The ruling came down around four this afternoon … and it was not entirely unexpected. Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh has granted an injunction on behalf of Jeffrey Prosser and corporate entities he controls to stop the scheduled annual general meeting of Belize Telecommunications Ltd., due to kick off at six this evening. Since that time […]
Three people lost their lives over the weekend: two by road accidents and one following a fight in the Cayo District. That killing, in which the victim and his accused murderer are members of the same family, has left at least one man doubly troubled. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting As fifty-nine year old Arjelio Garcia gets […]
A young Dangriga resident is dead, the victim of a collision between her bicycle and a car. Ten year old Ranisha Tabon was riding her black beach cruiser around seven on Saturday morning when she was knocked down and later died at the Southern Regional Hospital. The driver held responsible for the child’s death is […]
Police in the north were equally busy as a traffic accident claimed the life of one man and left two others seriously injured. The accident occurred around four thirty on Friday evening between miles sixty-seven and sixty-eight on the Northern Highway. Corozal police report that the vehicle’s driver, identified as eighteen year old Jiladio Cawich, […]
It’s usually Belizeans being put on an airplane at the P.G.I.A. to face justice for their alleged crimes in the U.S.A. But on Tuesday a murder suspect who fled to Los Angeles will be returned to the waiting arms of the Belize Police. He is Ronell Gonzalez, allegedly involved in the brutal slaying of twenty […]
A thirty-eight year old Belize City woman has told police that she was violently beaten and raped by three men over the weekend. According to the report, the victim was accosted around midnight Friday night by three dark complexioned men in the area of Matron Roberts Health Centre near Constitution Park. She says that she […]
We don’t usually run news of confiscation of unlicensed firearms … but the bust that occurred in the wee hours of Saturday morning certainly rates a mention. The gun in question, a Glock nine millimetre pistol, was found by police in the pocket of twenty-two year old Raymond Myers when he was stopped at two […]
The notion that Belize is a bridge between Central America and the Caribbean has been repeated so often that it is now just an empty cliché. But while that span has yet to be constructed Belize has been deepening its integration with both sub-regions on parallel paths. Today we worked the mainland side of the […]
For bank President Harry Brautigam, Belize is a welcomed addition to the institution. And while he is glad to be working with Belize, Brautigam pointed out that Belmopan won’t be the only one benefiting from the bank’s growing resources. Harry E. Brautigam, President, CABEI ?We are looking forward to this moment also because the bank […]
You may have thought that September celebrations were over … but not quite. For the next three days the Government of Spain invites Belizeans to the first Spanish Film Festival it is hosting to commemorate the occasion on Belize’s twenty-fifth anniversary of Independence. The festival officially opens tonight at the Bliss Centre for the Performing […]
Good evening. I?m James Adderley and we certainly welcome you to this portion of Sports Monday. The drums herald the message that league leading Wagiya of Dangriga is inside the Norman Broaster Stadium at San Ignacio for its seventh week face off with the host team Hankook Verdes in a battle for Regent Cup Supremacy. […]
