A Taiwanese businesswoman was shot twice on both arms last night by a thief who stole her gun and money. Thirty-nine year old Ai Lian Gu told police that at around eleven-thirty she and businessman, thirty-eight year old Xing Duan Xu arrived at her house. Ai said that when she went to open her front […]
Also in Punta Gorda, there is a development to a story that we aired in our newscast last night, in respect of a Statutory Instrument recently signed off by the Attorney General which would have displaced the alcaldes elected by the Maya leaders and community in favour of government appointed alcaldes. According to the Toledo […]
The government of Belize has indicated that it will disburse the Venezuelan funds for poverty alleviation through small grants to individuals making twenty thousand dollars or less. Well it seems that one enterprising woman decided to take advantage of persons hoping to get the loans by scamming them of hard earned money. The woman, using […]
In other news, on Saturday night twenty-eight year old Erlin Neal, a resident of Magazine Road, was at the Princess Hotel and Casino on Princess Margaret Drive when an altercation occurred. Neal and his girlfriend were partying at the hotel’s disco, Club Next, when he became embroiled in an argument with Vincent Galvez, who was […]
People say “Step into another person’s shoe, look at things from another point of view and the world as you know it will never be the same again.” Well, that’s one proverb a prison guard wishes he didn’t know and that’s because twenty-eight year old Yourmoul Mcnab was caught with drugs at the Kolbe Facility. […]
A Salvadoran national, employed as a meat vendor at the Queen’s Square Market, has been charged with the crime of Carnal Knowledge. He is thirty-one year old Jesus Echeverria, who appeared in court on Monday accused of sexually abusing a thirteen year old minor. No plea was taken because the offence is indictable and Chief […]
The unfortunate shooting death of Anastacio Felix Gutierrez, a farmer of the village of San Victor in the Corozal District, has stunned the north and the nation, unnecessary as it was when security forces opened live fire on the striking farmers. Duane Moody looks back at the worst strike to be recorded in recent memory. […]
If the images of Monday’s protest at BSI and the Tower Hill Bridge look eerily familiar, that is because there was another protest staged at the Tower Hill Bridge back on July thirtieth two thousand and one. Jose Sanchez takes a look at the protests and puts them in perspective. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Monday’s protest […]
We begin tonight’s newscast with a decision from the office of the Prime Minister just before five this evening announcing the suspension of the core sampler for the rest of this year’s sugar crop season. But that came after one person, identified as Antonio Felix Gutierrez from the village of San Victor, was killed and […]
We go now to Orange Walk where this morning, riled cane farmers were out in the hundreds and tempers were running high. The Deputy Prime Minister, Gaspar Vega who was deployed to broker a deal was roughed up by the angry farmers. C.E.O. for the Cane Farmers Association, Carlos Magana, predicted then that if a […]
Attorneys Hubert Elrington and Michael Peyrefitte, representing the farmers were at the scene earlier in the thick and thin of things. Hubert Elrington, Attorney, Cane Farmers Association “Myself and Mr. Peyrefitte, we are both lawyers and we are here to assist the cane farmers and see how we can resolve this matter and see what […]
But while those in the cane industry had full day and regrettably one person lost his life and others injured, in La Isla Bonita a series of events last Friday bore their own weight of strange twists. Marion Ali was out on Ambergris Caye today and has this report. Marion Ali, Reporting Details of Friday’s […]
Interesting to note is that another strange incident which might or might not be related to the whole incident also unfolded on the island on Friday night. Police came across a group of men in the same Boca del Rio area around eight on Friday night with a huge amount of US cash on them. […]
There are two other murder cases to report, and from San Pedro we turn to Belize City where a shooting at a nightclub early this morning resulted in the death of a Belize City man. The incident occurred at Club Enterprise, formerly known as Q-Club, on Caesar Ridge Road. A gunshot went off near the […]
And we go north where a mother of two was murdered in Corozal Town. This past Saturday around six-thirty in the morning, police found the partially nude and lifeless body of a woman floating in the waters near the entrance of the town. The body was retrieved from the sea and taken to the Corozal […]
And now we turn to a deadly traffic accident shortly after seven, the heavy rains this morning caused the death of two persons including a traffic officer. The incident occurred between miles nine and ten on the Western Highway where two vehicles coming from opposite directions slammed into each other. Two died and three others […]
The accident on the Western Highway is not the only traffic mishap to report tonight. At about nine fifteen p.m. last Saturday, Norman Anthony, a police officer of Los Lagos was driving with Delesia and Henry Anthony towards Lemonal when Norman lost control of the black Isuzu Rodeo and ran off the road. The vehicle […]
And while in the north the situation is explosive, there is also trouble brewing in the south. The Maya Leader’s Alliance and the Toledo Alcalde Association are in a dispute with the Attorney General’s Ministry and Toledo West Minister Juan Coy. With Coy’s blessings a statutory instrument was signed by the attorney general, which removed […]
Marleni Cuellar “Alright, we’re being joined here in the studios by Kendra Griffith, who is freshly back from Orange Walk where you were in the middle of the action at the Tower Hill Bridge. Kendra, bring us up to speed. We saw Prime Minister Dean give his press conference, we saw the interview with Carlos […]
The Belize Bank Super League kicked off its four team double elimination playoffs over the weekend and up north at the San Felipe Football Field, San Felipe Barcelona opened with a home against the number three seed Kraal Road of Belize City. Nevertheless, it’s the visitors who get off to the dream start when goalkeeper […]
