The company went bust in 2004 under the burden of over forty-eight million dollars in overdue debt and was placed in the hands of a receiver by creditors. Since that time Novelo’s Bus Company has walked the tightrope of trying to regain financial health while at the same time improving service. But now management is […]
Over one hundred thousand dollars in surgical equipment was today donated to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The new gear, earmarked for the recently created neurosurgery department, came courtesy of the Foundation for International Education in Neurological Surgery. Belize’s first neurosurgeon, Dr. Joel Cervantes, says the equipment will go a long way towards helping Belizeans […]
Another Belizean has returned home from life saving surgery abroad. Nine month old Denfield Anderson, who was born with a hole in his heart, underwent an operation at St. Joseph Children’s Hospital in Tampa, Florida, on October twenty-first. The surgery was a success and doctors say they expect the child to make a full recovery. […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and here?s the latest delivery of Sports Monday. In week nine of the RFG Cup Tournament found the Calcutta Bulls hosting Belmopan United yesterday up north. This is after the Capital City gang had wrestled three points from this very Calcutta Bulls via a successful protest in the B.P.F.L. With […]
Richard White, accused of killing Mark Tingling in 2004 walked free this evening in the Supreme Court. A jury of eight men and four women deliberated from before noon until four-thirty this evening, but found White not guilty of murder. They were unable to arrive at a decision on his manslaughter charge. The main witness […]
Despite yet another adjournment in the Belize City Supreme Court this morning, there is news to report tonight regarding the infamous case of passport scandal. Sitting in the dock this morning was fifty-eight year old Belize City businessman Jabor “Gabby” Affif, but Hassan El Sayed, the man charged jointly with him on more than a […]
In other courts news, this week a treasury official from Punta Gorda was formally arraigned in connection with more than twenty-three thousand dollars of missing money. According to police, in September authorities were tipped off that a person or persons were skimming money from accounts. An investigation was immediately launched, which led to the arrest […]
Tonight a senior police officer is under internal investigation by the Belize City department following reports of missing money. This afternoon Police Press Officer G. Michael Reid would only say that Inspector Oscar Puga of the Patrol Branch is the subject of an official probe following the allegations made against him. According to published reports […]
The Crimes Committee of San Ignacio and Santa Elena dedicated a new police booth today in Red Creek. The structure replaces the one which burned down earlier this year. The Crimes Committee raised the twenty thousand dollars necessary for its construction. Minister of Home Affairs Ralph Fonseca delivered the keynote address during a ceremony this […]
Police are urging business establishments to be on the lookout for an individual who has already forged and cashed one cheque and has three more in his possession. A man identifying himself as Michael Robert Brown cashed a cheque for five hundred and forty dollars at J.L.’s Quick Loan earlier this week and it is […]
A Belize City woman has reported being held up in her home on Tibruce Street. Sylvia Vernon told police two men came to her house around nine-thirty Thursday night pretending to be delivering a package. However, one of them came inside, pulled a handgun, and began searching the house. Vernon says they stole her licensed […]
If ever there was a woman on a mission to bring music to Belize’s schools, it is Gloria Edwards. The principal of Grace Primary school for decades, she has foregone retirement to head out into the rural communities of the Belize District. Among Miss Edward’s latest projects is the revival of the National Youth Choir. […]
Although the various agencies working to promote good health practices to all Belizeans do a pretty good job of getting their information out to the public, nothing beats the personal touch. And there’s nothing better than an information fair for bringing it all together in one place. News Five was in Maskall today for a […]
The official confirmation came in black and white this morning, courtesy of the Belize Times: Mark Espat and Cordel Hyde are once again ministers of government. Espat has been appointed Minister of National Development, Investment and Culture, with responsibility for the Social Investment Fund, Basic Needs Trust Fund, investment promotion, export processing zones and commercial […]
A security guard who was just about to pay for his fried chicken order on Wednesday night had his money snatched out his hand by a man with a knife. Roy Zelaya told police that Ellis Meighan, someone he has known for five years, came up to him at the window of Belizean Fried Chicken […]
A Centre for Employment Training student is accused of burglarising a home on the Western Highway and then going on a spending spree with the cash. Jovan Tillett pleaded not guilty to burglary and handling stolen goods charges before Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord today, but was remanded to prison until the trial later this month. […]
One of the more bizarre sexual assault cases of last year has resulted in the dismissal of charges against two defendants. Twenty-two year old Clive Hyde and an eleven year old boy left the court of Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord unsullied today after the prosecution indicated that the alleged victim–and main witness–could not be located. […]
While the big news concerning Cabinet is its two new members, that body’s last meeting prior to its realignment produced some significant decisions. According to a government release, Cabinet has approved in principle to introduce G.S.T., which means either Goods and Services Tax or General Sales Tax. But a return to the VAT, a levy […]
And while cheaper diesel will not do much to make the sugar industry more viable, the British government will give the Sugar Industry Control Board forty-six thousand pounds to study ways to make the industry more profitable in the face of reduced sugar preferences from the European Union. The E.U. is Belize’s biggest customer for […]
It may be a month away but our friends at the Institute of Creative Arts are using this time to get prospective contestants prepared for the second annual Brukdown Song Competition. The contest is open to Belizeans countrywide of all ethnicities, ages or musical experience. Entries may be in any language provided there is an […]
Belizeans who have grown up in an era when tourism is the country’s number one industry will have a hard time imagining what it was like when tourists were as scarce as rain in April. But believe it or not, Belizean tourism is even younger than an independent Belize… and today the organisation that represents […]
“Sue me”. Tonight that’s the open challenge from the Opposition United Democratic Party on the heels of the Prime Minister’s comments on the registry scandal. According to U.D.P. Leader Dean Barrow, his party’s call for Godfrey Smith’s head on a platter stands, as they are more convinced than ever of the minister’s involvement as a […]
Switching gears slightly to another hot political issue, Barrow commented on the imminent return of backbenchers Mark Espat and Cordel Hyde into the Cabinet room and presumably, the good graces of the People’s United Party. Dean Barrow ?They have no credibility whatsoever. They appear to be utterly unprincipled and completely selfish. And certainly in terms […]
With all the political turmoil surrounding the shenanigans at the registry and the impending return of the renegade representatives, it’s a story that’s been relegated to the back of the stove. But the theft of six point two million dollars from B.T.L. is a news item that is not likely to go away any time […]
A man from Crooked Tree Village has been convicted of unlawful carnal knowledge following two days of proceedings in the Belize City Supreme Court. According to court reports, late Tuesday evening, a jury of seven women and two men took just over two hours to find twenty-nine year old construction worker Jaime Moreno guilty in […]
