And we go now to Orange Walk town where we can report tonight that while the mood is considerably somber following Monday’s killing of Anastacio Felix Gutierrez, farmers are insisting that they want to see the removal, and not the suspension, of the core sampler. Kendra Griffith has a report on the general meeting called […]
The P.M.’s lengthy press conference covered various issues including the relevance of the core sampler and the way negotiations went leading up to yesterday’s with the Cane Farmers Association. When questioned by the press of why he did not meet the cane farmers in Orange Walk, the Prime Minister said he had no regrets and […]
The strike in the north continues and there’s an impasse between the farmers and the Belize Sugar Industries. In our newscast tonight, we will have various reports on the unfolding events in the past twenty-four hours, but we go first to a press conference held by the prime minister in which he was flanked by […]
The deadly shooting and the strike at the Tower Hill have presented the greatest challenge by far to the present government. And while the PM today expressed regret for what unfolded, the opposition leader has also voiced his share of remorse over the tragedy and the situation that the sugar industry is currently facing. John […]
The latest victim of gun violence in the City is hospitalized at the K.H.M.H. The twenty-six year old was on his way to work when he was attacked. The motive is not known but it is confirmed that Marvin Underwood was at the venue at another shooting that ended in murder over the weekend. Marion […]
And in San Pedro, police are currently investigating three murders that appear to be connected to drug trafficking. The latest two bodies were found on the island today and appear to be connected to last Friday’s murder. The men have been identified as Edward Gutierrez and Jason Swan, both of whom reportedly went fishing on […]
A Taiwanese businesswoman was shot twice on both arms last night by a thief who stole her gun and money. Thirty-nine year old Ai Lian Gu told police that at around eleven-thirty she and businessman, thirty-eight year old Xing Duan Xu arrived at her house. Ai said that when she went to open her front […]
Also in Punta Gorda, there is a development to a story that we aired in our newscast last night, in respect of a Statutory Instrument recently signed off by the Attorney General which would have displaced the alcaldes elected by the Maya leaders and community in favour of government appointed alcaldes. According to the Toledo […]
The government of Belize has indicated that it will disburse the Venezuelan funds for poverty alleviation through small grants to individuals making twenty thousand dollars or less. Well it seems that one enterprising woman decided to take advantage of persons hoping to get the loans by scamming them of hard earned money. The woman, using […]
In other news, on Saturday night twenty-eight year old Erlin Neal, a resident of Magazine Road, was at the Princess Hotel and Casino on Princess Margaret Drive when an altercation occurred. Neal and his girlfriend were partying at the hotel’s disco, Club Next, when he became embroiled in an argument with Vincent Galvez, who was […]
People say “Step into another person’s shoe, look at things from another point of view and the world as you know it will never be the same again.” Well, that’s one proverb a prison guard wishes he didn’t know and that’s because twenty-eight year old Yourmoul Mcnab was caught with drugs at the Kolbe Facility. […]
A Salvadoran national, employed as a meat vendor at the Queen’s Square Market, has been charged with the crime of Carnal Knowledge. He is thirty-one year old Jesus Echeverria, who appeared in court on Monday accused of sexually abusing a thirteen year old minor. No plea was taken because the offence is indictable and Chief […]
The unfortunate shooting death of Anastacio Felix Gutierrez, a farmer of the village of San Victor in the Corozal District, has stunned the north and the nation, unnecessary as it was when security forces opened live fire on the striking farmers. Duane Moody looks back at the worst strike to be recorded in recent memory. […]
If the images of Monday’s protest at BSI and the Tower Hill Bridge look eerily familiar, that is because there was another protest staged at the Tower Hill Bridge back on July thirtieth two thousand and one. Jose Sanchez takes a look at the protests and puts them in perspective. Jose Sanchez, Reporting Monday’s protest […]
