began shortly after the prisoner arrived at the facility. The man — recently remanded for smashing the glass display at La
The Council of Legal Education has announced the appointment of new principals to lead two of the Caribbean’s premier legal institutions — the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and the Norman Manley Law School in Jamaica. In an official release from the CLE Secretariat, Chairman
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has dismissed an application from convicted murderer William “Danny” Mason, who was seeking an extension of time to apply for special leave to appeal his conviction in the high-profile 2016 killing of Pastor Llewellyn Lucas. Mason, along with four co-accused,
On Tuesday, leaders of the Joint Union Negotiating Team (JUNT) entered into a critical negotiation session with senior government ministers in Belize City. The unions are demanding an 8.5% across-the-board salary increase for the approximately 16,000 public officers paid from the public purse. The government, however,
Corozal North Area Representative Hugo Patt was noticeably absent from Monday’s Budget Presentation, but he says politics had nothing to do with it. Patt, who’s found himself at the center of the United Democratic Party’s ongoing leadership shake-up, insists his absence was due to a
The political drama inside the United Democratic Party is not letting up. Today, Moses “Shyne” Barrow’s headquarters issued a fiery press release, warning Tracy Taegar-Panton to stop claiming she’s a member of the U.D.P. Barrow pointed to a recent court ruling by Justice Tawanda Hondora,
With the United Democratic Party still tangled in a months-long leadership dispute, Corozal North Area Representative Hugo Patt says it’s time to settle the matter once and for all—with a National Party Council (NPC) meeting and a new convention. Patt believes electing a definitive leader
After two agonizing days of searching, the family of twenty-four-year-old Moises Garbutt believes they’ve found the heartbreaking answer they feared most. The young Roaring Creek resident, who had been excitedly preparing for his birthday celebration on May eleventh, vanished without a word the night before.
Five people, including four minors and a nineteen-year-old, were hauled before the Belize City Magistrate’s Court this morning after being charged under the State of Emergency (SOE) regulations. The group—two thirteen-year-olds, a fourteen-year-old, a seventeen-year-old, and nineteen-year-old Donie Wite—were accused of assembling in a group
Tonight, forty-five-year-old Travis Flowers, a coordinator with the Belize City Council’s Enforcement Department, remains behind bars—still waiting to secure bail for a second time. Flowers is accused of attempting to murder a co-worker and has been on remand for over two months. He appeared unrepresented
