Prime Minister Said Musa returned home on Sunday but since then the silence out of Belmopan has been deafening. Despite several requests for an interview from our newsroom, the P.M.’s intermediaries made it clear that Mr Musa is not talking to the media. But tonight our sources suggest that the P.M., who also happens to […]
Two weeks ago it was a rumour but tonight we can confirm that Dr. Corinth Morter-Lewis is being replaced as President of the University of Belize. According to U.B. Board Chairman Dr. Louis Zabaneh, although Lewis’s contract does not come to an end until the middle of next year, beginning in June she will be […]
One man is in the morgue and another in the hospital following a fatal weekend shooting in Belize City. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting Around eight-thirty on Saturday night twenty year old Meldric Tyrone Flowers was riding his bicycle on Raccoon Street Extension with fifteen year old Michael Malic sitting on the handle bar when they were […]
Authorities strongly believe that twenty-three year old Earl Crawford knows who shot him and why but police say he has not been cooperating with the investigation. Crawford was driving a Honda Civic on Dean Street towards Euphrates Avenue around eleven on Saturday night when upon reaching the intersection gunshots rang out. Crawford was hit in […]
Police and the law abiding public have eight more guns in the hands of criminals to worry about. No one would speak to us at Anchor Security, but tonight the company is without a number of its firearms following a hold up at its office on East Canal in Belize City. The company’s night supervisor […]
Well known Belizean cyclist, twenty-seven year old Leroy Trapp, better known as “Lyrics”, is dead following a traffic accident. The crash occurred on the Western Highway, just fifty yards away from where well-known businessman David Courtenay also lost his life on Friday morning. According to police reports, Trapp was driving a loaded cement truck towards […]
The tourism industry in the Cayo District has been rebounding nicely from a string of armed robberies last year on the road to the Caracol ancient Maya site, but a hold-up at Xunantunich is once again giving cause for concern. Police report around nine-thirty this morning a group of ten tourists were robbed at gun […]
In today’s tight economic times, administrators at many Belizean schools must depend on the business community’s kindness, parental support, and active fundraising efforts to meet the educational needs of our youngest citizens. So when school property is stolen or damaged, teachers and their students are especially hard hit. Such was the case today at St. […]
Today, in front of his teachers and peers, eighteen year old Keran Rocke, a student at Sadie Vernon High School, was honoured by the police for doing the right thing. Rocke’s name was submitted by the school principal who became aware of his determination to succeed in life despite a troubled past in which he […]
On Saturday night, six Belizean women aged sixty to seventy-eight, took to the stage at the City Centre for the Ms. Y competition. They sang, they danced, they recited and by the end of the night a winner was crowned. Here are some highlights. (Highlights of Contest) Lauren Burgess, Emcee “who come in third, second […]
Good Evening I’m James Adderly and here’s your weekly issue of Sports Monday. The 2007 RFG Insurance Cup Playoffs blasted off this weekend with all eight teams seeing action. Here in Belize City the M.C.C. Grounds hosted the clash between F.C. Belize and San Pedro’s Costa Del Sol Nairi’s in a ballgame that brought with […]
