It was a full day in court for former P.U.P. Housing Minister, Ralph Fonseca over the ten million dollars from Venezuela gifted to Belize. Fonseca’s defense team and the Director of Public Prosecutions battled it out with legal arguments before Belmopan Magistrate Earl Jones. By the end of the day there were a number of […]
One more person has been charged with Money Laundering in respect of the bust of one and a half million dollars on New Year’s Eve at MoneyGram. Thirty-three year old Ernest Raymond Jr., has joined five others already charged for the offence. Raymond was offered and met bail of fifty thousand dollars. He is to […]
A Belize City resident was caught with a substantial sum of cannabis in his home. Twenty-four year old Micah Lee Williams, a resident of Raccoon Street Extension, who police reportedly busted with twenty-two pounds of cannabis on Wednesday, was charged with Drug Trafficking when he appeared today in Magistrates’ court. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie offered […]
A vehicle belonging to a police officer was destroyed by fire but the police department is not calling it arson yet. Augustine Cobb, a thirty-three year old Police Constable of San Pedro Village in the Corozal District parked his Chevy S-ten pick up in a yard between miles seventy-four and seventy-five on the Northern Highway. […]
The celebration of the Belize Audubon Society’s forty years of conservation efforts started with Wetlands Day on Monday. On Wednesday, the Mexican Cultural Institute played host to Shutter Speed, a photo exhibit that chronicled five years in the boardroom and the different sites managed by Audubon. And today, the N.G.O. brought rural and city kids […]
In political news, you will know from the political ads in the media that the campaign for the March fourth municipal elections is well underway. And today in Orange Walk Town, the Opposition P.U.P. launched its party’s platform. The event formally introduced mayoral candidate, Ramon ‘Monchi’ Cervantes and councillors; Josue Carballo, Rozel Flores, Rafael Avila, […]
This week Healthy Living looks at issues of grief and loss; these are painful experiences that we will endure at some point or another. Coping with these problems is a challenge as we learn in the following segment. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting When you injure a part of your body, there are various processes you may […]
Tension has cooled down and things were quiet in Orange Walk today even though the thousands of cane farmers continue to strike. Belize Sugar Industries have remained mum and we have not been able to contact Financial Director Belizario Carballo to get a comment on the demand that the core sampler be removed… but we […]
And still on the issue of strikes, at Monday’s Press Conference, Prime Minister Dean Barrow made it clear that he would not negotiate with the cane farmers in “a mob scene.” After checking our archives on past strikes, we found a story of an April nineteenth 2005 press conference given by, then opposition Leader Dean […]
But the cheese or income that Prime Minister Barrow referred to in 2005 is also the bone of contention for the cane farmers in 2009. They are fighting to keep a stable income from an industry that is slowly drying up. In William Shakespeare’s King Henry the Fourth, King Henry said Uneasy lies the head […]
We reported yesterday that San Pedro police had discovered the bodies of two more men whose murders they believe are linked to a drug deal gone bad that began to unfold last Friday afternoon. The first body police found was that of twenty-eight year old John Paul Saldivar, a tour guide who was shot dead […]
Meanwhile, an internal investigation by police has determined that Eric Swan was indeed shot by a cop last Friday. And while he recuperates in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, police are not yet clear whether any one officer will face trial for his shooting or even more seriously, Swan’s attorney, Michael Peyrefitte, is still waiting […]
We have reported on a stabbing at Club Next and tonight twenty year old Vincent Galvez of Belize City is behind bars charged with the Attempted Murder of Edwin Neal. When he appeared in court today, Galvez was also charged with Dangerous Harm and the Use of Deadly Means of Harm. Bail could not be […]
A second traffic accident for this week occurred on the Western Highway between miles seventy-four and seventy-five, but it was not fatal. On Tuesday night, police visited the scene where two taxis; a Toyota car and a Ford Escort car overturned; both extensively damaged. The driver of the Toyota taxi, forty-four year old Victor Manuel […]
George Betson, who lost his home at mile two on the Northern Highway in July of 2008 during a very public land dispute, has come across another piece of bad luck. The sixty-six year old’s current home on Partridge Street was burglarized on Monday sometime between one and six-forty p.m. The thief or thieves stole […]
The sustained cane farmers strike in the sugar belt continues to cripple one of the most vital sectors of the economy in respect of hard currency earnings and employment, direct and otherwise. And there is more bad economic news to report that can potentially magnify the country’s fiscal woes. This comes from a recently released […]
We turn to telecommunications in Belize. Over the years the industry has evolved and, recent developments have cast the spotlight on Telemedia, the leading local telecoms company. The Chairman of Telemedia’s Executive Committee, Dean Boyce, appeared on Monday morning’s broadcast of Open Your Eyes. He answered questions ranging from taxation, to free internet in schools […]
In news of an environmental nature, this year the Belize Audubon Society is celebrating forty years of its active presence in Belize. There are many events planned in the months ahead by the N.G.O. to celebrate this milestone as the leading agency in promoting the sustainable use of natural resources. And this evening, the Mexican […]
It’s a thriving industry that continues to grow and is making an impact on the local art scene. This past Monday, two pioneers in the bamboo industry put off an exhibit of their most recent work in bamboo crafting that they combine with natural elements. The exhibition, held at the House of Culture, features the […]
And we go now to Orange Walk town where we can report tonight that while the mood is considerably somber following Monday’s killing of Anastacio Felix Gutierrez, farmers are insisting that they want to see the removal, and not the suspension, of the core sampler. Kendra Griffith has a report on the general meeting called […]
The P.M.’s lengthy press conference covered various issues including the relevance of the core sampler and the way negotiations went leading up to yesterday’s with the Cane Farmers Association. When questioned by the press of why he did not meet the cane farmers in Orange Walk, the Prime Minister said he had no regrets and […]
The strike in the north continues and there’s an impasse between the farmers and the Belize Sugar Industries. In our newscast tonight, we will have various reports on the unfolding events in the past twenty-four hours, but we go first to a press conference held by the prime minister in which he was flanked by […]
The deadly shooting and the strike at the Tower Hill have presented the greatest challenge by far to the present government. And while the PM today expressed regret for what unfolded, the opposition leader has also voiced his share of remorse over the tragedy and the situation that the sugar industry is currently facing. John […]
The latest victim of gun violence in the City is hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. The twenty-six year old was on his way to work when he was attacked. The motive is not known but it is confirmed that Marvin Underwood was at the venue at another shooting that ended in murder over the weekend. Marion […]
And in San Pedro, police are currently investigating three murders that appear to be connected to drug trafficking. The latest two bodies were found on the island today and appear to be connected to last Friday’s murder. The men have been identified as Edward Gutierrez and Jason Swan, both of whom reportedly went fishing on […]
