Perhaps it was just bad luck, but Madhu Babani was not the only Albert Street businessman who suffered losses yesterday. A store owned by his brother, Danny Babani was burglarized last night across the street from where Madhu was robbed. The store “A Fashion” sits next door to Belize Global Travel Services Limited. Early this […]
Also targeted over the course of the weekend was the office of the Director of Public Prosecution, Cheryl-Lynn Branker-Taitt. According to the secretary, forty-six year old Estelle Mossiah, when she left work Friday evening at five p.m. everything was in order and on Monday morning around seven-thirty she was shocked to find that the office […]
San Ignacio police have detained a man in connection with a burglary and fire that reportedly occurred on Monday night in the Mountain Pine Ridge area. Police report that around nine-thirty on Monday night they got a tip of a suspicious grey van in the area. When police intercepted the van upon their arrival they […]
Two Belize City women find themselves in very dire straits tonight after two separate incidents just hours apart left them incapacitated in the female ward at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. The first incident occurred some time after one on Saturday morning as twenty-nine year old Pamela Stuart was heading to her house on Pelican […]
The second case involves a case of attempted arson. When we covered the story on Monday night there were no injuries to report but tonight we have images of very graphic burns a woman sustained when her house was set on fire. Fifty-five year old Juanita Gonzalez told News Five from her hospital bed that […]
It’s not our morning show but a California based men’s magazine called Open Your Eyes is having an online competition among three beauties who want to be on the cover of their March issue. One of the young beauties is Twenty-one year old Jessica Ochoa. Ochoa’s mother is a Belizean who migrated to the U.S. […]
March fourth is quickly approaching and so far Channel Five’s Open Your Eyes breakfast show has featured mayoral candidates from five of the nine municipalities. Today the P.U.P. and U.D.P. hopefuls made the journey from the Suga City to Church Street to talk about their plans for the future. Current Orange Walk Mayor, Ravei Gonzalez, […]
The current state of the financials at City Hall continues to beg questions about fiscal discipline at the nation’s largest municipal body. And as we reported last week, the Council missed the revenue target by twenty percent in 2007-2008, collecting only thirteen point seven million of the projected seventeen point four million dollars in recurrent […]
When we caught up with the mayor today, we asked her about the report that City Hall has defaulted on Social Security contributions on behalf of City Council employees to the Social Security Board. Marion Ali “There is an allegation as well that the Council has not paid, I think it’s over three hundred thousand […]
A new Justice has been appointed to the Supreme Court: he is Guyana native sixty-three year old Oswell Legall. Legall took the oath of office this morning in a ceremony held in Supreme Court number one before Justice Samuel Awich, who presided in place of Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. Legall arrived in the country with […]
And while judges were busy this morning with the swearing in of the new judge, this afternoon a Belize City man was remanded to prison after being arraigned on charges of Burglary. Thirty-three year old Richard Codd was charged with the burglary of El Paso Fast Food when he appeared in Magistrates’ Court. The prosecution […]
The body of a female was found on the reef about thirteen miles south of Glover’s Reef last Tuesday. The body was in an advanced state of decomposition, and she was lying on her left side with a red and white cloth tied around her neck and under her arms. The police initially believed that […]
A prime piece of property at the Farmer’s Market has sparked controversy between two parties. The building, located at number one Farmer’s Market, was owned by fifty-eight year old Laura Leonardo, who either bought the building from the Development Finance Corporation or got a loan from them to buy it. According to reports, Leonardo began […]
A fourteen year old minor appears to be a victim of sexual exploitation. On Friday, the minor told police that on three different occasions last year her mother took her to meet a male person, known to her only as Zabaneh, with whom she had sexual intercourse. According to the girl, she and her mother […]
This morning a student of Holy Redeemer Primary escaped with minor injuries after he was hit by a vehicle near the junction of Faber’s Road Extension and Wood Pecker Street. According to reports, a Suzuki Vitara, driven at the time by Jason Lodge was traveling towards the highway when upon reaching the junction; he knocked […]
A Belizean laborer of Teakettle Village in the Cayo District was nabbed by police in the area of the Mopan River. On Friday night, police spotted a suspicious looking thirty-five year old Ernesto Jackson along the banks of the river as they patrolled the area. A search conducted on Jackson led to the discovery of […]
A woman who lives on Louise Bevans Street woke up to find her verandah on fire. Fifty-five year old Juanita Gonzalez, woke up at two forty seven a.m. when she smelled smoke and when she checked, her verandah was ablaze. The woman managed to out the fire and save her home. And while she is […]
Grace Kennedy and Company Limited is a conglomerate headquartered in Jamaica. The Grace Kennedy Group comprises a varied network of sixty subsidiaries and associated companies located across the Caribbean and in North and Central America and the United Kingdom. Their operations span the food distribution, financial, insurance, hardware retailing and food-processing industries. The success of […]
It is a severe case of diarrhea and if you are experiencing fever or dehydration, then it is possible that you have gastroenteritis. This contagious disease can leave you fatigued and is transmitted through contaminated food, water, hands and infected surfaces. In infants, severe cases can be fatal. In the past couple months the ratio […]
The school was established fifty years ago and it is now bursting at the seams. We are talking about All Saints Primary on Dunn Street in Belize City which needs your help for urgent refurbishing of the building. The school is extending an invitation to everyone to their banquet this Friday night which aims to […]
Masters of the Floor, From the Street Lights to the Stage Lights, is in its third week and Group A is down to six of the seven performers. On Saturday our Church Street Yaad was overflowing and despite the rain that unexpectedly fell, the six danced a mix of music in freestyle. If you missed […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Week four of the Belize Bank Super League post season saw Valley Renaissance take its big time game to San Felipe Barcelona yesterday in a bid to stay atop the four team standings. However, today San Felipe is searching for its first playoff win in […]
He has close to two hundred investments in countries around the globe and as such Lord Michael Ashcroft has quite an insight into economics. Today, he stopped by the Open Your Eyes morning show and for about an hour, he touched on a wide range of issues. Ashcroft has been having his own share of […]
Ashcroft says his companies are not the only ones being affected by GOB’s decisions… and he points to NEWCO, the international consortium of companies tied up in legal battles with the government over a nine billion dollar arbitration settlement in respect of a canceled airport contract with the past administration. NEWCO also finds itself at […]
It is one food item that shot up by fifty percent in one year alone and had been vexing consumers. But tonight we can report that the price of flour has finally gone down reflecting decreases in prices of wheat internationally. According to a government release, the new maximum wholesale price of La Gitana flour, […]
