After months of public speculation Prime Minister Said Musa has finally made it official. Belizeans will go to the polls on February seventh. The announcement came at a close door prayer breakfast with clergymen at the Princess Hotel. News Five’s Janelle Chanona caught the P.M. as he left the meeting this morning. Prime Minister Said […]
Five hours later the Prime Minister once again stepped up to the podium and while the crowd at Independence Hall were all true believers, their fervor was not about church. Francis Fonseca, Chair, P.U.P. “Ladies and gentlemen, party supporters, friends, all thirty-one candidates of the People’s United Party, join me in welcoming our Prime Minister, […]
On Friday, word out of Belmopan indicated that eight Guatemalan families living in the illegal settlement of Santa Rosa in southern Belize had been relocated to Peten, Guatemala. But on the heels of that announcement came reports that some of those villagers had decided to move east instead of west to take up residence in […]
Two men were denied bail and remanded to Her Majesty’s Prison until February seventh on possession of high powered prohibited weapons. The two were nabbed with an AK 47 assault rifle and a forty-five caliber handgun during a Coast Guard operation on Sunday afternoon at Northern Ambergris Caye. Coast Guard Search Mission Coordinator, Lt. Col. […]
Separate incidents in Punta Gorda on Sunday have resulted in the detention of four people. In the first case, around four that afternoon investigators were tipped off that there was a burglary in progress at the Wildlife Conservation Society on Black Orchid Street. The cops dispatched to the scene immediately noticed that a window had […]
Used car salesmen are notorious for their ability to stretch the truth, but tonight Belize City police are looking for a man who sold vehicles that didn’t even exist. According to investigators, in September a smooth talking hustler identified himself as Robert Villanueva to Farmers’ Market businesswoman Kim Wai Chee and agreed to sell her […]
Today a man well known to police was finally put behind bars after he was found guilty of two counts of burglary. What’s significant about this case was that twenty-nine year old Kenrick Reneau has come before the courts countless times—as many as sixty, say police—but has always managed to somehow get off. Today his […]
This morning the size of the crowd outside the gates of the Housing Department in Belize City could only have one meaning: free ting. And indeed it appeared that some loan and grant applications had been approved and were ready for disbursement today. Many, however, just came in hopes of getting on the list for […]
Today the University of the West Indies celebrated its sixtieth anniversary on all its campuses throughout the Caribbean. The U.W.I.’s presence in Belize started with the Extra Mural Department at the then Bliss Institute, followed by the current centre on Princess Margaret Drive, which was built in 1977. Acting Resident Tutor of the U.W.I. campus […]
James Adderley, Reporting Good evening I’m James Adderley and we welcome you this week’s delivery of Sports Monday. Week fifteen of the RFG Insurance Tournament saw Hankook Verdes travel to the People’s Stadium to face a Juventus ballclub reeling from three losses in a row in which they gave up twelve goals. For its part, […]
