And in the Family Court, a minor also faced robbery charges for another incident late last week. The Belize Photo Lab outlets downtown are going out of business and on Friday afternoon two thieves sped up the process by robbing the Bishop Street store at gunpoint. A sixteen year old minor was charged with Robbery […]
And in the south, Citrus Greening has been affecting citrus trees since the earlier part of this year. The dangerous disease is spread by a bacteria that lives in the vascular system of the plant and disrupts the flow of nutrients within the plant, ultimately killing the tree. Recently, surveillance exercises have detected that the […]
In a report just in to the newsroom, a young man was shot this evening in Belize City. The incident occurred at the corner of Mex and Amara Avenues around six-forty this evening and left Peter Myvette with bullet wounds to his hip and hand. Myvette has been taken to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital […]
The Hayward Charitable Belize Trust has announced that it is launching a website in the next few days. The Trust owned the majority shares in Telemedia before its nationalization. The website will provide details about the Trust and the process by which applications for funding shall be received and awarded. The grants are substantive running […]
But there is good news on Paul Nabor. He was flown to Belize City from Dangriga on Friday morning after doctors suspected he had suffered a minor stroke. But the legendary Parandero was well enough to be discharged from the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. Marion Ali was on hand for the occasion just before he […]
The Government of Belize issued a press release on Wednesday claiming that the recently nationalized Belize Telemedia Limited is not in default of its loan obligations. The release was sent as a response to an article in The Reporter on Wednesday claiming that BTL was default on a loan for forty-five million dollars from Belize […]
Telephone users, ninety thousand of them who are subscribers of SMART may find that from early this morning they can’t make international phone calls. That’s because Belize Telemedia Limited has disconnected Smart from its international circuits. BTL has accused SMART of being the beneficiary of a sweetheart deal signed in 2004. SpeedNet Communications Limited, the […]
One of Belize’s musical legends remains hospitalized tonight after he fell ill earlier this week. Parandero, Paul Nabor, has graced the stage many times, both on the local front and the world scene. But the seventy-four year old has been hospitalized since the eve of Garifuna Settlement Day. Marion Ali was on hand when he […]
A police officer attached to the Dangriga precinct is tonight admitted in the medical ward at the K.H.M.H. recovering from a cut wound to his hand. Constable Santiago Ciau Junior suffered a large chop wound to his right hand while standing in front of a night club on St. Vincent Street near the main bridge. […]
Belmopan police are investigating a shooting incident on Wednesday that has left yet another man admitted to ward at the K.H.M.H. According to Justin Stuart, around eleven-fifteen p.m. he was inside the bathroom at E and L Sports Bar in the Garden City when a person known to him as Hamied Abadi approached him. Stuart […]
The “no entry sign” at the corner of Bishop Street and East Collet Canal did not stop robbers from forcibly entering Venus Photo Lab late this afternoon. The owners are shutting down the stores around the city as they go out of business with the store located on North Front Street being closed since Monday. […]
A man from the Corozal District has been charged with several traffic offences after a road mishap earlier this week ended in the death of his friend. Fifty six year old Ramon Gonzales is charged with Manslaughter by Negligence, Causing Death by Careless Conduct, Driving without Due Care and Attention, Failing to stop and Render […]
After spending more than two years behind bars awaiting his trial, a man is with his family tonight after a jury found him not guilty of Murder. Eric Castillo was acquitted less than two hours after a jury of twelve retired to deliberate his fate late Wednesday evening. The incident occurred in June of 2007 […]
After almost a week of investigation, police today charged thirty-five year old Anthony Ferguson with attempted murder. Reports indicated that Ferguson stabbed his common-law wife, Pamela Cadle, in front of her children last weekend following a domestic dispute. According to Cadle, shortly after eleven last Saturday night, she was at home when she and Ferguson […]
A Belizean-American author, Ian Vasquez, recently won a prestigious U.S. award for one of his works. Vasquez who works as a copy editor for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida is the recipient of the Shamus Award. The Private Eye Writers of America gave the annual award to Vasquez to honour his outstanding achievement in […]
Back in June of this year, The Liberty Foundation in Ladyville faced certain closure rendering some forty-seven children, who have suffered other major setbacks in life, homeless. Fact is the worldwide recession slowed financial support from local and international donors, thus strapping/crippling the organization. As a result, employees were working four weeks without pay and […]
Do you know what the acronym C.R.C. stands for? Ask your child or children. They may know it stands for Children’s Rights Convention. It’s the most universally accepted human rights instrument but twenty years after its introduction, the CRC is still a work in progress. News five’s Delahnie Bain reports. Delahnie Bain, Reporting In 1990 […]
Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is What’s Happening Belize? This Friday night Sadie Vernon High School will be having their end of term All White Bash. This party will be held inside the Jambel’s Jerk Pit. Music will be provided by DJ Aaron. There be food and drinks on sale. This high school bash will […]
There is one more allegation to add to a long and growing list of charges of negligence in the national health system. This latest claim comes from a popular local performer who finds himself recuperating at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after his transfer from the Southern Regional Hospital. Twenty-seven year old Albert Tillett Junior, […]
In August the government nationalized Belize Telemedia Limited and since then it has made public statements against its competitor, Smart. The two have embarked on aggressive marketing campaigns, but Telemedia has gone one step further and is literally pulling the plug on Smart and it looks like the days of the monopoly are not too […]
The Flores Bus Line that runs the Ladyville/Lords Bank route already has a legal matter with the Transport Department before the courts. The injunction came after the Department suspended Flores Bus Line from operating for a month, during which his permit would have expired. So Flores, through Attorney Hubert Elrington, sought the court’s intercession on […]
But this afternoon, Minister of Transport, Melvin Hulse, said the problem lies with the same ring of bus owners who keep breaking the regulations and the schedules. Melvin Hulse, Minister of Transport “Anytime yoh hear people noh get something yoh hear all kinda mada rugu bout it. We need to go beyond dis. People need […]
The Public Utilities Commission has reviewed a multi-million dollar business plan submitted by the Belize Water Services Limited and has approved a water rate increase of ten point six percent without changes to any current fee structure. Today the P.U.C. explained that it also made changes to B.W.S.L.’S business plan and proposed that operational expenditures […]
The long arms of the law also caught up today with a Belize City man, who lied to the court about his name and court record. Fifty-eight year old Frank Neal appeared before Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning where he was charged with Attempted Theft. Allegations are that shortly after midnight on Tuesday, November seventeenth […]
He faces a string of charges for Obtaining Property by Deception but he has never been convicted. Thirty-four year old graphic designer, Artemio Acosta, of Neal Pen Road was this morning arraigned on five different counts of the charge. At around ten a.m. Acosta appeared before Magistrate Aretha Ford and heard the first charge against […]
