Belize City police have arrested and charged three people in connection with the discovery of a large amount of ammunition, including explosives. It’s not the biggest cache to be taken in by police, but the amount of bullets and expended shells which turned up in a raid of a house in Belize City this morning […]
Police are still trying to identify and locate the suspect in last Friday’s brutal slaying of a young mother and her unborn child in the village of La Democracia. The only information police have to go on so far is that the man goes by the name of “Dawood”. They also believe that he has […]
There’s one less person on death row tonight. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council today upheld the appeal of Pascual Bull against his 1994 murder conviction and subsequent mandatory sentence of death by hanging. According to the oral judgement, the murder conviction and sentence was overturned and replaced with a charge of manslaughter. Simeon […]
An early afternoon fire in Belize City has left a number of people homeless. Sherlyn Young had just left her house to go and buy at a nearby shop when she looked back and saw smoke and fire coming from inside the house. Sherlyn Young, Fire Victim “I gone buy and when I look the […]
In a follow up to the story we ran in yesterday’s newscast about a baby manatee stranded near the Deep Water Pier in Belize City, researchers say their efforts at saving the mammal were unsuccessful. According to Nicole Auil of the Coastal Zone Management Project, the calf died around three thirty this morning. When it […]
While efforts to save the life of the stranded manatee calf may have come too late to make a difference, the Ministry of Works is hoping the same will not be the case with the old Belize City Swing Bridge. According to a government press release, work on rehabilitating the aging structure will begin shortly […]
It sounded just like a scene from one of those movies you see on TV, two young men dumped in the trunk of a car and taken on a ride of a lifetime. Only this was no movie. But according to Belize City resident, Darrington Lauriano, that’s exactly what happened to him and a friend […]
It is often said that “haad aze pikni go da maakit two times.” But some grown-up women who find themselves on the wrong side of that Creole proverb are using their experiences to, hopefully prevent others from following in their footsteps. The story, “Haad Work No Kill Nobody”, is about a single mother, Miss Irma […]
The number of people on Belize’s list of most wanted fugitives is again up to three, the latest addition being the person who brutally stabbed to death Geneive Robinson in the village of La Democracia last Friday. The police spent most of today desperately trying to put a name to the face of the alleged […]
In news from politics, the office of the Prime Minister has announced the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry to investigate alleged irregularities and improprieties in the Economic Citizenship Program during the term of office of the last People’s United Party government. The alleged wrong doings are included in the Auditor General’s report on the […]
The National September Celebrations Committee today announced the launch of a competition to choose a patriotic song to be used in the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of St. George’s Caye. The bicentennial song competition is open, presumably, to both musicians and non-musicians and is being run on the premise that […]
Conservation officials were called out to Deep Water Pier at the Port Authority today to rescue a young manatee stranded in the area. The calf, believed to be about a month old, was spotted swimming along the pier by workers this morning. According to Researcher Nicole Auil, the mother of the young mammal is believed […]
Primary School children from the village of Hattieville and surrounding areas have reason to wear broad smiles these days. A team of visiting dentists from the U.S.A. today wrapped up a series of free dental clinics in the village. The primary school children from Hattieville Village were surprisingly calm and cool as they had their […]
It’s the kind of senseless crime that is no stranger to this newscast. And this latest incident has left an entire community in shock. Residents of La Democracia Village in the Belize District are tonight still trying to figure out why a pregnant woman was brutally stabbed to death in their village over the weekend. […]
In other crime news, police have charged five people, including three minors in connection with the shooting death of twenty one year old Alden Quilter. Initially police reported that last Thursday morning, the youths were in a house on Iguana Street extension, playing with a firearm when it accidentally went off hitting Quilter in his […]
And in a follow up to another big story we reported last week, police have charged three men in connection with the disappearance of Alfonso Williams earlier this month. The nineteen year old man vanished from his work place on Amara Avenue on the morning of March eleventh and has not been seen or heard […]
The Belize Weather Bureau today announced it is going to set up a state of the art observation platform in Belize City. The Bureau used the occasion of the forty eighth anniversary of the World Meteorological Organization to make the announcement. The new automatic weather station will compliment similar ones already in service at Half […]
In news from the diplomatic front, a technical level meeting between Belize and Guatemala took place last Friday in Miami. A government press release says both sides ratified positions arrived at in previous meetings, including issues relating to the protection of ecological reserves and the prevention of illegal farming along their common border. The Belize […]
Belize was represented at a two day trade conference last week in San Jose, Costa Rica. Over a thousand delegates from throughout Central America and the Caribbean gathered to discuss international business trade and the promotion of hemispheric integration. According to Rosalie Staines of the Belize Business Bureau, a major concern expressed at the conference […]
Good evening. I’m James Adderley and step up to this version of Sports Monday. For a second week in a row we headed west to the Norman Broaster Stadium for a CONCACAF football with Real Verdes again in the role of host – this time against first division L.A. Firpo of El Salvador. And here […]
It was a press conference that members of the press had expected to attend on Monday, in the wake of the Sunday killing of Wensworth Mangar, perhaps the most wanted fugitive in modern Belizean history. That it came four days later, with nothing but official silence in between, led much of the public to suspect […]
In other crime news police are now saying that Thursday’s shooting of Alden “Jam” Quilter is not related to the kidnapping and suspected murder of his best friend, Alfonso “Cat” Williams. According to a police release Quilter was killed when a shotgun accidentally dropped and went off while Quilter was sitting around with a bunch […]
The Child Care Centre on St. Thomas Street was today the beneficiary of a donation courtesy the Belize City Hospital Auxiliary. The gift comprised twenty two sets of sheets valued at six hundred dollars and was made through the assistance of past President of the Auxiliary Norma Young. The bedding comes on the heels of […]
For the past five days the staff and members of the Young Women’s Christian Association, the YWCA, have been holding activities in commemoration of the organization’s forty two years of service. The ‘Y,’ which was founded by Lady Winnie Ward in 1956, works together with local voluntary movements and intergovernmental organizations for the overall betterment […]
It is among the nation’s premier institutions of secondary education… and today St. John’s College let it be known that it’s looking for more than a few good men. Jacqueline Woods reports. The displays included creative works from all of St. John’s College’s curriculum. Whether you were interested in the arts or business, the school’s […]
