The heavily indebted bus company owned by the Novelo brothers went under last week. The receivers moved in to take over the assets because the company, National Transport, was not meeting debt obligations, reported to be in the millions of dollars. National Transport collapsed, but it was not the end. It has now emerged under […]
But all is not lost for the Novelo brothers, Tony and David. Like cats, they apparently have nine lives. It’s not the first time that a company of theirs went into receivership. If you recall, Novelos Bus Company also fell into receivership and when they lost that business, they created National Transport. And although National […]
The UDP held a divisional convention in the Orange Walk East on Sunday. Two businessmen went up against the incumbent and sitting area representative, Marcel Cardona. The UDP machinery was well oiled and in full force, but not for the incumbent, in fact it was in support of Orlando Burns. You will recall his name […]
The Barrow administration’s ban on government employees speaking to Channel Five is considered to be an act against the free media. We have still not been told by the government what conditions of our license were in breach. But the VIP, the PNP, Orange Walk television station CTV3 as well as Freetown Area Representative Francis […]
Government issued a public advisory on December seventh, announcing that it is suspending normal relations with Channel Five. Since then this station has received the support of several organizations, political parties and private citizens. But what do our viewers think? We asked them to weigh in on GOB’s boycott of Channel Five and hundreds responded, […]
It has been a week and a half since we first reported of a financial crunch at the Corozal Free Zone and despite several meetings with the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank things remain at a standstill. According to one board member of the Corozal Free Zone, the issue of the inability to […]
There is another side to the coin to reports involving the financial footing of the Citrus Products of Belize Limited. Recently allegations were made by the Citrus Growers Association that CPBL has failed to turnover a profit under its present CEO, Dr. Henry Canton and that it had experienced losses of twenty-seven million dollars. Following […]
A vehicle in Ladyville Village was destroyed over the weekend. It is not quite clear how the incident occurred but it was parked behind a house on Sea Urchin Drive. According to residents in the area, the Landrover was engulfed in flames. Arson has not been ruled out. The owner of the vehicle is a […]
There was a shooting incident last night in the old capital. Luckily the victim survived the incident. At seven p.m. on Sunday night twenty one y ear old Luis Figueroa, a resident of Ebony Street, was walking behind the Farmer’s Market. Figueroa heard a loud bang which he quickly realized was a gunshot. His instincts […]
A Ministry of Works employee has been arrested and criminally charged after he could not account for building materials that were removed from the ministry’s warehouse at mile three on the Western Highway. Works Administrator and the brother of the Minister of Works, forty-six year old Edward Martinez, reported to police this past Thursday that […]
It somehow didn’t make it to the police report or the news, but last Tuesday a man allegedly started a fire in the room where his wife and daughter were sleeping at their house in La Democracia Village. And today, thirty-seven year old Gary Clark was arraigned on three charges; two counts of Attempted Murder […]
We reported last Thursday that eighteen year old Daniel Pineda was stabbed in Belize City during an altercation with Justin Wade, Denroy McFoy and two other youths. Eighteen year old McFoy was accused of inflicting the injuries and today he was arraigned along with two minors, ages sixteen and seventeen, in the court of the […]
It’s payback time for a graphics designer, who made his rounds swindling individuals and primary schools out of cash. He’s beaten numerous charges in the past but today, thirty-three year old Artemio Acosta was found guilty in abscencia of seven counts of Obtaining Property by Deception. The conviction is for scamming money from Lucky Strike […]
On Friday’s newscast we highlighted the sad story of Christopher Bowman. He is the twenty three year old youth who is suffering from a massive tumor that has grown on his chest and which is also now dangerously close to his spine. Bowman has kept hope that he will be able to receive the surgeries […]
In December of 2009, the United Nations Climate Change Conference was held at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark. This past week, the follow up conference moved to Cancun and was attended by two hundred national delegates and thousands of others in science and related fields. It should have ended on Friday, but the closing […]
Good Evening, I’m James Adderley and this is Sports Monday. The road to the F.F.B. Inter-District Football Championship screeched to its conclusion yesterday inside the Norman Broaster Stadium as World FC played host to Libertadores of Corozal. Of course, Libertadores would have had to win by a 5 goal margin to claim the title after […]
