After several days of financial stress, approximately thirty employees of the now defunct Bellevue Hotel have received their overdue pay as well as all other funds due for severance, holiday and lack of notice. The payments were made on Saturday after hotel operator Roger Dinger agreed to pay close to forty-nine thousand dollars owed to […]
Imagine being held up with the same gun your hired security guard uses to protect your place of business. Chinese merchant, He Bin, told police that around 8:00 on Friday night, four dark complexioned men attacked the security guard outside Bin’s shop, “Ying Grocery” on Mahogany Street in Belize City and stole his firearm. They […]
Police are asking viewers to assist them in capturing a suspect wanted for stealing over a thousand dollars in cash and merchandise. His name is Reggie Patnett of Ladyville. Police say Patnett was among a group of five men who robbed a fruit shop belonging to Sabeina Teniate at mile eight and a half on […]
Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord today concluded the trial within a trial in the drug case of the Hertular brothers. After reading testimony given by Dragon Unit officers who conducted the May ninth search on Hadrian Hertular’s premises in Ladyville, Lord decided that Hadrian’s words on that night will be admitted as evidence. It is alleged […]
The long awaited report of the Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate the transfer of HIV positive blood to three patients at K.H.M.H. between March thirtieth and April third, has been presented to Prime Minister Said Musa. The formal presentation of the twenty-page report, which includes the testimony of nine witnesses, was handed to Musa […]
Contracts were signed today for the rehabilitation of several sections of road damaged by Hurricane Keith. The first, between government and Cisco Construction, covers improvements to the Western Highway and Coastal Road. This includes replacement of culverts between mile nine and ten on the Western Highway, as well as the paving of the first kilometre […]
The Youth Cadet Corps has started a recruitment drive for its annual training programme targeting unemployed, out of school youths who exhibit high risk behavioural problems. The corps works with juveniles from thirteen to seventeen and according to the manager, Rudolph Conorquie, applications are available at the Youth Department and its officers in each district. […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into another serving of Sports Monday. The eagerly awaited B.F.L. football championship series kicked off yesterday at the M.C.C. Grounds, with Kulture Yabra of Belize City playing host to Builders Hardware Bandits of Belmopan. We start with the image of the new ragamuffin bleachers, which shows maximum […]
