Disgraced Olympic champion Marion Jones has returned the five medals she won at the Sydney games. According to international press reports, today Jones’ lawyer, Henry DePippo, confirmed that earlier today the sprinter “relinquished” the three gold and two bronze medals that she was awarded in 2000. The move comes five days after Jones admitted that […]
The controversy over the twice promised Belize City cruise port continues to wallow in the heavy seas of politics and economics. The latest development is that the temporary injunction granted to developer Luke Espat and his Port Loyola cruise terminal has been extended indefinitely. The ruling by Justice Minnet Hafiz Bertram prohibits Government from issuing […]
While shootings and violence continue in Belize City, the good news is that for the past twelve days there hasn’t been a homicide. In the interim, police detectives say they have been able to make an arrest in connection to the last killing to rock the old capital. This morning, seventeen-year old Aaron Bailey was […]
And back to those non-fatal shootings … The latest victim is a popular singer and as I found out this morning, his quick reflexes may have saved his life. Louis Maksall, Shooting Victim “Right after the KTV 2003, a lot of individuals came up to me and started looking up to me and whereby entertainment […]
And while investigators search for the man who shot Louis Maskall, police have another problem on their hands. In less than two weeks, two separate mobile patrols have been fired upon by armed assailants. The latest incident took place around ten-thirty on Friday night on Central American boulevard. According to the officers, they were on […]
While gun related charges are a common offence in Belize, human trafficking is not. But that’s exactly the accusation being levied against a Corozal bar owner tonight. According to cops in the north, on Friday they got a tip that drug dealing was taking place at the Mira Montes Bar, located at mile eighty-five on […]
Details are sketchy but reports out of Dangriga tonight are that two people are missing at sea. According to our sources, this morning Earl Jacobs and his boss, Kendra Schofield left Long Caye at Glover’s Reef around six-thirty this morning heading for Dangriga, but they have not been seen or heard from since. The pair […]
While there is only a minor disturbance being monitored in the Caribbean Sea tonight, six years ago Belize was battening down for the arrival of Hurricane Iris. The category four storm made landfall around seven-thirty on the night of October eighth, 2001, with the eye passing just north of Monkey River. Weather experts would later […]
Separate traffic accidents over the weekend have left one man dead and thirteen people injured. According to police, the first incident occurred just before nine on Saturday morning. Officers in Independence were called to the junction of the Southern Highway and the Georgetown Village road where they saw an extensively damaged Ford Ranger pickup on […]
The 2007 Belize Scholarship recipient has been announced. He is nineteen year old Belize City resident Philip Harold DeShield. At the end of the last school year, DeShield was one of two hundred and twenty-seven Belizean students who sat the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations, but his grades in Biology, Chemistry, and Communication Studies have made […]
On Sunday night, a local audience was treated to dance, music, and vocals, courtesy of the Chinese community. “What a Beautiful Jasmine” was held at the Bliss Center for the Performing Arts, but as organisers Lilly Yang and May Chui told us, the stage presentation was more than just entertainment. Lilly Yang, Organizer, What a […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we welcome you to this edition of Sports Monday. We get our first look at the Belize Defence Force this football season as they took to the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday to face the defending champion F.C. Belize in week II of the R.F.G. Insurance Cup Tournament. The Military certainly […]
