Anyone who has ever purchased an airline ticket knows the rising costs of air travel can hurt. But this weekend, it was the airline company hurting. Sometime early Sunday morning, the American Airlines office at San Cas Plaza, was broken into. According to police reports, the security supervisor for the airline stopped by the office […]
A Belize City businessman has been charged with manslaughter as the result of a shooting that occurred almost a year ago. Thirty-nine year old Ben Bou-Nahra was arraigned this afternoon before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers and released on ten thousand dollars bail. Bou-Nahra fatally shot Shawn Copius on September seventeenth, 2005, after Copius had allegedly burglarised […]
Last week we brought you the story of eighteen year old Tyrone Teck, the young man injured by a hit and run driver on Currasow Street in Belize City. Today police arrested and charged the man they believe knocked Teck down and sped away. He is Sergio Rivera, a resident of Warrie Street and the […]
It has been called a tempest in a teapot but the gathering storm over the application of G.S.T. to electricity bills is threatening to boil over and burn consumers. At issue is hundreds of thousands of dollars in G.S.T. invoices issued by B.E.L. Apparently, after much discussion, government gave the company the O.K. to charge […]
The massive month long rains may have let up but flooding continues to be a problem for a number of low lying riverbank communities. According to the Hydrology Department, while the flow is slackening upstream, the water at Crooked Tree is still two feet over the causeway, the Sibun River at Freetown has overflowed its […]
Saturday’s Lotto draw, like every one since April fifth, 2006, failed to produce a winner. That means the record jackpot climbs to one hundred sixty-five thousand for Wednesday’s big event.
Belize may have a large population of Manatees but their days of easy living appear to be numbered. Today Manatee researchers report two corpses found in the waters off Belize City. According to preliminary examinations, the victims may be a mother and child. Nicole Auil, Manatee Researcher ?This Manatee was found today at Duke Marine […]
Good evening. I?m James Adderley and we?re privileged to launch this latest dish of Sports Monday live into your living room. For some time now we?ve been telling you about the Guines 8 Ball Pool Tournament in action here in Belize City, well tonight we take you to an actual match. Friday night when Triangle […]
It took a few days for everyone to learn the script but in the end the actors finally got it right. This afternoon, following a sometimes acrimonious meeting of the Social Security Board, C.E.O. and General Manager Narda Garcia was fired from her job. According to a terse press release from the S.S.B., Assistant G.M. […]
While some progress was made on resolving his Social Security problems, Prime Minister Musa is having less luck reuniting his fractured People’s United Party. According to those close to negotiations, a series of meetings beginning Thursday evening has failed to provide a peace treaty between insurgents Mark Espat and Cordel Hyde and more senior party […]
Armed robbers knocked off a shop in San Ignacio last night but police say they’re hot on the trail of the jackers. Fifty-four year old Zhou Xiang Li, proprietor of Chen’s Store on Joseph Andrews Drive, told police that around seven-thirty a man entered the establishment brandishing a sawed off shotgun and demanding money. Zhou […]
Are you familiar with the phrase: “adding insult to injury?” Well, it’s a perfect description of what happened to one unfortunate Belize City resident last week. I spoke to the young man this morning. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting In 2005 eighteen year old Tyrone Teck graduated from the Tubal Trade and Vocational Institution and up until […]
With the P.U.P. engaging in fraternal warfare and the U.D.P. content to wait for what appears to be a victory by default in 2008, it would be surprising if some bright spark didn’t get the idea for a third party. Since the V.I.P., pulled a respectable number of votes in March’s Belmopan election another group […]
Since they are on duty all hours of the day and night, our law enforcement officers don’t always spend as much quality time with their families as they’d like. One programme now in progress, while not a substitute for parental care, at least offers a valuable supplement. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting The police are making sure […]
When it comes to defending our country, Belize has a dilemma. In the first place, we have very limited resources … and armies are expensive. Secondly, the country has a tiny population but very long borders, including thousands of square miles of sea. Added to the mix is a belligerent neighbour forty times our size […]
As the tremors of the Senate report continue to reverberate through Belmopan, today the Commission of Inquiry into the operations of the Development Finance Corporation announced its plans for public hearings. According to a schedule provided by the Commission, starting on August first there will be two forums held every week–on Tuesdays and Thursdays–at the […]
A second suspect has been arrested in the series of tourist focussed robberies in the Cayo District. He is Henry Gonzalez, a Guatemalan residing in the Belmopan neighbourhood of Salvapan. Police say that on February seventeenth it was Gonzalez who drove a gang of armed men to the Banana Bank Road, after which they went […]
Police are crediting the media with the arrest of a shooting suspect in Dangriga. On last night’s newscast we published the photo of Darren Chiu, wanted by authorities for the shooting of businessman Orlando Habet last Thursday night. This morning Chiu, accompanied by lawyer Dickie Bradley, turned himself in to the Dangriga Police. He was […]
Seven months ago, the brutal murder of a Belize City businessman in front of his young son rocked the old capital, but tonight, one of the two men charged with the crime is walking the streets. Four days after the shooting death of fifty-one year old Michael Burns, seventeen year old Kareem Gladden and eighteen […]
The report of the Senate Select Committee investigating Social Security has finally been made public. A release from the clerk of the National Assembly indicates that the one hundred twenty-five page report has been mailed to a long list of organisations and individuals in the public and private sectors. It is also accessible online at […]
It appears that some progress is being made to redress the inequities that have arisen in the application of G.S.T. to electricity bills. The problem arises from B.E.L.’s decision to apply the ten percent tax on all bills issued after July first, even though the bulk of the electricity was delivered prior to that date, […]
Today three members of the Heavenlies Gospel Band left the country en route to the Bahamas to attend the Caribbean Gospel Marlin Awards. The group is nominated in the Soca-Calypso category for the song “Hands in the Air” from their 2004 CD, Next Level. But according to band leader Burton Brooks, the song almost didn’t […]
The Consortium for Belizean Development was formed twenty years ago with a mission to assist Belize and Belizeans throughout the world. And for the last week, members of the U.S. based NGO and the Elegant Flair Cultural Dance Group, have been touring the country. But the visitors are doing more than just sightseeing as on […]
And those programmes of the “Y” are proving extremely popular. News Five’s Alyssa Noble stopped by the St. Thomas Street headquarters this morning for a progress report. Alyssa Noble, Reporting The first round of Y.W.C.A.?s summer program came to a close today with some moving performances. Sonia Lenares, General Secretary, Y.W.C.A. ?I think this year […]
Viewers with sharp memories may recall the days when the only way to reach the picturesque village of Crooked Tree was by boat. Well, those days may be back, as when I visited Crooked Tree today the waters had over-run the causeway and were about to once again turn the village into a caye. Donald […]
