Mary’s Open Doors is a non-governmental organization located in San Ignacio that assists victims of domestic abuse in the west. And as the scope of its work grows, so does the need for funding. One group that has stepped up to the plate is the Concerned Belizean Women Group, an organization working on promoting awareness […]
The case of Barry Bowen and the Landowners Association versus government was in the headlines right up to the end on February thirteenth, when the C.J. ruled against government’s proposed amendment to section seventeen of the constitution. The changes would have blocked access to the courts in the event of any grievances and would have […]
Former Acting Chief Meteorologist Ramon Frutos has been more active than all the hurricane seasons combined. After decades of experience forecasting the weather, his career in public office is coming to an end as he reaches retirement age. The meteorologist sat down with News Five’s Jose Sanchez recently to chat about his experiences with the […]
Criminals let loose over the weekend and in tonight’s newscast, we lead with reports of a fatal shooting, two murders and the latest on a grenade that exploded at the home of the Comptroller of Customs Gregory Gibson. In the first case, a youth was killed during a crossfire in which two cops were shot […]
And in a murder in Belize City, Brian Williams, also known as “Benji”, would have turned thirty-four on March seventeenth but will never get to see that day because his life was cut short around two on Baron Bliss Day. Williams was reportedly painting a house at the corner of Faber’s Road and Nurse Findley […]
There was another murder over the weekend but that one occurred in the Orange Walk District. There are more questions than answers in this case and while details are sketchy, it is known that the victim, sixty-seven year old Manuel Salazar was found inside his house in Carmelita Village around noon on Sunday. Police says […]
One of the issues that the media was persistent about at today’s police conference was the increasing incidents of grenade explosions; the fourth which occurred on March third at the home of Comptroller of Customs, Gregory Gibson. Although luckily no one was hurt, the type of grenade that was detonated was the most lethal yet […]
One month and eight days after canero Antanacio Gutierrez was shot dead in the riot in Orange Walk the investigations are still ongoing. The wife of the fallen cane farmer, Benita Gutierrez subsequently wrote to the Prime Minister calling for an investigating into her husband’s death. In that letter Benita stated that there were a […]
For weeks speculation had been rife that a Cabinet reshuffle would be imminent after the municipal elections. Well today, the first order of business, even before Cabinet met, was the announcement of the anticipated reshuffle, the first for the Barrow Administration. It did not amount to a major shake up in Belmopan and the loser […]
In other news from Belmopan, CARICOM leaders will meet in Belize for two days this week. Topics for the twentieth Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government will include the global economic crisis, the European Partnership Agreement, Single Market and Economy, a trade and development agreement with Canada, among others. Preparations for the […]
Moving to the courts, in an update to the murder of a Chinese businessman at Bachelor Inn last Friday, one adult and two minors appeared in Magistrates’ Court on charges of Murder today. Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie could not offer bail and heard no pleas on this indictable offence. She remanded twenty-two year old Joel […]
And a fisherman from Conch Shell Bay will spend the next five years in jail. In court this morning, Magistrate Aretha Ford found thirty-three year old Freddy Grant guilty of Robbery after Said Silva testified that on June tenth of 2008, he was accosted by Grant along with an unidentified man at the corner of […]
In other crime news, around ten-thirty on Friday night, four masked bandits, armed with handguns, targeted the White Swan Bar at mile seven on the Stann Creek Valley Road. Bartender, Cleotilda Montoya of Hope Creek, says that four Hispanic men wearing peak caps entered the establishment, placed a gun to her head and demanded money. […]
An early morning robbery on Sunday left two persons wounded. Around eight-thirty a.m. two thieves targeted the tacos stand at the corner of Banak Street and Central American Boulevard and attempted to rob the vendor of his earnings. It is attempted because the robbery turned into a shooting leaving one of the robbers injured. Twenty […]
A three car pile-up on the northern highway has left several persons with various degrees of injuries. At around eight-forty Sunday morning, fifty-one year old Julio Diaz of Belama Phase Two told police that while driving away from the Brodies parking lot in his Toyota Rav-four, a Geo Prizm taxi driven by thirty-two year old […]
For months Belize Electricity Limited C.E.O., Lynn Young, has remained silent on the company’s ongoing disagreements with the Public Utilities Commission. This morning, however, Young appeared as a guest on Open Your Eyes, breaking his silence. The C.E.O. maintains that when the price of oil skyrocketed in early to mid 2008, they experienced severe financial […]
The art world in Belize has been dominated traditionally by men, but trends over the past few years are showing that is changing. Women have often preserved tradition and culture and the objects that they create are becoming today’s fine art. An exhibit that is opening at the Institute of Mexico is celebrating both the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s this week’s look at Sports Monday. The final schedule in this week’s Belize Bank Super League post season was staged over the weekend and indeed turned up no real surprises. We now head to Dangriga where yesterday league leading and undefeated Valley Renaissance hosted the would be contender […]
This morning Prime Minister Dean Barrow presented his second budget to the House of Representatives for the fiscal year beginning April first. For 2009-2010 the Prime Minister is budgeting over eight hundred and seven million dollars in revenues and grants, with eight hundred and fifty-nine million in expenditures. When you do the math, that means […]
According to Prime Minister Barrow, the economic challenges facing the country are even greater for 2009-2010 due to the two natural disasters of 2008, the rapid slump in the world price of petroleum and the financial meltdown occurring across the world. Nonetheless, the P.M. says his government will bring the nation out of the crisis… […]
The Opposition will get a chance to put Barrow’s offering under the microscope when they debate the budget on March nineteenth. But today we asked Party Leader John Briceño and Deputy Leader Mark Espat for their initial impressions. Mark Espat, Deputy Leader, P.U.P. “I think there are two sides to the coin, so to speak. […]
Tuesday night’s murder was followed today by another and residents in the West Landivar area of Belize City are shocked over the bloody murder of a businessman who set up shop about fifteen years ago and opened Bachelor’s Inn Hotel on Bachelor Avenue. Reports are that sometime around three this afternoon four men entered the […]
On February twenty-seventh he was found guilty of raping a Canadian woman and today Jimmy Jerry Espat was sentenced to ten years behind bars for the crime. Justice Adolph Lucas heard mitigation pleas from three Santa Elena residents on behalf of the thirty year old mason and bartender who testified that Espat was a good […]
Also in Magistrates’ Court, three fishermen who were reportedly busted with a point three-fifty-seven magnum revolver and four rounds of related ammunition were charged with Keeping a Prohibited Firearm and Ammunition yesterday. Twenty-four year old Jason Westby, forty-five year old Alvin Andrews and thirty-five year old Humberto Avilez all pleaded not guilty to the charges. […]
The official statistics are saying that the voter turnout in Wednesday’s elections was within average, forty-eight percent. In Belize City, however, it was lower than in 2006, in fact by as much as seventeen percent. So who went to vote and what motivates voters? That is what Jose Sanchez set out to find. Jose Sanchez, […]
