In Friday’s newscast we reported on a new initiative by the Prime Minister to abolish corporate income tax and exempt from personal income tax all individuals earning less than twenty thousand dollars per year. But lost in the general euphoria was the flip side of that proposal: that is a new business tax which will […]
And while they may be studying the latest tax proposal, members of the People’s United Party have been speaking their mind about other matters of economic importance. On Friday night in Orange Walk Town P.U.P. leader Said Musa outlined his party’s views on investment, production and trade. The occasion was the fifth meeting of the […]
Authorities are investigating the stabbing death of a man in Orange Walk Town. According to a police report, twenty-two year old Francisco Ack was walking along Lover’s Lane at about one o’clock Monday morning, when he was chased and stabbed on the right side of his chest and abdomen by three unidentified men. He was […]
In other crime news, a lottery vendor from Calcutta Village in the Corozal District has reported to police that he was robbed. Forty-eight year old Mario Moo was riding his bicycle from Libertad Village on Saturday evening. When he reached the junction at the Northern Highway three masked men armed with sticks jumped out of […]
Domestic disputes and the resulting fall out are nothing new to this newscast, but the alleged action of one man in the wee hours of Monday morning appears to be in a class by itself. As News Five’s Patrick Jones reports, a disgruntled boyfriend may have taken justice into his own hands and in the […]
The Caribbean Association of Life Underwriters today wrapped its Annual General Meeting at the Biltmore Hotel in Belize City. During the three days of deliberations, the two hundred delegates from eleven countries, discussed several topics, among them, the development of a five year plan to further enhance the role of the organization in the region. […]
It may only be May but the September Celebrations Committee is getting a jump on this year’s St. George’s Caye Day festivities. Opening over the weekend was an exhibition that takes us back well before the much debated skirmish in 1798. Old pictures, old documents, old photographs make up a pictorial exhibit of the history […]
Good evening. I’m James Adderley and welcome to this Tuesday serving of Sports Monday. Let’s start off with the B.F.L. Football Knock-Out Tournament at M.C.C. Grounds where Acros and the Yabra Sporting Club are locked in a 2-2 draw going into game 2 of this home and away series. In this ball game the winner […]
