There is plenty news to report tonight but we start first with the persistent rains over the weekend. There is severe flooding in the west and it looks like few will be spared by tropical depression sixteen that dissipated last Thursday but its remnants are sweeping across Belize. Moving from the south and now heading […]
With the system moving slowly, the west was the hardest hit and there was water everywhere—in some areas the highest to be seen in years—paralyzing businesses and interrupting the daily commute. Schools closed and the new public transportation system which in fact came into effect on Sunday was brought to a standstill as the water […]
Waters are slowly receding in western Belize and the deluge is now moving north. Residents along the Belize River Valley and other areas are in full preparation for what can be expected in the next few days. Kendra Griffith reports from Crooked Tree. Kendra Griffith, Reporting The usual sound of waves lapping against the shore […]
It is still too early to determine costs in damages to residents and businesses, primarily in the agricultural sector, in the short and long term. But it is known that the losses of revenue to the service and tourism sectors are still mounting in the Cayo district and are expected to be quite substantial as […]
It was business as usual this morning at the Belize Bank Corozal Branch, but that was not the case Sunday night when the bank, that is located within eyeshot of the police station, was robbed of over a hundred thousand dollars. According to Corozal Police, around eight-fifteen that night they were alerted by two tellers, […]
If you thought that the legal tangles between the Government and Telemedia were on hold, well think again, because early this morning before the Magistrates’ Court had ordered Telemedia to pay up four million dollars in taxes for June and July, Telemedia and its Executive Committee Chairman, Dean Boyce, filed a claim against Magistrate Ed […]
Lester Young, one of two men changed with murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the fatal shooting of twenty-two year old Alpheus Smith junior, was freed of the charges today by Chief Magistrate Margaret McKenzie. At the preliminary investigation to determine if there was prima facie case to send it up to the Supreme […]
An auto mechanic has expanded his skills from fixing cars to breaking into them. Alton Lodge apparently broke into a 1991 Honda accord early this past Saturday morning while the Honda was parked in front of Putt-Putt Bar and Grill on Newtown Barracks. Police, however, moved quickly and when Lodge was picked up they found […]
A former clerk of the Income Tax Department is in plenty trouble tonight following charges brought against her for Theft of government funds. Twenty-six year old Natasha Kingston of Police Street pleaded not guilty before Chief Magistrate Margaret Gabb today. While the prosecution objected to bail on grounds that Kingston is a flight risk and […]
Police have charged one of their own, an ex-employee, with false accounting. The former firearms clerk, thirty-nine year old, Michaelee Flowers of Maxboro, was charged with three counts of False Accounting and one count of Theft when she appeared before Chief Magistrate, Margaret Gabb. No pleas were taken from Flowers and she met bail of […]
A prison inmate serving time for burglary has been sentenced to an additional three years in prisons for drug trafficking. The inmate, thirty-six year old Emerito Reyes, got lucky in the sense that his new sentence will run concurrently to the five year sentence he is serving so that he has three years more of […]
In recent days, news from the Customs Department has been about containers and illegal drugs. But today Senior Officers of the Customs and Excise Department shifted gears to focus on the environment. We’re not talking about the current flooding in western Belize, but an environmental topic of equal importance: the ozone. The three day training […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re most welcome to this delivery of Sports Monday. The recent deluge of rain has been unforgiving to the nation and indeed most out-door sports in the country had to side-step that watery grip this weekend with wholesale re-scheduling. Falling victim were week two of the B.P.F.L. Regents Cup […]
