It was the mother of all conventions that ended months of a nasty and bitter campaign with Mayor Zenaida Moya at the epicenter of the City Council’s political turmoil. She was bruised and then battered and the cards were clearly stacked against but when the counting and tallying of the over six thousand ballots started, […]
Voting started on time for the unprecedented number of candidates that offered themselves as councillors for the U.D.P. On the ground, the battle was fierce with strategists putting last minute tactics in place to get the voters out. The big fight was between the incumbent Mayor and her Deputy who aspired to unseat her. The […]
And from the convention floor to the airport, there was no official release, but News Five has confirmed that effective October first, the departure tax at border points and the airport was increased. The fee jumped three dollars to settle at thirty-five-fifty U.S. for international visitors. When you factor the additional three-seventy-five fee for PACT, […]
There were two fires over the weekend. In Belize City a Sunday afternoon blaze on Freetown Road caused a scare in the neighbourhood when it came very close to a drug store. The fire reportedly started shortly before three p.m. at an abandoned wooden house at the corner of Kelly Street and Freetown Road and […]
Two women appeared in Court today and were charged with the theft of a ball of Dutch cheese. The two, forty-seven year old Claudette Bennett and fifty year old Juana Bermudez, both pleaded not guilty to the charge before Magistrate Robert Ordonez who offered bail of two thousand five hundred dollars each. Thirty-eight year old […]
Meanwhile, three men managed to get away after jacking the Come ‘n’ Go Gas station located on Burrell Boom Road on Saturday afternoon. The three culprits were masked and dressed in black long sleeve shirts and dark pants. And according to station manager, Andrei Alamilla, the robbers were brandishing two shotguns and a knife. Alamilla […]
The Orange Walk Cane Farmers Association held its Annual General Meeting as scheduled on Sunday. A large number, some seven hundred and fifty cane farmers, turned out for the event. According to C.E.O. of the Association, Carlos Magana, later this week the association will have full accounting of how monies have been spent in respect […]
The tourism industry is facing a challenge due to the financial crisis in the U.S. from where most air and cruise tourists originate. And to bolster Belize as a unique destination and Mother’s Nature’s best Kept Secret, the Ministry of Tourism today received assessments and recommendations to keep the integrity of natural resources and at […]
October is celebrated annually as Oral Health Month worldwide, and in Belize the Ministries of Education and Health teamed up with Grace Kennedy Belize, distributor for Colgate, and kicked off the month of activities to bring attention to good oral practices. And because prevention is better than cure, the target audience is school-age children. Later […]
The lifeless body of a young man from Corozal Town was located just after eleven on Saturday night. It is believed seventeen year old, Humberto Oliva, took his own life. He was found hanging from a pole at the Ricalde Stadium. His mother Cyrila Rivera reported to police that she had last seen her son […]
Therese Felix lived the pain few experience; she has had to bury two sons, nurse another back to health after a shooting and another is currently an inmate at the Kolbe Foundation. She didn’t just stay at home and suffer after the death of her sons. She got involved. Felix is one of the founders […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. We visited the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday evening for the Monster Super League match-up as Kraal Road hosted the defending champion Texmar Boys in week six. Immediately the visiting champ displays its prowess with this left foot bomb from Arnold Torres that allows Eldon Linarez to […]
