Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl-Lynn Vidal is married to a man who has led a somewhat controversial and high-powered life in the Belize Police Department. Marco Vidal plays a dual role as Commander of the Gang Suppression Unit and head of the Special Branch Department. It’s inevitable that on occasion their cases do interact, and […]
In the tourism industry, there are well known faces, but there is one person who, even if you have not met him personally, his name resonates. Ramon Nunez has been around at Ramon’s Village for decades; in fact, long before San Pedro came to fame as La Isla Bonita. He takes it all in good […]
Renowned motivational speaker and entrepreneur Bert Oliva is back in Belize on a tour of the country. Oliva is hosting a series of seminars and workshops on relationship building and self-empowerment through his motivational speeches. The founder of Humanology, a new practice of teaching skill sets, has dedicated over two decades in studying human potential. […]
Listen, read, and act; that is the approach used to encourage primary school students to go back to text books. The project took six months to materialize and this morning a DVD entitled “It’s Story Time” was released by BelCaribe. Included are all time favorite stories but the difference is that the content was transformed […]
A benefit fashion show is scheduled to kick off this Saturday night inside the King’s Room at the Princess Hotel and Casino. Dubbed, Fashion fusion 2014, the show will see some thirty plus models of Nouveau Model Management strut on the catwalk showcasing the designs of local and international designers. From the browse and shop […]
In this newscast, we often report on armed robberies, but a brazen armed attack on a priest on Sunday night, is a new level of crime. A pair of criminals attacked the Saint Martin de Porres priest, Father Brian Christopher as he walked from the church to the rectory. The priest was carrying the collection […]
While the assault and robbery of a priest is a new low, there are unnerving allegations being made against a popular musician in Dangriga tonight. Three standard two students alleged that they were molested on Thursday morning by one of their teachers. According to the girls, the teacher escorted the class to the church where […]
The resurrected Integrity Commission as promised by the government is in its infancy, and already there has been a significant wrench thrown into the works. A release from the Office of the Prime Minister this afternoon confirms that two persons have indicated that they will not be able to accept their appointment which went before […]
According to Minister of Immigration Godwin Hulse, there is no update on the multiple investigations allegedly ongoing at the Immigration Department. Three persons – Sharon Neal, Omar Phillips and Erwin Robinson – employed in the Passport Section have been on suspension since September, while two public officers – Gordon Wade and Ady Pacheco – employed […]
A hearing by the Public Service Commission was scheduled for Tuesday, but is now postponed to next week Tuesday. The three employees of the Immigration Department who have been on suspension since September, 2013, will have their day before the Services Commission. Those public officers: Sharon Neal, Erwin Robinson and Omar Phillips will answer to […]
There is a most unusual incident to report tonight. It happened in the village of Douglas in the Orange Walk District last week. Felipa Sanchez died at the age of eighty-seven back in 1994…so if you do the math, that is twenty years ago. But her family tonight is deeply disturbed that her tomb has […]
A meeting was held between the Solicitor General and a group of residents of the village of San Jose Nueva Palmar in Orange Walk. The visit came after a story we covered that close to a million dollars are unaccounted for from the sale of lands in the village by the Lands Advisory Committee. The […]
Mexican national, Zurisaday Mendez, who was busted back in October 2012 allegedly with firearms, ammunitions and drugs, was granted Supreme Court bail in the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars. His bail hearing took place before Justice Troadio John Gonzalez last Friday. The office of the Director of Public Prosecution objected to bail arguing that Mendez […]
Sixty-two year old Estella Gonzalez, a Honduran national with Belizean naturalization, was before the court last Friday on ten counts of Employing a Person Not in Possession of a Valid Temporary Permit after a shake down at the Temptation Bar located at Mile ten on the George Price Highway. Gonzalez pleaded guilty to the ten […]
There are ongoing negotiations between the Belize City Council and the Christian Workers Union concerning the fate of twenty-six security officers, made redundant by the municipal government. Mayor Darrell Bradley says that the decision to release the men is part of ongoing belt-tightening measures being taken to reduce the council’s overhead expenses. For the better […]
There are confirmed reports that Kristen Melissa Young, the granddaughter of former Minister of Health Joe Coye has died during a horrific road traffic accident in Diamond Bar, California. Coye left today for California to be with his daughter at this difficult time. The collision on the West-bound land of the sixty Freeway at five […]
The cost per hundred pound cylinder of butane or liquid petroleum gas is on the rise yet again, as prices across the country have inched a few dollars higher. The new adjustments came into effect on Saturday. In Belize City, the price is now a hundred and twenty-eight dollars; Belmopan and San Ignacio, a hundred […]
The Ambassador of Belize in the United States, Nestor Mendez today signed a joint declaration with U.S Secretary of Labor, Thomas Perez, in which both countries have agreed to work cooperatively to improve the knowledge of Belizeans working abroad of their rights, irrespective of their migration status. Additionally, Letters of Arrangement with the Wage and […]
Residents of Belize City are enjoying the newly rebuilt B.T.L. Park, despite its unofficial launch. Over the weekend, hundreds converged on the recreational space where they made much of its food stalls, pier and playground. While finishing touches are being added, Mayor Darrell Bradley says that it will be formally opened to the public on […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We take you immediately inside the F.F.B. Stadium at Capital City where the Belmopan Bandits hosted FC Belize for game II of the Belikin Cup Championship series. A large crowd had gathered for this do or die matchup after FC Belize had held the […]
Karen Bevans, the Chief Operations Officer of the country’s largest telecommunications provider, Belize Telemedia Limited, has announced her resignation, effective the end of March. All indications are that the news came as a surprise to her colleagues and staff at B.T.L. Bevans has enjoyed long tenure at the company, enlisting in 1989. In 2009, Telemedia […]
Following several meetings, press releases and interviews with both the Belize City Council and the Christian Workers Union, the issue of the redundant security workers has degenerated into little more than a ‘he said she said’ emotional back and forth. It’s actually become difficult to separate the emotion from the facts, as both sides keep […]
The B.T.L. Park is very near completion and it is extremely impressive. Take wide open spaces, full-time Police presence, colorful booths, adequate seating and aesthetics, fashionable and functional bandstand and the view, and what the Mayor has is a certifiable hit. But there are always nagging questions which accompany all major projects, like nepotism in […]
On December thirty-first, the Elections and Boundaries Department rejected the Elvin Penner recall petition submitted by the P.U.P. Of two thousand and two signatures presented for scrutiny, only one thousand, six hundred and sixty-five were accepted, meaning that the petition fell short by seventy-nine signatures. The decision by the Elections and Boundaries Department unleashed a […]
On Thursday night, we reported about a land grab in the Orange Walk East constituency. Tonight, there is another story which also involves land and money; plenty missing monies. On Thursday, we sat with an ad-hoc group from San Jose Nuevo Palmar, which is also in Orange Walk East. To understand the magnitude of this […]
