The best little zoo in the world will re-open with a bang – for a soft launch this weekend. Three new educational ambassadors will make their debut this weekend. Today, our friends at the zoo gave us a sneak peek of the new highlights that you’ll be able to see if you visit this Saturday […]
A horrible traffic accident early this morning claimed one life on a main thoroughfare. It happened in the village of Trinidad up north where a twenty-five year old resident on motorcycle collided into a tractor pulling a trailer. On impact, the cycle burst into flames and Leonardo Velasquez was burnt to death. It is believed […]
The fortieth ordinary meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM is underway in Saint Lucia. The CARICOM Single Market and Economy which aims to facilitate the free flow of goods and people, as well as the situation in Venezuela and Haiti are also on the agenda of this meeting. Belize is being […]
The Belize City Council will increase the cost of new license plates for vehicles. The new price will be thirty-five dollars and it’s scheduled to take effect on March fifteenth. The Belize City Council issued a notice on Tuesday and today Mayor Bernard Wagner explained the reason for the increase. Bernard Wagner, Belize City […]
Chinese businessman Jinhong Zhuang reported to police that he was robbed in Maya Center Village in South Stann Creek on Tuesday night by four male persons. According to the thirty-one-year-old store owner, the men entered his place of business around eight p.m. Two of them were armed and demanded cash from him at gunpoint. The […]
The evening news is often littered with stories of gun violence, portraying males as the sole perpetrators of incidents where other males are victims of armed assaults. Tonight, however, there is an unusual report of a home invasion in Belize City where a woman approached a residence in the Belama area and fired a single […]
While the police on Monday did not confirm that the murder of three-year-old Etana Bennett was a result of gang rivalry, higher up in the Ministry of National Security, a release has been issued pinning the loss of life to rivalry between gangs. The release says that “everything will be done to bring the perpetrators […]
The projected prices for raw sugar sold to the European Union and on the world market have been on a downward trend. A decrease in profits was expected, despite the improved prices for direct consumption sugar in the Union and raw sugar to the U.S. But what’s ahead for the industry, which B.S.C.F.A. Orange Walk […]
Shane Vellos says Placencia Police locked him up last Thursday evening because someone named him in a theft. The twenty-one-year-old says that he was wrongly accused and later released without charges, but not before he was beaten inside the police station. According to Vellos, while he was locked down inside the holding cell at the […]
Portofino Resort on northern Ambergris Caye was burglarized in the predawn hours of Sunday, the thief making off with a pair of strong boxes containing sixteen thousand dollars in various denominations and currencies. Tonight, thirty-three-year-old Israel Murillos has been arrested and charged for breaking into the main office of the vacation place. The caretaker of […]
The extended Commonwealth Holiday weekend was an exceptionally violent and bloody one across the country, with murders, disappearances and road traffic accidents being reported as early as Saturday morning. The carnage came to a bitter end on Monday night with the death of a popular taxi man, who was shot and killed while transporting a […]
With a permanent injunction now in force on the P.U.C. from collecting, might it decide to withdraw the approval and potentially cripple Speednet’s reach across Belize? The company has more than one hundred thousand customers, and Courtenay told us that no court would look favorably on such a mean-spirited move. Eamon Courtenay, Attorney for […]
On Wednesday night, Belize City became a war zone. In a matter of hours five people were injured in gun violence and another lost his life. A minor, the third to be caught in the mayhem in one week, was also wounded in the madness. Around nine o’clock on Wednesday night, Jermaine Carr was gunned […]
Additional charges of attempted murder and use of deadly means of harm have been brought against twenty-six-year-old Andy Rhaburn. The Carmelita resident is accused of killing his mother, Braulia Pech, by bludgeoning her in the head with a crowbar on the morning of January sixteenth. Forty-three-year-old Lilia Xujur was also injured shortly after that deadly […]
Ann-Marie Williams is moving on up. She is leaving her Executive Director position with the National Women’s Commission (NWC) for a regional job. Williams is heading to the CARICOM Secretariat to serve as the Deputy Program Manager for Gender and Development. She is finishing off her work at the NWC after having resigned a few […]
On Friday evening, a young woman was discovered dead in a room in Bella Vista Village in the south. Police officers visited the location and observed the body of twenty-one-year-old Joselin Dominguez lying on her bed. There were no signs of violence on the body and a postmortem scheduled for later this week will determine […]
The Football Federation of Belize convenes this Saturday for the election of a new president. With Acting President Marlon Kuylen having stepped aside, the race sees four candidates vying for leadership of the embattled organization. Depending on who you ask, the majority vote within the F.F.B. congress is a toss-up between two candidates. We fielded […]
There is a significant upgrade in technology at the Central Laboratory in Belize City. The lab has acquired new equipment that will increase capacity and time for blood screening. Tonight in Healthy Living, we visit the lab to find out more about the newly acquired machine, and its benefits. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting This room […]
‘Mek Mi Rich’ – it was the televised lottery game that Corozal businessman Curtis Swasey says he came up with and took to Belize Telemedia Limited a few years ago. But a version that made it to the television airwaves, backed by no less than Andre Vega and Sanjay Hotchandani, prompted a lawsuit, which Swasey […]
The Fisheries Department and Belize Audubon Society carried out a joint operation Friday and Saturday which netted almost two thousand pounds of illegally harvested conch – of a market value of just under ten thousand dollars. As you know, the conch season reopens on October first, so it is illegal to harvest or be in […]
Have you seen Miriam Vasquez Alcoser? The forty-five-year-old resident of San Lazaro Village in Orange Walk has been missing since last week. Last Friday, Juan Alcoser told police that his wife left their home two days before, on Wednesday, September thirteenth, and hasn’t been seen or heard from since. Miriam is four feet, five inches […]
The police department says it has commenced an investigation into the tear-gassing of protestors and the roughing up of Marisol Amaya at the hands of the Special Patrol Unit. According to Acting Commissioner of Police Noel Leal, a complete review of the sequence of events, as well as the persons who participated in the civil […]
On Monday, we reported on the murder of thirty two year old Gilroy Martinez of Curl Thompson Street in Belize City. Martinez was shot in the head around eight on Monday when he was visiting a house in his neighborhood. All indications are that the killing is the gang related and police have been looking […]
For the past three to four years, the Samuel Haynes Institute of Excellence has been facilitating a landscaping and beautification program for single mothers and youths from the Pickstock constituency. Over a thousand plants and flowers have been rooted across the area throughout the years and today, the facility received a donation of rakes and […]
Twenty-four-year-old Kendall Green is back behind bars tonight following a shooting incident last week. This morning, Green who is no stranger to the police or to the court was arraigned before Senior Magistrate Sharon Fraser. Green appeared optimistic during arraignment claiming he is being targeted by the police. He is accused of injuring Marvin Ramirez […]
