It was a sea of umbrellas, used to ward off the sun and the occasional drizzles of rain, as people lined the Carnival Parade route on Saturday. The colorful spectacle began shortly after one at Yarborough Green and wound its way to the National Stadium where it ended almost three hours later. Despite the distance, […]
In the end Gem Carnival Band was chosen as carnival senior band of the year, while the Sixth Street Masqueraders captured junior band of the year. Cherry Stuart, Leader, Sixth Street Masqueraders “Well of course. I was able to see some of the other groups before I left and I had more confidence then that […]
It wasn’t all revelry this weekend, but more like rivalry when William Garcia was killed over a stolen bicycle. Police say the incident may have been the result of a dispute between two gangs. On Sunday, September eleventh around twelve fifteen a.m., Garcia’s nephew Glenford Gillette was riding his bicycle by the corner of Mopan […]
On Saturday night a U.C.B. student Trenton Green was shot in his abdomen by an assailant in a shop. Today the twenty-one year old youth was still in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in a critical but stable condition. According to police, contrary to initial reports, Green was not shot because he refused to buy […]
Police have detained a sixteen-year-old and are looking for another person in connection with another shooting on Saturday night. According to the police two young men stopped in front of forty East Canal and started shooting at the house. As a result, twenty-one year old Paul Welsh was shot under his left arm. However, the […]
Today government and B.E.L. released details of the long awaited completion of the electricity company’s privatization. According to its prospectus government will be selling its current fifty-one percent stake in B.E.L., which amounts to fourteen point seven million shares. At the asking price of two dollars and seventy-five per share the offering, if fully subscribed, […]
A boat caught fire early Sunday morning in the Newtown Barracks. Therese Ayuso told police that she was awakened shortly after midnight by shouts from neighbors. She discovered smoke coming from the garage and her twenty-foot fiberglass boat was in flames. The Fire Department responded and extinguished the fire. The boat is valued at twenty […]
Tonight Belizean patriots will be honored by a memorial service. Emory King, an organizer of the event, says all Belizeans who contributed in some way to making Belize what it is will be given a special tribute. Emory King, Historian “The Father of our Country, the Right Honorable George Price instituted the tribute to Belizean […]
The People’s United Party held its National Convention this weekend at the Belize City Centre. Over five hundred delegates from the nation’s twenty-nine constituents voted for the party executive. Said Musa retained the party leadership as well as George Price as Leader Emeritus. His deputies are John Briceño and Maxwell Samuels. The Chairman is Jorge […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re back at you with a hefty slice of Sports Monday. So we’ll kick off things with international football match at the Norman Broaster Stadium where our National Under twenty-three football selection played host to their Guatemalan counterpart in a bid for the Sydney Olympics. First things first though, […]
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