It is two weeks away from the elections in all nine municipalities and by agreement the political parties nominated their candidates at different times in the day. While the crowds were small, there was plenty energy to go around and the horses are now officially at the starting gate, ready to bolt. Sixty-seven seats are […]
Later in the day the incumbent U.D.P. City Council pulled double duty and before heading to the C.B. Hyde Building for nomination, the party launched its manifesto for 2009-2012. Kendra Griffith begins her report from the U.D.P. Secretariat on Youth for the Future Drive. Kendra Griffith, Reporting With the Prime Minister seated at the head […]
And by the close of nomination today, both political parties, the U.D.P. and P.U.P., had fielded candidates to all seats to be contested on March fourth, sixty-seven in all. But in Punta Gorda, the story is different. The incumbent council is headed by a P.U.P. mayor and the councilors are U.D.P. And in this coming […]
Last Friday Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh ruled against the Government of Belize, calling their proposed amendment to section seventeen of the constitution incompatible with the basic structure of the supreme document as it makes access to the court unavailable. Businessman Barry Bowen and the Landowners Association challenged the amendment in the case, which also had […]
Last Friday we reported on a grizzly murder in Orange Walk Town, and in tonight’s newscast, there is another homicide to report, this one in Belize City in which a forty-three year old man was gunned down. The motive has still not been ascertained and no arrests have been made up to news time. Marion […]
There is a development to the brutal murder of forty-four year old Enrique Lino Castillo who was murdered last Friday in Orange Walk Town. Lead suspect, Nimrod Tillett, who is believed to have slit Castillo’s throat, turned himself in to Orange Walk police yesterday. Today Tillett was charged for Murder and remanded to prison. The […]
On January thirtieth San Pedro police were summoned to an area some seventeen miles from town, where the bullet-riddled body of Paul Saldivar was discovered. Today police report that they have arrested and charged three persons in connection with the murder. The three are twenty-eight year old Shelton Tillett of George Street, twenty-eight year old […]
One man is in critical condition at the K.H.M.H. following a stabbing incident at the well known Li Chee Restaurant on Freetown Road. The incident took place last Friday night at about nine o’clock when the fast food restaurant was crowded with patrons. Nineteen year old Vince Mitchel of Belama Phase two was wounded on […]
Also in Belize City, two brazen thieves targeted Quality Supermarket in the peak hours last Friday afternoon. According to cashier, twenty-two year old Dennis Ortiz, around two-twenty, two men entered the establishment armed with what appeared to be a point thirty-eight revolver. One of the men ordered a female customer to the floor and the […]
“Bridging the Gap between poverty and possibilities” is the motto of the Friends Boys School on Allenby Street in Belize City. The school is very small in comparison to most primary education institutions and is designed to pull primary school dropouts back into the education system. But over the weekend it was burglarized. Candi Young, […]
Rotary Belize’s Gift of Life is a unique Program that helps children with heart problems receive the necessary healthcare in the United States that they would be unable to get in Belize. Not only do the organizers help with the diagnosis, they also assist with the travel and hospital expenses. But to undertake this costly […]
The United Democratic Party government came to power on February seventh, 2008 with a manifesto entitled “Imagine the Possibilities”. With one year already under their belt, our morning show Open your Eyes has featured both the U.D.P. and the opposition P.U.P. for a review of one year into the U.D.P. Administration. Minister of Education Patrick […]
For the People’s United Party, the G.O.B. report card is anemic. Deputy Leader and Albert Area Representative, Mark Espat, this morning had a shot at a wide range of issues he believes the U.D.P. is falling short on. The former Minister of Tourism has been paying keen attention to details of the budget and stimulus […]
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and it is with pleasure we bring you this dish of Sports Monday. In a bid for its first win of the Belize Bank Super League post season, Kraal Road hosted Valley Renaissance of Stann Creek at the M.C.C. Grounds yesterday in week three. So let’s see how it went. […]
