He is intimately tied to the discredited acts of the defeated administration but it is now certain that on March thirtieth Francis Fonseca will be elected as the new leader of the People’s United Party. Fonseca’s ascension was made inevitable today with the announcement by Albert representative Mark Espat that he has decided to pull […]
The latest episode of the missing money scandal has the Central Bank officially doing what Prime Minister Dean Barrow promised to do last week: that is demanding the return of ten million U.S. dollars from the Belize Bank. According to a press release from the Central Bank, it has issued two directives to the Belize […]
It’s the same story…gunshots, another man dead and grieving relatives begging for justice. And as News Five’s Marion Ali reports again, even the police are stumped for clues to the shooter. Marion Ali, Reporting The year’s twenty-first murder occurred in front of one of Belize City’s oldest night spots on Regent Street West. Just after […]
An Orange Walk community is in mourning tonight following the tragic death of a toddler. According to San Felipe villager Isabel Cowo, on Saturday morning her two year old son Eliseo Cowo went outside to play. But the mother says when she went to check on the child around eleven that morning, he was nowhere […]
Isabel Cowo isn’t the only Orange Walk mother to have lost a son over the weekend as on Saturday afternoon a family outing to the New River ended in tragedy. According to thirty-seven year old Palmar villager Martha Casares, she and her three children were swimming in the Rio Aventura area. But she says when […]
Alcohol is believed to have played a role in a police shooting in Belmopan over the weekend. According to the officers involved, at midnight on Saturday they were on mobile patrol in Las Flores but as they neared La Cabana Restaurant and Bar, they spotted a disturbance at the corner. Police say subsequent investigations have […]
While the attacks on local business houses continue unabated, it’s no surprise that citizens are starting to fight back. That’s what a trio of thieves figured out the hard way on Saturday night when they held up the Galaxy Supermarket on Gwen Lizarraga Street in Belama Phase Two. According to Guihe Denge, he was at […]
While that shooter is still at large, two thieves who targeted a home off Coney Drive have been arrested and charged with the crime. According to forty-one year old Rosinele Craig, she left her Park Avenue home at nine fifty-five and was gone for less than an hour but that’s all the time it took […]
A Dangriga resident has been charged with attempted murder after he assaulted a shop owner in a drunken rage. According to twenty-two year old Frank Lui, at nine on Friday night, he was closing his store on Pen Road when his neighbour, thirty-two year old Francis Sampson showed up wanting to buy brandy. But Lui […]
Hard pressed consumers, already facing massive raises in the cost of milk, bread, eggs, tortillas and other staples, may soon be asked to bear a fifteen percent hike in the cost of electricity. The reason, not surprisingly, is the surge in world oil prices. Saying that it’s already absorbed more than it can bear, Belize […]
2008 has been declared the International Year of the Reef and with the Belize Barrier Reef voted as one of the seven underwater wonders of the world, a consortium of local conservation groups is using the occasion to bring this invaluable resource into focus. According to PACT’s executive director Valdemar Andrade, just boasting about having […]
One of Belize’s oldest citizens, Viola Myles, passed away at the Sr. Cecilia Home for the Elderly on Sunday morning. She was one hundred and five years old. Myles had been an active centenarian until late last year when she fell and broke her hip. We had made it a tradition to wish Myles happy […]
Belizean artists are never in short supply of talent, it’s the support they lack. But a different kind of exhibition on at the Bliss should appeal to the art aficionados in us all. Ann-Marie Williams explains. Ann-Marie Williams, Reporting Over two dozen artists from all over the country will camp out at the Bliss Centre […]
Good evening I’m James Adderley with yet another dish of Sports Monday. Week five of the B.P.F.L. playoffs matched the two leaders inside the M.C.C. Grounds as the Belize Defence Force played host to Hankook Verdes of San Ignacio. In this battle for supremacy it’s the host team looking for first blood when David McCauley […]
