An infant is the only casualty in a horrific traffic incident that occurred on last Thursday when a blue Isuzu Trooper and a White Ford Club Wagon carrying tourists collided between miles eight and nine on the Northern Highway near the old Williamson sewing factory. Of the ten Carnival Cruise Line passengers in the Club […]
Even when there is no amnesty program, police are always trying to get guns off the streets. On Friday, Belize City cops received some assistance securing a firearm and ammunition from a tip. Acting on that information, police visited an abandoned lot on Albert Street and found a Glenfield model twelve-gauge pump action shotgun and […]
Quick response by police has resulted in another bike thief being nabbed. Fifteen year old Wilfred Ramirez reported to police that around three-fifty Sunday afternoon he was riding his bike when at the corner Antelope and Pitter Streets, he was approached by Randy Coye. Ramirez says Coye placed a black object resembling a firearm to […]
And in Corozal police are investigating an allegation of rape. A sixteen year old girl accompanied by her mother, reported to police that on Saturday she was socializing at a home in the town and met three young men. The girl states that they began drinking and later that night all three had sex with […]
The Police Department is warning the public to be on the lookout for counterfeit currency. The press release places particular emphasis on fifty dollar bills in Belize currency and one hundred dollar U.S. currency notes. Business persons are being asked to be especially vigilant at night when fake notes are easily passed.
An investigation of firearms found in a barrel has intensified and elements of the Police Department’s Anti-drug Unit have taken over the probe into last Thursday’s bust at the Customs compound. The weapons include three high-powered guns, a home-made silencer and several rounds of ammunition that were discovered in a routine inspection by the Customs. […]
On Friday it is expected that government will introduce a bill to amend the Income and Business Tax Act to increase the tax on telephone companies from nineteen percent to twenty-five percent. That move caught Telemedia by surprise and today four managers sent a letter to Prime Minister Dean Barrow asking for an audience to […]
Meanwhile, the Public Utilities Commission will serve its order of compliance on another utility company, Belize Electricity Limited, on Tuesday. The order was scheduled to be served on Friday, but was delayed when B.E.L. applied to the Supreme Court for an injunction. The utility asked that the P.U.C. be prevented from issuing the order until […]
The Gulf of Honduras Project is an initiative designed to update maritime charts and maps in the region. Though it may not sound like a big deal, it has its relevance, especially since those maps have not been updated in many years. Guatemala and Honduras have already received the necessary equipment for charting their waters […]
Three weeks ago there was just too much water when the flood swept through the western part of the country causing the death of three persons and millions of dollars in damages. But today in Buena Vista Village in Cayo, the problem is not too much water but a shortage of it. A News Five […]
It is a little less than a month, since the persistent rains from tropical depression sixteen caused historic rises in water levels. In areas that are bound by rivers such as the Macal, Rio Hondo and Mopan Belize waters rose by eight feet. In the Blue Creek Village water levels peaked at over thirteen feet […]
His paintings can be seen in many art galleries in Belize, the rest of region, U.S.A., Asia and Europe. And while he is accomplished as an artist, Michael Gordon is humble in his lifestyle and you can find him in many places downtown Belize City, looking for what next to capture on canvas. His works […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The Regent Cup Tournament playoffs rolled briskly into the semi-finals yesterday, Sunday, with F.C. Belize hosting Llagulei of Dangriga in game one of this home and away series that would decide who gets to perform in money time. Folks, it was a very prolonged and […]
He’s been on the police wanted list since Monday night after four Chinese businesspeople were attacked, two of them fatally in Dangriga Town. But four days later the law has caught up with eighteen year old Percival Jones. This afternoon police apprehended Jones not in Dangriga, but Belize City. The teen had just dropped by […]
A villager from Bullet Tree Falls, Cayo will be spending three years behind bars after pleading guilty to Drug Trafficking. Thirty year old Miguel Angel Mendez was nabbed around eleven Thursday morning by a police border patrol unit as he was exiting the administrative building at the Belize Western Border on his return from Melchor. […]
Ladyville police are investigating a report of Unlawful Carnal Knowledge upon an eight year old. The minor, accompanied by her mother, told police that on several occasions this year while she was visiting a relative, Anthony Myvette, he had sexual intercourse with her. An examination on the child has confirmed that she was molested and […]
Security guards are hired to protect person and property, but today one employee was charged for failing to do his job. Forty-four year old Phillip Estrada, a security guard at the Youth Hostel, pleaded not guilty when he appeared in court today for allegedly stealing a shade of wire from his employer. According to reports, […]
It is not often that we hear good things about the Police, but today the department gave credit where it is due and honoured fourteen of its employees. In a ceremony this afternoon in Belize City, twelve police officers, a special constable and a civilian member of staff were recognised for outstanding service for the […]
The Conscious Youth Development Program received a much needed boost to a project today when two companies donated seventeen thousand dollars. Telemedia handed over a cheque for twelve thousand dollars, while the Mirage group of companies gave five thousand. The funds, along with additional financing from government, were used to purchase a hundred and fifty-nine […]
Donations continue to pour in for flood victims and the organizations that assist them. The latest good Samaritans are the Social Security Board and the Archer Daniels Midland Company, better known as A.D.M. This morning S.S.B. donated two hundred thousand dollars to the National Emergency Organization. Meanwhile, a press release from A.D.M. says it will […]
Today was the final day of the sixth annual conference of the Organization of Caribbean Utility Regulators… and telecommunications was the topic taking centre stage. Among the presenters this morning was Chairman of Telemedia, Dean Boyce, who spoke on achieving Universal Service. Boyce says one of the challenges towards that goal is that Belize’s population […]
“We need you today, you might need us tomorrow” is the motto of the Belize Cancer Society and one family that has taken that phrase to heart is the Skeens. Since the inauguration of the society over a decade ago, the family has donated approximately thirty-one thousand dollars to the organization. Their latest contribution assisted […]
November is commemorated as Diabetes Awareness Month and the Belize Diabetes Association is raising awareness with a number of events leading up to World Diabetes Day. The activities kick off tomorrow morning with a walk and tonight B.D.A. President Anthony Castillo is encouraging the public to participate. Anthony Castillo, President, B.D.A. “I would like to […]
Remembrance Day is a day set aside to give thanks to all those men and women around the world who served in the two world wars. Belizeans and residents of other Caribbean countries joined the allied forces and served as the British West Indies Regiment. Though observed internationally on the eleventh, locally a service to […]
Do you like dancing, bingo, chicken wings or art? Then listen up because tonight’s edition of What’s Happening Belize has got them all. Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is What’s Happening Belize. This weekend the P.T.A. of Bishop Martin High School in Orange Walk would like to invite all high school and sixth form students […]
