Anybody who follows the music scenes will tell you that Jamaicans believe they are the cream of the crop in this region and beyond. That’s why when Belize claimed top prize at the regional finals for the fifth annual Heineken Green Synergy DJ Competition in Jamaica, it was a big deal. With an audience of […]
The Kattegat Sea, which is bound by Sweden and Denmark, is over five thousand five hundred miles away from Ambergris Caye. That’s a far way off considering that the distance between Belize City and Ambergris is just about thirty six miles. You may be thinking: what’s the relevance of this information. Well the distance between […]
The announcement of her appointment as Ombudswoman to replace Paul Rodriquez was made yesterday by the Prime Minister, but according to attorney Cynthia Pitts, the matter is not yet official. Pitts says she has indicated an interest in the top job and it will take some time for this to materialize since she would have […]
If you are prone to catch the bug, there are many ways to prevent it or to deal with this influenza. But first there is a difference between the common cold and the flu. Healthy Living looks this week at this virus that makes your life downright sickening. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting As the Christmas season […]
Southern Belize is bracing for heavy rains from an erratic weather pattern meandering on the northern tip of Honduras. While Tropical Depression number sixteen has already crossed over land, it has regained speed and up to three o’clock this afternoon forecasters were trying to determine its future movements over the next twenty-four hours. Southern Belize […]
But while the residents were busy packing up, officials of the National Emergency Management Organisation were on alert, ready to spring into full action. Ramon Frutos, Acting Chief Met Officer “The centre has now moved or drifted slightly inland over north-eastern Honduras and the projection is that it will continue to move westwards but the […]
And as the tropical depression sits on Honduras and residents prepare school schedules are being affected. So will there be classes on Thursday? That is the question that students all over the country have been asking their teachers since the announcement of tropical depression number sixteen. Well, the answer is yes and no; depending on […]
Prime Minister Barrow tried hard to explain today, the release of four Mexican soldiers who were nabbed by police for an undeclared and unlicensed firearm. According to Barrow, the decision was taken on the advice of the Ministry of National Security which today in a release quotes articles one, two, twenty-two and a hundred and […]
Much time was devoted today to the ground work to take the Guatemalan claim to Belizean territory before the International Court of Justice. According to Barrow, members of the head negotiating team are currently finalizing the “compromis” or agreement which will govern what is put to the ICJ. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “The Minister of […]
The Venezuela millions, this is another topic that has been dominating the headlines this year. And while the twenty million has been handed over to the government by the Belize Bank, the matter is still under arbitration in London. But Barrow says G.O.B. will have no part of it… and is focusing on spending the […]
Last week Central Government bailed out the financially strapped Belize City Council by giving them almost a quarter million dollars. The funds came with a stern warning to get its house in order. Today the P.M. reported that he has met with the council and is satisfied that they are on the road to financial […]
Not only did the Prime Minister have to answer questions about the Mayor’s salary, today he also had to respond to charges by Tony and David Novelo that the government is ruining their business as well as public transport services. Barrow told the press this morning that the reformation of the transport industry in the […]
The process was long coming for the N.G.O.s as it would be the first time they would have a seat in the senate. And this morning according to their plan, APAMO, a grouping of environmental N.G.O.s, together with other N.G.O.s joined forces to elect a representative to the senate. Gregory Ch’oc, a Mayan leader and […]
But this morning’s elections has run into plenty trouble and according to Barrow in a press conference at just about the same time the N.G.O.s were voting, not so fast. The so called progress, says the P.M., in which APAMO and the N.G.O.s are heading, is premature and a seat in the senate is not […]
And while the APAMO appointment is in trouble, the appointment of Cynthia Pitts as ombudswoman was confirmed today. Pitts, an attorney by profession, is attached to the law firm of Pitts and Elrington. Prime Minister Dean Barrow “Cabinet has agreed to recommend to the National Assembly, the appointment of Ms. Cynthia Pitts as the Ombudswoman […]
In this newscast, varying degrees of unthinkable crimes are reported from time to time, but bestiality is one that is not often heard of, much less reported. Today we report of one such case in the Magistrate Court where fifty-eight year old Salvadoran national Brigido Majano pleaded guilty to the charge of unnatural crime with […]
The Gun Amnesty Program is scheduled to end on October thirty-first, but a Belize City man who did not hand in his, is facing eight years in jail for an unlicensed gun and ammunition. Eighteen year old Floyd Hyde was picked up by police on Monday, October thirteenth, to be interrogated about a robbery. While […]
And in other news from the courts, two robbers have been spared a five-year prison term and paid for their crime with cash. Today, twenty-three year old Charles West and his brother, twenty-four year old Nigel West, were both fined two thousand dollars each for a robbery they committed last week. On October, the brothers […]
And the winner is … Last night’s grand finale of Duets was both intense and exciting after thirteen weeks of gruelling competition. The results of text voting placed the duo of Joseph Stamp Romero and Delanni Thurton-Romero as the crowd favourite and they danced away with ten thousand dollars in cash and other prizes to […]
Thirty-three year old Kirk Smith, a fisherman by profession and father of three girls, became Belize’s seventy-seventh murder victim on the high seas. Smith’s body was brought in by skiff from Turneffe Island last Friday night. There is much speculation on the motive behind the killing, but this morning police arrested and charged a Sarteneja […]
Four Mexican soldiers are on their way back across the border after they were released by police. The four were apprehended just before ten on Monday night on the Northern Highway when they were found with an undeclared weapon. The soldiers reportedly arrived at the Burrell Boom checkpoint in a white Mazda four-door car bearing […]
The high profile Brannon brothers murder trial has been adjourned until next Tuesday. The case against Taejdron Bennett and Joseph Kee was set to commence in Belmopan this morning in front of Justice Troadio Gonzalez, but was pushed back due to the addition of a new attorney. This morning attorney Michael Peyrefitte notified Justice Gonzalez […]
And in the Magistrates’ Court in Belize City today, twenty-nine year old Edward Sandoval, the stepfather of an eleven month old baby boy was charged with Child Neglect after the child suffered a fractured nose on October ninth. Sandoval, a construction worker of Barracat Street, pleaded not guilty to the charge and was offered bail […]
Ramon Vasquez, the owner of the Channel Nine television station, is out on a two thousand five hundred dollar bail tonight. Vasquez was taken to court this morning and was charged with Causing Harm to police constable Newton Martinez and driving a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol. Vasquez pleaded not guilty and his […]
A man who was found with a hundred dollar counterfeit note, has been fined a little more, one hundred and fifty dollars. And twenty-two year old Roger Pott also lost his job at Habet and Habet Hardware Store. Magistrate Sharon Frazer gave Pott until November thirtieth to pay the fine and if he doesn’t, he […]
