This time of year is one set aside for celebration … and as 2006 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of our independence, all the more reason to make merry. Reflecting that spirit of the season, Prime Minister Said Musa today took the opportunity to present an upbeat interpretation of just where we stand at twenty-five. News […]
Critics of an agreement signed between the Citrus Growers Association and Caribbean Investors scored a minor victory over the weekend when the general membership voted to have the contract reviewed by a sub committee of farmers. According to C.G.A. chairman Ernest Raymond, in addition to distributing copies of the agreement, representatives of Banks Holdings and […]
A San Ignacio police officer continues to recover after he was attacked by several armed men. Police Constable Brent Longsworth, who was off duty at the time, was stabbed as he was waiting to buy food outside of the Blue Angels Club around three thirty on Sunday morning. Longsworth reported that as he was waiting […]
A tip-off has resulted in the arrest of two cousins over the weekend after they were caught with a significant quantity of cocaine. The incident unfolded in the area of San Roman Village between Orange Walk and Corozal Town. Corozal police report that around six on Friday evening they intercepted Teodicio and Fortunato Pott on […]
The turnover rate for officers at the Hattieville Prison is going up as another warden was busted trying to sneak weed into the penal facility. According to court reports, around seven Sunday night, thirty-three year old Denrick Bull reported for duty and a customary personal search was conducted. In his boots, fellow prison guards found […]
Today the Belize Police Department officially announced that some twenty-one officers have been promoted. During a brief ceremony this morning in Belmopan, Commissioner of Police Gerald Westby reminded the men and women that the new ranks should inspire them to better service. Gerald Westby, Commissioner of Police ?We have had two officers being elevated to […]
The Public Utilities Commission may not have a chairman, but it does have a logo. On Sunday the winner of the high stakes competition was announced at Belize Expo from over two hundred entries. The first place design was created by Norman Smith and Anwar Flores of the company, British Honduras Publicity. They will share […]
Food may not necessarily be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of nationalism … but in a lively and well researched book, a long-time observer of Belizean life makes a powerful case that, in many way, we are what we eat. News Five’s Kendra Griffith has the story. Kendra Griffith, Reporting […]
Good evening I?m James Adderley and it?s certainly a pleasure bringing to you this show we call Sports Monday. The seventh Lionman Triathlon gripped Belize City yesterday at its staging point, Sandlighters Promenade and it was only fitting that the national anthem was rendered by two of the most accomplished musicians in Belize saxophonist Chris […]
