We have not heard much from the Peoples’ United Party since last Friday when P.U.P. leader Said Musa faced the press at the Princess Hotel. Today most of the thirty-one standard bearers and party officials met at their Queen Street headquarters to take stock and prepare for the role reversal which has placed them in […]
One issue that is certainly not dead is the question of an elected Senate. While political expediency may have placed it on the ballot, the array of activists who have long championed the reform are unlikely to let it fade away. Janelle Chanona has an update. Said Musa, Former Prime Minister, January 7th 2008 “The […]
A press release from his office indicates that Ombudsman Paul Rodriguez has announced his retirement. The resignation is effective June thirtieth of this year and is occasioned by his reaching the mandatory retirement age of seventy. Rodriguez, who has held the post since its inception in 1999, goes on pre-retirement leave as of February eighteenth, […]
It was the kind of killing that would hardly raise an eyebrow in Belize City, but when a body is found pumped full of lead on Ambergris Caye, it’s big news. Marion Ali visited the island today and found several people who heard shots, but none who actually witnessed the murder. Marion Ali, Reporting Residents […]
It should have been one of the happiest days of his life but a young Dangriga resident died on his birthday following a boating accident. According to police, around eight-thirty on Monday morning, a twenty-five foot skiff captained by forty year old Richard “Bo-Beep” Sjogreen ran over a fourteen foot aluminum boat on the southern […]
And in another sad piece of news, the seven year old girl hit by a car yesterday while crossing Central American Boulevard, has died of her injuries. Derika Castillo passed away around eight last night while undergoing treatment at the K.H.M.H. The man driving the vehicle that hit her, twenty year old Andrew Craig, remains […]
Orange Walk police have concluded that the fire early on the morning of election day at the Orange Walk East Women’s Group Resource Centre was intentionally set. This morning Michael Middleton of the National Fire Service told News Five that inside the computer room they found a bottle stuffed with a piece of cloth that […]
He’s just off the road from Orange Walk but James Adderley has the latest results from today’s first stage of the M&M Tour of Belize. James Adderley, Reporting Excitement and electricity permeated the air this morning as the M&M Tour of Belize blasted off from the San Cas Plaza at nine for the hundred and […]
