Four years ago Belizean-American Cleon Hyde, while on vacation in the country decided on an initiative that would deter city youths on school break from crime and violence. He pitched an idea of hosting a basketball camp to the Belize City Council and soon after, the Rose Classic International was introduced to a team of […]
Remember Woodrow Gabourel? He is the sixty-one year whose visit to Belize turned nightmarish. On March twenty-second, we shared with you Gabourel’s unfortunate run-in with the law when he was charged with assaulting police officer, Constable Mark Martinez, resisting lawful arrest and loitering in a public place. After a full day of trial, Gabourel was […]
Robert Snyder, the convicted child molester who was caught in Belize, was sentenced today in Fort Collins Colorado. Snyder was on probation for abusing young boys when he fled to Belize. Before hiding out in Belize, Snyder spent two years in jail for pedophilia case, but instead of registering as a sex offender, upon his […]
KTV Latino … One performer will bow out, the remaining six will be revealed when the show kicks off tonight. They are already prepped and eager to get on stage with the Latin songs they have picked with the hopes of getting your support and the grand prize. You have seen them since the season […]
The budget for the police department is being slashed in the upcoming financial year which begins April first and law and order is expected to come under more strain. March has been a busy month for criminals, and even before the month closes, gun violence continued unabated in the streets of the old capital. Two […]
Meanwhile, a woman lost her life on the highway also over the weekend. Forty-six year old Leticia Marva Garcia, a resident of Unitedville in the Cayo District, was in a vehicle that overturned in a traffic accident on the Western Highway. Reports are that around seven-thirty on Friday night a family of three including Garcia, […]
There is another fatality to report. The lifeless body of two-year old Kelisha Kelly was found floating in the Belize River on Sunday morning by a Belize City resident traveling along the river. At about nine thirty that morning Colin Cabral, who was traveling along the river came across the body. It is reported that […]
The budget debate took up the largest part of the proceedings in the House of Representatives last week so few persons noted that an alarming piece of legislation was sneaked through the House. It is the Supreme Court of Judicature (Amendment) Act, 2010. The new law gives to the Supreme Court of Belize the power […]
A slew of taxes to be imposed to bridge the sixty million dollar plus financial gap in the budget for the upcoming fiscal year will prove to have far-flung effects on the local economy. With the implementation of an added twenty-five percent on the existing General Sales Tax, consumers will see an increase on items […]
Since taking office in 2008 the Barrow administration has made numerous references to what is known as the Super Bond which was negotiated by the previous administration. During the Budget Debate last Thursday the subject of the bond was once again revisited and according to the government it is a heavy load for debt financing. […]
The land controversy at mile forty one on the Western Highway continues to garner attention. For the second Sunday in row, a group of Belizeans who either have interests or have already invested in developing the land, held a meeting to record names of everyone who wanted ownership of a parcel of the land. The […]
It was once known as the Merida Initiative but that has now changed and the US sponsored project is now known as the Central American Regional Initiative. Belize today received a donation of some fifty thousand dollars under the initiative. At a presentation today, The Kolbe foundation got equipment for security management. New Five’s Jose […]
During the budget debate last week in the capital, it was revealed that the Ministry of National Security would not be spared from a budget cut and will be facing new constraints for the upcoming financial year. The police department stands to see less cash infused in its coffers to battle crime and that is […]
The Marion Jones Sporting Complex has been in a dilapidated state for quite a while and is in desperate need of an overhaul. In recent times, both the Carnival road march and the Holy Saturday Cross Country Classic have had to end elsewhere because of the condition of the Complex. Last August, a groundbreaking ceremony […]
Though Elvin Penner, the Minister of Sports, was silent on the ongoing construction at the site on Princess Margaret Drive, Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez, the Minister of Works, says other works are underway. The Ministry of Works is the project manager for the construction, and earlier today Anthony ‘Boots’ Martinez pointed out that the second phase […]
We have reported that Harold Crooks, the Jamaican consultant, who was commissioned to evaluate the police force and make recommendations for its improvement, is wanted by Jamaica for sex related offences of an under-aged girl. According to the Jamaica Observer, Crooks who is also the former commandant of the Island’s Special Constabulary Force (ISCF), is […]
The murder trial of Pedro Cal fell apart today in the Supreme Court when crucial witnesses could not be located. A jury of five women and seven men had already heard one testimony but Prosecutor Yohhanseh Cave threw in the towel when the father of the murder victim, Dison Diaz, and two other witnesses failed […]
With the increase of crime in the city streets, anyone can become a victim at any time. This weekend, well-known freelance writer, fifty-six year-old Roy Davis, was the victim of a robbery at gunpoint when he was held up on Cemetery Road in the wee hours of Saturday morning. Davis is still in pain after […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderly and this is Sports Monday. We take you immediately to the Succotz Ferry in Cayo for the start of the eleventh annual Junior Cross Country Cycle Classic which would run for seventy-two miles along the Western Highway where forty-two of the youngest and brightest in the sport are suited up for […]
On Thursday we showed you riveting images caught by our cameraman George Tillett of a shooting underway at North Front Street. Police have not yet levied any charges against the suspect they nabbed seconds after he allegedly robbed Accents Store and a customer paying an electricity bill. The seventeen year old was shot by the […]
The budget for the new financial year was approved this afternoon just before four o’clock when Prime Minister Dean Barrow wrapped up the two day debate. The ayes came only from the government side since across the aisle members were absent after having ripped through the budget on Thursday. Government projects to raise in revenue […]
Petroleum has been one of the largest income earners for the government over the 2009 to 2010 financial year. According to the prime minister, there was an inflow of approximately forty five million dollars from the local petroleum sector, coming not only from royalties, but also from income tax, working interest, production sharing, surface rental […]
The increase in the GST was fully ventilated in the House of Representatives by parliamentarians. We asked the question to our viewers if they thought the two point five percent increase is affordable. One viewer who participated by IMS, said that it is not affordable to the common man trying to make a living while […]
When the Housing Minister, Michael Finnegan made his contribution to the budget debate, he began by by giving thanks to Cuba and Venezuela on behalf of the people of Mesopotamia. According to Finnegan healthcare and education have been areas in which his division has benefit the most. Poor Mesop. residents have been afforded scholarships in […]
In the first day of the budget debate on Thursday, members from sides of the House rose to have their say; whether it was to condemn the budget or to defend it. Former Prime Minister, Said Musa, focused much of his speech on the unfulfilled promises of Musa. Musa spoke on numerous topics from the […]
