The Belize Water Services applied for a twenty-five percent increase in rates in 2009 and today they got the nod from an independent expert, but not for the full amount. The Public Utilities Commission has received a report on the ongoing Full Tariff Review Proceeding from the independent expert, Dr. Richard Hern. Hern was appointed […]
Where is it and how much? That’s the questions that keep popping up when the topic of revenues from the oil industry is discussed. Dr. Gilbert Canton, the CEO of Belize Natural Energy today spoke of the “crude facts” about the industry when he took the couch on our morning show. And while the jury […]
He is known for his personal fight with kidney disease and his public battle for the improvement of kidney treatment in Belize. But Jose Cruz is in need of urgent medical procedure in Guatemala City to save his limbs from being amputated. The condition is called micro vascular disease where the small veins and nerve […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we bring you yet another splash of Sports Monday. we head immediately to La Democracia on the Western Highway for the start of Saturday’s forty mile race presented by the Belize City association which would run through the hills to the Sibun Bridge on the Hummingbird Highway and swing […]
Gunshots rang out in Orange Walk Town on Thursday night and within minutes, a ninth victim was added to the growing list of homicides since the year began. Baldemar Moguel was shot and killed in his store and in front of his wife just as they were preparing to retire for the night. A young […]
But in the city, just after the rush of the lunch hour this afternoon, two thieves stormed into Carmen’s Take Out on East Canal Street. It’s a time of the day when the popular restaurant is normally packed with patrons. But fortunately, there was only one customer when the two gunmen entered the establishment at […]
Within three hours of the armed robbery at Carmen’s, more gunshots were heard when a trigger-happy man fired a barrage of bullets on Youth for the Future Drive. His target managed to escape the gunshots unscathed by throwing himself off his bicycle and onto the ground near the Texaco Gas Station. The area was crowded […]
But turning to one of the bloody murders at the beginning of the week, police have two persons for the murder of nineteen year old Darrel Williams Junior and injuries suffered by three persons including a young student. Twenty-one year old Phillip Wallace and a seventeen year old minor were escorted to Magistrates’ Court this […]
Just before news time, a blaze has left a single woman homeless. The small wooden structure at number twenty-four Baracat Street caught fire after the woman, Joyce McClaren, left home for work. Fire fighters on the scene told News Five that they got the call just after five-thirty this evening. Nothing was salvaged in the […]
Conservational International and marine scientists from across the ocean converged in the capital for a multi sector symposium on Belize’s marine life throughout the day. The NGO worked along with the Fisheries Department, Healthy Reefs Initiative, and other agencies to examine issues associated with marine protected areas management. Doctor Les Kaufman, the senior investigator for […]
Droves of Belizeans cross the border to shop or to get away, far more than the number of Mexicans that come to Belize. The trade imbalance has been discussed for many years and in many offices, and this morning the private sector made headway. The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry met with its counterparts […]
Mexico’s Ambassador to Belize Luis Manuel Lopez-Moreno attended the joint chamber discussion. Lopez-Moreno addressed the ongoing dispute that has locked out Belizean buses from crossing the border on the weekend, the time when most Belizeans would go shopping. The blockade does not only affect the income of the bus owners but it also raises the […]
The global relief efforts for Haiti have not waned and Belize’s input to that country’s rebuilding is impressive. So far our local Red Cross Society has contributed three hundred and fifty thousand Belize dollars to Haiti in funds collected up to the end of January. But funds continue to pour into the Red Cross and […]
Earlier in the newscast we reported that two men have been charged with murder and a slew of other charges in connection with Monday evening’s shooting at the corner of Neal Pen Road and Central American Boulevard which claimed the life of Darrel Williams Junior. Seven year old Janay Moguel of Grace Primary School was […]
Another person who is in desperate need of help is Jose Cruz, a dialysis patient and activist. And the group, People Reaching Out To Others, (PROTO) have been putting in countless hours in efforts to raise funds for Cruz, who is in need of treatment for the illness that is literally eating away at his […]
Youths from around the country will be converging on Saturday morning in the capital for a conference and concert designed to motivate and inspire them. The event is connected with the work of several stakeholders including the BNE Trust, and the violence research by Doctor Herbert Gale. The organizers have brought in a special guest […]
Black History month is celebrated annually in February. The month was set aside since 1926 and is traced back to Doctor Carter G. Woodson of Kentucky, the son of slaves, who did a study of black history and found that U.S. history books ignored Black Americans. In Belmopan, the U.S. Embassy today opened a poster […]
The Poverty Assessment Report released last week revealed that a little less than fifty percent of the population is considered poor. That’s an alarming reality, but the report pointed to a few programs, such as the NHI and Community Policing, that are making a positive contribution. In the recent spate of murders and violence, youths […]
Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is What’s Happening Belize. The people in Haiti are still in need of a lot more help and tonight Orange Walk Rotoract Club in collaboration with Hi-5 Nightclub will be holding a huge bash to raise funds. Tonight you can head over to the Hi-5 Night Club and party for […]
In the next few days it will be two years since the U.D.P. government took office and it is becoming patently clear that Prime Minister Dean Barrow is heading to a Cabinet reshuffle. Today’s issue of the government newspaper, quoted the Prime Minister as saying that “as it relates to the Minister of National Security, […]
An extensive search is underway for a government owned 2000 12-H grader that was stolen from the Ministry of Works just after midday on Wednesday. The operator, Dwayne Arthurs, was grading the Young Gial Road in Teakettle Village in the Cayo District when he was held up by three armed men believed to be Guatemalans. […]
The rapport between the nation’s local electricity supplier and the regulatory body has been less than amicable and it got really ugly about a year ago when the two ended up in court. The Belize Electricity Limited went to court because it disagreed with the PUC’s position that it owed customers over thirty million dollars […]
Shian White, the mother who was found guilty of beating her two year old to death, was brought before Justice Adolph Lucas. But she is back in prison tonight and still does not know how much longer she will be there because sentencing was deferred to next week Friday. Twenty-three year old White admitted to […]
There was an all out brawl at St. Martin De Porres Primary school on Tuesday after a teacher disciplined a student and his infuriated parents showed up to return the favour. When the dust settled that day, a teacher, the vice principal as well as several students had been injured and there were more angry […]
In the San Pedro Magistrates’ Court, a police officer attached to the Caye Caulker Tourist Police Unit was interdicted after he was criminally charged for the indecent assault of a fourteen year old Canadian tourist. Police Constable Darren Casimiro was today arraigned following an investigation into the allegation that around eleven-forty p.m. on Monday, he […]
