There has been a major upset in the Guatemalan elections. Jimmy Morales, a businessman and comedian, is the front- runner in Sunday’s elections. Latest poll results show that while Morales enjoys a clear lead in the election results, he failed to secure the required fifty percent of votes which means he will now head to […]
There is also an election taking place today in Trinidad and Tobago where the polls have closed but a winner is yet to be declared. About one point one million voters were eligible to vote between the ruling People’s Partnership (contesting as comprising the United National Congress, the Congress of the People and the National […]
A B.D.F. solider has been arraigned for Unlawful Sexual Intercourse and Grievous Harm; he is twenty-nine years old and the alleged victim is fourteen. Late Friday evening, the B.D.F. soldier Kenneth Gary Swazo, a resident of Dangriga, was arraigned for the August twentieth, 2015 incident. Due to the sensitive nature of the offenses, no […]
A woman’s house was burglarized while she was at home and when she tried to confront the burglar, she and her daughter were attacked. But tonight, the alleged culprit is behind bars. Kevin Buller, who was before the court last week on an unrelated matter, was this morning accused of burglary and harm. Buller was […]
There were two traffic fatalities over the weekend in the Corozal District. On Sunday night, police found forty-five year old Dionicio Acosta of San Narciso Village dead on the San Narciso road. Celso Carerra of Trial Farm Village, Orange Walk District hit Acosta while driving his Nissan SUV. Carerra told police that Acosta was riding […]
Primary schools in the Toledo district were today recipients of equipment under a project with the World Bank, the Japanese Social Development Fund and the Ministry of Health. The equipment will be used to promote healthy living in schools. At the event in Punta Gorda, a tilapia farm was officially launched at the Julian Cho […]
The Belize Jaguars lost a heartbreaker to Canada on Friday – three to zero. But the story was not the score as much as it was the lacklustre showing for a team which carried the hopes of a nation on its shoulders. In a little over ninety minutes of play, Belize had no shots on […]
One key player on the Jaguars line-up was missing from practice this morning. Actually, reports are that prolific striker Deon McCaulay only showed up for two practices in August. Best indications are that McCaulay has been acting up since the team’s return from the Dominican Republic. We asked Slusher for some answers, since a stellar […]
Quite apart from facing a very formidable Canadian team on Tuesday, the Jaguars have been having other problems. The players are housed and fed at the F.F.B. headquarters in Belmopan, but reports have surfaced indicating that these men who represent our nation on the football field are being cheated in the kitchen – sustained on […]
There was only standing room available at Roger’s Stadium on Saturday for revelers of the anticipated King and Queen Competition. After long hours of judging, the results were finally in for the winners in the senior and junior bands who had impressed a panel of international judges. Duane Moody has a report on how the […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. Toronto Canada was the scene where the national male football selection at 5:30 p.m. Friday Belize time, took on the Canadian national team in the 3rd round of the 2018 World Cup qualifiers. It’s the farthest Belize has ever been in World Cup play […]
The game between Belize and Canada has just concluded in Toronto, Canada and we’ll have a recap coming up. But in April, this station broke the news of a massive rat infestation at the Western Regional Hospital. Viewers were appalled to learn then that rats had taken over the food pantry which is located right […]
According to Figueroa, the bottom line is that there is a critical need for a new hospital in the Capital since the current hospital is the regional facility for the west. On the Phone: Dr. Ramon Figueroa, Director of Health Services “We have just had an evaluation done by the Pan American Health Organization […]
The Senate met this morning in Belmopan following the House meeting on Wednesday which was primarily convened for passage of the Electricity Acquisition Settlement Bill. The House approved seventy million dollars to be paid to Fortis as compensation for B.E.L. The deal, which also includes thirty three point three percent of shares for Fortis, will […]
Prime Minister Barrow is on record saying that voters will be heading to the polls in the early part of 2016. While he is holding that date close to his heart, a majority of the standard bearers and area representatives have been laying down the groundwork for Election Day. In Caribbean Shores where the U.D.P.’s […]
Belize City Mayor, Darrell Bradley, is yet to win the Caribbean Shores elections; in fact, a date for the elections is still not known. But Bradley says he is putting things in place at City Hall should he emerge victorious in the upcoming elections. While his demission from office would automatically trigger a bye-election, Bradley […]
Are residents of the Caribbean Shores paying significantly more in property taxes than others elsewhere in Belize City? It’s an assertion that Mayor Bradley’s political opponent, Kareem Musa, has made and which he describes as an unfair assessment. But the mayor says that properties on the north side, particularly in that constituency, are seemingly larger […]
The Jaguars played against the Canadian team this evening at the BMO Stadium in Toronto. The game ended a while ago with the Canadian team penetrating the Belize defense and securing three goals, while the Jaguars were only able to make one attempt to make it on the scoreboard. After ninety minutes of play, the […]
This past Wednesday, all eyes were on the Fortis settlement, but there were other significant matters which passed through the House. One was a motion for approval for a Caribbean Development Bank loan for the purpose of education infrastructure. According to Minister of Education Patrick Faber, at least thirty-five schools that will benefit – twenty-two […]
Faber took some time to list all the areas which will benefit from the construction of pre-schools, primary schools and secondary schools…stretched out all across the country in answer to a growing demand for classrooms to house students. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education “Preschools will be established in twenty-two areas as I have explained…Valley […]
Eighteen year old Rick Chambers is serving his first night of a three-month jail term behind bars after pleading guilty to the robbery of a cell phone belonging to Luis Montenegro on September third, 2015. Chambers’ family was stunned at the sentence but because he saved the court’s time and has no previous record for […]
For years now, the Coastal Zone Management Authority and Institute, through the Belize Manatee Conservation Program, has been creating awareness on the death of manatees caused by boaters in no wake zones and other specific areas that the mammals frequent. In 2014, a total of thirty-four Antillean manatees, which has its highest population in Belize, […]
The workshop, organized by the Belize Tourism Board, is a certification course for the tour guides and boat captains. There is a need for this says, Galvez, because stakeholders in the tourism industry, as well as fishermen, are sometimes negligent in no wake zones and other areas. But there are hefty fines that can be […]
A resource center on Kelly Street, which is on the fringes of Caribbean Shores in Belize City, opened today for the third time. The center initially opened when Carlos Perdomo was representative for Caribbean Shores years ago. It closed and reopened under Santiago Castillo Junior, but was short-lived. Mayor Darrell Bradley, the aspiring candidate for […]
Mas Camps for the Carnival Road March 2015 concluded with a bang on Thursday night in Belize City. The remaining bands were visited by three of five international judges, who will determine the champ for the junior and senior divisions on September twelfth. But the winners will be announced on the thirteenth following the road […]
