There will be no newscast on Wednesday, September tenth due to a public and bank holiday in recognition of the Battle of St. George’s Caye. The next newscast will be on Thursday, September eleventh.
It was not expected to be anything, but a perfunctory prelude to a crackdown on illegal firearms, the last chance for criminals to come clean before the legal hammer dropped. And so today officials marked the formal end to the one-month gun amnesty, calling it a modest success, with the real test to follow. Jacqueline […]
The body of a man found in the Orange Walk District on Friday has been identified. He is twenty-eight year old Machelo Melendez, a resident of San Francisco Street in Orange Walk Town. Melendez’s body was found clothed in black pants, a brown shirt, black shoes and had been wrapped in a sheet. A post […]
Meanwhile, Orange Walk police are also investigating a traffic accident on Monday night, which left an elderly man dead. According to police reports, sixty-seven year old Guadalupe Alonzo of Tower Hill was riding his bike on the Northern Highway between miles fifty-two and fifty-three when he was knocked down. Alonzo was rushed to the Northern […]
The Police Department’s crime-fighting initiative has received a major shot in the arm with some new communication equipment. The Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry answered the cop’s call for assistance to set up a nationwide radio network that would allow private security firms to stay in touch with the police twenty-four hours a day. […]
Tonight the family of a missing Belize City man is asking for your help. Relatives of seventy-one year old Cecil Casimiro, also known as “Sincero”, say they were with him on August twenty-seventh in the vicinity of Hyde’s Lane, but since they parted ways that day, they have not seen or heard from him. Casimiro’s […]
Belize is engaging in some aggressive diplomatic damage control in the wake of Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo’s rejection of the O.A.S. facilitation process as a means of settling Guatemala’s claim to Belize. A delegation led by Ambassador Assad Shoman travelled to New York and Washington over the last two days to lobby officials at the […]
The nations of the Caribbean may not always make much progress in their efforts at political unity and economic integration…but when it comes to pulling together in times of trouble there are few who do it better. For the island of Bermuda that means help from as far away as Belize. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This […]
It’s a story that we’ve covered more times that we care to admit. If you live in Belize City and haven’t smelled the stinking smoke of the garbage dump, don’t get complacent; it’s only a matter of time until the wind changes. Patrick Jones, Reporting One month after the City’s garbage site on the Western […]
It’s not certain whether the increased boat traffic surrounding the burgeoning cruise tourism industry is taking its toll on Belize City’s manatees…but what we do know is that tonight an ailing calf is struggling for life in the absence of its mother, the likely victim of a deadly propeller. Patrick Jones reports from Fort Point. […]
According to the Minister of Transport, an average of seven Belizeans per month lose their lives in traffic accident, most of which could be saved by a combination of safer driving, better roads and simply by wearing seatbelts. This week the ministry is focussing its efforts on reducing that grim statistic and is taking aim […]
