Is Barack Obama coming to Belize? That’s the question that was put to the new United States Ambassador who began his diplomatic mission to Belize last month. Vinai Thummalapally is a former roommate of Obama, and that relationship is expected to translate into renewed interest in Belize. Today, the U.S. ambassador met the press corp […]
Turning to domestic politics, remember Juan Coy? He was the Minister of State from the south who was stripped of his portfolio in March because of allegations that he instructed the Punta Gorda Belize Defense Force Camp to allow one of his supporters to enter the country with contraband drinks, including beer from neighboring Guatemala. […]
And in the west, a Santa Elena taxi driver was murdered in cold blood in front of his family on Sunday night and today the police are still searching for clues. Two persons of interest were initially detained for the fatal shooting of thirty year old Mario Chi. They are still in police custody being […]
And a former basketball player is settling in at the Hattieville prison because that’s where he will spend the next twenty-five years of his life over a horse saddle. Thirty-three year old Stewart Sutherland was found guilty of the Manslaughter of Gary Gabourel on October fifth and today Justice Michelle Arana handed down the hefty […]
It is the second time that Cecil Gabourel is appearing before Justice Adolph Lucas for the stabbing death of his wife on December twenty-fifth, 2006. In the first case, he was charged with murder and pleaded guilty to manslaughter but did not agree to the facts as presented in court and a retrial was ordered. […]
After an early morning bust, police carted off a husband and wife, along with their son-in-law and his friend to the Queen Street police station. At around eight this morning, the cops searched the home of Albert Davis, but when they did not find anything incriminating, they took their hunt for illegal drugs and firearm […]
Earlier in the newscast we told about today’s press conference with U.S. Ambassador Thummalapally. The head of the mission touched on a wide range of issues including the August compulsorily acquisition of Telemedia. The United States is known to frown on countries that have a history of nationalizing private companies. So how does the U.S. […]
And the problem of illegal communities that spring up along the Belizean side of the border has been exacerbated by the incursion of Guatemalan xateros and farmers clearing land in the Chiquibul National Park and Forest Reserve. Ambassador Thummalapally says the Organization of American States has been doing an exceptional job along the border where […]
The Ambassador also touched on the situation in Honduras where the political pressure is close to boiling point as a result of the June twenty-eighth arrest of President Manuel Zelaya. Zelaya was ousted by Roberto Micheletti who has since assumed control of the government and refuses to step down. Demonstrations and curfews have since become […]
In a tragic incident in the Orange Walk District, a Mennonite welder of Shipyard was killed after he was accidentally electrocuted. On Monday, thirty-seven year old David Schmidt was welding his boat on the New River along with Juan Martinez, also of the village, when the incident happened. Water and electricity do not mix and […]
In Belmopan, one of the more important topics of the media discussion with Ambassador Thummalapally is the Merida Initiative. It is a partnership of the United States with governments in Central America and the Caribbean to combat crime and the free flow of narco-traffickers in the region. Four hundred million U.S. dollars was set aside […]
The People’s United Party met on Saturday in San Ignacio and settled an agreement to transfer the ownership of Belize Times, Vibes Radio and Independence Hall to a trust to be administered by four trustees. After that meeting, we spoke to Party Leader, John Briceño about currently pressing issue. On the crime situation, Briceño feels […]
The fisheries industry is the fourth largest foreign exchange earner and over two thousand persons depend directly on fishing to earn a living. Today, CARICOM delegates of the African, Caribbean and Pacific group involved in the management of the industry converged at the Princess Hotel for a needs assessment workshop. The two-day workshop entitled ACP […]
Belizean Author, Zee Edgell, has spent many books including In Times Like These, Festival of San Joaquin and the most renowned, Beka Lamb. Over the past weekend, Edgell travelled to Cave Hill University in Barbados where she was conferred with an honorary doctorate. News Five contacted her via phone from her home in the U.S. […]
Music is a form of communication and a duo released a CD that is expected to send a message to its listeners. Sharon Humes and Melissa Mossiah, known as Autumn’s Spring, launched their first album entitled “Freedom sixty-one-one.” The gospel artists from Burrell Boom Village have been playing instruments and singing for over a decade […]
It’s the perfect time to play the game because the Lotto jackpot is hot. After a farmer took home the October fourteenth winnings and twenty persons shared the October seventeenth prize, today there is another lucky winner. A nurse of twenty-eight years and faithful lotto buyer won with her special numbers, 5, 9, 12, 19 […]
