He dropped the bombshell of a request for increased electricity rates back on November fifteenth… and today it was formally announced by the Public Utilities Commission that B.E.L. Chief Executive Lynn Young got his New Year’s wish. The new prices, effective January first, average thirteen percent. And while Young has successfully cited the company’s increased […]
The avalanche of violence that ended 2005 has continued in the new year. Two murders at opposite ends of the country have already marked the first week of 2006. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods reports on one homicide investigated this morning on Belize City’s north side. Jacqueline Woods, Reporting Belize City police say they do not […]
It’s been a busy holiday season for the nation’s police officers and it doesn’t look like they’ll get some rest any time soon. Today the high command shared their burdens with the press. A.C.P. Crispin Jeffries, O.C. Eastern Division ?The media and the police have a lot to do in relation to what happens in […]
It’s not certain whether he was the year’s first or second murder victim, but that matters little to the family of forty-seven year old Ortencio Quintero of Benque Viejo del Carmen. Quintero was found unconscious around three a.m. on New Year’s morning lying on the roadside in that westernmost town. He was taken by police […]
One man who has been charged in connection with a fatality is twenty year old Lazaro Murillo of Mahogany Street in Belize City. Murillo turned himself in to police, identifying himself as the driver who knocked down a bicyclist on December twenty-eighth near the Mahogany Street complex and then fled the scene. That cyclist, fifty-two […]
Also turning himself in to police today was Alex Myers, the suspect sought in connection with the fatal shooting of Winfield Slusher and wounding of Constable Keith Cruz on Boxing Day in Gales Point Village. Myers was accompanied by his lawyer, Michael Peyrefitte.
With our news and production departments closed down last week for long overdue digital upgrades, we missed an important story out of Cayo. It involved a terrible tragedy and equally heroic act of courage by a young girl. Janelle Chanona, Reporting Just one hour into Christmas Day, disaster struck at the Garcia home on the […]
Good evening, I?m James Adderley and we feel privileged to have you aboard for this New Year?s issue of the ride we call Sports Monday. Of course we?ve got to start by wishing all Belizean the very best in the year 2006 and our hope remains that good will overcome evil. In the meantime, let?s […]
