There was a lot of violence over the weekend, including three homicides and we’ll have coverage of that. But we go first to an issue that is of great importance to this independent station. On December seventh, the government announced the suspension of normal relations with Channel Five. Government ministers and public officers are no […]
Turning to crime, there’s been turmoil in the Citrus Industry for months and tonight the industry is beset by a heinous murder. Herman Morris, financial controller for the Citrus Growers Association was found murdered early on Saturday morning. Morris worked in the Pomona Valley for the past nine months but lived San Ignacio. Morris left […]
The other murder was in the city. ‘Break Dance’ as he was known, was killed on Sunday night. There are no motives at this time but the news of the death is still shocking to the family of the victim. Sunday started as the typical day of rest for most Belizeans including the Gabourel and […]
Police are investigating yet another death and the victim is a US national who lived in the Stann Creek District. Police say that the body of fifty-six year old Miriam Shimi was discovered around nine this morning inside her bedroom in Sittee River Village. From what we know, Shimi’s death is being treated as a […]
But prior to Sunday night’s murder another Belize City man was shot. Although Break Dance died from one gunshot, the second victim was shot about five times on Saturday night. Believe it or not, he survived that shooting incident. According to reports, twenty-eight year old Alvin Cumberbatch, a security guard, was standing at the entrance […]
Henry Canton was fired as CEO of CPBL last Friday, but that doesn’t mean that the dust has settled in the industry. The resolution for his termination was passed at an extraordinary meeting of the Citrus Growers Association in the Pomona Valley and followed months of upheaval. A letter was issued to this effect in […]
It has been an extremely chaotic and controversial week for football and this past Saturday Dr. Bertie Chimilio re-emerged triumphant after yet another attempt to oust him from his seat as president of the Football Federation of Belize. Despite strong opposition from Minister of Sports John Saldivar and FFB hopeful Sergio Chuc, Chimilio was installed […]
The European Union is providing twenty-four point nine million Euros, the equivalent of over sixty-two point three million dollars for aid in rural development and for the sugar industry. According to a press release, the funds should also assist with projects geared towards poverty reduction. Three financing agreements were signed today, between Prime Minister of […]
Presidents Alvaro Colom of Guatemala and Porfirio Lobo Sosa of Honduras were both in Belize on Friday for the Central American Summit of the Integration Movement. While in San Pedro on a five hour visit, the presidents spoke exclusively to this station in the margins of the SICA summit. News Five’s Delahnie Bain has that […]
Four hours and fourteen minutes was the time it took a jury to find twenty-two year old Jesse James Ochoa not guilty of Murder. Ochoa was also initially charged with Attempted Murder and Robbery but he was only tried for murder on indictment. The case relates to an incident back on June sixteenth, 2008, when […]
A family of three along with a close friend, all residents of Corozal Town, were arrested and charged today for drug trafficking. They are thirty-four year old mechanic Lionel Tillett, his sister fifty-one year old Joan Tillett, her daughter twenty-seven year old Crissie Tillett and thirty-three year-old Shane Morgan. This morning the group appeared before […]
A security guard who showed up late for work and appeared under the influence of alcohol is behind bars tonight after he allegedly pulled his point twenty-two service pistol and fired it at a co-worker. The incident allegedly happened during an argument on Saturday night at the Northern Fisherman Cooperative on North Front Street after […]
So far, the United Democratic Party has held two very hotly contested conventions which all lead to the national elections. Well, one PUP aspirant, Oscar Rosado, has bowed out and he won’t be contesting conventions in the Port Loyola constituency where he ran last election, but was defeated. Rosado is also a front line campaigner […]
In our newscast on Friday we did not go into full details of the bills that got House approval and others that were introduced. One of the Bills that was amended and passed was the Income and Business Tax Act. It generally offers a small tax relief to persons in the workforce whose incomes fall […]
But the big bulk of tax relief in the amended Income and Business Tax Bill will go to Telemedia which the government nationalized in August, 2009. Prior to that, in December 2008, the government had increased business tax from nineteen percent to twenty-four point five percent on telecommunications. Well, now government has reverted to the […]
Good evening I am James Adderley with this week’s dish of Sports Monday. On Saturday at Belmopan, the Football Federation of Belize endorsed Dr. Bertie Chimilio as President of this FIFA affiliated body by a 7 to 1 vote with the Belize Premier Football league being the only dissenting vote. The National Sports Council had […]
