Less than a week after it was formally denied a fifteen percent rate increase, Belize Electricity Limited has submitted a new price hike request to the Public Utilities Commission for a slightly lower amount. Whereas B.E.L. had asked for an additional six point five cents per kilowatt hour as part of its Threshold Event Review, […]
Those are the technicalities, but what about the politics? The Barrow administration talked big, saying it intends to decrease electricity rates by as much as fifty percent and will make legislative amendments to achieve that objective. It’s an assertion that begs the question: “Is the P.U.C. a consumer watchdog or a government lackey?” Roberto Young, […]
Police have made an arrest in last month’s shooting of Delroy Matura. Nineteen year old Carl Reneau of Belize City has been charged with Attempted Murder, Use of Deadly Means of Harm and Dangerous Harm. He was also hit with a charge of committing Aggravated Assault on Tiffany Burgess. Matura was shot on the morning […]
We have another sexual assault on a minor to report. This time the victim is a fifteen year old Belize City girl who told police that in December she went to visit her aunt in a Belize District village. Although her aunt was not home at the time, her common-law husband was … and he […]
A customs officer from the Corozal district is in serious trouble tonight after he allegedly abused his authority on the job. According to court reports, forty-one year old Floyd Robinson was one in a team of officers that visited the home of Vidali Riveroll in Halls Layout to search for contraband. But when the officials […]
The question of official searches also came into play this evening in Belize City, as Police/B.D.F. anti-drug, anti-firearm teams raided homes at various hot spots. The raids, which included dogs from the Canine Unit, started as early as five this morning and should continue into tonight as part of security forces’ efforts to combat the […]
We won our first World Cup qualifier in football, and U.B. is the top Central American University in basketball. But tonight we’ll turn the skill level down a bit to follow the Belize City Primary School softball tournament. News Five’s Kendra Griffith reports from Rogers Stadium. Kendra Griffith, Reporting The fans were boisterous…. The players […]
When Belize’s economy was dominated by mahogany, this was a busy time of year with the quiet of the forests replaced by the hum of saw blades and thumping blows of axes. And while the timber industry is now an also-ran in terms of economic impact, the nation’s forests are still being logged … although […]
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