On Wednesday leaders of rival Belize City gangs are expected to congregate for a make or break deal that could end the violence in the streets. The mood is very tense tonight as one inmate has confessed to murdering another convict affiliated with a rival gang behind the prison walls of the Hattieville Prison. Twenty-one […]
The term artificial was used in December by Foreign Minister Wilfred “Sedi” Elrington to describe our borders with Guatemala. The public condemnation was fierce and the minister turned to the Webster dictionary to explain himself away. But that did not quell the outrage, in particular since there has been no word yet from Prime Minister […]
The city is still reeling from the recent grenade that detonated on Kraal Road. One man, Lusby Martinez, has been charged with the murder of fourteen year old Rudolph Flowers, the victim of that explosion. But fear continues to grip the public since it is known that many more grenades are still in the hands […]
People who become unemployed after ten consecutive years on the job with the same employer may be entitled to double the money in severance pay. That’s the good news, the down side is that should this become law, it will not be retroactive. Discussions between the National Trade Union Congress of Belize and the Belize […]
Earlier in the newscast, Senator Eamon Courtenay, was critical about the use of the word artificial to describe the borders with Guatemala. When he appeared this morning on Open Your Eyes, Courtenay also said that the possibility of an early referendum to take the dispute to the International Court of Justice for resolution, could be […]
Three customs officers have been committed to stand trial in the Supreme Court for Forgery. Aruny Perez, Carl Augustine and Michael McKenzie are charged in connection with a container of pseudo-ephedrine which arrived in Belize in September of 2008 and then disappeared into thin air. The officers were accused of forgery after the container went […]
A police corporal has been charged with seven criminal offences for allegedly beating up a couple. Thirty-two year old Mark August of the Queen Street Patrol branch is charged Wounding Fernando Searle in Christmas week. He is also accused of Threatening Searle at his garage on the Northern highway and for damaging a metal gate. […]
James Rhaburn of Crooked Tree Village turned one hundred and five just before the close of 2009. And having celebrated his birthday on December thirty-first, Rhaburn is believed to be the oldest living person in Belize. His father passed away when Rhaburn was only fourteen years old and he had to drop out of school […]
A cashier at the Caye Caulker branch of Bowen and Bowen Company Limited is in big trouble tonight after he admitted to using company money for personal business. The manager of the distribution centre told police that he discovered over six thousand five hundred dollars short when he was balancing his sales receipts on New […]
A brave B.D.F. volunteer from Roaring Creek Village is hospitalized tonight and is hoping to beat the odds. Nineteen year old Ramon Cadle broke his neck and fractured his spinal cord while swimming in a creek during the Christmas Holidays. While his prognosis to return to a normal life is not optimistic, the family has […]
