Good evening I’m James Adderly and we’re glad you could join us for this fresh serving of Sports Monday. Playoff fever has gripped the Belize Football League and two contenders clashed inside the Carl Ramos Stadium in what can only be described as a pivotal showdown. So let’s head to Dangriga where Grigamandala plays host […]
It was an audacious crime but it now appears that the thieves may have had more guts than brains. On Wednesday night a gang of burglars broke into the small museum building at the Maya site of Cahal Pech overlooking San Ignacio. They entered by tearing off a piece of the roof and made off […]
Nearly three months after a daylight heist on North Front Street netted one thief $20,000, a Belize City man has been arrested and charged with the crime. This morning Jermaine Williams appeared in Magistrate’s Court to answer charges of robbery in connection with an incident that occurred in February of this year. According to police […]
In Belmopan today, the Prime Minister got a chance to do some manual labor. The occasion was the groundbreaking for a new school building being built for the expansion of Our Lady of Guadelupe Roman Catholic School. As he addressed the gathering, Musa endorsed the church state system saying he was committed to instilling a […]
Even though Belize’s roads are awash in brand new sport utility vehicles, the bunch of SUV’s we found parked off the Northern Highway by Bella Vista still raised a few eyebrows. The half dozen or so new 2001 Acuras are here as part of a sneak preview of the not-yet-available vehicles that the Japanese auto […]
I’ve heard men say the day they understand a woman, is the day they die. Well boys, understanding comes with listening and tonight, both men and women will be doing a lot of talking ABOUT women. The evening program, called “The Women’s Book of Woe and Wonder: A night of poetry and creative works,” will […]
This weekend marked the continuation of one of the driest dry seasons in recent memory, with many parts of the country receiving less than half of their normal rainfall for the first four months of the year. But while most Belizeans look vainly to the heavens in search of precipitation, one farmer has decided that […]
Earlier in the week we offered a short preview of this weekend’s Cashew Festival taking place in the idyllic village of Crooked Tree. If that wasn’t enough to get you interested, then tonight’s story should have you reaching for a bottle of cashew wine. We ran this piece in 1996. It features William Neal taking […]
“Mike” April 26th, 2000 “They beat me. They had sex with me, They rape me.” Viewers may recall a story we ran last week in which an unnamed security guard told a hair raising tale of being kidnapped from his job and repeatedly raped and tortured by his abductors over a 24-hour period. Needless to […]
In other crime news of a less frivolous nature Morris Fuller, the man accused of fatally stabbing Troy Gill on the morning of May first, has been charged with murder. Fuller himself was seriously injured in that same incident which involved a fight with a number of young men whom Fuller claims had attempted to […]
A Belize City man remains at the KHMH in critical condition tonight after he was shot twice on Thursday night. Police say 18-year-old George Matthews was at Libby’s Restaurant on Gibnut Street around 8 o’clock Thursday night when he got into a fight with another man. It is alleged the man pulled out a gun […]
Public Transport is a subject that has caused revolutions elsewhere in the region but in Belize we usually prefer less violent forms of protest. Today a group of frustrated commuters in Belmopan contacted the media to tell their tale of woe. It seems that there is a growing number of people who live in the […]
Some Belize City secondary schools today beefed up their technological capabilities courtesy of the Janus Foundation. The international charitable organization, based in Germany and Switzerland, donated twenty computers and printers to the government which in turn allocated them to St. Catherine’s, St. John’s, Palloti, Wesley, Gwen Liz, E.P. Yorke, Excelsior, A.C.C. and C.E.T. The donation […]
While in his speech of acceptance Prime Minister Said Musa expressed his great appreciation to Janus, he fired some uncharacteristically harsh words at the company which mans the toll booths on Belize’s information superhighway. For BTL, said the P.M., it’s time to get on with the program. Prime Minister Said Musa “Well I think the […]
Everyone has something to say about it…but nothing seems to ever get done. The “it” is the way Belize’s civil service is run and today government is taking its latest shot at fundamental change. This morning the Public Sector Reform Council presented its report to the Prime Minister. The 29-page booklet outlines a number of […]
Caribbean leaders will have the opportunity to meet with their former colonial masters next week as part of the second UK/Caribbean Forum. The meeting between Prime Minister Tony Blair and 14 CARICOM nations, 5 British overseas Caribbean Territories and Bermuda plus Haiti will take place in London on May 11th and 12th. Representing Belize at […]
On yesterday’s newscast we reported the tragic death of 2-year old Jonathon Lara. The young San Pedrano died after being run over by a van, which had stopped to pick up his sister for school. While the accident was one which could have occurred anywhere, it nonetheless focused attention on a growing problem affecting Belize’s […]
These are not good times for Belize’s children. This morning saw yet another tragic death of a young one, this time in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. I visited the town earlier today and discovered that the same type of mishaps that plague the city are also occurring at the caye. Residents of Laguna Street in […]
In last night’s newscast we asked the question of who was safeguarding the rights of 18-month old Santos Alvarez, the baby who was killed when, through no fault of his own, he wound up in the middle of a street fight. Tonight we can report that at least someone values human life as the charges […]
He was shot in the back of the head and lived to tell about it. 18-year old Keon Williams told police he was on Fairweather Street Tuesday afternoon when he noticed a man behind him on a bicycle. Williams claims the man pointed a gun at him and fired once. Williams was grazed in the […]
It’s a case where for once, the sentence stuck. George “Junie Balls” McKenzie and Eugene Neal are enjoying the accommodations at the Hattieville Correctional Facility tonight after their appeal was dismissed in the Supreme Court. Puisne Judge George Meerabux ruled that the sentence of 4 years for possession of a prohibited firearm and 6 months […]
He served under two different governments as Belize’s Ambassador to Guatemala. On Tuesday, after two months in the hospital, Mike Mena finally succumbed to cancer in the United States. The 52-year old Mena had been rushed to Houston in February, shortly after meeting the four Belizean law enforcement officers who were being held in Flores, […]
Cooperation between the nations of Belize and Cuba continues to grow, this time in the field of sports. Reports from our embassy in Cuba indicate that this afternoon Belize’s Director of Sports; Clara Cuellar met with the head of Cuba’s National Sports Institute, Humberto Rodriguez. As a result of the discussions Cuba has offered the […]
In news from Cabinet that all important body has approved a number of initiatives that effect Belize’s domestic and international agenda. Two pieces of draft legislation have been approved which will improve regulation of the offshore financial sector. Three new development concessions were approved, including one for a 30-room hotel south of Hopkins, the expansion […]
There won’t be another big election until 2003 but that doesn’t mean the Elections and Boundaries Department is taking a siesta. Today the department held its second open house, called “Voters’ Day”, as part of a public awareness campaign to get Belizeans registered. Every district office set up displays and personnel discussed the voting process […]
