A convict on the run is back in police custody tonight after a face off with authorities in the Cayo district left him with bullets in both legs. According to San Ignacio police, around twelve thirty this afternoon, residents of Esperanza village called in to report a burglary in progress. The cops arrived just in […]
Accident? Or Arson? That’s what police and fire officials are trying to figure out after the Libertad police station, which also housed the officer’s residence, went up in smoke on Monday night. According to police press officer G. Michael Reid, an inebriated resident of the village who was detained following a domestic dispute, was placed […]
For the better part of eight decades, the Salvation Army in Belize has been a beacon of hope and comfort for the indigent. And while public support for the organisation has been unwavering over the years, a major transgression by the man selected to lead the local congregation has put a blemish on the Army’s […]
This morning opening ceremonies were held in Belize City to launch a regional multi-disciplinary workshop for the ten year review of the Barbados Programme of Action. It was there in 1994 that the UN conference on the Development of Small Island Developing States was held. Over the next three days, delegates from countries all over […]
On Saturday, lady luck certainly smiled on Jose Alfredo Ramirez of San Ignacio Town. This twenty-seven year old father of five children became the seventh lotto jackpot winner of the year, walking off with the sixty thousand dollar weekend draw. Ramirez, who spent a total of ten dollars on the game, says he had been […]
We’ve seen it happen so often that it’s almost routine: brought into court in bangles, walk out free a few months later. Did they commit the crime? Probably. Can the prosecution prove it? Not likely, as a combination of fear and ineptitude has turned the criminal justice system into a revolving door for even the […]
The President of Taiwan has come and gone, the government in Belmopan is busy trying to shore up the nation’s finances, and the Opposition is quietly planning its next move in the Social Security scandal. That has given the good citizens of Belize the chance to get back to what we do best: kill each […]
Not long after Keisha Gordon succumbed to her wounds in one of the City’s most affluent neighbourhoods, across town another victim was drawing his last breath, this time as a result of multiple gunshots. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Twenty-four year old Kenrick Johnson was no stranger to the police and his troubled past actions apparently made […]
While Belize City police try to bring closure to Saturday night’s fatalities, their colleagues in Cayo have detained one person for questioning in the weekend’s third homicide. On Sunday just before midnight they were called to Carillo Puerto Avenue in Santa Elena where they confronted the lifeless body of thirty-two year old Ernest Kemp. According […]
Last week Belize City police were alerted to a racket in which forged government cheques were used to purchase thousands of dollars in goods from unsuspecting business houses. Today police report that many of those items have been recovered. They were discovered in Sand Hill, with one man being arrested and another sought. Thirty-seven year […]
Anywhere you travelled across the length and breadth of Belize today there was one factor that could not go unnoticed: children of all shapes and sizes, dressed in immaculately clean uniforms heading off for their first day of school. Although official enrolment figures will not be tabulated until later in the month, the Planning Information […]
Miss Belize may get better prizes, Ms Y may have more fun, but the Queen of the Bay is still the mother of all Belizean beauty pageants. Here’s a look at the big night. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting On Saturday before a packed audience at the Belize City Centre the fifty-eighth Queen of the Bay Pageant […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley with this week’s edition of Sports Monday. The Prestigious Mr. Belize Contest of Bodybuilding was staged Friday night inside the Princess Hotel and Casino where this spectacle of wall-to-wall muscle took centre stage. We go immediately to the main even as the serious came out to claim the all Belize […]
Twenty-four hours is not a whole lot of time to visit a city, let alone a country, but Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is packing in as much as he can. Following public ceremonies and private meetings in Belmopan yesterday afternoon and a dinner in his honour in Belize City last night, the youthful leader this […]
Once President Chen was airborne, Prime Minister Musa’s thoughts were no doubt free to return to the matters that were on his plate before the interlude of the state visit. That is, the nation’s finances. And tonight there are signs that his government is making some progress in its bid for some new injections of […]
Police are trying to determine the identity of a female corpse that was found floating in the waters just off BTL Park on Newtown Barracks. The discovery was made around eleven twenty this morning by people in the area. The woman is believed to be in her late fifties or early sixties, of clear complexion, […]
The man who police believe stabbed Otilio Pacheco to death has been formally charged. Forty-two year old Francis Bennett has been remanded to Hattieville prison and will face trial for murder. He is alleged to have stabbed the fifty-seven year old Pacheco in his chest a number of times early Thursday morning during an altercation […]
On last night’s newscast a late schedule, dead battery and slow moving motorcade combined to prevent us from showing footage of the Belmopan leg of President Chen Shui-bian’s state visit. Tonight we’ll bring you up to date on those events in the nation’s capital. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Shortly after arriving at the George Price Centre, […]
State visits are not something we do every day in Belize…and just as our leaders need to alter their normal way of doing things so do some of the rest of us, including journalists. In between photo ops over the last twenty-four hours, cameraman Brent Toombs has put together a short piece on how things […]
Today the ministry of health handed over twenty-five bicycles to the Belize District Community Nurses Aides. The donation is just one of many measures M.O.H. is undertaking to strengthen health programmes in rural areas of the country. The nurses say that the wheels are long overdue and they are grateful for the assistance. Anna Gillett, […]
“The best of Tony Wright” is the latest release from the veteran artist. Wright says the album consists of thirteen songs that have all been well received by Belizeans. Today the musician stopped by our studios to promote the CD for the upcoming September celebrations. Tony Wright, Recording Artist “Most of them were some of […]
The Republic of China on Taiwan has been one of Belize’s best friends virtually since the two countries established diplomatic relations in 1989. But it was not until today, nearly fifteen years later, that the tiny Asian powerhouse, with twenty-three million people jammed into a land area only slightly larger than Belize, sent its head […]
As the first Taiwanese President to visit Belize, fifty-four year old Chen Shui-bian made history when he arrived this morning at the PGIA. But by now Chen is used to being first. The son of a farmer, Chen excelled in school, studying law in college. In his junior year, he passed the national bar exam […]
There was news other than the presidential visit taking place today and, unfortunately, it involves crime. Belize City police are still investigating to see what led to the murder of fifty-seven year old Otelio Pacheco. Pacheco was stabbed to death inside his house at twenty-eight St. Thomas Street around twelve thirty this morning. Authorities believe […]
In labour news, the Belize City Council has issued a press release informing two hundred and twenty employees who have been terminated and transferred to a private maintenance company, that their accrued benefit payments will be late in coming. The delay was attributed to “administrative setbacks”. Mayor David Fonseca and councillors will be meeting Friday […]
