If you’ve been paying attention to the U.S. media, you would not have missed the fact that the U.S. is in the midst of a financial crisis. Banks, brokerage houses and mortgage companies are going belly up and as the system threatens to collapse, lawmakers are frantically debating bailout. On Monday when a seven hundred […]
In other news caused by the economic crisis, much decreased crude oil prices have forced the government to revisit its revenue from the recently implemented windfall tax. Back in July when P.M. Barrow announced the terms of the tax on local companies and license holders, prices were hovering around a hundred and thirty-three dollars a […]
There is never a dull moment and there is more trouble brewing in the bus transportation industry and this time the opening salvo is coming from none other than National Transport Limited. Last Thursday the company sent a letter to the Transport Board objecting to two of its members by citing a conflict of interest […]
And tonight there are some disturbing reports that affect our regional programming. In a release late this evening, the C.M.C., which produces Caribbean Newsline that airs immediately following our daily newscast, announced that their news packages are being suspended effective immediately. The reason: the financial crunch. The news packages formed part of the programming offered […]
As the political heat begins to turn up leading to March 2009 City Council elections, allegations and counter-allegations are flying from camp to camp. And tonight Belize City Mayor Zenaida Moya is at the heart of another financial scandal. Late this evening an envelope with explosive documents was anonymously dropped off at our news studios […]
And from Belize City to Orange Walk Town where a mid-morning fire took the life of a little girl. Four year old, Ellyahnah Guy perished in the flames that started in her bedroom located on the southwest corner of the house. Her parents and siblings were all at home when they received a call from […]
Violence and crime – they are regulars in this newscast and today is no different. And at around three thirty this afternoon, Belize Western Energy Limited (BWEL) was hit by four brazen bandits. But it wasn’t the headquarters on Central American Boulevard, but the depot at the end of Sarstoon Street that was hit by […]
Last week Transparency International released its 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index … and the news was bad for Belize. The jewel ranked, a hundred and nine out of one hundred and eighty countries worldwide; and twenty-four out of thirty-two regionally. According to Transparency International, it gathers data from sources that span the last two years, using […]
Illegal weapons, robbery, and kidnapping – in Willows Bank. That’s where it all happened. At eight-fifteen p.m. in the village last Friday, twenty-nine year old taxi driver Fausto Lopez left the house of Elizabeth Romero along with seventeen year old Mary Romero. He did not go too far because he spotted barbed wire across the […]
A thirty-five year old driver of Belize City was charged with incest today and is behind bars for allegedly impregnating his thirteen year old daughter. The man, a naturalized Belizean, originally from Mexico, said in Court that he has been living in Belize for the past seventeen years. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie explained to him […]
You may have heard of the circulation of counterfeit notes. And today in Magistrates’ Court, former Anglican Cathedral College messenger, twenty-six year old Kenton Blanco, was charged with two counts of possession of counterfeit currency for a total of eighty-three notes, forty seven of them in Belizean currency and thirty-six in U.S. currency. Blanco, a […]
Two people, including a Belizean have been charged with Drug Trafficking after they were busted with almost two pounds of cocaine. At around three-thirty on Monday afternoon police searched thirty year old Belizean Dennis Robert Young of Aloe Vera Street in Belize City and twenty-two year old Vashtay Forbes Kentish, a Costa Rican national, who […]
In other news from the Magistrates’ Court, three more persons were charged in connection with the burglary of Prosser Agrochemical, located at seventy-one North Front Street. The trio: nineteen year old Ronald Michael, twenty year old Terron Palma and nineteen year old Herman Grant, were slapped with charges of Attempted Burglary. The three pleaded not […]
It is usual that you hear of degrees in Business and Social Sciences, Arts and Education and Sciences as the programmes that are offered by the University of Belize. But due to a growing interest for studies in Agriculture, the University of Belize took a bold step and introduced a new programme to satisfy this […]
It’s a project that kicked off in June and continued throughout the summer break. And now the children of Calvary Temple Primary in Belize City are the enjoying the fruits of that labour. The spanking new cafeteria that was officially opened today is just part of the entire project that Lifeline Foundation embarked on a […]
Parenting is an endless job that no one gets a chance to study but rather master just from the experience it brings. But today a group of mostly younger parents gathered at the Yabra Community Policing Centre on Caesar Ridge Road to learn some tips on how to become better moms and dads. It’s a […]
Senior Citizens Week kicked off on Sunday and there are plenty activities organized to honour our older members of society and highlight their contributions and experiences. And while Belize boasts a youthful population there are many among us who have lived the extra mile surpassing a century of life. News Five caught up with one […]
San Pedro resident Miguel Angel Orrego celebrated his birthday day the best way any man on remand can as he walked away free of murder and manslaughter charges today. After three and a half hours, a jury of six men and six women found him innocent in the fatal stabbing of Yubert Flashy which occurred […]
While Orrego walked free, a Czech national got his marching orders when he appeared in court today. Forty-three year old Tomas Kahan, who caused a bomb scare last Friday at the Philip Goldson International Airport, was ordered to leave Belize within a period of five to seven days for overstaying his visit to Belize. Kahan […]
In other news from the courts, last month charges of Aggravated Assault and Unlawful Imprisonment were struck out against Nigeymon Bevans because the case file was not available. Bevans was a free man then, but he has been picked up by police and new charges of Rape and Kidnapping have been placed against him in […]
You previously heard of him following the May eighteenth Grenade explosion and today twenty-two year old Kareem Smith, a fisherman of Junesville, Belize City, was back in court. Smith has been behind bars facing charges of conspiracy in connection with the grenade that exploded, killed one and injured eleven persons on Mayflower Street. And when […]
It was a busy day in court today. Twenty-two year old Rushelly Smith, a data entry clerk at Belize Tourism Board, was arrested by the police on Friday after they uncovered her alleged role in a scam to defraud the B.T.B. The incident, which occurred between September third and fifth was not detected until the […]
Right after the Belize City robbery of JB Security by armed bandits, two other thieves robbed a villager of St. Mathews and made good their escape in a blue Toyota Camry car. On Friday police were called to the residence of Angel Miguel Adle where thirty-five year old Elba Arce reported that at about twelve-thirty […]
Belmopan police are trying to close in on the thief or thieves who broke into a business and made off with electronic equipment worth over six thousand dollars. The burglary occurred at apartment thirteen which houses a consultancy in the Garden City Plaza. The burglars got away with two Toshiba lap tops, a Cannon digital […]
Marion Ali is just back from a traffic accident on the Boom/Hattieville Road. Five persons were injured and hospitalized. The incident occurred shortly before five this evening at the entrance to Fresh Pond and involved a heavy truck used for transporting sand and a smaller Ford pick-up truck. Five persons were travelling in the pickup […]
