It was a busy weekend for police in Dangriga as they collaborated with their Belize City counterparts to nab five more suspects in connection with last week’s burglary of Brad’s store on Vernon Street. Aldorae Flowers, Edwin Flowers, Joseph Conorque, Lawrence Longsworth, and Brian Smith, all twenty-two, and a fifteen-year-old boy were marched to Belize […]
A police officer is dead and his common-law-wife is in custody, accused of shooting him in the back. According to Belmopan police, they responded to reports of a shooting incident in the Las Flores area around seven on Sunday night. Constable Benedicto Salam was found wounded on the veranda of his home on Amapola Street […]
Police in Independence Village have detained one person following a violent incident that has left a Toledo man hospitalized in a critical condition. Around ten-fifteen on Saturday night, police were called to the home of Rufino Tush in San Roman Village, Toledo where they found him with chop wounds to his arms and chest. Investigations […]
After four hours of legal wrangling, the case of Government, joined by the Michael Ashcroft controlled E-COM Limited, versus Jeffrey Prosser?s Belize Telecom and I.C.C. over interpretation of the Articles of Association rested their submissions before Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh. In a strange pairing, Opposition Leader Dean Barrow representing E-Com and Solicitor General Elson Kaseke […]
With more and more Belizeans using the internet, it was just a matter of time before we would be able to pay our bills in real time, online. The first bank to offer this service is Atlantic Bank, and the first utility company to accept electronic payments is Belize Electricity Limited. The joint project took […]
A celebration of Belizean art and culture was held at the Bliss Centre for the Performing Arts today. The event, called ICA Day, was in conjunction with the first anniversary of the Institute of Creative Arts, the successor to the Belize Arts Council. Activities included storytelling, drama, and elocution competitions for schoolchildren, entertainment by performing […]
The Belizean government has announced three days of official mourning and Roman Catholic public schools are declaring Friday to be a day of prayer following the passing of Pope John Paul II over the weekend. As Belizean Catholics join millions of people all over the world in mourning the passing of Pope John Paul II, […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and you?re locked into this fresh dish of Sports Monday. The King of the Ballers Basketball Tournament returned to Big Bird?s Isle Friday night with the Ballers boasting a one-game lead in this three game championship series against B.T.L.?s Scare Dem Bullets. It?s a quick start for the Blackballers when […]
