The Government of Belize issued a press release on Wednesday claiming that the recently nationalized Belize Telemedia Limited is not in default of its loan obligations. The release was sent as a response to an article in The Reporter on Wednesday claiming that BTL was default on a loan for forty-five million dollars from Belize […]
Telephone users, ninety thousand of them who are subscribers of SMART may find that from early this morning they can’t make international phone calls. That’s because Belize Telemedia Limited has disconnected Smart from its international circuits. BTL has accused SMART of being the beneficiary of a sweetheart deal signed in 2004. SpeedNet Communications Limited, the […]
One of Belize’s musical legends remains hospitalized tonight after he fell ill earlier this week. Parandero, Paul Nabor, has graced the stage many times, both on the local front and the world scene. But the seventy-four year old has been hospitalized since the eve of Garifuna Settlement Day. Marion Ali was on hand when he […]
A police officer attached to the Dangriga precinct is tonight admitted in the medical ward at the K.H.M.H. recovering from a cut wound to his hand. Constable Santiago Ciau Junior suffered a large chop wound to his right hand while standing in front of a night club on St. Vincent Street near the main bridge. […]
Belmopan police are investigating a shooting incident on Wednesday that has left yet another man admitted to ward at the K.H.M.H. According to Justin Stuart, around eleven-fifteen p.m. he was inside the bathroom at E and L Sports Bar in the Garden City when a person known to him as Hamied Abadi approached him. Stuart […]
The “no entry sign” at the corner of Bishop Street and East Collet Canal did not stop robbers from forcibly entering Venus Photo Lab late this afternoon. The owners are shutting down the stores around the city as they go out of business with the store located on North Front Street being closed since Monday. […]
A man from the Corozal District has been charged with several traffic offences after a road mishap earlier this week ended in the death of his friend. Fifty six year old Ramon Gonzales is charged with Manslaughter by Negligence, Causing Death by Careless Conduct, Driving without Due Care and Attention, Failing to stop and Render […]
After spending more than two years behind bars awaiting his trial, a man is with his family tonight after a jury found him not guilty of Murder. Eric Castillo was acquitted less than two hours after a jury of twelve retired to deliberate his fate late Wednesday evening. The incident occurred in June of 2007 […]
After almost a week of investigation, police today charged thirty-five year old Anthony Ferguson with attempted murder. Reports indicated that Ferguson stabbed his common-law wife, Pamela Cadle, in front of her children last weekend following a domestic dispute. According to Cadle, shortly after eleven last Saturday night, she was at home when she and Ferguson […]
A Belizean-American author, Ian Vasquez, recently won a prestigious U.S. award for one of his works. Vasquez who works as a copy editor for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida is the recipient of the Shamus Award. The Private Eye Writers of America gave the annual award to Vasquez to honour his outstanding achievement in […]
Back in June of this year, The Liberty Foundation in Ladyville faced certain closure rendering some forty-seven children, who have suffered other major setbacks in life, homeless. Fact is the worldwide recession slowed financial support from local and international donors, thus strapping/crippling the organization. As a result, employees were working four weeks without pay and […]
Do you know what the acronym C.R.C. stands for? Ask your child or children. They may know it stands for Children’s Rights Convention. It’s the most universally accepted human rights instrument but twenty years after its introduction, the CRC is still a work in progress. News five’s Delahnie Bain reports. Delahnie Bain, Reporting In 1990 […]
Hey I’m Safiyyah and this is What’s Happening Belize? This Friday night Sadie Vernon High School will be having their end of term All White Bash. This party will be held inside the Jambel’s Jerk Pit. Music will be provided by DJ Aaron. There be food and drinks on sale. This high school bash will […]
