TD-15 is no more. Tropical Storm Michelle is now just north west of Cabo Gracias a Dios Nicaragua. Michelle, still moving slowly north at two miles an hour, packing winds of 40 miles an hour. The storm is bringing substantial amounts of rain to several countries. Her base is so big that she is affecting […]
The Government says the country’s currently uncertain economic situation has called for a new budget. At cabinet’s meeting on Tuesday, the cabinet agreed that given the effects of Hurricane Iris and the terrorist attacks in the United States, a revised budget will be presented to the House of Representatives next month. G.O.B. says ministers and […]
With most of their crop still lying in the fields, banana growers are feeling pretty vulnerable right now, especially with a new storm threat on the horizon. This afternoon, the Banana Growers Association (B.G.A.) got a welcomed donation from Belize Telecommunications Limited. After their global positioning satellite tower, used to spray the fields to protect […]
In this next story, we’ll let you connect the dots. In a government press release sent out late tonight from the office of the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister John Briceño has agreed to REMAIN in the post as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Natural Resources, the Environment, Commerce and Industry. Both men have […]
With all the talk of Tropical Storm Michelle you may have failed to notice that today is Halloween. A few people didn’t really need them but they still put on masks in honor of the one night event designed to leave behind quite a number of cavities. Classrooms throughout the country were filled with cupcake […]
As we speak, trick and treaters have already taken to the streets in search of free candy. However, just because it’s free doesn’t mean it’s safe. The police department is asking both children and their parents to keep an eye out for the freaks who may not necessarily be in costume. G. Michael Reid, Police […]
Lotto might be the hot topic tonight, evidenced in part by the lines at the Belize City office earlier today, but the Lotteries Committee is letting all boledo and lottery vendors know that if they’re caught selling “write down” numbers, that is stubs not sold from the government books, they will face serious repercussions. According […]
There’s no shortage of pageants and contests to attend in Belize and tonight, we’re adding one more to the list. On Saturday night, the Civic Center will play host to the first ever “Mr. Cycling” competition. The idea is the brainchild of the cyclists themselves as a creative way to raise money for team trips. […]
Tonight, it appears tropical depression number fifteen isn’t sure what it wants to do, so it’s sitting tight. Unfortunately, the buckets of rain accompanying the system is putting life and property at risk in Nicaragua and Honduras. The residents of the steep hillsides in Honduras are particularly vulnerable as widespread flooding is expected. But for […]
But before we begin to worry about what tropical depression number fifteen might or might not do, the front still stalled over the country is bringing problems of its own. Carlos Fuller, Chief Meteorologist “The system is producing a lot of rain throughout Central America. During the past twenty-four hours, we got over five inches […]
As Nicaragua and Honduras brace themselves for the inevitable destruction the rains of tropical depression fifteen will cause, the National Emergency Management Organisation, NEMO, has released the latest damage estimates of Hurricane Iris. In a release, NEMO says Iris has cost the country as much as four hundred and seventy-five million dollars as it significantly […]
Meanwhile, investigations into the tragic accident aboard the diveboat Wave Dancer, is expected to reach a climax this week as the boat is to be lifted out of the water. There are several theories as to why the boat overturned, including reports that the bow line was tied too tight and snapped under pressure from […]
A Belize City teenager has been arrested after he shot a woman with an airgun. According to police, the fourteen year old boy stood on his veranda on Mahogany Street and shot twenty-nine year old Melva Hyde in the abdomen with a Crossman airgun. Apparently, Hyde was in the middle of a heated argument with […]
A teenager found guilty of murder on Monday will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Eighteen year old Jason Jones was sentenced to life in prison by Judge Wilfred Elrington in the Supreme Court this morning. Jones was convicted of the murder of fifty year old Lincoln Weston, who died in April 2000 […]
Its political significance to the country is unquestionable, but for more than a few years, Battlefield Park in Belize City has been nothing more than the permanent address for a number of vagrants. But Belize’s version of Central Park is about to get a facelift. If you’ve driven down Regent Street this week, you would […]
Armed with their new truck and plenty of confidence, the officers of the National Fire Service were busy fighting a large fire today; but don’t worry it was only a drill. This afternoon, the Esso depot site in Port Loyola was the scene of the latest demonstration where fire-fighters were testing their skills in the […]
Playing the numbers has always been a scientific art…your winning combination might come to you in your dreams, from a candy wrapper or might even be relayed to you by your neighbourhood “Ms. Cleo”. But whatever method you use, tomorrow is the big day to find out if your numbers have what it takes to […]
Dark clouds and cool breezes threatened rain all day today and according to the experts, there’s plenty more where that came from. But tonight Belizeans are keeping an eye on what is now Tropical Depression fifteen. The system might currently have a poorly defined centre, but the showers and rains associated with it continues to […]
As the rains continue to hamper the physical relief efforts in the south, the lobbying for international support for victims of Hurricane Iris is also unrelenting. The United Kingdom has pledged to donate one million pounds sterling, approximately three million Belize dollars to aid those affected by Iris. A government press release says the money […]
It was a crime that seemed too senseless to be true: a man murdered because he told young boys to stop stealing mangoes. Today, the teenage gunman, later identified as eighteen year old David Jones, was found guilty of the murder of Lincoln Weston. The jury of four women and eight men deliberated for a […]
A “ride-by” shooting on Sunday has sent a Belize City man to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Police reports are that twenty-six year old Fermin Mendez, a resident of Fuller’s Alley, was enjoying the company of friends on his veranda just after 1:00 on Sunday afternoon. It is then alleged that a dark complexioned young […]
Jealousy was apparently the cause of another shooting over the weekend, this time in the Orange Walk District. Fifty-seven year old Manuel Salazar, a Guatemalan farmer, told police that he was walking on the Northern Highway on Saturday when he met a woman, Ruth Ramirez, and began a conversation with her. Salazar says just as […]
Separate robberies in Cayo and Belize City have netted the bad guys an estimated ninety-three thousand Belize dollars. Chinese businessman Su Guo Qiang of Santa Elena, proprietor of Fuhua Restaurant, reported to police that masked men made off with fifty-eight thousand Belize dollars in cash in the early hours of Monday. The businessman claims that […]
An eleven-year-old girl and her cousin died in a traffic accident on the Western Highway over the weekend. Thirty-five year old Dionicio Canto and his cousin, eleven-year-old Keyla Canto, were thrown from the vehicle they were travelling in and died on the highway. Police reports are that the Cantos had been travelling to Belize City […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into another version of Sports Monday. The wait was simply intolerable for football fans across the nation, but semi-pro football finally presented its annual season yesterday. Matches at Dangriga and Belmopan were hastily cancelled due to inclement weather, which left only three outings on the weekend schedule. […]
