In economic news, the price of crude oil plummeted to its lowest yet today at below fifty U.S. dollar, at forty nine dollars ninety one cents a barrel. This is the lowest plunge since January 2007 showing loss of confidence in the global economy and a falling demand for fuel. That may be good news […]
The fire was back on March twenty-sixth and while construction is underway for the landmark building in downtown Belize City, the proprietors are crying foul. Jose Sanchez reports. Jose Sanchez, Reporting At the site of the former Romac’s, a banner has been placed high above the construction site for everyone to see; a message to […]
But there is one Belizean who stands to benefit from insurers. The Caribbean Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (CARAIFA) whose members offer life insurance and financial services are in Belize on a two day conference. While in the country, the executive body will hold its quarterly meeting. But the CARAIFA foundation is not just […]
In other news, you don’t hear about them very often, but for over a decade the National Committee for Families and Children has been acting as the major advisory body to the government on families and children’s issues. Today the organization updated the public on its activities and progress. Kendra Griffith reports. Student #1 “Did […]
Earlier in this newscast, we reported that Telemedia is taking on the government, but not so for the consumers because the well known Digicell Triangle is now being followed by Digicell Messenger Service. This novel service is to be launched tomorrow as Telemedia’s newest mobile-phone service for its customers. The Digicell Messenger Service will allow […]
To conclude our three part series on Diabetes, Healthy Living looks at diet and exercise and what every diabetic person needs to know to complement the medication they take. Marleni Cuellar reporting Close to thirteen percent of persons over twenty in Belize are living with diabetes. Once a person is diagnosed there are significant changes […]
At news time three women are hospitalised at the K.H.M.H. following an accident at approximately eleven-thirty this morning between miles fifteen and sixteen in the area of Tropical Park on the Western highway. It involved two trucks, an eighteen wheeler and a ten wheeler, that were reportedly racing towards Belize City. The driver of an […]
And in another piece of bad news, a fire this morning, just before the accident, charred an apartment on the upper flat of a complex in the Fabers Road Extension Area. The apartment complex housed six families; most of them were away at the time. The incident occurred at about ten-fifteen this morning when the […]
By now you would know that the world’s largest economies are in recession brought about by the financial collapse in the U.S. The latest is also one of the biggest, Japan, which announced it was in recession last Sunday and in the Caribbean the news is not good. Last week one of the biggest hotels, […]
The split in the People’s United Party has been known since the leadership change in March of this year. And every now and then there is a reminder in the public domain that the opposition party is not about to close ranks, at least not anytime soon. The squabble just now has to do with […]
The recent spate of firings involving BAHA employees has caused uproar in the Public Service Union which represents close to a thousand active employees in the government service, with president Jacqueline Willoughby Sanchez, leading the charge. Yesterday, the People’s United Party joined in the condemnation of the firings and today the National Trade Union Congress […]
Meanwhile, in an update on the recent flooding, the National Emergency Management Organization has embarked on a project to replace household items to Cayo residents affected by the waters of the Mopan and Macal rivers. According to a press release on Monday, NEMO and the Cayo Disaster Emergency Committee distributed butane stoves, gas tanks, sofa […]
Agriculture has been the backbone of the Belizean economy for decades … and now the San Antonio Women’s Group in the Cayo District is looking to get in on the action. This week, ten of its members took part in a two-day workshop organized by the Department of Agriculture. District Agricultural Coordinator, Oscar Salazar told […]
The Belize Basketball Federation is well underway in selecting a team of twelve to participate in the Central American Basketball Tournament hosted by neighbouring Guatemala. Over the past two weeks, the federation has been holding tryouts to select under-twelve male players to compete in the regional tournament in December. Belize has not participated in regional […]
For the second time in less than a week, a woman has won the lotto. This time around the jackpot was for fifty thousand dollars and the lucky winner hailed not from the west, but the north: she is Edna Blanco of San Estevan Village in the Orange Walk. Blanco picked up her cheque this […]
Millions around the world have been viewing the Today Show’s Ends of the Earth series focusing on environmental areas susceptible to climate change. Today co-host Matt Lauer, in part two of a series on Belize, was reporting live from Half Moon Caye, about twenty minutes from the Blue Hole where he was on Monday. Here […]
Due to the Garifuna Settlement Day celebrations, the next newscast will be on Thursday, November twentieth.
Criminal elements were on a rampage over the weekend wreaking havoc in the City and around the country. There was one murder, a grenade explosion, robberies and plenty more crime. We start first with a murder in the wee hours of Saturday morning in Belize City. Jose Sanchez has a report. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Thirty-six […]
A loud bang shattered across Port Loyola last Friday night just after seven p.m. Memories of Mayflower Street and the Carnival Day grenade echoed into the night. Near the junction with Kraal and Fabers road, the neighbourhood was afraid, fragments tore into trees and walls and a large hole was found in a yard. But […]
With all the crime, a police officer who fell asleep on the job is now facing his peers. Since the officer dozed off in the company of Belize Defence Soldiers and a police officer, you would think he was safe. Well think again because this is what happened to twenty-four year old Police Constable Daniel […]
And if the missing officer’s pistol was not enough to embarrass the police department, there is an allegation that a Senior Superintendent has been busted by the Customs Department for contraband liquor. While one litre of alcohol is permitted across the border, the officer allegedly had on him an entire case of Jamaican Appleton rum. […]
Meanwhile, a man is dead tonight, the victim of a road traffic accident on the Northern Highway. The deceased has been identified as Ruclin Caal. On Friday, twenty-six year old Manuel Romero of Benque Viejo Road in San Ignacio reported to police that he was driving his truck on the Northern Highway towards Orange Walk […]
But back in Belize City, a number of taxi drivers were targeted over the weekend by robbers and in the case of Leon Young, they included minors on a rampage. At about three-thirty a.m. on Sunday morning, police visited the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital where they saw twenty-four year old Leon Young, a taxi driver […]
And in related news, on Saturday night at around nine-thirty, the cops received information that fifty year old Gustavo Baeza suffered a single gunshot wound to his left clavicle. The victim, businessman of Sapodilla Street in Orange Walk Town, was accompanied by sixteen year old Anna Lainez of Banak Street. Both Baeza and Lainez were […]
But if that was not bad enough, there is a second report of bestiality in the course of a month to report tonight. On Saturday, police formally arrested and charged twenty-seven year old Lisandro Matu of Patchakan Village in Corozal District with Committing an Unnatural Crime. The incident occurred when cane farmer, Omar Vallejas told […]
