The House of Representatives convened in Belmopan today to debate the eight hundred and twenty-five million dollar Budget for 2008-2009 presented on July fourteenth by Prime Minister Dean Barrow. At news time when the debate wound up, most of the Opposition had taken the floor except for the former prime minister Said Musa. Francis Fonseca […]
When the P.U.P. Party Leader concluded his contribution to the debate, the floodgates opened and the debate got fiery. The first U.D.P. member to rebut Briceño was Belmopan’s area representative John Saldivar, who took issue with the P.U.P. claiming credit for Capital two projects. Saldivar was followed by Lake I Representative Cordel Hyde who had […]
While his opponent was in the House of Representatives, former P.U.P. Minister, Jose Coye, was relieved of charges of Theft and Obtaining Property through Deception. The withdrawal of the charges was long coming and there had been reports to this effect for weeks, but it was only today that Coye was freed of the charges. […]
It has been targeted by robbers five times in one month and in two instances thieves managed to gain access to the accounting firm of Castillo, Sanchez and Burrell on Central American Boulevard. And to ward off any further robbery attempts, the firm has undergone renovations to secure the building. Shawn Mahler, Audit Manager, Castillo […]
But while thieves targeted the accounting firm on the southside, another culprit had his eyes on a business establishment on the northside. For the third time in recent memory, the Esso New Road Gas Station was jacked of the day’s proceeds shortly before eight last night. Police say that a young man wearing a mask […]
Tonight Customs and police authorities have joined forces in investigating another hijacked shipment of goods destined for Guatemala. Comptroller of Customs, Gregory Gibson, and Officer Commanding the CIB Eastern Division, Assistant Superintendent Julio Valdez, confirmed this evening to News Five that the goods labeled as “cough suppressants” arrived from Panama earlier this week. The shipment […]
Today there are press reports from neighbouring Chetumal that three Mexican nationals are in police custody for allegedly importing cocaine into Mexico, originating from Belize. The trio was arrested after midnight on Wednesday at the military checkpoint just past the customs point at the Mexican side of the border. The three have been identified as […]
And we end tonight’s newscast with reports of two violent incidents in the west. The first victim is a man from Santa Elena, Floyd Flowers, who was shot in the left leg and is hospitalised for treatment. Flowers told police that he was at the residence of Markis Pandy when he heard noises emanating from […]
