The cost of living may be up but there is good news tonight that will bring some relief to consumers. And if you didn’t run out and full your tank when fuel prices plunged on November fourth, you may want to drive down to the nearest gas station and do just that because fuel prices […]
There is a third murder to report this week. Shortly before ten last night, forty year old Egbert Broaster of Mohammed Ali Street in Belize City was pronounced dead at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital after a single stab wound to the right side of his chest turned fatal. According to a report from the […]
And in news from the courts, twenty-four year old Kareem “Homes” Williams of Supal Street is currently behind bars for robbing a man of his cell phone and money. The incident occurred sometime after seven Wednesday night when twenty-nine year old Bernard Timmons was driving on Supal Street and Williams stopped him and offered to […]
Also in court, a Security guard who was charged with Drug Trafficking a few months ago is today relieved of the charge. On April eleventh, the police searched an apartment building on Flamboyant Street and they saw Eldon Thomas running out of the building into some bushes in a vacant lot. When the police searched […]
He stabbed two sisters to death in cold blood and now a doctor has declared him fit to stand trial after spending more than two years in prison awaiting trial. Ryan Horne is accused of brutally stabbing the Esquivel sisters, seventeen year old Rosa and eighteen year old Sandra without any apparent provocation while they […]
And at news time, a youth is receiving medical treatment in the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital tonight after he was shot by an ex-police constable shortly after five this evening. Kareem Barona was reportedly shot in the leg in the height of the traffic rush hour on the Belize City Swing Bridge after he tried […]
Meanwhile, on the diplomatic front, it’s the countdown to the signing of the compromis or special agreement in Washington DC this coming December eighth, which would land the Guatemalan claim to Belize before the International Court of Justice in the Hague. The agreement will be inked by Foreign Ministers Wilfred Elrington of Belize and Haroldo […]
Belize’s Coastguard was established back in 2005 to protect the integrity of our waters. It has bases at Hunting Caye, San Pedro, and its current headquarters is at the Williamson Hangar at the airport. A new headquarter is currently under construction at Belizean Beach at mile five on the Western Highway. To bolster its relatively […]
Belize today assumed the mantle of the rotating Presidency of the National Parliaments of Central America and the Caribbean Basin. Local President of the Senate, Andrea Gill, officially took over the post from Guatemala during a ceremony this morning. The event took place at the Radisson Fort George Hotel in Belize City. It marked the […]
Five hundred and forty five residents of Douglas, Orange Walk District, will spend Christmas at home. The residents were removed from the village because of a threat of diseases following the recent floods from Tropical Depression sixteen. The National Emergency Management Organisation says that the quarantine will be lifted on Saturday and a clean-up of […]
The hurricane season of 2008 closes on Sunday November thirtieth and what a season it has been for Belize. It affected the lives of thousands in the Jewel. The season lived up to the predictions of heightened activity. 2008 is considered one of the top ten hurricane seasons and opened with a bang on the […]
They got a hero’s welcome today. Four students who represented Belize at the Nutrition competition in St. Kitts and Nevis landed at the Phillip Goldson International Airport this afternoon. On hand to receive them were classmates, friends and representatives from the Ministries of Health and Education and ADM Belize Mills. This is the first time […]
Words may not always capture what artists want to say. So if a picture captures a thousand words then the body captures millions. The Belize Dance Company brings life to the expressive arts. Tonight is the first of a three day concert that the dance company is performing, and the concert is being commemorated in […]
Worked hard this week? Well, it is now time to unwind and there is plenty to do around town. Safiyyah has a complete run-down of weekend activities… Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is What’s Happening Belize. This weekend the Belize Dance company will be presenting their new performance entitled “Tribute”, a tribute to Beverly Smith. […]
