Just before five o’clock, the two-day debate for the 2008-2009 budget concluded and as expected it got the nod of the House. It was rough and tumble and boisterous during this morning’s session. Parliamentary practices were dashed aside and it got down right nasty when the former Prime Minister Said Musa, who has endured months […]
But when the House of Representatives resumed debate of the budget this morning, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wilfred Elrington, was the first to rise to conclude his presentation that was interrupted when the debate was adjourned yesterday. Elrington’s opening salvo was not about the budget, but about an explosive article in today’s edition of […]
In an update to a story in our newscast last night about a shipment of medicine that was jacked at Mile forty-two, police have detained customs officer, Julio Martinez, who Customs officials claim failed to abide by the new standard operating procedures applied when medicines are imported into Belize. This new procedure, according to the […]
For the third time this week gun violence exploded in the southside of Belize City. At around seven last night, nineteen year old Kenroy Humes, also known as “Beelie” was hanging out with friends at the residence of Darren Banks on Oleander Street when the shots rang out. Humes, who was inside the yard, was […]
An inspector employed at the Belize Agricultural Health Authority is dead following a traffic accident on the Southern Highway. The fatal accident occurred around six-thirty on Thursday evening between miles forty-six and forty-seven near the Swasey Bridge. Police say the inspector, forty year old Barrington Johnson, was driving a blue Toyota 4-Runner heading to Punta […]
This afternoon NBA star Kenyon Martin of the Denver Nuggets and his girlfriend Trina, the famous rap artist, arrived at the Phillip Goldson International Airport at the invitation of Youth for the Future for a double event on Saturday. Tomorrow morning at ten, Martin and Trina will be at the Belize City Center for a […]
In news from the Magistrates’ Court, two men were slapped with offenses of a sexual nature. The first is thirty four-year old Guatemalan, Jose Ramos, who was charged with unlawful carnal knowledge of a fifteen year old girl. The girl reported to police that Ramos had sex with her at a security booth at the […]
It was a terrorizing moment for forty-five year old Herman Reyes when early this morning, a man entered his premises on West Canal, inflicted three cuts on him, including one to his throat and stole his money and cell phone. Bleeding and in terror, Reyes escaped from his assailant by running through the corridor of […]
Police have their hands full with the recent spate of shootings, but tonight they have two burglaries to solve. Seventy-seven year old Nigel Price, a British National who resides on Gabourel Lane in Belize City, told police that someone broke into his house between five Wednesday evening and seven-thirty Thursday morning. The thief helped himself […]
The B.D.F. has been busy; it’s in charge of Belize’s defense, and this summer it has been engaging young people in a wide range of innovative activities. There have been football camps, jungle survival exercises, basic first aid training, rappelling, chess in a cave games, and today it was all about art. Jose Sanchez took […]
With HIV/AIDS reaching epidemic proportions, the Alliance Against AIDS has been working around the clock to promote awareness. One organisation that is doing its share to keep the disease under raps is Maya Women’s Council from Toledo, the district that has the lowest percentage of the deadly disease. The group, led by Senator Pulcheria Teul, […]
Hey! I’m Saffiyah and this is your weekly edition of what’s happening Belize. Last week I got so excited telling you about the huge Benque festival that the crew and I just had to make a trip up there ourselves. There was definitely a little something for everyone; a wide variety of food, cold drinks, […]
