The fourth person to lose his life this weekend is a teenager from Belize City. Fourteen year old Eric Cruz was out on an evangelical retreat near mile twenty-five on the George Price Highway. The occasion, which should have had a happy ending turned tragic for Cruz who drowned on Friday evening when he went […]
Tonight, forty-seven year old Roy Jones Junior also known as “Patties” is on remand at the Belize Central Prison following an allegation of rape made by a seventeen year old minor. The alleged incident occurred back on November ninth, 2014 in Belize City. Jones Junior, police say, had been on the run since the incident, […]
The Belize Jaguars will be taking on the Canucks in Toronto on September fourth, as both teams advance to the third round of competition in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers. The much anticipated ticket follows a draw over the weekend where Canada was chosen as the next challenger on the road to Russia. That selection […]
The Jaguars, according to Kuylen, have been training intensely, participating in exercises on the beachfront, as well as mountainous terrain in preparation for the match. Financially, however, there is still a quota to be met in order for the Jaguars to compete in Toronto. Of that sum, the Government of Belize has granted the Football […]
It was confirmed today that after twenty-four years of service, the Inmaculada credit Union was severing ties with Yolanda Gomez, it former general manager. The Board of Directors had placed her on administrative leave at the end of April 2015 but last week, following investigations by the Central Bank of Belize and the Financial External […]
Part of the Culture of Peace Program, taking place this week, involves an exhibit with various forms of expression. The exhibit was installed today and will be launched on Tuesday at the Belisle Gallery at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts. The Organization of American States believes that the program will bring together communities […]
For the past couple weeks, the Ghost Town, Mayflower Street area has become a most dangerous area in the south side of Belize City. At least six persons have been killed in the past three weeks including journalist Kareem Clarke. The incidents, say the police, are as a result of an internal rift between rivaling […]
Jacqueline Carmen Calderon, a Belize City minor who was reported missing on Thursday has been found. The thirteen year old is now in the custody of the Human Services Department after she was found in Lucky Strike Village in Rural Belize by the Eastern Division Strike Team. After the missing report aired on this station, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The 2015 Belize District Female Softball Championship continues to grab center stage inside the Roger’s Stadium. Every game has been hotly contested and game 3 was a pivotal ballgame in the 5-game series as both Belize Telemedia and Belize Bank Bulldogs went in with […]
Today, all parties in a libel and slander suit brought by Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega were back in Court. Vega is suing Ramon Cervantes Jr. and Fiesta FM because he says that in November 2014 they both caused to be aired a recording of a phone conversation. In that conversation, suspected murderer and fugitive […]
The construction of a forward operating base on the mainland, at the mouth of the Sarstoon River, has been the latest issue on the discussion table between Belize and Guatemala. It follows a memo from Guatemala that it was not comfortable with the Belize government proposal to build the military base on an area, which […]
In the days leading up to the Dangriga bye-election earlier this month, the People’s United Party held a National Party Council meeting in that municipality. Coming out of the sit down were two motions, including a position on the unfounded Guatemalan claim. The opposition has expressed a vote of no confidence in the Barrow administration’s […]
For the past five or six years, the Institute of Archeology has been having discussions with the village of Santa Cruz because the archeological site of Uxbenka encompasses five square kilometers and the village sits within the proposed archeological reserve. One of the many mounds within that vicinity is being unlawfully occupied by Rupert Myles, […]
According to Dr. Morris, fifty percent of the ruin has been damaged as a result of Myles’ action. Again, Myles will be served a notice of eviction, this time by the National Institute of Culture and History. Dr. John Morris, Director, Institute of Archeology “Just like the case with the Noh Mul…the destruction of […]
Almost a year after the shooting death of Tourism Police Officer Danny Conorquie at the Caracal Archaeological Site in Western Belize, a conservation post has been erected to thwart illicit activity in the area. For quite some time it is believed that Guatemalan bandidos have pillaged the ancient site, taking along with them precious artifacts […]
Minister of National Security John Saldivar and six senior officers of the Police Department conducted a mid-year review succeeded by a release issued earlier this week. There has been a change in the Eastern Division where there are currently three commanders for the wider Belize District and two new police jurisdictions will be opened in […]
The shift in violent crimes, particularly murder, has changed to domestic instances and personal conflict. So what is the police department’s strategy to address this issue? John Saldivar, Minister of National Security “Well first of all, one of the things we’ve already done is to initiate contact with the Chief Magistrate and the Chief […]
The Sugar Cane Season started on January twentieth and ended on July twelfth after it was extended to accommodate farmers who still had cane in the fields. But despite the extension, some farmers still experienced losses in what is being called a record sugar production crop season. Now, to get to where it is, the […]
And in other news from the sugar industry, McLachlan told the media today that the IDB will be funding a project that will assist cane farmers with technical support. Mac McLachlan, Vice-President, International Relations, ASR “I am delighted this week the IDB Board approved a technical support project to the industry which is fantastic […]
The badly decomposed remains of sixty-one-year-old Osmar Ramos was discovered inside a shallow grave on July fifteenth in a remote area in the Cayo District known as Paraiso. The elderly farmer, a naturalized Belizean from El Salvador, was butchered and buried in dense vegetation several miles outside the Mennonite community of Springfield. Ramos, it is […]
A minor who was charged for taking his grandmother’s jewellery walked out of Court free today when she declined to press charges. The burglary occurred on Monday, when the woman discovered that over ten thousand dollars in jewellery was missing from her home. A Police investigation led to JL’s where the jewellery had been pawned, […]
An Orange Walk man isn’t going to be clowning around with the Police again after a mischievous act almost landed him in jail. On Tuesday, Timothy Aaron Morey was on Oleander Street in Belize City when he was approached and searched. Nothing was found on him, but when he was asked for his name he […]
For the past two weeks, dozens of children, including a handful of teenagers, have been participating in a sports summer camp in Lord’s Bank. The initiative, organized by the village council, is designed for participants to learn the fundamentals of a range of sports, but most importantly to forge lasting friendships. That objective has been […]
The Deputy Prime Minister Gaspar Vega took the stand in court today. A substantive libel case is being brought against two parties by Vega before Chief Justice Kenneth Benjamin. Vega is suing Ramon Cervantes Junior, his political opponent in Orange Walk North, for slandering him and causing damage to his reputation by airing a defamatory […]
Vega will return to court for the final day of the trial at ten in the morning, when witnesses on his behalf and on the behalf of the first and second defendants will be cross-examined. On day one, no evidence was presented in court that it was indeed Fiesta FM’s equipment that was used to […]
