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Fire destroys Belize City building

The Belize National Basketball Team was burning up the competition this weekend at City Centre… and later in the broadcast James Adderley will have all the delightful details… but in the wee hours of Saturday morning, while most Belize City residents slumbered peacefully, content with their team’s opening victory, another building was burning, not figuratively […]

Kidnap/robbery in Cayo has residents in fear

The western part of the country is fast earning a reputation for danger. For the second time in one week, a group of armed bandits have wreaked havoc in Cayo, leaving the community in shock and law enforcement authorities scratching their collective heads. Around four o’clock on Saturday afternoon, Cayo businessman Juan Chuc was kidnapped […]

Dangriga child drowns in river

An afternoon outing on Saturday has ended tragically for a family in Dangriga. Eight year old Kenisha Flores and some relatives were bathing in the river in the new site area of the town around one thirty Saturday afternoon, when she disappeared under the water. A short while later, Kenisha’s lifeless body was retrieved and […]

Esquivel-Musa debate is confirmed

Belizeans will soon witness the first prime ministerial debate in our nation’s history. That’s the word from SPEAR and the Belize Chamber of Commerce, who have been working for the last nine months to make the event a reality. At a meeting held this morning with representatives of the media the organizations announced that the […]

P.U.P. unveils agriculture and tourism policies

While the two party leaders have agreed to debate once the election has been called, right now they are busy travelling to every corner of the country campaigning on behalf of their divisional candidates. This weekend Said Musa and the P.U.P. took their message to the people of San Ignacio. Patrick Jones reports. When the […]

B.T.L. and bank tax rates finalized

And in a correction to a story we ran on Friday, we had reported that the new business tax passed by the House of Representatives charged communications giant B.T.L. a rate of twenty two percent on revenues. In fact a last minute amendment prior to the third reading of the bill further lowered the rate […]

Belize men set torrid pace in CARICOM basketball

Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to this monster serving of Sports Monday. For the past week or so basketball activity in the Jewel has reached dizzying heights with the fourteenth CARICOM Basketball Championship taking center stage. We’ve got a lot of stats for you so let’s start with opening ceremonies Friday night which […]