Three days after he disappeared from a ranch north of Ladyville, there is still no sign of four year old Rudy Lopez. It’s a strange case with no shortage of theories. But while police, family, and friends try to sort through a tangled mess of often conflicting clues, one thing remains certain: an innocent child […]
The Opposition United Democratic Party has written to the Speaker of the House of Representatives protesting her actions at Friday’s sitting. The letter, signed by Party Leader Dean Barrow, accuses Speaker Elizabeth Zabaneh of being overtly biased in favour of the ruling People’s United Party and called upon her to give an undertaking that she […]
The Ministry of Finance and Central Bank today issued a joint press release which offers their version of a controversial financial transaction that cost the government over three million U.S. dollars. According to the release, the proposal to convert a twenty-nine point one million U.S. dollar loan note into Japanese Yen came from Citibank of […]
The disturbing trend of sexual abuse of young girls continues, with two offenders pleading guilty in separate cases. In the Court of Magistrate Harrison Hulett, thirty-one year old Feliciano Novelo of Jane Usher Boulevard was sentenced to a year in jail for indecent assault. He had fondled a ten-year-old, unaware that his acts were being […]
Two brothers convicted of chopping and stabbing a police officer have had their convictions overturned on appeal. In April 2002, Herson and Ervin Guerra of San Estevan Village in the Orange Walk District were arrested after they burst into the village police station and attacked P.C. Reynaldo Bruhier. They went to trial in November of […]
This weekend the hardwood at the Belize City Centre will echo with the sounds of basketball action as a Belizean All-Star line up takes on a roster of international collegiate players. The match-up is the result of an invitation from the American Airlines Ruff Riders basketball team of the United States challenging our national selection. […]
Obituaries are a staple of any local newscast and to qualify you usually need to be reasonably famous or extremely old. The subject of our next story qualifies on both counts… and today I attended the wake. Rosella Robinson, Flowers Bank Resident ?This was a friend of the whole village, not only me. I know […]
