Earlier we told you about the murder of Marlon Zelaya, which may be linked to the shooting of Police Constable Abel Mendez last Tuesday. Today a second person was charged with Attempted Murder, Dangerous Harm and Use of Deadly Means of Harm of the police constable. The suspect, a seventeen year old minor, is charged […]
Earlier we heard from the Met Office on the latest on a weather system that is developing over the central Caribbean. The system has put the National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO) on alert. We repeat that a trough of low pressure between eastern Jamaica and Costa Rica is producing unsystematic cloudiness and thunderstorms as it […]
The streets were flooded with onlookers and revellers on Saturday afternoon as the mas bands put off a show on the main streets of the city in the carnival road march for 2010. The carnival was smaller than previous years but it is still one of the highlights of the September celebrations. And while it’s […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. It was the 10th day of September when our national Football Team hosted their Trinidad and Tobago counterparts, also known as the Soca Warriors, inside the FFB Stadium at the Capital City, Belmopan. We must say the pre-game ceremonies added pump and circumstance to an […]
Our headline story on Wednesday night was about the chilling murder of a woman, her common-law husband and one of her children. It is one of the most monstrous homicides, and it was witnessed by two other siblings in a remote farm off the northern highway. The children are left traumatized and in fear for […]
Belmopan police have charged four persons with the murder of twenty-two year old Jesse Jones of Ontario Village, Cayo. Jones was shot dead as he tried to bring two rival groups together to make amends. Three of the four are well known notorious figures: twenty-four year old Lionel Sampson, twenty-five year old Cecil Castillo and […]
Turning to news of a financial nature, it is known that Prime Minister Dean Barrow will use the occasion of Independence Day to announce the sale of shares in the government owned B.T.L. which he arbitrarily took over in August 2009. The sale was discussed today at a special meeting of the Social Security. There […]
In the courts, a nineteen year old was charged with the Attempted Murder of two police officers after a shooting around eight o’clock on Tuesday night. The officers, Abel Mendez and Abelio Itza, both of the Mahogany Street sub-station, were responding to a report of a robbery in progress on Partridge Street. On their way […]
The home of Hattieville resident Wendy Castillo was burglarized on Monday by culprits, believed to be her neighbours. Castillo’s husband got news of the break-in at around three o’clock that afternoon and they later found that sixteenth thousand, six hundred and ninety-five dollars in items were stolen. The thieves got their hands on everything that […]
The grisly murders of thirty-five year old Carmita Rivas, her fourteen year old son Carlos Wagner and her common-law-husband sixty-five year old Pantaleon Navarro, has the small northern community of Carmelita in a complete state of shock. Rivas and Navarro both lived with their eight children on a remote farm several miles off the northern […]
There was more commotion near the Queen Square Market where fruit and vegetable vendors line the banks of the canal to sell their produce. The problem is that the vendors, primarily the wholesalers, say the Belize City Council is too heavy-handed in holding them to an existing agreement over the hours and days they can […]
The Prime Minister and his wife Kim, will leave the country this Saturday for Mexico via Miami. The purpose of the visit is to join in the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of our neighbour’s Independence and the one hundredth Anniversary of their revolution. The office of the PM says he will be back […]
September, the month of our national celebrations, also has patriotic fervour among our northern and southern neighbours. Central American countries, except for Panama, but including Mexico will be holding a joint celebration in the capital this weekend. The event takes place at four p.m. at the Governor General’s Field in Belmopan on Sunday, September twelfth. […]
One of the favourite groups in the Carnival parade is the tumblers. At the end of the parade, kids and adults are treated with performances by the youths of the city, who jump, bounce and roll on the city streets. It’s a sport that can be hazardous, but don’t tell that to the kids who […]
The performances were stunning and thrilled the audience from start to finish. Four aspiring duos in Group B of Duets stepped up their game at the Bliss stage and according to the judges, the performances were the best ever. The duos from the south relied on humorous lines to tell the history of the colony […]
We’ve all been accustomed to hearing “Milk does the body good” and while a daily dose of calcium through milk is indeed good for your health, milk, for some people ‘does the body bad’. That’s the case for the persons who are lactose Intolerant. Healthy living, this week, finds out more about this disorder. Marleni […]
‘In cold blood’ is the only way to describe one of the most heinous murders that we have reported in our newscast. While most of the callous crimes are set in the confines of Belize City, this one takes place in the north. On Tuesday night, three family members were found murdered in Carmelita Village. […]
The other murder took place in the west where a birthday celebration ended tragically for twenty-two year old Jesse Jones of Ontario Village. Jones and a group of friends left a party at around eleven on Tuesday night. They set out to make amends with another group with whom there was a dispute over a […]
The lawlessness in the streets of the old capital is undiscriminating. It has taken many lives from as young as a seven year old to a seventy-four year old man. Last night it almost claimed the life of a police officer responding to a crime. According to reports, there was a robbery in progress and […]
The story of the missing children from the San Marcos Village, Toledo, has grabbed the attention of the nation. The siblings had left home in their village to sell fruits in surrounding villages when they disappeared, two days before returning to school. On Tuesday night we asked our viewers if they thought there should be […]
It has been a turbulent week for the San Marcos community in southern Belize. Hopes are dimming in the search for a young brother and sister who mysteriously disappeared more than a week now. Desperate villagers, who were led to believe that the siblings had been abducted, set a crocodile sanctuary on fire last Sunday. […]
There’s more trouble in the Citrus Belt. For months the embattled Citrus Growers Association and its subsidiary, the Citrus Products of Belize have been battling over investments in the C.P.B.L., which is owned by both the CGA and Banks Holdings. That issue has now come full circle for the new board of the C.G.A. Less […]
Earlier this year, Doctor John Gough and his neighbour, Egbert Nicholson, were both charged for wounding sixteen year old Carlos Zelaya who was dating doctor’s daughter. It was a sensational incident because pictures of the badly beaten minor were widely circulated and it involved a prominent doctor. The trial of the two men concluded in […]
Marlon Contreras was found guilty of Manslaughter for stabbing to death forty year old Jose Howe, a taxi driver of Benque Viejo Town. He received the bad news on August nineteenth, his birthday. Today Contreras learnt that for his crime, he will spend fifteen years in prison in addition to the three he has already […]
If you were in the main arteries of the old capital today, you would have seen hundreds of children parading to celebrate the International Day of Literacy. The event took added importance in Belize because the literacy rate has declined in recent years. The Ministry of Education launched its Literacy Campaign for 2010, which analyzes […]
