When we last left Belize City Councillor Dean Samuels he had been charged with Discharging a Firearm in Public, Possession of a Firearm while Under the Influence, Driving Without Due Care and Attention, and Driving Under the Influence. Those charges arose out of an incident in the wee hours of Friday morning outside a bar […]
A Toledo teenager badly hurt in a road accident last week has died of his injuries. Thirteen year old Julian Coc–his name was mistakenly reported to police as Pop–succumbed on Saturday at the K.H.M.H. He had been knocked off his bicycle on Thursday night by a motorcycle while riding on the Southern Highway in the […]
They were found guilty of robbery and rape and today Derrick Sampson and Michael Trapp learned that they will spend the next ten years behind bars. The sentences were handed down by Justice Troadio Gonzalez after hearing mitigation pleas. On July nineteenth Sampson was convicted on two counts of robbery and one count of rape, […]
Throughout the public hearings on the Development Finance Corporation, the thirty million dollar loan to the Novelo group was a prominent topic of discussion. In February, the Novelo brothers, David and Tony, launched a campaign against the appointment of accountant Mark Hulse as the Commission of Inquiry’s forensic auditor. The Novelos maintained that Hulse’s previous […]
For centuries agriculture has been the economic backbone of the Caribbean Basin. But the global economy is rapidly changing and in the current volatile trading environment today’s breadbasket is tomorrow’s empty basket. This week the region’s experts are meeting in Belize to discuss strategies for success in a turbulent market. Jacqueline Godwin, Reporting The participants, […]
You have probably seen their work on display, but never all together in the same place. News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports on thirty-three artists and what they have in common. Janelle Chanona, Reporting This morning members of the local artistic community celebrated the launch of a new book: Made in Belize. The sixty-eight page publication […]
In other news from the art world, over the next three months Belizean artists will team up with regional counterparts in a series of exhibitions to be hosted at the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C. In “Landings 5”, thirty-three contemporary visual artists from the Caribbean and Central America will showcase photography, video, […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and we’re privileged to present to you this latest dish of Sports Monday. The semi-pro basketball finals brought Game II of the three game championship series to La Isla Bonita Saturday where the San Pedro Tigersharks were hoping to tie the series against the Belize Bank Bulldogs. It’s Jason Stubbs […]
