He had originally said that no dividends would be paid out in the near future, but B.T.L.’s majority shareholder, Jeffrey Prosser, has apparently had a change of heart. A press release from Belize Telecommunications Limited issued late Friday evening announced that the company will pay dividends to all shareholders for the year ended March thirty-first, […]
A watchman from a Dangriga gas station was fatally wounded after being shot in the chest on Sunday. Reports are that on around four p.m., David Gilbert Lopez approached a resort in the Riverdale area saying he was looking for a thief who stole his money. According to reports, he appeared to be under the […]
In a follow up to a story on our newscast on Friday, a man from Independence was charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of twenty-nine year old Larry August on Thursday. Today police said twenty-two year old Clayton Foreman of a Disco Street address was apprehended and charged with the crime.
Police are looking for a suspect following a report by a woman from Rock Stone Pond Village that she was attacked by a man wielding a broken bottle. Tanya Wallace told police she was on her way home around eleven Saturday night when the man, whom she knows, stabbed her in the neck and left […]
Belize was represented by Minster of Foreign Affairs, Defence, and National Emergency Management Godfrey Smith at the CARICOM Foreign Ministers meeting in Barbados last week. Items on the agenda included: developments in Haiti, the Caribbean’s Relationship with the United States, the Fourth United Kingdom-Caribbean Ministerial Forum, and border issues. At a previous meeting, the CARICOM […]
On Saturday, Courts Belize on the Northern Highway in Belize City held its first Gold Rush Show and Draw of the year. The audience at the game show answered questions and won prizes. This was followed by the selection of the customer who would spin the Gold Rush Wheel for up to five thousand dollars […]
Fire officials are still trying to find out what started the fire that totally destroyed a one room wooden structure and partially burnt a nearby grocery shop on Central American Boulevard over the weekend. Jacqueline Woods reports. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting There was nothing Melanie Abraham and her two young children could do to save any […]
HIV/AIDS is a disease that is of concern to all Belizeans, but how many people are really listening to the messages and, more importantly, changing their behaviours? Not enough apparently. This past weekend, the Methodist Church in Belize City held a special gathering to try and reach those most at risk and do their part […]
Patrick Jones, Reporting Bodies in Motion at the Princess Hotel…The Bulls got some football schooling in Calcutta…And, pain and excitement on the diamond out west as the 2004 Cayo softball competition resume play after the Easter break. Good evening, with the April twenty-sixth edition of Sports Monday, I am Patrick Jones. The Belize Shotokan Karate […]
