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New Leadership for SATIIM

For years, in fact for more than a decade, Greg Ch’oc was the head and face of SATIIM, the Sarstoon-Temash Institute for Indigenous Management. Earlier today, flanked by Maya community leaders, Ch’oc officially announced thathe has stepped aside. After facing a myriad of challenges with the government, in particular on the issue of oil drilling […]

Consensus Undetermined in Oil Drilling

Last Tuesday, the District Association of Village Councils, led by president Gabriel Edwards, convened a meeting with residents of Midway, in the Toledo District, to discuss the issue of oil exploration within the Sarstoon Temash National Park.  Midway, which falls under the representation of SATIIM, is one of six buffer communities fringing the protected area.  […]

Gungulung Resident Burns Down Aunt’s Home

Tonight, one man from the Gungulung area has confessed to starting the fire which completely gutted his aunt’s forty by thirty foot wooden home on Holy Emmanuel Street. The blaze was spotted just after midday, and burned bright and hot, but the destruction was contained by the swift response of the National Fire Service. Belizean […]

Gunman Targets Two Men in the City

Urban violence continues to plague the Old Capital and tonight one of two persons injured in a late night shooting on Monday remains hospitalized. Around nine-twenty p.m., eighteen year old Rodrick Williams and nineteen Aleem Richardson were at the corner of Elston Kerr Street and Iguana Street extension when a lone gunman came from the […]

FFB Discusses Football Pitch with CONCACAF

As we told you, one of the straws which broke the proverbial camel’s back was the disqualification of Belize from the champions League. CONCACAF refused to certify the football pitch for international play because it simply was not adequate. But while nobody argued the lack of readiness of the field, there was some agitation when […]

Accused Murderer Hit with More Charges in Court

Over the weekend, a teenager found himself in big trouble with the law after he was first arraigned in the Cayo District for a murder which occurred in San Ignacio recently.   Subsequently, he was transferred to Belize City to face two more criminal and indictable charges, including attempted murder and dangerous harm upon a teenager […]

City Resident Sentenced to Five Years

Late this evening, forty-three-year-old Luis Gordon, a resident of Amara Avenue who attacked and chopped his own sister in September of last year, was this evening sentenced to five years imprisonment for grievous harm upon Janelle Gordon Gilharry.  His trial for grievous harm concluded before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith where Gordon was unrepresented.  The […]

SATIIM Will Not Close the Door on Barranco

Barranco Village, which is also one of six buffer communities surrounding the Sarstoon Temash National Park, is a founding member of SATIIM.  Over the years, there seem to have been discord over the direction in which the organization was headed, particularly where it concerns the representation of that predominantly Garifuna community.  Today we asked incoming […]

Workshop on child friendly Municipalities Kicks Off

eveloping Child Friendly Cities is an initiative of UNICEF, the Ministry of Local Government and the United Nations Development Programme which defines and develops child friendly municipalities and communities. The CFC framework in fact identifies steps needed to build a local system of governance committed to fulfilling children’s rights through the implementation of the UN […]

Mayors’ Association to Play a Greater Role…

The implementation of the sustainable and child friendly municipalities’ initiative falls in line with the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. The MDG’s were signed back in 2000; they focus on safety, education and health for youths. While the MDGs have been measured at the national level, it is only through the local authorities or […]

Stay tuned for the reveal of the winner of “If You Can Sing It, Bring It!”

Anticipation is building up as shortly the grand finale of If You Can Sing It, Bring It gets underway live from the Bliss. It has been eight solid rounds of gruelling competition, and tonight the surviving three performers will take the stage for the great reveal of who will become the first champion of this […]

GBTV Wins Big at CBU Awards…

Tonight, our Channel Five family is pleased to announce that we have onceagain made Belize proud of our regional accomplishments as a national station.  This year, we won the most awards in television in the Caribbean.  As a member of the Caribbean Broadcasting Union, this station has always strived to maintain its high broadcasting standards […]

Brazen Heist at Heritage Bank Nets $40,000

And that was the good news, but now to crime…Last week, the A and R Enterprise Limited was robbed of almost thirteen thousand dollars in cash. And this morning, robbers staged a brazen heist at the Provident Bank Limited located at the corner of Barrack Road and Craig Street. There were two of them, dressed […]

Remains of Missing Man Discovered in Shallow Grave

The peace and quiet of a sunny afternoon in the small village of Lemonal was shattered by the gruesome discovery of a body in a shallow grave, just behind the community school. It wasn’t a random discovery, but the result of a search for missing villager, twenty-seven year old Denvo Banner. The young man, an […]

Supreme Court Rules on a Sitting Judge

In the Supreme Court, a major decision has been delivered about a sitting justice. Justice Courtney Abel handed down a decision last Friday on two claims: claim eighty three of 2013 filed by Dean Boyce and claim eighty five of 2013 filed by British Caribbean Bank Limited and Lord Michael Ashcroft. The claims challenged the […]

Justice Awich to go before the Belize Advisory Council?

Justice Abel found “that the evidence put before the JLSC was capable of amounting to and therefore could have amounted to misbehavior. Likewise the question of inability to discharge the functions of the office related to the office of the Court of Appeal.” It is good news for the Claimants, says Attorney Magali Marin Young, […]

Security Guard Arraigned in A & R Robbery

  And in the Magistrate’s Court… A security guard of the A and R Store on the Phillip Goldson Highway was arraigned for conspiracy to commit robbery before Chief Magistrate Anne Marie Smith. Twenty-eight year old Leroy Ciego is the first to be charged for the robbery, but it is believed he assisted in the […]

Jeffries Sentenced for Handling Stolen Goods

Robert Jeffries is tonight commencing a two-year sentence for handling stolen goods after being caught in possession of a laptop computer which was stolen from a law office in Belize City.  Robert, who is the nephew of former Commissioner of Police Crispin Jeffries, is also the subject of a lengthy rap sheet for mostly offenses […]

Teenager Charged for Unitedville Murder

Last week, Cayo cops detained nineteen year old Unitedville resident Steven Gomez for his involvement in the murder of Victor Vargas, of that same village. Gomez was questioned, released, and detained again. But today, it was another teenager who was charged for Vargas’ murder. Nineteen year old Joseph Vacario was arraigned this morning in San […]

Mini-man Shot on Vernon Street

A spray of gunfire on Friday night has left forty-year-old Ralph Martinez, known in the streets of Belize City as Mini-man, hospitalized for multiple injuries received during the shooting incident.  Shortly before ten o’clock, police visited the K.H.M.H. where they observed Martinez in a stable condition.  Reports are that Mini-man, a resident of Mayflower Street, […]

Another Government Hilux – Gone Without a Trace!

It made the news in mid-July when the European Union gifted the Ministry of Health with eleven brand new, late-model Toyota Hilux pickups. The vehicles were to be immediately deployed in the districts to assist in the ministry’s surveillance and prevention activities where vector-borne diseases like dengue are concerned. Well six weeks after, the vehicles […]

26 Belizeans Receive Scholarships from Taiwan

Over two hundred and thirty Belizeans have had an opportunity to study in Taiwan in past years. Some twenty plus students are selected annually from numerous applications as the lucky recipients of scholarships under the International Cooperation Development Fund of Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This year, a record number of twenty-six students from across […]

Galen Opens Its Doors in Belize City

Also on Saturday, Galen University officially opened its Belize City Branch on Mercy Lane, located just next door to the office of the Belize Family Life Association. The event was held simultaneously in Punta Gorda where the university also opened a branch. With ten centers country-wide, Local Marketing Director of the University, Farron Louriano, says […]

Sports Monday with Award Winning Sportscaster, James Adderley

Good evening I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday.   We begin with game 1 of the 3 game Championship series for the Firm’s Division title. We pick up the action in the 4th quarter with Belize Bank/Airport down 8 points to Complex. Cassian Flowers comes up with loose ball off this broken play […]

Another Video Surfaces Showing Segura’s Immediate Response to Fatal RTA

On Saturday, there was a terrible road traffic accident near Succotz on the George Price Highway. Two vehicles were involved, one a small taxi and the other a Nissan SUV. In the taxi were fifty-four-year-old Yolanda Valencia and her cousin, Yanie Cu. Valencia died on the spot, and her cousin was badly injured. The other […]