A thirty-three year old bus conductor from Benque Viejo Town appeared before Magistrate Kathleen Lewis in Belize City today to face charges of Carnal Knowledge, an offence he allegedly committed against a fifteen year old girl. The charges, which will now go before the Supreme Court for a preliminary inquiry, stem from reports that Felipe […]
Two Belize City men were caught red handed while they allegedly bought marijuana on Lavender Street on Monday morning. That purchase cost twenty-two year old Steven Flowers and thirty-three year old Kenneth Neal much more today when they were arraigned in Magistrates’ Court. The two pleaded not guilty and their bail was set at three […]
Last Friday forty-three year old Edmund Castillo was gunned down at his house on Curl Thompson Street in the Jane Usher Boulevard area of Belize City. Castillo was socializing with friends when a gunman entered his yard at approximately eleven a.m. and fired several shots at him and eighteen year old Carlton Augustine. Though Augustine […]
ZITRO International Limited, a financial services company that was started in June of 2009, has joined the hundreds of thousands of Western Union agents around the world. The partnership started nine months ago and today representatives from Western Union International flew in for the launch of operations at the new agent on Freetown Road. The […]
It made the news numerous times before, either when fetuses were discovered in inconspicuous wrappings or more recently, when the toxic piles of refuse were on fire. But on Friday morning, the first in a series of phases to shrink the size of the dump site at mile three on the Western Highway will get […]
In December of last year a fleet of Jamaican fishing boats was spotted off the coast of Punta Gorda Town. The vessels, belonging to the PG Fishing Company which has a joint venture with the Rio Grande Cooperative of Punta Gorda, were in Belizean waters to conduct fishing operations. Both the Departments of Fisheries and […]
There’s an emotional story of survival tonight involving two Jamaican fishermen who are both lucky to be alive after thirty-six days of being lost on high seas. The boat they were fishing in, Gentle Breeze, had been reported missing from Old Harbor Bay in Jamaica since March twenty-first and was not found until April twenty-fifth. […]
Both men were rescued thirty miles northeast of Chinchorro, off the coast of Mexico, by Caribe Navigator, a shipping vessel that was en route to Belize. Captain Steven Spence gave the details of their rescue. Steven Spence, Captain, Caribe Navigator. “Yesterday at about eleven o’clock Belizean time, April twenty-fifth, we observed a fishing vessel on […]
A ruling in the case of the Westerhaven was delivered today by the Chief Justice, Abdulai Conteh. It is a landmark ruling, indeed the largest amount ever awarded for damages caused to the Barrier Reef. The cargo ship ran aground on the reef about fifteen miles north east of Dangriga back in 2009. Owners of […]
Legislation is key in dealing with the groundings on the reef. After the Westerhaven ruling, the government’s attorney Deanne Barrow and biologist Melanie McField, who the C.J. relied on in making his assessment spoke about another vessel that ran aground. The owner of the Great Escape, Al Barcroft, continues to enjoy his freedom in Rio […]
The gloves are off in rural communities where residents are electing new Village Councils to serve them for the next three years. Over the weekend, thirty-nine villages held elections that were contested by the two major political parties or independent slates. Our news team travelled to the Orange Walk District to pick the sights and […]
Kanie Manuel, a former reporter with the San Pedro Sun, finds herself in a whole heap of trouble tonight. In fact, Manuel is in the same situation as many of the people she has so many times before covered in her capacity as a reporter. She faces charges in relation to thousands of dollars she […]
A Belize City fisherman, thirty-five year old Freddy Grant, was shot seven times and lived to tell the tale. And it seems Grant told it so well in court today that the accused gunman retracted his not guilty plea and pleaded guilty. The case against twenty-five year old Leon Blease started out with charges of […]
A fifteen year old student claims she was sexually assaulted over the weekend by a man who offered to lend her a bicycle in the Ladyville area. The student and her father proceeded to the police station and reported the matter to the cops at about three o’clock Saturday morning. According to the girl, she […]
More than three weeks after security guard, twenty-five year old Leon Howard, was robbed of his service weapon on March thirty-first, the man police believed to be the culprit has been apprehended. Mark Gentle was arrested over the weekend for allegedly sneaking up on Howard and placing a gun to his back. According to Howard, […]
A Belizean is clinging to life in the U.S. after being violently attacked and left lying in a pool of blood on the streets of Liberty City, Miami. Carlos Castillo, a Belizean-American detective for the Miami-Dade Police Department for the past fifteen years, was on duty last Friday night when he pulled over Michael Paul […]
The winners of the Employer of the Year Award and the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award have been announced. This year’s outstanding employer went to Belize Natural Energy because of its efforts in improving employee benefits, staff safety, HIV awareness, and staff morale. Kaila Moralez, meanwhile, was named Young Entrepreneur of the Year for […]
Last week we reported on the increase in parking fee at the Philip Goldson International Airport. It went from three dollars and fifty cents to four dollars, more than the two and a half percent increase since the implementation on April first of the GST. The airport management said the GST was the cause of […]
The recession is taking a toll on tourism and even while the number of visitors are picking up, there is still a long way to go before the industry can get back on its feet. This morning, stakeholders met at the Radisson to mark the silver anniversary of the Belize Tourism Industry Association. While there […]
Tradewinds 2010, an annual military training exercise that sees the participation of a host of Caribbean and Central American countries, concluded in Belize today. Following an intense two-week series of activities, five hundred and fifteen soldiers from sixteen nations within the region today completed the course which focused primarily on the interactions of law enforcement […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we thank you for joining this issue of Sports Monday. Round fourteen of the Caribbean Motor Cup Tournament brought the two front runners into a head on clash at the M.C.C. grounds yesterday as F.C. Belize hosted the Belize Defence Force in a battle for the lead in the […]
Last year January, Edmund Castillo moved from Baracat to Curl Thompson Street. On that occasion he was shot on the cheek and survived but that was not the case today for Castillo. He was in his yard when he was shot before the lunch hour; this time he died instantly. Carlton Augustine, who was with […]
Funeral services were held in Belmopan today for Keith Swift, our media colleague who was found dead at his home on Monday evening. The veteran thirty year old journalist had been employed at Seven News since 1998 and was considered to be generally healthy, aside from a bad right knee. Keith was last seen alive […]
There is some disturbing information to our newsroom tonight and that is that the BTL park which is snug between the Princess Hotel and Casino and Marina Towers might be up for sale or lease. According to our sources, the proprietors of the casino that is being built on the Pickwick Club compound, needs parking […]
We have reported on the police figures which say that crime is down by thirty percent. Residents complain that those numbers, however, are not translating to any sense of security. We posed the question: Despite the official statistics that crime is down, do you feel that your personal safety is more at risk? Those who […]
