One month after he was remanded for the murder of Dean Belisle, twenty-eight year old Mark “T Dog” Stuart is dead, killed by a prison officer at the Hattieville Correctional Facility. Information is sketchy at this time, but what we do know is that the shooting occurred sometime between twelve and one this afternoon. According […]
While the marksmanship of the prison guard may have been deadly accurate, in the Stann Creek District the discharge of a police officer’s weapon had a less final result. A pre-dawn search about eight miles north of Trio Village, brought police officers face to face with twenty-eight year old Antonio Lopez, who is accused of […]
It is believed to be more common than most Belizeans would care to admit, but the crime of incest is seldom reported to authorities. Tonight, however, police are citing two separate incidents, both occurring on Tuesday involving nine year old girls. In Belmopan the victim, accompanied by her mother, told police that during 2002 her […]
The fire this morning on the outskirts of Belize City wasn’t a big blaze, but it was enough to put one budding entrepreneur at least temporarily out of business. Jacqueline Woods has more. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It is still not known if this pot of water left to boil on the stove is responsible for […]
And in an update to a story we reported on earlier this week relating to the passport scandal, this afternoon attorney Michel Chebat informed us that his client, businessman Gabby Affif, is on vacation and does not consider himself to be a fugitive from the law. While Chebat declined to indicate Affif’s whereabouts or projected […]
This afternoon, fifteen students from primary schools across the country were awarded four-year scholarships to attend the high school of their choice. The assistance is part of B.T.L.’s high school scholarship programme and covers tuition, fees and books, as well as any guidance and tutoring that may be required. Recipients were chosen based on financial […]
If you’ve been to any of Belize’s tourism hotspots this summer, you would have noticed that what was once considered the slow season has turned into a very busy time of year. And today we have the statistics to prove it. The latest tourism arrival figures for July at the international airport show a massive […]
One aspect of the tourism boom that Belize City residents may have noticed is the proliferation of motor scooters driven by some of those hundreds of thousands of cruise ship visitors. When two scooter rental businesses opened earlier this year near the Tourism Village, it was predicted that mishaps would follow. Patrick Jones reports that […]
If you haven’t seen Prime Minister Said Musa on this newscast for a few days it’s because he’s leading a top-level delegation to Taiwan. Musa, in his role as President of the Central American Integration System, SICA, is leading the group of regional heads of government in their fourth summit with the Republic of China. […]
Traffic: the seriousness of the problem is exceeded only by the number of times authorities announce measures to solve it. Here we go again. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting It is not the first time that the police traffic branch and the Departments of Traffic and Transport have coordinated their efforts, but it will be the first […]
