It’s money time in semi-pro basketball, but after losing the first two games of the finals, it looked like the B.T.L. Nets had come up a day late and a dollar short. But on Tuesday night a Raider sweep was avoided as the Nets looked like poster boys for Viagra. James Adderley has the highlights. […]
There will be no newscast on Wednesday, September tenth due to a public and bank holiday in recognition of the Battle of St. George’s Caye. The next newscast will be on Thursday, September eleventh.
It was not expected to be anything, but a perfunctory prelude to a crackdown on illegal firearms, the last chance for criminals to come clean before the legal hammer dropped. And so today officials marked the formal end to the one-month gun amnesty, calling it a modest success, with the real test to follow. Jacqueline […]
The body of a man found in the Orange Walk District on Friday has been identified. He is twenty-eight year old Machelo Melendez, a resident of San Francisco Street in Orange Walk Town. Melendez’s body was found clothed in black pants, a brown shirt, black shoes and had been wrapped in a sheet. A post […]
Meanwhile, Orange Walk police are also investigating a traffic accident on Monday night, which left an elderly man dead. According to police reports, sixty-seven year old Guadalupe Alonzo of Tower Hill was riding his bike on the Northern Highway between miles fifty-two and fifty-three when he was knocked down. Alonzo was rushed to the Northern […]
The Police Department’s crime-fighting initiative has received a major shot in the arm with some new communication equipment. The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry answered the cop’s call for assistance to set up a nationwide radio network that would allow private security firms to stay in touch with the police twenty-four hours a day. […]
Tonight the family of a missing Belize City man is asking for your help. Relatives of seventy-one year old Cecil Casimiro, also known as “Sincero”, say they were with him on August twenty-seventh in the vicinity of Hyde’s Lane, but since they parted ways that day, they have not seen or heard from him. Casimiro’s […]
Belize is engaging in some aggressive diplomatic damage control in the wake of Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo’s rejection of the O.A.S. facilitation process as a means of settling Guatemala’s claim to Belize. A delegation led by Ambassador Assad Shoman travelled to New York and Washington over the last two days to lobby officials at the […]
The nations of the Caribbean may not always make much progress in their efforts at political unity and economic integration…but when it comes to pulling together in times of trouble there are few who do it better. For the island of Bermuda that means help from as far away as Belize. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This […]
It’s a story that we’ve covered more times that we care to admit. If you live in Belize City and haven’t smelled the stinking smoke of the garbage dump, don’t get complacent; it’s only a matter of time until the wind changes. Patrick Jones, Reporting One month after the City’s garbage site on the Western […]
It’s not certain whether the increased boat traffic surrounding the burgeoning cruise tourism industry is taking its toll on Belize City’s manatees…but what we do know is that tonight an ailing calf is struggling for life in the absence of its mother, the likely victim of a deadly propeller. Patrick Jones reports from Fort Point. […]
According to the Minister of Transport, an average of seven Belizeans per month lose their lives in traffic accident, most of which could be saved by a combination of safer driving, better roads and simply by wearing seatbelts. This week the ministry is focussing its efforts on reducing that grim statistic and is taking aim […]
It was a weekend of deadly violence in the nation’s commercial capital. What all three of the weekend murders appear to have in common is that they occurred on Friday night and the killers and killed were well acquainted. Theodora Pop, Sister “She tell we that if she ever left the man, the man wah […]
Before the sun dawned on Saturday morning two more people would die on the streets of the city. Patrick Jones, Reporting The murder of twenty-two year old Mark Anthony Matthews, also known as Mark Saragosa, at the junction of Mahogany Street and Western Avenue on Saturday morning, did not take long for the police to […]
Police are looking at all the angles tonight in the wake of what appears to be a major bank robbery. Neither the police nor officials of the Belize Bank are saying much, but it is alleged that on Saturday morning a lone gunman accosted an employee of the bank’s northside Belize City branch around eight […]
His was a familiar face, not just to his co-workers at the National Meteorological Service, but to virtually the entire nation as the presenter of the nightly weather report on television. Tonight, Justin Hulse is dead. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting At this time is has not been determined what caused the death of well-known meteorologist, fifty-two […]
On Saturday morning San Ignacio was the scene of the latest Courts Megabucks Spin. This month’s lucky spinner was Courts customer Michael Tzul Junior of Belize City. Here’s how it went. (Michael spins wheel and wins $3,000) Emcee “Michael how do you feel, you just won three thousand dollars?” Michael Tzul Jr. “I feel good, […]
With a Prime Minister who spurned the traditional portfolio of finance in favour of being Minister of Education, Belize is well placed to host a gathering of regional educators. This morning I sat in on a meeting that seeks to put the Caribbean on track with a major United Nations initiative. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Today […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we’re pushing another fresh portion of Sports Monday. In 2003 the Santino Cycle Classic has evolved into a 4-day, four-stage race that got off on Friday September the fifth to culminated on September tenth with the criterium ride around the Regent and Albert Streets here in Belize City. We […]
Their behaviour as model legislators was exemplary. And while today’s youth parliament may have lacked the theatrical fireworks of the real thing, the serious mood only underlined the importance of the debate. Patrick Jones reports from Belmopan. Patrick Jones, Reporting They are not the usual faces we see in the House of Representatives, but the […]
For those optimistic souls who thought the overthrow of Saddam Hussein would mean a drop in the price of petroleum, we have some bad news. Gas gawn up again. A government release indicates that due to the increase in landed acquisition costs, effective at midnight the new price of premium gasoline is seven-fifty-six per gallon, […]
By any account, it’s about as close to a rock and a hard place as you can get. Tonight the Public Utilities Commission is charged with finding common ground between the monopoly telecommunications provider: Belize Telecommunications Limited and the Belizean consumer. B.T.L. is insisting that as part of its ongoing preparation for the onset of […]
The project had been planned for years, but it took a record flood and near disaster to make it a reality. Patrick Jones reports on the nation’s newest bridge. Patrick Jones, Reporting The new Beaver Dam Bridge was opened to vehicular traffic two weeks ahead of the scheduled official inauguration. Chief Engineer Cadet Henderson says […]
He was hired barely a month ago, but tonight the nation’s newest Crown Council is without a job. Michael Peyrefitte, who also served as the press spokesman for the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, told News 5 that he received his walking papers today without so much as an explanation. That leaves the […]
It was not all that long ago when the best medical advice a Belizean doctor could give a seriously ill patient was “go to Merida”. Today more Belizeans than ever are receiving their medical care at home, and one reason is the institution that today celebrated its first anniversary. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting One year ago […]
