It was the kind of ruthless act of violence that used to be unheard of in the laid-back town of Punta Gorda: a man gunned down in his home and his family terrorised by intruders brandishing a gun and a knife. But that’s the fate that met thirty-year-old Ravidio Yat last week Tuesday night, and […]
Residents of the usually peaceful community of Gales Point remain shaken after someone opened fire on a village Justice of the Peace. Around two Saturday morning, fifty-six year old Iyonnie Swift Samuels was in bed sleeping when she was awakened by the sound of gunshots. According to family reports, someone had fired six times at […]
The bodies of three people from Maypen Village who drowned on Thursday night have been retrieved from the Belize River. As we reported on Friday, twenty-three year old Dorian Rhaburn, three-year-old Curtis Rhaburn and fifty-two year old Kendis Moody lost their lives when the motor driven dory they were travelling in hit a log and […]
Over the years, the town of San Pedro on Ambergris Caye has grown from a sleepy fishing village to a bustling tourism hub, and this weekend it became proud owner of the nation’s newest marine docking facility. At ceremonies held on Friday morning, residents of the island joined Prime Minister Said Musa and Minister of […]
They fell shy of their two-day target of five thousand… but the new telephone company, INTELCO, still had a pretty good opening weekend. According to INTELCO’S Director of Business Development, Steve Anderson, a respectable three thousand, two hundred subscribers signed up for cellular service between Friday and Saturday. And Anderson says that number is expected […]
Fifty-four year old Calbert Budd paid only four dollars for his tickets, but ended up winning a hundred grand. Budd, who works for the Princess Hotel and Casino Taxi Service, won Saturday’s lotto jackpot of one hundred twenty-two thousand, five hundred dollars after purchasing a pair of tickets at Heng Lu shop in Belize City. […]
Every now and then we come across a Good Samaritan who defies conventional wisdom that modern times have only bred crime, violence and selfishness. What makes the next story even more surprising is that our latest hero comes from a profession not usually known for kindness. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting On Saturday evening, taxi driver Prince […]
Three down, one more week to go in Children’s Karaoke, 2003. On Sunday two more winners were selected in the junior and senior categories. Here’s how the competition went at Club Calypso. Maureen Dawson, Host, CKTV “And the winner for the junior category is…Marlecia Lizama.” (Marlecia sings “Greatest Love of All” by Whitney Houston) Maureen […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley pushing another fresh dish of Sports Monday. Week two of the Regent Insurance playoffs has come and gone leaving the gap between the haves and the have-nots much wider. Let’s head to the Isidoro Beaton Stadium Saturday night where league leading Bandits with three points, take on the number one […]
