There is controversy surrounding the death of two B.D.F. soldiers allegedly killed when a car plowed into them over the weekend. According to the Belize Defence Force, the car, driven by Alexander Tillett, a mechanic of Camalote ran off the road, near the Warriehead Bridge hitting four of their soldiers, Corporal Valerio Shal, Private Bernard […]
A shootout at the Western Border has left a Guatemalan man dead. Police say nineteen year old Gustavo Adolpho Gonzalez a laborer from Barrio Los Flores, Melchor was shot and killed four hundred meters from the Belize border early Saturday morning. Police say Guatemalan authorities had alerted them that a suspect in a shooting in […]
Mark Stuart, the man accused of killing his Hattieville Prison cellmate, was today formally charged with murder. Police have apparently cut a deal with the two other residents of cell forty-one, Albert Broaster and Leroy Flowers, in which they will testify that Stuart stabbed Osmani Guerra to death last Tuesday night. In return for their […]
The way has been cleared for Belize to export rice to Mexico. According to a government press release, a three day meeting in Mexico City between Belizean and Mexican officials has resulted in an agreement for phytosanitary certification of Belizean rice so it may enter the Mexican market. The negotiating team, led by Minister of […]
In his wrap up of Police Week last Friday, Minister of National Security Jorge Espat announced a number of changes and improvements to the Police, B.D.F. and Immigration Departments to deal with the crime problem. Among these is the appointment of a Strategic Security Review Committee to recommend a national policy for Belize’s defense and […]
A resident of Nurse Findley Crescent, thirty-seven year old housewife Sharon Franklin never thought when she purchased four quick pick tickets she would be making her way to the bank this morning a winner. Franklin says when she checked the winning Lotto numbers Saturday night she discovered the five numbers her daughter had written down […]
It was as dramatic a finish as this station’s annual “Gimme Five” promotion has ever witnessed. After several tries without success American Airlines manager Luis Alpuche and host William Neal finally combined to get a winning entry on the line. Here’s how it went on Friday night. (dialing and ringing of phone) Cherry Sedassey, Winner’s […]
The Broadcasting Corporation of Belize officially went off the air at noon today. Two other stations, LOVE FM and KREM Radio have signed contracts to purchase the transmitters and transmitting systems for two B.C.B. broadcast frequencies at a cost of about one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars each. They will also rent tower space on […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and here’s a fresh serving of Sports Monday. We take you out immediately to the Ring Road at capitol city Belmopan where the Alphius Williams World AIDS Day Cycle Race has attracted forty-two riders for the 9:30 a.m. blast off on Sunday and well… they’re off. Coming out of Belmopan […]
