In Friday’s newscast, we showed you the video of hundreds of persons lining up at the George Price Centre in Belmopan where they took the oath to become new Belizean citizens. The rush to process and bestow citizenship on hundreds of persons is telling because municipal elections are just around the corner. And with the […]
U.D.P. town councilor Willie Cruz remains the subject of a scandal involving the alleged rape of a teenager in the Corozal District on December twenty-ninth. The father of the girl came forward last week accusing the politician of forcefully intoxicating and carnally knowing the sixteen year old after offering her a ride home. Upon nearing […]
With elections around the corner, we asked viewers if they thought that the U.D.P. government had kept its manifesto promise to reduce the cost of living. The results are as follows: seventy-seven percent said no while the remaining twenty-three percent said yes. One viewer went further to say that; “No they have not. As a […]
There’s a sad story tonight about a six week old baby with a rare birth defect. In fact, statistics show that only one in five thousand babies are born with what is known as imperforate anus. Ronelia Ferguson was born with the condition, but it wasn’t detected until weeks later. Her parents, Tanisha Fortnard and […]
A father and his son are both lucky to be alive tonight after receiving varying degrees of injury during a freak accident along the Southern Highway in the Toledo District over the weekend. Anthony Edwards, his wife Justina and their children were returning home from church on Sunday afternoon when a flatbed truck carrying a […]
While the father and son survived the freak accident, in the north a man lost his life in a traffic accident over the weekend. On Saturday night Perfecto Victorino was travelling towards the Venezuela area of Corozal Town, but while on the Santa Rita Road, he was knocked down and killed. Victorino was part of […]
In court today, a Belize City man was charged for allegedly breaking into the Ordonez Street residence of his brother and stealing over a thousand dollars in items. According to Alvaro Avilez he became aware of the burglary when he saw forty-seven year old Andy Avilez, walking on Orange Street dressed in his stolen clothes. […]
While one man was remanded for stealing from his brother, another is prison tonight for robbing his friend at knife point. The victim, fifty year old Lloyd Griffith says that on December twenty-eighth, he was playing dominoes with friends, including Henry Lauriano, who he has known for nine years. As Griffith was leaving after the […]
The Gang Suppression Unit carried out an operation in the twin towns of San Ignacio and Santa Elena on Sunday morning; their targets were gang members and reputed drug traffickers operating in the Cayo District. At six o’clock in the morning, the GSU searched a house occupied by a reputed drug peddler on Flamboyant Street, […]
The history of Belize, from settlement to nationhood, has been written by renowned authors from just about every perspective conceivable. Throughout the years scholars have studied and published accounts of the Jewel’s colonial, political and cultural past with little to no emphasis placed on the economics that drive its people. Barbara Bulmer-Thomas and her husband […]
The month of January is considered “maaga season” since it follows a spending spree for the Christmas holidays. But that won’t be a problem for one lucky Dangriga resident who won the one hundred and seventeen thousand, five hundred dollar Lotto jackpot last Wednesday. Small business owner, Disarki Lewis, says he was in disbelief when […]
Manatees are endangered globally and in Belize, mariners have posed a major threat to their survival. But biologists and manatee researchers have taken up the challenge to rescue the mammals in distress. While a few recent rescue missions have been unsuccessful, today a manatee calf was captured near Duke Marine on the Northern Highway. While […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. While the movers and shakers in the football world try to establish an organized administrative structure, the beat still goes on with the launching of the Belize Bank Cup 2 weeks ago. Yesterday, we caught up with week 2 in this 4 team, single round […]
Prime Minister Dean Barrow is on the record that general elections are likely to follow the March Seventh municipal elections. But from the looks of it, there is surely a lot of activity to signal that we are now in the political season and that the generals may be sooner rather than later. Aside from […]
It was day two at the Port of Belize today and all indications are that the flow of business was seamless following the takeover by Private Investment Limited on Thursday. The test will be this Saturday when PBL will be clearing a Caribbean Shipping Line vessel that was scheduled to arrive today but experienced a […]
A Corozal minor has made serious allegations against town councilor, Willie Cruz, who she claims got her drunk and raped her after she passed out. The incident reportedly occurred on December twenty-ninth and a doctor has certified that the sixteen year old girl was carnally known, but no charges have yet been brought against Cruz, […]
On Thursday, nineteen year old Dale Tillett succumbed to gunshot wounds he sustained during an altercation on New Year’s Eve. He is the first murder victim recorded for 2012 and today charges against his alleged shooter, thirty-two year old Renan Briceño Junior, were formally upgraded by Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer. Briceño was initially charged on […]
The House of Representatives is being convened for next Friday and speculation is that the prime minister may drop a bomb. PM Dean Barrow will also seek House approval to write off over seventeen million dollars in housing loans with the Social Security Board. According to the PM, the government will spend in the range […]
Municipal elections are only two months away, but there’s a major change in the Belmopan slate of the Vision Inspired by the People. VIP announced today that its mayoral candidate, Marlon Skeen, is stepping down. It means that VIP is now in a rush to find a new mayoral candidate by the time it launches […]
The first murder victim for 2012, Dale Tillett, was shot in the Palm Island Night Club, which is known for regular advertisements of its French Kiss club promotions. The owner of the club, John Curly, has gone on the defense over the recent shooting that occurred in the parking lot. Curly sent a release saying […]
A fire destroyed the contents of a small bungalow apartment and has left a three year old baby hospitalized. This morning shortly after eight-thirty, thirty five year old Claudia Blanco was asleep when she woke up to a fire inside her living room. At the time, her two children, a three and a nine year […]
There is another murder suspect that headed to court today. Twenty year old Edwin Millian appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer in connection with the brutal slaying of fifty-five year old Santos Benito Elvir, a farm worker from the Stann Creek District, whose body was discovered on a feeder road on October seventh, 2011. Millian […]
Twenty-three year old Jason Tingling, a resident of Gentle Avenue, was today arraigned on four counts of unlawful carnal knowledge after being accused of engaging in a series of sexual encounters with a minor dating back to 2010. Tingling appeared before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer in the company of attorney Ellis Arnold where he was […]
There is a strong breeze of electioneering that is blowing not only among town and city councilors but also standard bearers. And while the Prime Minister has not given a specific date for the general elections, we note that elected Caribbean Shores Representative Santi Castillo is fixing up a city park and promising to pave […]
Also here on the north side, late this evening the Ministry of Works and City Council were in Caribbean Shores assessing the streets that are about to be paved. Boots singled out Caribbean Shores and Freetown for areas that are being upgraded. In the Freetown, the P.U.P. party leader and area representative will be challenged […]
