Our lead story tonight involves the controversial sale of a parcel of land in San Pedro Town that over the years has been used as a park. The purported sale has raised the ire of many who reside in the area and points to a questionable land transaction involving what is believed to be an […]
Last Friday former P.U.P Minister Jose Coye, publicly said he felt vindicated after Lands Commissioner, Manuel Rodriguez, instructed the Lands Registrar, Marjorie Petzold, to cancel letters of caution the Ministry had issued to title-holders of fifty-seven lots in a subdivision developed by Coye’s CHEOP Enterprises. The development began when Coye was still in government and […]
March fourth, the date set for the City Council and Town Council Elections, is less than two months away and the two main political parties have their horses at the gate. Over the past weekend, the opposition P.U.P. presented its candidates at a low key event and this morning, the man who hopes to dethrone […]
According to statistics from the Elections and Boundaries, there are thirty-seven thousand nine hundred and ninety-one registered voters in the commercial city, which means that the campaign will be more intense for the two political parties. The blue ticket includes a mix of old and new faces such as Danny Madrid, Jackie Welch, Marvin Otley, […]
There is another case of murder to report tonight. This latest incident involves the gruesome beheading of a man in the Stann Creek District last week Friday. Police in Independence are reporting that forty-two year old Honduran National Israel Escobar Montoya was killed inside his home in Cowpen Village. Officers have been investigating this horrific […]
A swimming expedition at the Hydro Dam in the Rio Bravo area of Blue Creek, Orange Walk turned deadly for two Belize City residents. Shortly after three on Sunday afternoon, three friends and co-workers of Plues Street set out to swim near the hydro dam: twenty-four year old, Jair Moh, seventeen year old Javier Hernandez […]
There were several robberies to report that took place over the weekend. The first incident occurred on Friday on Orange Street in Belize City. About seven-fifty p.m. two men entered Sunshine Restaurant and one of the two, stood guard at the door while the other headed to the counter and pulled out a black point […]
A forty-nine year old Belize City resident and his thirty-five year old girlfriend will spend a month behind bars for being in possession of ammunition, a nine millimetre pistol and point six grams of cocaine. Today, businessman Wayne Yorke and his girlfriend Reina Cruz appeared in the Magistrates’ Court where they pleaded not guilty to […]
The ten year agreement between NICH and Cruise Solutions’ was ventilated by the media for days unending and while NICH president Diane Haylock was suspended by Cabinet for a month, it doesn’t mean that the issue has gone away. Haylock is now having her say about the public spat between her and Minister of Culture […]
Outgoing U.S. President George Bush signed a legislation on June thirtieth of last year which will have an impact on Belize. It is called the Merida Initiative, a partnership signed amongst the governments of the United States, Mexico, and Central America and other regional partners to confront trans-border crimes committed by gangs, organized criminal organizations […]
The streets have been paved and the parking of vehicles has been relegated to one side of Albert Street. Drivers have complied, but on Friday the sidewalks which should have been only for pedestrians were still occupied by vendors. The transfer of street vendors to the Battlefield Park was a particularly prickly issue for some […]
The plight of a Belize City young man has gone international and tonight his mother is pleading for assistance for her son who is in the United States undergoing a string of surgeries to remove a tumor. Twenty-one year old Belize City resident, Christopher Bowman, has been battling with a very large and growing tumor […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for this fresh dish of Sports Monday. Week sixteen of the Belize Bank Super League of Soccer saw three teams already into the post season and two of these ball clubs clashed at the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday in a bid to improve their playoff seedings […]
