At Friday’s House meeting the government, under the terms of the new Finance and Audit Act, will disclose its plans to sell its thirty-seven point five percent stake in B.T.L. It is understood that a portion of those shares will be sold to Michael Ashcroft for U.S. currency and a portion will be made available […]
The Commission of Inquiry into the Development Finance Corporation appears to be making some progress at last. The Chairman of the Commission, David Price, announced today that they have begun to receive the documents and records it requested from Troy Gabb, Chief Executive Officer of the D.F.C. Price says once the relevant documents have been […]
Tonight Belize City police are actively seeking a suspect they believe can assist in their investigation of the murder of a taxi driver early Wednesday morning. According to authorities, around ten o’clock Wednesday night, an anonymous tip led officers to an area near Neal’s Pen Road where they discovered the grey Chevy Caprice that the […]
A Caye Caulker resident has been remanded to jail after being accused of biting off a piece of another man’s finger. Water taxi employee Marlon Arnold, otherwise known as “Popcorn”, appeared before Magistrate Dorothy Flowers on Wednesday and was charged with maim. He was unable to meet the five thousand dollar bail and was sent […]
Two Belize City robbers who stole an empty knapsack got some hefty jail time for their trouble today in Belize City Magistrate’s Court. Chief Magistrate Herbert Lord sentenced eighteen-year-old Kirk Anderson of Faber’s Road to six years in prison for robbery and fined him ten thousand dollars for possession of an unlicensed firearm and ten […]
The Belize Port Authority will be cracking down on unregistered, unlicensed boats and commercial pilots who do not have a captain’s license, beginning July first. It is an attempt to reinforce laws already on the books, which are designed not only to help keep track of boats, but to increase passenger safety. News Five spoke […]
The question of hunting whales will probably never dominate any local talk shows, after all, the only whales we have in Belize are actually sharks. But when it comes to whether or not whales should be hunted in the rest of the world, Belize does have a say. After severe drops in the number of […]
In Belize we just seem to love pageants. Many schools hold them as fundraisers, to promote school spirit, or build confidence in young participants. But one Belize City church has decided that a pageant might just help its congregation explore their faith in a higher power. Patrick Jones reports. Patrick Jones, Reporting When the curtain […]
The Women’s Issues Network is known to many simply by its initials, WIN… and last night, it really was about women winning when the culmination of a basketball tournament pitted two strong teams against each other. James Adderley has the action in a special sports report. James Adderley, Reporting The WIN-Belize Female Basketball Tournament presented […]
