The business deal took place more than thirteen years ago but for one of the most powerful media houses in the country, the case of Krem Radio versus Sagis Investments was a representation of David versus Goliath. And while the radio station was triumphant today, as News Five’s Janelle Chanona reports, this morning’s outcome might […]
Two police officers are on interdiction tonight after a prisoner reported that he was handcuffed to a hospital bed and pistol whipped. Twenty-five year old Keith Cruz was formally charged with Aggravated Assault, Wounding and Harm in the Dangriga Magistrates’ Court this morning and is scheduled to return to court on June second. Investigations show […]
In crime news from the old capital, a security guard is behind bars tonight, accused of trying to rob a teenager at gunpoint. According to the nineteen year old Jarrett Jones, around eight on Sunday night he was walking on the Western Highway towards its junction with Vernon Street when two masked men on bicycles […]
Knights in shining armor rescuing women in distress are the stuff of storybooks but on Friday another Belize City student was more than relieved to have a Good Samaritan strapped with steel come to her aid. Around three-thirty on Friday afternoon eighteen year old Rea Bonner and a friend were heading to class at Saint […]
Conspiracy theorists will tell you the separate nationwide blackouts that occurred over the long weekend were messages from Belize Electricity Limited to the Public Utilities Commission. But according to a press release from the power company, the outages were the result of trips on the Mexican transmission line. BEL maintains that Monday’s outage was due […]
The heat wave gripping Belize has most of us seeing red but tonight a Corozal farmer is seeing green after he hit last Wednesday’s Lotto jackpot. According to Santa Clara villager Miguel Angel Sanchez, he’s been an avid player for years and could hardly believe his good luck when he realized he’d won one hundred […]
Better information, better decisions, better health: that’s the motto of the World Health Organization’s Health Metrics Network and it’s why statisticians and healthcare providers from nine countries are meeting in Belize City this week. The four-day seminar was jointly planned by PAHO and Belize’s Ministry of Health and this morning the coordinators filled us in […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The nineteenth Annual Female Cross Country Cycling Classic took center stage over the weekend. So we take you out to in front of the Police Station inside San Ignacio where fifteen athletes are suited up in a bid for the most prestigious cycling title to […]
