Ending months of speculation of his arrest, this morning former prime minister Said Musa was brought before the courts to face charges of Theft in relation to ten million U.S. dollars gifted by the government of Venezuela late last year when Musa was head of government. When Musa returned to the nation’s capital today, his […]
This is not the first time that Said Musa has been charged criminally while in opposition. Musa faced the music before under a U.D.P regime, and came out victorious. This was the scene on the streets leading to Independence Hall on Queen Street back on November twenty-fifth, 1993 when Musa, then as P.U.P party chairman, […]
The reaction to Musa’s arrest and arraignment was swift from the Belize Bank which says in a release that whether or not there is any substance to the charge is now a matter for the courts. According to the bank, it was not a party to the discussions between Belize and Venezuela and it did […]
His family says that his friends called him out to go and buy fonto but a few minutes later, the twenty-nine year old man was lying dead in a pool of his own blood. Four of five gunshots found their way into the body of Steven James. He received one shot to the middle of […]
Police have confirmed to News Five that human remains were found yesterday in the Blue Hole at the Lighthouse Reef formation. Efforts to bring the body to surface are set for tomorrow. Polish divers on vacation in Belize, on a tour with Aqua Dives of San Pedro, reportedly discovered skeletal remains. According to the report, […]
And a Belize City woman who has had various run-ins with the law fell victim to gunfire this past Wednesday evening. She is thirty-two year old Joeth Pratt, A.K.A. China. Just after four-thirty p.m. on Wednesday Pratt went to a neighbour’s house at the corner of Faber’s Road and Nurse Findley Crescent and seconds after […]
Sixty year old Rudolph Arnold, the messenger for Belize Industrial Agencies on the Western Highway is behind bars tonight for allegedly stealing thirty-seven thousand dollars from his boss. Manager of Belize Industrial Agencies Limited at Mile one and a half on the Western Highway, twenty-six year old Glen Kornelsen, told police that he on Wednesday […]
There is an update to report tonight in the recent robbery of the Atlantic Bank Branch at the corner of Cemetery and Magazine Roads. Just after six p.m. Wednesday night the police department recovered the busted but empty safe as well as three empty gun cases. The suspect charged with the burglary of the Atlantic […]
And in news from another commercial bank, the local branch of Scotiabank has received a third recognition this year. On Saturday, the bank was identified as the “Bank of the Year in Belize” at the Financial Times Group’s Awards ceremony held in London. Scotia has been recognized locally as Employer of the Year by the […]
There is some good economic news to report. Third quarter G.D.P. figures released by the Statistical Institute of Belize reveals that the economy rebounded by eight point two percent. Leading the charge was electricity production, which shot up by fifty percent from July to September, and oil production which soared by thirty-three percent. According to […]
And in news on the diplomatic front, on Monday, Caribbean heads of states will converge in Santiago de Cuba for the third Cuba-CARICOM Summit. The meeting is held every three years to mark the 1972 decision by Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba opposing the US economic embargo […]
It’s a disease that is prevalent in Belize and statistics show the number of persons infected on an upward trend. But there are many myths about this virus and Healthy Living this week dispels some of the most common fallacies. Marleni Cuellar, Reporting It is estimated that worldwide as many as thirty-three point two million […]
